Foreign Languages Education Models

Present Tense

Objectives: Students will be able to:

- recognize and use the first person plural (wir) and the third person plural (sie) of regular present tense verbs.

- recognize and use gern to express what people like and do not like to do.

Materials: pictures from picture file structured input worksheets

Input procedures:

Activity 1. Using pictures from the picture file, students will be introduced to what Germans like to do in their free time. These pictures will be attached to the board and the sentences will be written underneath the appropriate pictures. For example' '`.Sie spielen gern Fußball " would be written underneath the picture of the people playing soccer. This will be followed by a list of activities that we, Americans, like to do. The second set of pictures will be presented in this way: Germans like to play soccer. They like to play soccer, but Americans like to play football. We like to play football. (Deutsche spielen gern Fußball, aber Amerikaner spielen gern Football. Wir spielen gern Fußball.) "Wir spielen gern Football " would be written underneath a picture of people playing football. The students will be asked yeslno and either or questions to check for comprehension, for example, Do Germans like to play soccer? or Who likes to play soccer? Germans or Americans. Students will then be asked if they notice anything about the verbs. Students should notice, that both of these verbs end in -en. This pneumonic device will be written on the board. It will also be pointed out, that these verbs are in the infinitive or what form you would find in the dictionary, if you were looking up a verb. (Note: Up to this point students only know four verbs: sein-to be, haben- to have, heißen-to be called, and kommen-to come. They have learned these verbs in lexical chunks. This will be the first time students will be introduced to the paradigm of conjugating verbs.),

Activity 2. Students will be given a list of things Germans like to do in their free time. They will then be asked to order them from 1-l0 according to what Germans like to do the most (1) to what Germans like to do less (10). Students will do this in groups. This activity will then be summarized on the overhead. Student answers will be compared to the order of what Germans actually like to do.

Activity 3. Students will then listen to statements about what Americans like to do in their free time. Students will then answer if they agree or disagree. This activity will be summarized on the overhead. As a result, the class will then come to some generalizations about what Americans like to do.

Output procedures:

Activity 4. Students, on their own, will be asked to make a list of five things that their parents like to do in their free time, for example "My parents like to go to the theatre." (Meine Eltern gehen gern ins Theater.) Students will then go around the room to find out if their classmates' parents like to do the same things. Students will ask yes/no questions' for example, "Gehen deine Eltern gern ins Theater?" If their classmate answers yes, then the classmate will sign their sheet. Students will try to find a different person for each statement. When students find signatures for each of their statements we will summarize the activity together. We will then compile a list of what the class' parents like to do. We will try to make generalizations about what parents or adults like to do. Students will record these generalizations on their worksheets on the first half of Activity 5.

Activity 5. We will then take the generalizations from Activity 4 to make statements about what children like to do. Students have the statements about adults and they will add to them as follows: for example' adults like to go to the theater, but teenagers like to go to the movies (Erwachsene gehen gern ins Theatre' aber Jugendliche gehen gern ins Kino. ) We will summarize this activity by having the students share what they like to do.

Activity 6. Students will pretend that they are exchange students in Germany Since they are the only Americans in their school, they are asked to write an article for the school newspaper about what Arnerican teenagers like to do. Their responses frorn Activity 5 will help them in writing this. This is to be done in class or as a homework activity if there is not enough time in class.

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Aktivität 2. Was machen die Deutsche gern? Order these statements from 1 (what Germans like to most) to 10 (what Gerrnans like to do less) according to what YOU think Germans like to do.

	Sie sehen gern fern.
	Sie reisen gern.
	Sie hören gern Musik.
	Sie wandem gern.
	Sie machen gern Ausflüge.
	Sie spielen gern Fußball.
	Sie gehen gern in die Berge.
	Sie gehen gern ins Museum.
	Sie lesen gern.
	Sie gehen gern spazieren.

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Aktivität 3. Was machen die Amerikaner gern? You will hear a series of statements. Circle if YOU agree (stimmt) or disagree (stimmt nicht) if these are things Americans like to do.

1. stimmt - stimmt nicht	2. stimmt - stimmt nicht	3. stimmt - stimmt nicht	4. stimmt - stimmt nicht	5. stimmt - stimmt nicht
6. stimmt - stimmt nicht	7. stimmt - stirnmt nicht	8. stimmt - stimmt nicht	9. stimmt - stimmt nicht	10. stimmt - stimmt nicht

Aktivität3. Script.

1. Wir wandem gern. 2. Wir sehen gern fern. 3. Wir spielen gem Fußball. 4. Wir lesen gern. 5. Wir spielen gern Football. 6. Wir gehen gerns ins Theater. 7. Wir gehen gern ins Kino. 8. Wir zelten gern. 9. Wir joggen gern. 10. Wir reisen gern.

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