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Don’t have the opportunity to take part in a ‘Week for German’ event with your German learners? Then we have a teaching tip for you on how you can make German visible in everyday life and actively involve your learners in the process.
Task
Invite your learners to spend a week collecting traces of German in Belgium. These could be, for example:
- Products or brands from Germany, Austria or Switzerland – at home or when travelling
- German words or terms on the street, in advertising or on menus
- German media such as films, series, music, posts on social media, streaming services, radio or TV
- Tourism & everyday life: signs, flyers, events or restaurants with German food
How it works:
The learners take a photo every day. At the end of the week, they present their photos in small groups and briefly talk about them. The learners can discuss the following questions:
- What did they find and where?
- What exactly is it (product, advertisement, music, film …)?
- Is there a personal connection to this product (childhood, family, travelling)?
- Did you notice this product before or only now?
- Have you learnt a new German word?
Have fun searching for clues!
Contact: Karel de Grote Hogeschool margret.oberhofer@kdg.be
A little boy dreams of soaring through the skies as a pilot. He joins a gliding club where he spends his free time, while all around him in Europe, a war rages whose full scale he can hardly grasp. As a child, director Christoph Bohn discovers a photo of his father in uniform inside a cardboard box. As an adult, he sets out to uncover the dark story behind that image; he crafts an original film that weaves together archival footage, animation, and eyewitness testimony to create an extraordinary documentary. Presented in German.
Duration: 68 minutes
A film by Christoph Bohn
An Off World production
Contact person: Fatma Girretz – fatma.girretz@dgov.be
