Review
'Unlike many A level textbooks, which leave text exploitation up to the creativity of the teacher or require teachers to adapt material in order to make it suitable for the classroom, the exercises provided do this work for the teacher, suggesting answers, giving background information and providing the teacher with ready made lesson plans.'
'This is the kind of book that a hard pressed A level teacher or one lacking confidence in their own linguistic skills can pick up and use immediately to renew students' interest in both language skills and German culture... The exercises should also provide a basis for genuine expression of opinion amongst students and encourage them to look at the detail of texts.' 'In my view this is definitely a resource worth buying.' - Anne Snell, Solihull Sixth Form College. Deutsch Lehren und Lernen, No 28, Autumn 2003
Lesen, improvisieren, erzählenPrice: £49.99ISBN: 978-0-9532440-7-2
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Get your students excited about oral discussion!
Improves your students' performance in speaking, reading and writing and encourages creative student-to-student oral interaction. Based on short, accessible stories in German.
Are your students ever reluctant to talk in German? Often it's because they're worried about 'getting it wrong', because the situation seems stilted, because they lack confidence and sometimes because they're not enthused by the topic. This book gets your students excited about talking to each other!
Lesen, improvisieren, erzählen provides you with discrete units of work which can be slotted in to your teaching programme. They:
- require no preparation on your part - worksheets and teacher answers are provided
- explore themes central to AS/A2/IB Diploma (syllabus from 2011)
- get students enjoying talking and interacting
- introduce students to very accessible literary texts
- contain a wide range of reading, writing and speaking activities leading to differentiated outcomes
- are ideal for use by a language assistant
- teach grammar and vocabulary
- encourage creativity in discussion, role play and writing
Each unit is centred around a short story, revealed bit by bit and with support vocabulary given to make the reading easier. At each stage questions encourage students to speculate orally (e.g. what might happen next, why someone did something, what the consequences might be, etc.). Because there are no ‘correct’ answers students are freed from the anxiety of ‘getting it wrong’ and are able to use their creativity and imagination in the target language. The student is also given grammar exercises that practise in context grammar points arising from the story. The unit then finishes with a productive task.
The short stories included are:
Die Küchenuhr – Wolfgang Borchert
Mechanischer Doppelgänger – Hermann Kasack
Ein netter Kerl – Gabriele Wohmann
Die Brücke – Christa Frenzel
Der Irrläufer – Gaby Hauptmann
Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral – Heinrich Böll
Benefits for teachers
- requires no preparation - photocopiable worksheets and teacher answers provided
- contains a wide range of reading, writing and speaking activities leading to differentiated outcomes
- ideal for use by language assistants
Benefits for IB students
- makes reading literary texts exciting and interactive
- gets students enjoying talking and using their imagination and creativity
- teaches grammar and vocabulary
Benefits for AS/A2 students
- explores themes central to AS and A2
- gets students enjoying talking & interacting
- teaches grammar and vocabulary