A Week Full of Highlights!

This week, one highlight really did follow another!

We started with a playful review of vocabulary and grammar from our two current topics: “Shopping & Shops” for our A2 learners and “Media & Communication” for the students working at B1 level. For example, the students had to think about which shop they would need to go to in order to buy a particular item and which combination of preposition and article – such as “in den”, “in die” or “ins” – was required. We also took another close look at the difference between the two question words “Wo?” (Where?) and “Wohin?” (Where to?) and practised using them in a short role play.

We then explored a new app together that we plan to use primarily for assigning and completing German as a Foreign Language homework in the future. With LearningView, students can also create their own digital vocabulary cards – not only for German, but also for vocabulary from other subjects such as History, Geography or Biology.

The students were particularly excited about the option to easily record their own videos and audio files and upload them for feedback. This opens up many new opportunities for collaborative digital projects and for using language in creative ways.

Of course, German grammar also remained an important part of our lessons! Among other things, we worked on forming the genitive, sentence structure and rearranging declarative sentences – always with a close eye on the relevant grammatical rules.

A very special highlight was the spontaneous Reading Day organised by our German as a Foreign Language students from Classes 7 and 8 in the Kindergarten. The Kindergarten children had brought along their favourite books, which were then read aloud by our students. There was plenty of laughter, attentive listening and shared enjoyment of funny and exciting stories. It was a wonderful opportunity to experience German outside the classroom while also giving the older students the chance to take responsibility for the younger children.

Looking Ahead to Next Week

Next week, we will turn our attention to our own surroundings: What kinds of shops can we find in our neighbourhoods? What does a residential area or village in Ghana look like – and how does it differ from one in Germany?

In this way, we connect our German lessons with the students’ everyday lives while discovering interesting similarities and differences between Ghana and Germany.