Saturday 7 February 2015

Stick Men

I'm teaching aches and pains at the moment with my Year 9 German class and wanted them to write some sentences using the body parts and 'Schmerzen' or 'tut weh'. Using an A4 piece of paper which we folded in half lengthways, we cut out a stick man shape. Students then wrote 6 sentences on the head, legs, arms and body. I asked them to cut the stick man up into 6 bits and working in pairs, they read out each sentence which their partner had to translate. If they got it right, they won that piece of the stick man. The idea was to win their partner's stick man first! It got quite competitive and students were very strict about the translations and would only hand over the body part if the answer was 100% correct! As they finished, they then had to win their own men back.