I LOVED THAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!
How could anyone say that!?
What the hell. I probably read that book 5 times for English class and watched the movie several times too. That book is lovely!
Education makes the world go round
My wish is to make this Tumblr a gathering of all resources for teaching German as a foreign language, the subject I teach. Resources for this subject are, sad enough, quite rare though, so we'll see. Anyway with great resources is welcome to submit! German teachers: let's stick together ;-)
WRTS Mobile
This post is for Dutch speaking students and pupils only. WRTS is a website to learn vocab and a lot of my students love to use it to learn for tests. They now launched an application for mobile phones!
I had my first parent conference a while ago. I had to meet two parents and was quite afraid for one of the talks, because I had dismissed their son a few times already. It was nice to notice that we could have a nice and constructive talk as adults. I was relieved that the picture isn’t always the case (yet). Thank God.
(Source: benkenjes)
Ten reasons to learn German
- Too many cases, too many genders, too many rules? Is German really so difficult? No, says bestseller writer Bastian Sick: “It’s easy – after all, everyone manages with that.” And he gives ten more reasons for learning German – with a wink of the eye -
Phases of First Year Teaching
Haha I thought that this sounded about right :)
I’m in the disillusionment phase.
(via world-shaker)
Acapela.tv - Teaching foreign language pronunciation
I love to use this in my german as a foreign language class. The kids think it’s funny and they use it at home to check pronunciation of words. Okay, the accent isn’t always right, but it gives them a good idea of how to pronounce certain words.
The "awful" German Language by Mark Twain
(Source: alexanderfp, via fuckyeahdeutsch)
First day of school
- Student: With who do you live?
- Me: With my mum, I still live at home.
- *Students giggle a bit*
- Student: Me too!
- Me (Acting relieved): Aaah thank god I'm not the only one!
A class devoted entirely to watching YouTube videos? College credit for studying Internet pornography? And how would your parents feel if you took a course on Lady Gaga’s rise to fame? It may sound outlandish, but students are taking such classes at colleges and universities across the nation.
I’m amazed. A lot of people would think of this as only ‘fun-courses’, but for an important part university teaches her students a way of thinking and why couldn’t you teach those skills through topics students really are interested in? Although universitystudents are mostly already at a mature age, sometimes it’s still about the package ;-)
I really want to try this! To make it even more fun and more dramatically, I plan on bringing a book to class (I have a lot of books I don’t want to read again and that too old to sell) and rip the pages out in front of the classroom. After that, I’ll give every student a page and the assignment to make poetry out of it like in this example. Afterwards I could even assemble the pages together again and the class would have his own collection of poems. Can’t wait to do this!
(Source: world-shaker)
