G2.11 Pastimes by Early Start Languages

2.11 Was ist dein Lieblingshobby?

11. Was ist dein Lieblingshobby? Leisure activities

DVD: film 11

Discovering mutual interests, likes and dislikes, is an important part of developing relationships between children. This section enables pupils to talk about some of the sports and pastimes they like and don’t like doing in their free time. As a starting point, we have included a variety of the sports and leisure activities available to young people in Freiburg, with some more suggestions included in “extra words” at the end of this chapter. Some pupils will be able to give simple reasons to support their preferences.

Different leisure interests: Music: Children play music at the Jazz and Rock School. Killian: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Musik.” The young musicians from the Jazz and Rock School start their rehearsal. Boy: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Musik.” Boy: “Ich spiele gern Schlagzeug.” (I like to play drums). Girl: “Ich spiele gern Saxophon.” (I like to play saxophone). Killian: “Ich spiele gern Bongo.” (I like to play bongos). Killian starts to play bongos: Bongo spielen (playing bongos.)

NEW WORDS AND PHRASES das Hobby - hobby Mein Lieblingshobby ist... My favourite hobby is... Was machst du? What are you doing? Was machst du gern? Hobbies What do you like doing?

Ich spiele Ich spiele Fußball Ich spiele Bongo Ich spiele Schlagzeug Ich spiele Saxophon Ich fahre Fahrrad Ich fahre Inliner Ich fahre Roller Ich fahre Einrad

- I play - I play football - I play bongos - I play drums - I play saxophone - I go cycling - I go roller-blading - I go scooter riding

Film 11: “Ich spiele gern Bongo”.

Cycling: Ephraim rides his bicycle: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Fahrrad fahren.” We see other cyclists: Fahrrad fahren (cycling.) Ephraim stops his bike: “Ich fahre gern Fahrrad.” (I like cycling.)

- I go unicyling

Film 11: Ephraim -“Ich fahre gern Fahrrad”.

Flashcards CD 11

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Early Start German Pack 2 Ich fahre gern Inliner. Ich fahre lieber Einrad. Ich fahre lieber Roller.

Roller skating: Emily: “Ich fahre gern Inliner.” (I like roller-blading). She skates off: Inliner fahren (roller-blading.) Uni-cycling: Marie: “Ich fahre nicht gern Inliner... (I don’t like roller-blading. ...Ich fahre lieber Einrad.” (I prefer to unicycle). She rides her unicycle: Einrad fahren (unicycling.)

PAUSE - part 2, more hobbies.

More hobbies: Singing: Children at the Choir School. Valentin: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Singen.” We hear the choir rehearsing: Singen. Jamun: “Ich singe gern.” Valentin: “Ich singe gern.”

Film 11: Marie in Rieselfeld street- “Ich fahre lieber Einrad”.

Scooter: Peter: “Ich fahre nicht gern Einrad . (I don’t like unicycling.) Ich fahre lieber Roller.” (I prefer to ride my scooter). He rides his scooter: Roller fahren (scooter-riding) Football: We see children at a football match in SC Freiburg’s stadium. The crowd cheers. Rana: “Mein Lieblingssport ist Fußball.” Leon: “Mein Lieblingssport ist Fußball.” Emily, Rana, Lukas and Leon each say: “Mein Lieblingssportclub ist der SC Freiburg.” (My favourite sportsclub is SC Freiburg.) Playing football on the school sportsground. Johannes: “Ich spiele gern Fußball.” (I like to play football) Fußball spielen”. (playing football.) Julian: “Ich habe Fußball nicht gern.” (I don’t like football.) Revision: Another look at children and their hobbies: Ich spiele gern Bongo. Ich spiele gern Schlagzeug. Ich spiele gern Saxophon. Ich spiele gern Fußball. Ich fahre gern Fahrrad.

Film 11: Jamun in the Choir School - “Ich singe gern”.

Reading: Hanife and Tania in the library. Hanife: “Ich lese gern.” (I like to read). Tania: “Ich lese nicht gern.” (I don’t like to read). Hanife chooses another book: Lesen. Dancing: dance class at the Haus der Jugend, the youth centre in Freiburg: Sabine: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Tanzen.” (My favourite hobby is dancing). Lisa: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Tanzen.”

Film 11: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist tanzen”.

The girls continue to dance: Tanzen. Christine: “Ich tanze gern.” Laura: “Ich tanze auch gern.” (I also like to dance).

