Author: Karin Zelenka, migration class teacher
School, country: Mittelschule Woerth, Germany
Level: lower secondary 7th to 9th grade, age 13 to 15
Subject: German
Title of the activity: Word order, sentences and questions
We have
tried out the Finnish lessons about sentence structures/ word order. But we
modified it a little bit as I taught this lesson in German to the kids in the migration
class.
As the
educational background of these students varies greatly, it was a big
challenge. The ones who came from European countries as Romania and Bulgaria
quickly picked up the terms and logical system of the german sentence. As they
had learnt the Latin terminologies in their home schools before they could
easily take up. For my pupils who came from Eritrea and for the two from the
Kurdish part of Iraque it was a very hard struggle. They neither heard the
Latin terms before nor did they understand the logic of the word order in the
German sentence.
It was a
good thing for the to work with word cards as the Finnish team suggested. This
gave those Kids a good Support and they had fun trying out funny sentences with
the word cards then as well.
