Exciting Podcasts for your Freetime and the ClassroomPress play, discover ideas

Podcasts accompany millions of people throughout their day. So why not bring them into the classroom, too? Discover formats, topics, and teaching approaches that make listening engaging and provide fresh inspiration for your own teaching practice.

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New materials

Moritz Rinke – Stories Between Everyday Life, Society, and Literature

Number of downloads:531
Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English
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Summer Vacation: rather earlier than later?

Number of downloads:6359
Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English
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"Sophie Scholl": Graphic Novels in the classroom

Number of downloads:3220
Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English, swedish
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- sv

Time for Summer Vacation!

Number of downloads:2022
Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English
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It was so nice ...

Number of downloads:3622
Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English
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Do you smell the rain?

Number of downloads:6413
Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English
- de
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German with Fro

Number of downloads:99562
Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English, ukrainian
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- uk

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5-Minute Football Warm-Ups

Number of downloads:3898
Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English
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Online Game: Check it out: Between Like and Fake

Number of downloads:982
Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English
- de
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Citizen-Science-Podcast

Teaching material is available in the following languages German, English
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Trainings

Face-to-face, blended learning and certified online training courses offer teachers and trainers a wide range of opportunities to deepen their own skills in methodology/didactics, culture-based learning and media didactics for their own teaching or training. Benefit from our expertise and exchange ideas with colleagues from all over the world.

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Magazin Sprache

Up-to-date content on learning and teaching German as a foreign language: practical tips and specialist articles for trainers and teachers as well as dossiers on current key topics.

Multilingualism
Why Every Language Counts!
What happens when the languages children already speak are left out of school? And what opportunities are we missing as a result? The Erasmus+ project Your Language Counts! brought together partners from five countries to develop new approaches to Heritage Language Education (HLE).
Tags:
Teaching methods
Research
Multilingualism
Human rights
Schools
Language acquisition
Magazin Sprache article is available in the following languages: Deutsch, English
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Writing Pedagogy
“Resonant Writing”: Creating Knowledge Collaboratively
In many courses, learners do not talk about their experiences. Yet these experiences are crucial for resonance in the classroom. Through writing, sharing, mirroring back and responding to prompts, a space is created in which resonance can emerge and everyone can take part.
Tags:
German as a foreign language
Teaching methods
Young people
Teachers
Migration
Language acquisition
Magazin Sprache article is available in the following languages: Deutsch, English
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German Language Museum
The Forum Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim
Opening in Mannheim in 2028, the Forum Deutsche Sprache will be part language museum, part science centre – a place where visitors can discover, explore and actively engage with the German language. Prof. Dr Henning Lobin, scientific director of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) and the main force behind the project, explains what makes the Forum so significant and previews the fascinating programme ahead.
Tags:
Everyday language
Research
Institutions
Teachers
Language-learning policies
Magazin Sprache article is available in the following languages: Deutsch, English
© Goethe-Institut
Inclusive Teaching
Sign Language in Foreign Language Teaching
When deaf refugees come to Germany, they need to learn German Sign Language. For an inclusive educational approach, teachers ought to accommodate these special needs.
Tags:
German as a foreign language
German as a second language
Teaching methods
Teachers
Language acquisition
Magazin Sprache article is available in the following languages: Deutsch, English
© Bernhard Ludewig

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Networking

Tailored to your life situation: Goethe-platforms, events and communities. Discover the right format to exchange ideas and network with colleagues and experts on a regional as well as a global level.

Communities

Online
PASCH-net – GFL materials for young people

The website pasch-net.de of the initiative ‟Schools: Partners for the Future“ (PASCH) is a meeting place for the international PASCH community. It offers free learning material for teaching German.

Members: 100.000
The community is available in the following languages
- German