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2.11 Was ist dein Lieblingshobby? Children at the Weiherhof-Realschule do country dancing in the sports hall. Enes: “Ich tanze nicht gern.” Climbing: Children on the climbing wall at the Haus der Jugend: Paula: “Mein Lieblingssport ist klettern.” Paula reaches the top of the climbing wall: Klettern.

Film 11: Leon says: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Fußball”.

PAUSE - part 3, Q and A about leisure activities

Question and answer: Depika, was ist dein Lieblingshobby? Depika: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Tanzen.” Und was machst du gern, Marah? Marah: “Fußball.” Leon, was ist dein Lieblingshobby? Leon: “Fußball.” Was ist dein Lieblingshobby, Rana? Rana: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Fahrrad fahren.” Daniel, was machst du gern? Daniel: “Fußball.” Hallo! Wie geht’s? Jasmin: “Gut!” Wie heißt du? Jasmin: “Jasmin.” Und Jasmin, wie alt bist du? Jasmin: “Ich bin 10 Jahre alt.” Und was ist dein Lieblingshobby? J: “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Inliner skating.”

Film 11: Climbing - “Paula! Alles in Ordnung?”

The instructor encourages her: “Ja, super Paula! Paula, alles in Ordnung?” (Paula, is everything all right?) Paula: “Ja.” Instructor: “Also, eins, zwei, drei und ... hopf! Gut! Und boing! Und boing! So, und jetzt noch mal.” (So, and now once again). “Richtig kräftig abstützen, ja?” (Proper strong support, OK?) “Eins, zwei, drei ... Sprung! Sprung! Sprung! (1,2,3 ... Jump! Jump! Jump!) Super Paula! Alles in Ordnung? Gut! (Well done, Paula! Is everything all right? Good.) Und schöne weiche Landung.” (And a nice soft landing). Paula: “Ich klettere gern.” Simon: “Ich klettere nicht gern.” Simon struggles to climb the wall. Simon: “Klettern ist blöd!” (Climbing is stupid). Revision: Children again doing their activities: Ich lese gern. Ich tanze gern. Ich klettere gern. Ich singe gern. Girls in the dance class: “Wir tanzen alle gern.” (We all like dancing.)

DVD MARKERS

1. Hobbies - with ‘Ich spiele’, ‘Ich fahre’... 2. More hobbies - with other structures 3. Questions and answers 4. Written words Use the skip key on your remote control

Planning your lessons

Film 11 introduces new phrases for doing various sports and pastimes; many in the form ‘Ich spiele X’ or ‘Ich fahre Y’ . Help children become familiar with these phrases, then move to saying ‘I like.../ I don’t like...’, which is the same as in Ch.2.6 (school subjects). You could do saying ‘My favourite

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Early Start German Pack 2 sport/hobby is ....’ before or after. You could then introduce other hobbies. Helping children discover the German names of pastimes they want to talk about will develop dictionary and pronunciation skills. Some pupils will go further, and give simple reasons for their preferences. This is an opportunity to find out about the leisure interests of German people, and compare them with your community.

KEY SOUNDS

Listen and enjoy copying these typical sounds: where have you heard them before?

as in... spiele,

Sport; Schlagzeug heard before in Schule, Glückwunsch

Activities

as in Einrad

Freiburg, mein [an example in English is cry]

heard before in

1. Warm up

You could start the lesson with a short game to remind children of what they can say about “likes and dislikes” with regard to school.

as in spiele,

lieber, Lieblings... heard before in viel, wie [an example in English is deer]

2. Watch film 11, part 1

❑ Watch film 11: “Was ist dein Lieblingshobby?“ part 1 to introduce new phrases for leisure activities that use “Ich spiele...” or “Ich fahre...”plus a noun, e.g. “Ich spiele Bongo”.

Saxophon, lesen, singen heard before in Solar, sechs [an example in English is zoo]

as in...

3. Get used to the sounds

as in... tanzen,

❑ Echoing: Show ‘Hobbies’ from the Flashcards CD (or use flashcards from the activity sheets or display on the OHP).

heard before in Dezember,

Zimmer

(Listen to the native speakers - try to copy their typically German sounds.) Flashcards CD 11 Click here to change happy/sad face

As you show each one, join in saying the word with an appropriate mime, e.g. of hands drumming the bongos. Children join in and echo, taking care with the “key sounds”. ❑ Predicting: Show children e.g. “Ich fahre Fahrrad”; ask children if they can work out how to say, e.g. “I like cycling” from what they already know (see Ch.2.6, school subjects). .

