This lesson plans starts with some Valentine's presents and moves on to practise the dative with schenken (ihm/ihr). There is a reading and writing activity and speaking can be practised, too. It finishes off with some German Valentine's greetings to use for making a Valentine's card.
This four-page German activity worksheet explores the origins and traditions of Saint Valentine’s Day, from its Roman origins to practices in the German-speaking countries today. It aims to equip students with the vocabulary and structures to talk about the day itself, as well as wider themes of celebration.
The worksheet comprises four short texts along with comprehension questions and glossaries of key words for each. A third page includes vocabulary exercises to consolidate new words, with a true/false quiz on the fourth page (with some humorous red herrings!).
The language level is around A2 on the CEFR scale (ideal for a proficient Year 7 and Years 8/9), designed to encourage gist-reading longer texts.
A page with answers to all the questions is supplied at the end of the worksheet.
This fun worksheet engages students at the beginner level while using Valentine’s Day based vocabulary.
Consists of 3 parts:
Matching
Fill in the missing letters
Reading: Declension review
Includes answer key.
Gap-fill exercise practising irregular past participles with haben. It is Valentine's Day and Amy wants to go out with Sheldon. Sheldon wants to stay at home and watch Star Trek. Students fill in the missing past participles. (Some gaps can take more than one possibility.) When complete you have a dialogue, which the students can perform. They could also write up the dialogue adding in language of their own such as more persuasive comments from Amy and more disparaging comments from Sheldon.
Beginner German and English bilingual picture flashcards for learning Valentine’s Day and February Seasonal vocabulary! For teaching new deutscher Wortschatz, wall displays, roleplay and dialogue prompts, matching activities, games, self-study and more!
Includes both:
German & English bilingual version with pictures
German only version with pictures
German only single-sided version with the words printed below the text
German & English text only (for matching activities)
This PDF document contains 21 A4 pages of picture flashcards to print.
Each page contains 6 square images, but can be printed 2 or more to a page to create smaller cards.
Topic: Saint Valentine’s Day / Valentinstag
Vocabulary included:
Valentine’s Day
gifts
hearts
love letter
box of chocolates
bouquet of flowers
bottle of wine
bow and arrow
cupcake
padlock
romantic message
candle
perfume
roses
teddy bear
balloons
ring
fourteenth of February
Can be printed on card or paper. By folding each sheet down the vertical center before laminating, you can create double-sided cards to review. Alternatively, images can be used separately, for matching activities, noticeboard displays etc.
Valentines Day: German Short Stories with Reading Comprehension Questions and Writing Prompts
5 German short stories about Valentines Day with reading comprehension questions and/or tasks to write your own answers and texts.
The stories have different lengths and levels of difficulty. They are therefore suitable for grades 3 to 6 or for DaZ and DaF students with an equivalent German knowledge.
There is also a word search with terms related to Valentine’s Day. There is a solution sheet for the search.
Topics are:
Geschichte des Valentinstags
Basteln für den Valentinstag
Dekorieren für den Valentinstag
Wie ich Bello kennengelernt habe
Der Valentinstag
Suchsel Valentinsbegriffe
20 Cosy Short Stories in German for Winter. Reading comprehension worksheets with three comprehension questions after each short story. Practice German vocabulary and reading comprehension with winter and snow themed stories and wintery reading passages to get into the flow of reading German.
These winter stories are suitable for intermediate German learners in primary or middle school or for German native speakers in 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade, depending on their reading fluency.
Topics are:
Carnival
Valentine's Day
Snow
Snowman
Sledding
Ice skating
Dog sled race
December
Christmas
New Year's Eve
and much more ...
20 Kurzgeschichten mit jeweils drei Fragen zum Leseverständnis. Es handelt sich um Kurzgeschichten zum Thema Winter:
Fasching
Valentinstag
Schnee
Schneemann
Rodeln
Schlittschuhlaufen
Hundeschlittenrennen
Dezember
Weihnachten
Silvester
und vieles mehr ...
Es handelt sich um sehr kurze Geschichten mit einfachen Verständnisfragen, geeignet für die 2. und 3. Klassen als Lesetraining oder für DaZ und DaF.
Powerpoint to get pupils creating their own 'poems' for Valentine's day. They use dictionaries to make verses of their own, thinking of things that belong together. In response to a recent comment, this resource is is aimed at a mixed-ability Year 7 class. From previous experience I know that many pupils find it very difficult to find the correct gender as well as the word.I have therefore used a little 'poetic licence' for which I apologize!
Inspired by something I found in one of my adult learners books.
Feel free to change the number of lines/ add rhymes. Will ask my pupils for presentation ideas -a picture story , a 'serenade&', love letter style... we&';ll see what they come up with.
Starter activity: all months are jumbled up: students need to unjumble the month (right answer revealed on PP through simple mouse click
Introduction of ordinal numbers (ask students to figure out a rule)
Slide with rule
Slide with the exceptions
Vocabulary practice and consolidation: ordinal numbers appear / disappear on screen
Important events in 2016
Teach students: Wann hast du Geburtstag (see slide 11)
Practise saying your birthday + other people's birthday (months + ordinal numbers)
Different games
Option for listening task (script on slide 24 below; modify according to students' level)
Dialog writing task
Plenary: find the mistakes
Two projects as creative follow up activities
Simple slide on how to use 'im', 'am', and 'um'