Chapter 3Festivities in Germany

Celebrate festivals – How nice it is to celebrate a festival and discover similarities and differences to neighboring countries. This teaching material invites you to do so. Thematically, it is about the following festivals: New Year's Eve / New Year, Christmas / Advent, Easter, Carnival and the first of May. In addition to different skills such as reading, writing and speaking, grammar is not stopped: While at Easter the passive is repeated again, at Christmas dative pronouns can be repeated and practiced. The task sheets can be used well in isolation. Often, however, it can also be combined and e.B tasks for vocabulary work can be set as homework for pre-relief.

From beginners to more advanced students – this volume provides material for all learners.

Learning objectives

Students know
• words from the New Year's Eve word field
• words from the Christmas word field
• words from the Easter word field
• words from the May 1st word field

Students can
• understand a text for New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve and assign pictures
• formulate good resolutions
• know typical lucky symbols on New Year's Eve
• create an acronym on the theme of Advent
• play a domino game with the vocabulary "Christmas"
• recognize personal pronouns in a text
• formulate wishes with need (+Akk) and want to have (+Akk)
• formulate sentences with gifts (+dates) and personal pronouns
• say and justify what they give someone
• answer questions about a video clip about a Greek Easter tradition
• understand and answer an Easter greeting card
• answer questions about a video clip about a Sorbian Easter tradition
• write an Easter baking recipe in passive
• describe photos of carnival / carnival / carnival
• read and understand an information text
• research and present regional terms fastnacht / carnival / carnival
• read and understand a carnival recipe
• read and understand information texts on "Dance into 1 May" and "Labour Day"
• formulate good wishes