Lesson 11

Animals, Adjectives & Verbs / Body Parts / Clothing

to identify the parts of the body & clothing; to identify various animals and describe them.

list of animals & their names (overhead) / Deutschbuch, pages 7-11, 14 (dii-07.pdf, dii-08.pdf, dii-09.pdf, dii-10.pdf, dii-11.pdf, dii-14.pdf)

A. Review (approx. 10 min)

Review greetings, introductions, etc: e.g. Guten Tag! Ich bin (your name). Wer bist du?? Wie geht’s? Auf Wiedersehen!
Review numbers: Have the students count from 1-10, 20-10, 10-100 (steps of 10). Then play a counting game: Introduce plus (plus) & minus (minus), multiplied with (mal) & divided by (geteilt durch), equals (ist gleich). Write them on the board. First practice with the whole class, then divide class in several groups and give them simple problems to solve (e.g. 12+10, 90:3, 5×5). The group that give the correct answer first gets one point (teacher notes points on board). At the end of the game have students add up points. Introduce gewinnen: Team ___ hat gewonnen!
Review classroom objects and colors: Tell students to touch an object of a certain color, e.g. Zeige auf etwas Gelbes! Then ask students: Was ist das? Respond: Ja, das ist ein Buch. Das Buch ist gelb.

B. Body parts (approx. 10 min)

Review the body parts by saying the German word while you are touching it and have the students repeat after you (Kopf, Hals, Schulter, Arm, Hand, Finger, Bauch, Bein, Fuß, Augen, Ohren, Nase, Mund, Zähne, Haar). Repeat the words several times and go back over words the students have already learned. Then ask W-Fragen: Wo ist der Kopf / die Hand / der Mund? / Was ist das?
Ask students to draw arrows from the words to the corresponding body parts on page 7 of the Deutschbuch.
Have students color the face on page 8 of the Deutschbuch.

C. Clothing (approx. 5 min)

Review clothing using only items that students are wearing. Walk up to a student and say e.g. Das ist eine Hose / ein T-shirt, ein Schuh. Then ask the class: Was ist das? After having practiced that for a while, you can then ask students to describe their neighbors clothing.
Ask students to connect words and corresponding clothes on page 9 of Deutschbuch.

D. Adjectives (approx. 5 min)

Brainstorming: Ask the students which adjectives they remember in German. Remind them that adjectives describe nouns (in this case animals). Put the adjectives on the board (opposites together!). Relate the adjectives to objects in the classroom to make them more tangible.
Review other adjectives with the students: Once again, use objects in the classroom and ask questions like: Ist der Tisch groß oder klein? / Ist der Stuhl schwer oder leicht? Then have students match animals and adjectives on page 10 of the Deutschbuch.

E. Animals (approx. 12 min)

Make German animal sounds (compare page 14 of the Deutschbuch) and ask students to guess what animal you’re impersonating (you might also act out animals).
Have students match words with animals on page 11 of the Deutschbuch. Then do it together on the overhead. After matching an animal with its name, introduce the animal (e.g. Der Elefant ist grau. Der Elefant hat große Ohren. Der Elefant lebt in Afrika.)
Describe an animal and have the students guess which one it is, e.g. Dieses Tier ist grau und hat große Ohren. – Das ist der Elefant. Ask additional questions like: Ist der Elefant klein / lieb / schnell? [Use the list of adjectives in the Deutschbuch.] When someone guesses, they get to describe the animal.
Play the Tierspiel: The students form a circle. One is placed in the center and he/she points to one of the students and calls out the name of an animal. Now the picked student and his neighbors to the left and right have to act out the animal. If someone fails, he/she has to replace the student in the center.

F. Song (approx. 2 min)