German Lesson Plan About The Euro's Football

[balliali]

Hi, I am subbing at short notice in a German class with 13 -14 year olds, boys and girls. Can someone help me please with lesson plan and differentiated learning strategies for short lesson. I was thinking about using the Euro 2016 championships, to keep the boys interested... I have the use of PPT, etc, so any ideas with "bells and whistles" would be much appreciated, please. Open to suggestions as some have only a starters knowledge of the language, and two have advanced knowledge... hence the differentiation. Thanks....ideas appreciated... from stressed out sub teacher looking forward to holidays ; -)

[MallyJ]

I would be a tad concerned that the girls may well be left out of this lesson. In my experience this topic will not interest most girls in the group and, of course. soome of the boys. There must be language textbooks available to you. Maybe something of the geography of Germany. I would expect the language deppartment would have lesson plans and textbooks available for you to use ask the HOD.

[Handoftheking]

I would use it to revise or teach colours. Download pictures from net of national soccer strips and use each picture to make a PowerPoint. Put the German colours beneath. The text could be hidden at first. Leave the country names up on German. Even if they don't know them, they are pretty obvious. Make flashcards of funny objects of each colour and use them to practice. To help your sanity get them to settle at the end by giving out paper or using their exercise books to design new kits and labelling the colours. Give them a few more exotic colours to work with to make it more fun. Turquoise maroon etc. Good luck.

[balliali]

Thank you both very much for your very thoughtful and much appreciated post. I have spent some time making out a PPT on the Euros with easily recognisable sports theme music as backing track. I have also done an exercise on "colours", using the team colours as the "hook". As a back up, I have also done a multiple choice 8 questions in English but using easily recognisable German phrases, and if some are really smart, there's a few phrases to put into sentences. If all else fails, they'll be listening to German composers and completing a lesson on them, cos there's lots to choose from.... either way, I'm less stressed and raring to go!