Class Saturday 11 October 2025

 The nico episode

grammar (the modal verb sollen)

the news article

Class 04 October 2025

 This Saturday we'll be focusing on the following:

* Review the verbs passen, stehen, helfen

* Review clothing vocab and adjectives to describe clothing

* Nicos weg episode 62

Transcript and discussion questions

^ focus on the phrases: "wie lange" and "denn"

* Song: Söhne Mannheims - wie lange

* Nicos weg episode 63

Writing activity for episode 63

* News this week: Birkenstocks!

Class - 27 Sep 2025

 NEWS

DeutschlandTicket gets more expensive.

SONG

Sorry everyone, it's a repeat. THE CLOTHES RAP. Learn the clothes and adjectives and we can leave this "supa cool" rap song behind us.

GRAMMAR

Adjectives. 

We'll also look at the verbs with Dative objects that we didn't get to last week. 

NICO

Yep. Unit 15 video A, selma meets Inge

Class - 20 Sep 2025

 NEWS

Here is the current event article in simple German. It's about the Conni book series.

Here is an article on the same topic written in authentic German for native German speakers.

NICOS WEG

Here is the first Nicos Weg episode we watched today

Here is the second Nicos Weg episode we watched today.

Here's the transcript

^ Remember you can click the ^ symbol at the top right to do some exercises on your own

SONG

Hauch mich mal an from Das Lumpenpack

GRAMMAR

We didn't really get to this on the 20th, but next week we'll look at some VERBS that use the DATIVE. See page 4 of the following document.

13 Sep 2025 - Class Materials

 Hello

These are the materials from our first class, Saturday 13 September 2025

Transcript of Nicos Weg A1 Episode 58 "Mein lieblingspulli" (Chapter 14 video B)

Link to Nicos Weg

News Article, Handout, Song Lyrics

News article (website)

Song on youtube

15 February 2025 - Unterricht

 Here's' what we're looking at today. Class is cancelled due to snow.

Here's the news article

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fzWDXKfZds0LBHeG39z4qpUqfhrVCi9Epnz9ISUCHKA/edit?usp=sharing

Original site

https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten-leicht/leichte-sprache-sachsen-pirna-lego-rampe-100.html

Script

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1alZDNkEZdblPYvH8cf87ak2ZjukP8uLlNJb0ODKDh7w/edit?tab=t.0

Video

https://learngerman.dw.com/en/ich-mag-nicht/l-37599970

01 February 2025 Unterricht

Here is the link to the article about striking postal workers and the use of "mit" to describe what transportation method you're using

Here is the article on its original website (with audio)

25 January 2025 Unterricht

News article about fires in California

The script for the nicos weg video

Here is the two-case prepositon story we're looking at this week

18 January 2025 Unterricht

Hello class,

This Saturday we will be reviewing two-case prepositions again. That is, prepositions that can be followed by either the DATIVE or ACCUSATIVE case. Here's an example:

Ich BIN in DER Stadt.

Ich GEHE in DIE Stadt

The Nicos Weg episode we will be watching is the following

10B - An der Ampel links 

We will be doing a few of the exercises from this website

We will also be looking at this article about funding police protection for soccer games.

11 January 25 Unterricht

 This is the video for this Saturday's class January 11th. Please watch before class.

https://learngerman.dw.com/en/wo-ist-der-bahnhof/l-37594551

* will add more material later *