Wie+gehts+activity

This is nothing too exciting, just went over well with my kids. Since we were learning how to ask and tell how one is doing, I wrote down situations on index cards - one per card, in German and in English since the kids really don't get the German yet, it's just more or less for emphasis. I had them each draw a card out of the bag and based on what it said, answer how they were accordingly. So for example, their card said "Your car got a flat tire today" and the kids answered "Mir geht's nicht gut" when they were asked. I used it as a mixer and then after, went around the class and individually asked some students. It was a lot of fun, and you can take it further even when the kids don't know German. I would ask them things like "well why?" in German, and they'd answer me in English, but still getting exposure to German. And it gets funny too, because one of the boys answered "uh...mir geht es ok" (I'm doin ok), so I asked "well....why just ok?", and got "well uh you see....my uh...purse was stolen today but I ... yeah don't have a purse". Maybe you had to be there, but it was funny.

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