Module 2
Step 1: Go to the following website: Images of Food Around the World from Geo Lino
- Read the title, introductory paragraph, and the paragraphs on Ecuador, Chad, and the U.S. Use the titles, captions, pictures, and the following comprehension guide to help you get the gist of what the article is about. Feeling hungry for more German? Feel free to read the paragraphs on Greenland, Italy, and Bhutan also!
- Complete the comprehension guide.
Step 2: Now its your turn to share. Reflecting on the what you read and viewed, what types of foods are representative of your cultural background? What is a meal that your family eats often? What is your favorite meal or dream meal?
- Take a photo of your favorite meal, a meal representative of your cultural background, or a meal that you eat often. Or search the web for such a meal, or for a photo of your dream meal. You can also share a photo of the foods that your family tends to eat each week, like the photos in the article. You may also post more than one photo.
- Go to Padlet. Use the password: Niblet when prompted.
- Find your name. Underneath your name, post your photo.
- Along with your photo, write auf Deutsch:
- What foods are included in your meal (or what foods your family tends to eat each week)
- How often you eat it/them
- Who you eat with
- Where do you get the foods included in your meal (from a certain type of store? grown at home? farm or farmers market? )
- Compare what you eat to what one of the families in the article eats. Do you eat similar foods? More of less of something?
- After you have posted your photo and paragraph, read the paragraphs of at least 2 classmates.
- Comment on the photos (and paragraphs) of those 2 classmates. You can compare your photo/meal to theirs, talk about similarities and differences in the ways that you eat, point out something that you find interesting, etc. All auf Deutsch, natürlich! Negative and critical comments are not allowed, and will be removed!
Background and Context: This module is situated within my Food Unit, which was developed for novice learners. Food is a topic common to level one, and this unit seeks to give the traditional food unit context and authenticity. This module is conducted in the middle of the school year. Students therefore have a basic foundation of language skills and vocabulary upon beginning the unit. This module takes place in the first half of the food unit, and will help students to build vocabulary, cultural knowledge, and connections to their own lives.
Learner Outcomes:
SWBAT:
- Identify and label foods in German
- Discuss what they do and do not like to eat
- Illustrate and explain a meal (or foods/groceries) that they typically eat, a meal representative of their cultural background, or a dream meal
- Interpret images of, and text on, meals from around the world
- Compare and contrast the foods they eat with the foods eaten by families around the world, and those eaten by their classmates
ACTFL:
Interpretive Communication: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- In this unit, students interpret images and short paragraphs on what families around the world eat.
Presentational Communication: Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
- In this unit, learners will present a meal that their family eats often (or one that is representative of their cultural background, or their dream meal), and will write a paragraph on it. Students will use Padlet to share their images and writing with their classmates.
Acquiring Information and Diverse Perspectives: Learners access and evaluate information and diverse perspectives that are available through the language and its cultures.
- In this unit, learners access and evaluate information about what people around the world eat, and what determines what people eat, through a German language website for kids.
Cultural Comparisons: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
- In this unit, learners use German to investigate, explain, and reflect on what they eat, and how it compares to what people of various cultures eat. Students will also compare their own eating with that of their classmates in German.
SAMR
Substitution: Students view photos and read an article online.
Augmentation: Students present their photos and paragraphs on the web via Padlet. Students read and comment on their peers' photos and paragraphs. Students use the web to find photos to present.