4. Themenprojekt

Goal: For Thema 4, you will have two topics (your best friend and your hobbies). You will write about one of the topics and give a presentation of the other.

Themenprojekt: Meina besta Freund*in

Preparation: To prepare for this Themenprojekt, you should make sure that you have completed Lektionen (lessons) 4.1-4.6 in Deutsch im Alltag I.

Instructions:

1) If you have more than one best friend, pick one you want to talk about.

2) You will first write/talk about your best friend’s personality and appearance. (See lessons 3.1-3.8.)

3) Then you will write/talk about what you do with your friends, where and when you meet up (see lessons 4.1-4.6).

If you want to challenge yourself, write down as many German words and phrases from these categories that you can remember without review.

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 this topic in class, 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) You can show pictures of your friend and your outings, if you want.

6) Submit your writing here.

7) Print it out and bring your text to class. Bring your pictures, if you have them, in either printed or electronic versions to class.

Themenprojekt: Mein Lieblingshobby

Preparation: To prepare for this Themenprojekt, you should make sure that you have completed Lektionen (lessons) 4.7-4.13 in Deutsch im Alltag I.

Instructions:

1) You will write or talk about what your favorite hobby (or hobbies), what it is, why you like it, how often you do it.

If you want to challenge yourself, write down as many German words and phrases from these categories that you can remember without review.

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).

2) Using the modeled language, go through your writing and make any necessary improvements.

If you plan to present this topic in class, 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.

3) You can show pictures of your hobbies, if you want.

4) Submit your writing here.

5) Print it out and bring your text to class. Bring your pictures, if you have them, in either printed or electronic versions to class.

**Check Canvas for submission deadlines.**