Grade 9 Acquiring Information

It is expected that students will:

• extract and process information from German-language resources to complete authentic tasks
• convey acquired information through oral and written language, using visual support

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At this level, most students have the skills needed to acquire practical information from resources relevant to their age. They continue to require structure and practice in their efforts to convey the information gathered.

• Ask students to examine German sales flyers and make a class chart of the items and prices advertised. Have them work in groups to create sales flyers (Sonderangebote) for items such as clothing, sports equipment, and CDs for a major German department store (e.g., Karstadt, KaDeWe), including prices, sizes, and other relevant information.
• Provide students with German-language television schedules and have them match the titles of popular films or programs with their original English titles. Ask students to group the titles into categories (e.g., comedy, adventure, drama, romance) and create weekly viewing schedules, in German, of programs or movies of their choice.
• Invite students to read letters from German young people published in magazines such as Das Rad. Ask them to select pen pals with similar interests to their own and respond to them.
• Suggest that students browse the Internet to research up-to-date information on German sports events or movies. Ask them to use the information to create viewing schedules of sports events or movie programs for the week and then present them to the class.
• Divide the class into groups and give each group a different section of the same magazine article. Ask each group to analyse and paraphrase its section. Then have students form new groups to share the main ideas of all sections and arrange them in logical sequences. Finally, invite these groups to represent their collaborative understanding of the article in a series of cartoon panels or illustrations.

Students at this level show evidence of their language skills and strategies in the ways they approach and work with materials as well as in their representations of the information they acquire.

• As students work with age-appropriate German-language resources, observe and note evidence of the qualities below. The teacher may wish to develop a self-assessment checklist that students can use to record their growth in these areas:
  • confidence--approaches task with a positive attitude
  • resourcefulness--tries a variety of approaches, skills, and strategies to solve problems
  • perseverance--does not become frustrated; continues in the face of adversity
  • risk taking--willing to attempt new and unfamiliar tasks or approaches
  • commitment--takes pride in completing assigned or self-selected work
  • self-monitoring--checks own progress and makes adjustments as needed
• When students work with materials such as department-store sales flyers or television schedules, look for evidence that they are able to:
  • locate familiar words
  • use the context to support inferences about the information
  • predict meaning by interpreting graphics and pictures
  • focus on finding the key information they need
  • try to add interest by including a variety of details
• When students compose replies to German-speaking pen pals, look for evidence that they are able to:
  • refer to information in the letters and respond accordingly
  • convey understandable messages
  • include details to make meaning clear
  • use an increasing range of vocabulary, structures, and expressions
• After students have represented their collaborative understanding of a magazine article, create a class chart of useful strategies by asking each pair or group to contribute two or three strategies that helped them extract and convey information.

Print Materials

• 501 German Verbs
• Active German
• Collins 10,000 German Words
• Collins Pocket German Dictionary
• Collins Pocket German Grammar
• Collins Pocket German Verb Tables
• The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary
• Du und Ich
• German Grammar
• German Vocabulary
• In Play
• Klett's Modern German and English Dictionary, Second Edition
• Langenscheidt's Grosswoerterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache
• Langenscheidt's Pocket German Dictionary
• Langenscheidt's Standard German Dictionary - Indexed
• Language Fundamentals: German
• Lies Doch Mal!
• Master the Basics: German
• Pack's An
• Schreib Mir Bitte
• Take Your Partners: German Pairwork Exercises
• Wort und Bild Series

• Deutsch Aktuell (Levels 1-2)
• Deutsch Heute Neue 1, 2, 3 (Neue Ausgabe)
• Gute Reise!
• Heute Hier, Morgen Dort - Lieder, Chansons und Rockmusik im Deutsch-Unterricht
• Kopfhörer auf! - Listening Pack
• Lernexpress

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