Here are additional activities I have created for teaching Deutsche Welle Top-Thema module “Kinderbücher ohne Rassismus“. The original Deutsche Welle materials can be accessed from the theme webpage, or the text and exercises (pdf) and audio (mp3) can be downloaded for offline use.
In the post Teaching with Deutsche Welle’s Top-Thema and Video Thema, I outline how I use these Deutsche Welle modules in an intermediate- to advanced-level courses with varied goals. Visit that page to see how my students begin to work with the materials Deutsche Welle provides. Here I am presenting and explaining the extension activities that I use after we have exhausted all of the excellent materials Deutsche Welle provides to accompany the text.
Vocabulary
This is an activity students can do with any text. Each student makes a list of 10 words, expressions, or phrases from the text that s/he does not understand. Then they sit in groups of three and take turns explaining to each other in German what their chosen terms mean. If students have written down the same words, they work together to figure out the meaning based on the way it is used in the context of the article.
Mini-Debate
This activity references the Arbeitsauftrag at the very bottom of the Deutsche Welle page:
The class is divided into two groups. Each group is assigned a position.
The debate then proceeds as follows.
At the end of the debate, I poll students to see what their own beliefs on the issue are. If I had thought of it earlier, I would have done before and after polls to see if anybody’s mind was changed after hearing arguments for both sides of the issue.
The original Deutsche Welle Top-Thema page in HTML, with audio and comprehension exercises, is here: “Kinderbücher ohne Rassismus“.
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