Ask children to join in echoing the phrase, e.g. “Ich fahre gern Fahrrad”. Say it with lots of facial expression and emotion in your voice and the mimes, too. Pupils echo the phrase and intonation (and mime). ❑ Echoing: Repeat the process, now using the “sad/grumpy face” picture (with the Flashcards CD, switch by clicking on the smileyface), e.g. “Ich spiele nicht gern Saxophon”.

3. Saying “I like/dislke...”

❑ Echoing: Select ‘Hobbies’ and ‘Likes/ dislikes..’ from the Flashcards CD (or use flashcards/OHP plus “happy/sad faces”.

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2.11 Was ist dein Lieblingshobby? 6. Get used to the sounds

❑ Echoing: Show ‘More hobbies’ from the Flashcards CD. Ask children to echo, with mimes. Move to likes, and ask children if they can predict how to say “I don’t like singing”.

Click here to change sad/happy face

Show in your voice and by your facial expression and mime just how much you dislike the activity! Pupils echo phrase, intonation and mime. Switch to “jumbled order” for a random mixture of likes/ dislikes and activities. Then select both ‘Hobbies’ and ‘More hobbies’, and ‘jumbled’; switch off text, and ask children to predict the phrase for each picture.

4. Respond with understanding

❑ Invite ten confident pupils to come to the front of the class. Give eight of them one of the pastimes pictures each and the remaining two pupils the “gern” and “nicht gern” symbols from chapter 2.6. When you say, e.g. “Ich spiele gern Fußball”, the pupil with the football picture holds it up for everyone to see and the child with the “gern” symbol holds up his/her picture. The rest of the class echoes the phrase. At this early stage, some mimes may help - and will certainly make the activity more amusing!

7. Respond with understanding

❑ Make multiple copies of the pastimes pictures. Each child in the class selects a picture of an activity s/he likes doing. Demonstrate what to do with the puppet: you and the puppet each choose a picture -which (for the game) is the only pastime you like. If yours is the cycling picture, say to the puppet, “Ich fahre gern Fahrrad, und du?” If the puppet has chosen a different picture, e.g. rollerblading, he says, “Nein, ich fahre gern Inliner” or (better), “Nein, ich fahre lieber Inliner” - “I prefer roller-blading”. If he has chosen the same picture, he says, “Ja, ich fahre gern Fahrrad”.

EXTRA WORDS AND PHRASES 1 Giving reasons *

... warum? Es ist fantastisch! ... why? It’s great

If pupils have caught onto the idea quickly, gradually increase the pace at which you call out the phrases.

Es ist interessant - It’s interesting ... langweilig - ... boring ... blöd - ... stupid Es macht Spaß! - It’s fun!

5. Watch film 11, part 2 (and pt.3)

❑ Watch film 11: “Was ist dein Lieblingshobby?“ part 2 to introduce more phrases for leisure activities based on a verb, e.g. “Ich tanze...”. Part 3 gives examples of the corresponding nouns, “Mein Lieblingshobby ist Tanzen“.

Hear these phrases pronounced on the Flashcards CD for teachers. Flashcards CD 11

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Early Start German Pack 2 Now ask everyone to move round the room and repeat the question-and-answer dialogue with as many people as possible. It is a good idea if you and the puppet join in. ❑ Play “musical questions” Play the previous activity with music. When the music stops, pupils do the question-andanswer dialogue with the nearest person.

EXTRA WORDS AND PHRASES 2 MORE SPORTS & PASTIMES

You can use this phrase with other sports:

Ich spiele (nicht) gern... I like (don’t like) to play... (der) Basketball - basketball (das) Judo - judo (das) Rugby - rugby (das) Tennis - tennis

8. Working in pairs

❑ Give pairs of children multiple copies of the pastimes pictures and “gern”/“nicht gern” symbols. They make two piles, one of activities and one of symbols. They take it in turns to select a symbol and a picture and to say the combined phrase, e.g. “Ich fahre gern Inliner” or “Ich fahre nicht gern Fahrrad”. ❑ Play “snap”

You can also say:

Mein Lieblingshobby ist... My favourite hobby is... (das) Schwimmen - swimming (die) Computerspielen - playing computer games (das) Fernsehen - watching TV (die) Gymnastik - gymnastics = included on activity sheet

Flashcards CD 11

German French Spanish football: der Fußball, le football, el fútbol tennis: das Tennis, le tennis, el tenis rugby: das Rugby, le rugby, el rugby cricket: das Kricket, le cricket, el criquet judo: das Judo, le judo, el yudo If pupils are already familiar with how a bilingual dictionary works, they could, as a group

Pupils can cut out the pictures, pool their sets and use them to play “snap”. The game should include saying the activity as the card is played. They will need several sets of pictures.

