Hip Hop Workshop (in German)

Goethe Institut has done it again! This time they are organizing a really good workshop for teachers and students. We are going to learn how to make rap songs in German, and this way we can produce language having fun!!!

The seminar is on November 14th 14.00-16.00 at Goethe Institut Thessaloniki and a concert with Doppel U is following!! Click here for more info!

I am posting some videos of previous concerts and workshops! Have fun!!

If any of my students (old and new) is interested in taking part - give me a call or send me a message till Nov 5th!!




http://www.doppel-u.de/cms/index.php?id=79

Για τους μαθητές μου...

Τον τελευταίο καιρό, σερφάροντας στο νετ και ειδικότερα στο facebook, "συνάντησα" πολλούς, μα πάρα πολλούς παλιούς μου μαθητές...
Μετά από το πρώτο σοκ, (γιατί για μεγάλο σοκ πρόκειται όταν έχεις αφήσει κάποιον στα 13 του και τον ξαναβλέπεις στα 20...) συνειδητοποίησα ότι πραγματικά έχω περάσει ένα πολύ μεγάλο κομμάτι της ζωής μου μαζί σας...
Σας έχω μάθει και μου έχετε μάθει πολλά πράγματα... Έχουμε περάσει χαρές και λύπες μαζί, γελάσαμε, θυμώσαμε, ίσως και κλάψαμε μαζί...
Και κάθομαι και σκέφτομαι... τελικά το να είσαι δάσκαλος δεν είναι να μάθεις στα παιδιά αγγλικά, γερμανικά, μαθηματικά κτλ...
Χαίρομαι πολύ που πραγματικά όποιον έχω βρει εδώ μέσα και όποιον συναντάω έξω στο δρόμο, όλοι έρχεστε και μου μιλάτε, μου στέλνετε μηνύματα, χαίρεστε που βλέπετε τις φωτογραφίες σας που ήσασταν μικροί, που έστω και από το διαδίκτιο κρατάτε "επαφή" μαζί μου...
Ουφ συγκινήθηκα πάλι!!

(Η φωτό είναι ένα αναμνηστικό πριν από αρκετά χρόνια!!)

lessons with videos

I've been working with videos for quite a while now...
Although you can find lots of material in Youtube and other "teaching" sites, it is a big problem with the German language it is a bit limited.
I've heard about Kubus videos at a seminar, last year I think...
They are a kind if 15-minute documentaries, different people talk about various subjects and you can see the German reality in different fields (young people, music, arts, techology etc)
Goethe Institut provides also the dialogues in PDF form, so, you can develop various kinds of excersises, like General meaning questions, gap fills, matching and of course lots of discussion topics.

Here's the link:

http://www.goethe.de/kubus

B1 Mündliche Paarprüfung

(Notizen aus Frau M. Georgiakaki’s Präsentation)

Wie ich verstanden habe, ist die mündliche Prüfung interaktiver geworden.

Die Kandidaten haben jetzt 15 Minuten zur Vorbereitung.

Es wird von ihnen erwartet:

· Selbst Initiative ergreifen und nicht nur auf Fragen reagieren

· Fragen den Partner stellen

· Auf den Partner eingehen d.h. wiedersprechen bzw zustimmen, nachfragen, Äußerungen kommentieren, das Gespräch beginnen, in Gang halten und beenden, unterbrechen, eine Unterbrechung abwehren

Im Teil 2 sollten man den Text nicht vorlesen, sondern weitergeben . Der Text ist nur Anlass für ein freies Gespräch.

So sollte man bei der Vorbereitung Fragen entwickeln

Grammar & Writing

Some really teaching interesting ideas presented by Mrs Anna Pilaski, meant for students who have passed level B2.
These learners are expected to:
• Understand the basic idea of complicated texts
• Communicate spontaneously and eloquently
• Express themselves clearly in many various subjects
Here are some activities that can help them practice the language:
• Divide the class into 2 groups
• Give the students 2 different texts
• Students try to describe the text in their own words among their group
• Then students from team A tell students from group B about their story and vice versa
Another activity as a follow up could be a Running dictation (with gap filling in higher levels)
• Students form pairs
• Student A tries to memorize their text doing the gap fill exercise
• Student A dictates their text to Student B and vice versa
• Winner is of course the pair with the fewer mistakes

Moodle?

Back with more notes from the German teacher conference...
Today the subject is an electronic classbook which is supposed to help students to contactwith the teacher and with eachother, post their homework, get informed about what has been done in the classroom, if they were absent and generally keep in touch with thge language.
This can be done using a kind of a learning platform like Moodle.
You can have various activities in an e-classbook, like

• a Forum in which various subjects can be posted and students can write a small paragraph with their opinion as homework
• a chat room for students and teachers
• a Data bank with everything that has been taught in the classroom
• a Glossary with unknown words
• Wiki in which everyone can contribute

This work is of course voluntary and you can't make the students participate, but I find it a fantastic idea, especially for adult students who cannot always come to the lessons.

This can not only be used for lessons and interaction with students, but also teachers can use it to get in contact with collegues, exchange opinions and also "educate" themselves about the new methods in teaching.
German teachers can use this link: http://my.goethe.de to get an idea