Mini Project 4 - Teaching with video

Activity: Was essen Sie gern? (What do you like to eat?)

The activity will take approximately 20 minutes plus screening time and is designed for a class of beginning German students. The follow-up, however, will be a writing tasked that the students have to do at home, so that the actual time spent on the activity is longer than the 20 minutes in class. The video is supposed to support the acquisition of vocabulary and discoursive strategies to talk about food. The two interviews with native speakers provide authentic listening material that the students have to decipher and the interview in English serves as a basis for intercultural comparison but is also intended to be "translated" into German within the activity.

[The translations will not be given to the students.]
First screening: Scanning for familiar words. Get the gist.
- The students are supposed to take notes of familiar words to keep attention. They are also supposed to answer a few simple questions about the basic content. 1.) Was passiert im Haus für internationale Studenten und wie oft? (What happens at the HIS and how often? 2.) Wie heißen die drei Interviewpartner? (How are the interviewees called?)
Second screening: Detail understanding. (All answers supposed to be in German)
- Wer ist Randy? Was studieren Jan und Ulrich? (Who is Randy? What do Jan and Ulrich study?)
- Was gibt es heute zu essen? (What's on the menu today?)
- Wie alt sind Ulrich und Jan? (How old?)
- Was essen die drei am liebsten? (What is their favorite food?)
- Essen sie gesund? (Do they eat healthy?)
- Wer ist Vegetarier? Why is he vegetarian? (Who is the vegetarian? Why?)
- Für was macht er eine Ausnahme? Wo gibt es das?(For what does he make an exception? Where did he find this food?)

Follow-Up: Discussion,communication and homework.
- In-class discussion: Do you see any cultural differences between Randy, Ulrich and Jan? From what you know, is there a difference between German food culture and American?

-Partner Interview in next class session. Students doing the interview that I did in the video in pairs.

- Homework: Write a short paragraph (8-10 sentences)about yourself and you food preferences. (Name, age, what you study, your favorite food, where you go out to eat usually, whether you try to eat healthy or not.)


Assessing student performance: The students are supposed to participate actively and answer all questions. Their follow-up homework essay will be graded according to a 25 point max. grading rubric. (Content 12pts./ Grammar 8 pts./ Vocabulary 5pts.)