Inter-cultural understanding

■ As a class, sort a list of German words into individual sports and team games. How many children prefer each group? ■ Pupils can swap information with their link school about their favourite sports. ■ Send them the results of your survey with illustrations, e.g. drawings, photographs, video of the activities. ■ Ask pupils to think of how to explain the rules of an unfamiliar sporting activity to their German counterparts, e.g. rounders, netball, cricket. Instead of written German, they could use drawings, diagrams, photographs or video clips, with simple key instructions in English: How many players are there in each team? How are points scored? What is forbidden? ■ Ask your German partner school to do the same. Can you follow each other’s instructions?

9. Look again at sounds

❑ Now that the new words and sounds are familiar, play either “listen to the sounds” or “find the sound” (both described in Ch.2.1.).

Introducing the written word

When pupils have had plenty of exposure to the sounds of the new words and phrases, show the final part of film 11, where each of the key phrases is repeated with text on-screen. ❑ Play “word-picture match 1 and 2” (see Ch.2.1).

CROSS-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

❑ Dictionary skills: Many of the words for different sports are similar in English, French and other European languages e.g.

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2.11 Was ist dein Lieblingshobby? or whole class activity, look up the German words for other sports and pastimes. With their knowledge of key sounds, they can try to work out how to pronounce them. Compare with the names in English.

Talking point 1

EVERYDAY LIFE IN GERMANY Favourite German leisure activities

When pupils are confident with using the names of pastimes from the film, help them learn other words so they can talk about about the pastimes that are important to them.

German children have more time for leisure activities as school finishes early in the afternoon. Sport Sport is extremely popular in Germany - 40% of the population regularly play sport. There are over 90,000 sports clubs with 27 million members. The most popular sport is football. More than 2 million German children - both boys and girls - play in one of the 21 state football federations. Other popular sports with children include gymnastics, handball, tennis, athletics, cycling and swimming. Handball is the second most popular sport in Germany, and also the rest of Europe, but is less popular in the UK. Every year over one million Germans of all ages take the ‘Deutsches Sportabzeichen’ (German Sports Award). This is a voluntary fitness test in various disciplines. Music Many German children learn to play an instrument in school, or sing in a choir in church. American and UK pop music is popular, but there are also many German pop bands. Some German bands sing in English, some in German and others in both. Outdoor activities Visiting the countryside and outdoor activities such as hiking and climbing are also popular. The youth hostel movement began in Germany in 1909. It was started by a German school teacher who aimed to help children and young people from towns and cities have access to the countryside. Today there are 550 youth hostels in Germany, and they are still popular destinations for families and school groups. Charity work Over 75% of Germans work for social or ecological groups in their spare time. Many children also participate in charitable activities such as visiting the elderly or helping the environment.

❑ Survey - ICT: Pupils can find out from each other what sparetime activities they like and don’t like. See “extra words and phrases” for more words for pastimes. You could also help children find words they want in a bilingual dictionary. Children can record the results of their survey on a spreadsheet and display it as a graph.

Aask a German school to do a similar survey, swap results, and compare your results. n Some pupils may be ready to give reasons for their preferences - see “extra words and phrases 1” for some starting points. ❑ Art and design: Pupils can design a frieze for classroom display showing their favourite sporting activities labelled in German.

Town Guide project

❑ Geography: Pupils preparing a Guide for their town could research what sporting activities are available. ■ When and where do they take place? ■ How do visitors get there? ■ How much does it cost? Pupils could also consider which of your local amenities might be of particular interest to German visitors.

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Early Start German Pack 2 Other activities Like children in the UK, Geman children enjoy reading books, comics or children’s magazines, watching TV and playing computer games.

Which teams do they support? Do they support local teams, or teams from outside the local area? Why do they support a particular team? ■ Many international football stars now play in the British football leagues. Do the class know any German players in their favourite teams? The Goethe-Institut, in partnership with Arsenal FC, have produced a cross-curricular primary German resource pack, Primary Double Club, which contains a variety of resources for teaching German through football. For more information see the website www.earlystart.co.uk.

