Next lesson we will go through your work on Neckarsulm and then prepare the last activity. Your next piece of work will be to do a fun, ironic, visual leaflet about Miststadt and its attractions. Miststadt basically means Dungtown. This is why they couldn't sell a perfume in Germany called Irish Mist.

Then we will go onto this worksheet.

Well done Matt and Fiona for some excellent work on Berlin sites. The rest of you now need to do this. We'll continue with tourism and language-manipulation work next Tuesday.

jetzt geht's los

The title means- 'now we're off' (it does not mean 'now everything gets loose')

You will have done a piece of research about a German tourist attraction by now. We will listen to you read it and we'll check it through.

The next piece of work will be based on tourist brochure language. In paper 1 you may get one of these as a text and be asked to do related comprehension exercises. These are often used as a springboard for your own writing. To practise this area, here's a text and tasks.

Welcome new year 12s

WILLKOMMEN IM IB DIPLOM PROGRAMM

We hope you will enjoy the course. Three lessons a week is not really enough so you need to make the most of other opportunities to use, read and hear the language. Some of the links on this page will help you, plus conversation classes with Mrs Barrett.

We are all here to help you, so always ask if you are having problems; the team is Mrs Baroni. Mr Meier, Mrs Barrett (and Mrs Mitchell who you will also come across from time to time).

Over the next two to three weeks we will be doing general introductions, talking about family, friends, generational issues and holidays.

I'll start with some work on Urlaub und Ferien. I'll use this article as a basis for written work and discussion. Here is the worksheet we'll use.

summer work

It is essential that you keep up your language skills over the summer . Here's some follow-up work from yesterday's lesson. 

1)  Listen again to the audio file Laserangriffe auf Polizeihubschrauber. Choose 20 words  from your lesson notes and write  sentences to show how they can be used.  The sentences must relate to the context of the news story. You can combine words in a sentence if you like. e.g. Laserstrahlen sind gefährlich für Flugzeuge und die Polizei versucht, die Täter zu bekämpfen.

2) watch this Youtube video and write a 50 word summary in German. 

Speaking Practice

Use these questions to help you prepare for the oral.

Here are a few sample answers with good phrases in bold. Match them to the question in the question bank above.

Essay Practice for Year 12 exam

This week, we'll practise a couple of essays ready for your exam on Friday.

Here's the handout - lots of phrases and masses of good vocabulary.  We have to compensate for the fact that you are not constantly immersed in a totally German-speaking environment. So, unfortunately, quite a bit of Gehirnvollstopfung is required.