Card Games with ESL Class

Go Fish is a popular choice and one of the card games you can adapt to suit many different grammar points. To make the game more adaptable, simply use cards with verbs in their base form (eat, drink, buy, live). Have two sets of verb cards, so you have two of each verb. You can play the game in pairs or in small groups. Each student is dealt five to seven cards (the remaining cards are placed in a stack at the center) and has to ask a question in the correct grammar tense in order to find the pair. So, if you’re practicing questions with ever, and Student A has a card with the verb be, he/she asks, “Have you ever been to ….?” If student B has the card with the verb be, he/she must say, “Yes, I have” and hand it over. If not, he/she says, “No, I haven’t! Go fish!”, thus prompting Student A to take a card from the stack of remaining cards. For another great spin on the Go Fish card game, check out this worksheet.

eTwinning Project

I think it`s the right time to tell you what i actually do on eTwinning platform. So, this academic year starts with a plenty of new projects and I`m going to share with you one of them (because this one is almost finished). CELEBARATING EUROPEAN ATHEMS. Our project Celebrating European anthems is a common project to celebrate the European Day of Languages by learning about European hymns and was successfully integrated into event dedidated EDL (you can check here and give us your vote)
The students will get to know the meaning of the European hymns by listening to students of the project sing their national anthem in their language. They will make a short video of their performance, so that other participants of the project can watch it and use it. They will translate the text in English and make subtitles for the videos, so that they can analyse it during the lesson. We will celebrate the European Day of Languages by watching all the videos of the performances, reading the texts in English and then by exploring the meaning of the anthems (similarities and differences in the common European learning environment) and broaden their knowledge about the European culture and anthems. Drawings or mindmaps will be created and shared in the Twinspace of the project. So, what i can say by the end of the project. This one was a great motivation and a good start for a whole year. My students are inspired and ready to participate and collaborate in other eTwinning projects.

Друзі, хочу поділитися з вами цікавою інформацією, особливо цікавим це буде вчителям німецької мови. Гете Інститут пропонує взяти участь у розіграші базового пакету актуальних навчальних матеріалів для викладання німецької мови. Але, вам потрібно сплатити тільки доставку Новою поштою (мені це обійшлося в 60 грн). І як ви зрозуміли наша школа також отримала даний пакет.

The European Day of Languages

Hello, everyone! Our school is taking part in a huge event dedicated to European Day of Languages. But we need your support. Please, vote for us! Go here

Рік німецької мови

Ураааааа! Нарешті! 9-10 вересня в Києві офіційно відкриється Українсько-німецький рік мов! У програмі Фестивалю-відкриття на Контрактовій площі ― концерти німецьких і українських гуртів, кулінарні майстер-класи, ляльковий театр знаменитого Олафа Мьоллера, експериментаріум для дітей, майстер-класи з роботехніки, наймасовіший урок німецької мови, Літературний сад і багато іншого.

9 та 10 вересня на Контрактовій площі у Києві з 12:00 до 22:00. Вхід вільний.
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