Talking point 2

EVERYDAY LIFE IN GERMANY: Football - SC Freiburg

Football in Germany Football (Fußball) is the most popular sport in Germany, with over 170,000 teams in the country. Every town or village has its own football team. In popular slang, football is often called die Pille (literally “the pill”, which the round white ball resembles). Germany has won the World Cup three times, although they famously lost to England in the 1966 final. After the Second World War, East and West Germany were separated and played as two teams. In 1990 Germany was reunited, and won the World Cup for the third time. The German system of amateur and professional leagues is similar to the British, with teams at various levels in most towns. The top teams play in the Erste (1st) Bundesliga, Germany’s Premiership. Other teams fight for promotion from the Zweite (2nd) Bundesliga. Women’s football is also very popular in Germany, with a league system and successful national side. SC Freiburg In the film we see fans going to a home match at SC (Sport-Club) Freiburg, their local professional team. They have played in both the 1. Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga in recent years. ■ Children could follow the progress of SC Freiburg throughout the season. Most teams are named after their home towns, so finding Freiburg’s opponents on a map is a good cross-curricular activity with geography. There are a great many websites devoted to German football, in German and English. Find out more from the website, www.earlystart.co.uk. ■ Discuss with the class their own experience of football teams. Do they know any local teams? Which leagues do they play in? Do they or any of their family members play in a local team?

Talking point 3

EVERYDAY LIFE IN GERMANY Music

All German schools offer music as part of the curriculum, and after-schools activities such as choirs and orchestras. As in the UK, many different types of music are popular in Germany, including classical, jazz, pop, rock and folk. Classical Music Some of the world’s most famous classical composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Wagner were German-speakers (More information about these composers can be found on the German 1 eCD.) More recently, pioneering avant-garde composers came to dominate both German and Austrian classical music. The most famous were Arnold Schönberg from Vienna (Wien) and Karlheinz Stockhausen from Cologne (Köln). Nowadays Germany and Austria still have some of the finest orchestras and music schools in the world. Freiburg Cathedral Choir School In film 11, we see the Boys Choir rehearsing in Freiburg Cathedral’s Choir School (der Freiburger Münsterchor). Founded in the 13th century, the school is housed in the elegant old Archbishop’s Palace next to the Cathedral itself, where the choir’s duty is to sing masses on Sundays and feast days. Boys compete to pass the entrance exam to join this prestigious choir at age 10, even though they are signing up for long hours of hard practice and study of music theory as well as the services.

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2.11 Was ist dein Lieblingshobby? Since 1973, there has also been a girls’ choir; the men’s choir were trained as boys at the school.

Jazz Orchestra is a fun way to develop your music skills.

The tune we hear them performing is not German: it’s the Caribbean calypso “St. Thomas” by Sonny Rollins. He named it after the West Indies island, and based it on a tune remembered from his childhood that his mother sang to him. Jazz first became popular in Germany in the 1920s, not long after its origin in the USA among African-American communities. However, during the Nazi period jazz was banned and many musicians went abroad. After the war, jazz became popular again in 1950s’ West Germany, particularly Berlin, but in East Germany, it was frowned on as an American import. Children still compete to join jazz groups like that in Freiburg, which attracting good audiences wherever they play. ■ Children could do a class survey: ‘Was ist deine Lieblingsmusik?’

Boys’ Choir rehearses in the Choir School by the Cathedral.

The rehearsal is led by the Cathedral’s Director of Music (Domkapellmeister), Boris Böhmann. Johann Sebastian Bach held a similar position in Leipzig (see Ch.1.7), where he wrote choral music for singing in church. In Roman Catholic Churches, choirs always sang in Latin; but after the Reformation, breakaway Protestant churches thought it very important to conduct services in German so ordinary people could understand them. Martin Luther (1483-1546, see Ch.1.4), who started the Reformation in Germany, translated the Bible into German and also wrote many of the new German hymns. Jazz and Rock School The children we see rehearsing in film 11 come from schools all over Freiburg to a soundproofed cellar in one school, which is the home of the city’s after-school jazz club, Jazz-und Rock-Schule. This is part of an internationally famous music school; their jazz orchestra performs in concerts as well as touring abroad in the school holidays.

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