Academic Challenge – German Visitors
S2 German 2.2
The Setting
A group of students from Hersbruck, Germany, is going to visit your
area/region for a week. Their level of English is very poor so the local council
has asked the Modern Languages department in your school for help.
The Challenge
Working in groups of four, you have to make a poster, a brochure or a map
etc about a town in your area, keeping in mind that it has to be all in German
and that it is clear enough so that the council can send it to the German
students before their arrival to Scotland.
Product Criteria
Form criteria
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Interesting – catches the eye by using colours, lettering, pictures, etc.
Informative – gives the viewer important information about the subject.
Easy to understand – the audience can interpret information.
Content criteria
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You must localise where the town is exactly (north, south, coast, etc).
Show all the interesting places to visit in the town. You can even
include things that are not there (‘kein’), so that the German students
know what to expect.
Describe the town positively using adjectives (‘sauber’).
Build up a vocabulary list for the German students of basic words
related to the town in German and then in English.
You can include pictures but the writing is essential.
Remember that the teacher is here to coach and help you but think
about other resources you can use: e.g. library, internet, chapter 1 in
the textbook, etc.
Rule criteria
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Correct spelling and grammar (‘es gibt’ + ‘einen’, ‘eine’, ‘ein’)
Time: three periods so deadline for this work is …
Skills
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Co-operative working
Imagination in the displays
Includes just relevant information appropriate to the challenge.
Specific Observable Behaviours
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Each student in the group completes a task/job assigned.
Each student has to value other students’ ideas.