HS German Guide

UNIT4 HOME AND FAMILY

GERMAN LEVEL 1

PACING

PROFICIENCY LEVEL RESOURCES

KEY LANGUAGE USE(S)

● USBE Standards ● ACTFL website ● ACTFL Profciency Guidelines ● World Readiness Standards for Languages

5-6 weeks/unit

Novice-Mid

INFORM

END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE EXPECTATIONS Purposeful communication: Tell and ask questions using the following terms and language functions and features: Tell and ask about home and family using the language functions and features: - Adjectives for describing people (f) Familie - Places to live

- Offering something to eat and drink and responding to an offer - Describe a room and furnitures (das Zimmer, Möbel etc. ) - Possessive adjectives mein, sein, dein, ihr - Indefnite article ein, eine

Describe myself and others using: Wie sehe ich aus? How do I look?

Wie sieht (er/sie/es) aus? How does he/she/it look? What does he/she/it look like? Wie sehen (wir/sie/Sie) aus? How do we/they/you look? What do we/they/you look like? - adjectives and vocabulary (ex: abenteuerlich, athletisch etc.) - correct word order - interrogatives

://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/fles/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf

ENDEARING UNDERSTANDING

CULTURAL CONNECTIONS

How has my home environment infuenced my personal identity?

How is my family life similar and/or different from German-Speaking families?

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building

● Use a variety of visuals to defne meaning of words and phrases (ie. pictures of people greeting one another, etc.). ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate vocabulary, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & vocabulary. ● Use Total Physical Response to review new vocabulary ● Pair with partners to practice conversation/group students to allow opportunity for them to practice speaking. Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● Model conversation and sentence frames. ● Listen to videos of friends meeting for the frst time. ● Engage the student in more student-teacher conversation in German aside from regularly planned activities or group the student with other advanced learners who

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