3. Themenprojekt
Hallo allerseits!
Goal: Write about or give a presentation on a person of your choice.
Preparation: To prepare for this presentation, you should make sure that you have completed Lektionen (lessons) 3.1-3.1 here.
Instructions:
1) Pick a person you want to talk about (yourself, a family member, a friend, a celebrity, a random person) and find a picture of that person.
2) Go back to the respective lessons to find modeled language to talk about the person’s
- personality (3.1-3.2) and typical daily demeanor (3.3-3.5 )
- physical description (3.6-3.8 )
- clothing in the picture (3.9-3.12 )
If you want to challenge yourself, write down as many German words and phrases from these categories that you can remember without review.
3) Now write about each aspect of the person. You can write from either the person’s perspective (using ich) or about the person (using er/sie/xier). Be sure to use the modeled language in our book and/or your notes from your written journal. You will be the most successful, if you do not work on this with the English part of your brain. Stay in your German mindset, envision your German persona.
If you discover that you need a word or two to describe your person, and you cannot use circumlocution in its place, put an English word in as a placeholder until you are done. Then look up the word(s).
4) Using the modeled language, go through your writing and make any necessary improvements.
If you plan to present your person, practice reading your presentation. Your presentation should be “freely spoken”. That means it should sound like a rehearsed (but not necessarily memorized) speech, because it should be! You may look at your text while presenting, but you should be so familiar with it that you are able to look at your audience most of the time.
5) In addition to the image you have described in your writing, find at least two additional pictures of people who look similar to the person you’ve written about.
6) Check Canvas for submission requirements.
