Heute ist es sehr gut gelaufen, danke.

Our new verbs today were essen and trinken -- so of course, we also learned about the Akkusativ today. Everyone formed their sentences much more quickly than last week, which was heartening.

Some of those sentences were pretty complicated, too! They had to use morgens (or a similar adverb of time) and gerne or lieber. I think they’ll need more work with genre and lieber, though. And they’ll get that work!

Last week, I let myself get complacent after some really good classroom drills, only for a lot of people to go blank during test itself. I’m not making that mistake again.

Grammar is one thing; vocabulary, quite another. Today my class “met” about thirty new words for food and drink. And based on their answers during today’s drills, they easily recalled the words themselves, but had a lot more trouble remembering the genders of the words.

I had thought about writing a song like one of Uwe Kind’s SingLingual or LingoTech songs. (He composed the Mein Auto ist kaputt song that I shared a few days ago.) Here is his “Das” Lied 1 for remembering some sachliche words:

And I actually did scribble out some (really, really bad) verses, though I wasn’t able to come up with melodies for them. Which doesn’t really matter, I guess, because when the chance came to share them with my students, I totally lost my nerve.

On the other hand, I don’t mind sharing them on this blog! Here are my verses for the Lektion 3 Wortschatz:

Der Salat, der Käse, der Fish --  Was sonst ist da auf dem Tisch? Der Teller, der Joghurt, der Reis Und der Wein sind alle weiß. Der Kaffee, der Tee und der Kuchen zum Nachtisch ist das, was wir suchen.

Die Kartoffel, die Wurst und die Butter Bekomme ich gerne, o Mutter! Die Cola, die Milch und die Flasche Steck’ ich nicht in meine Tasche. Die Pizza, die Suppe, die Pommes frites für die Grüppe Aber diese sind nicht meine Masche!