Bonn Von Oben

* Learning German with ease by enjoying reading * Particularly suitable for boys and girls who are learning German and for beginners * the first-person narrative form in the present tense enables a direct transfer to everyday communication. * The simple language facilitates independent reading and leads to a sense of achievement * Each book in the Rosenstrasse 111 series tells three self-contained stories and is therefore suitable for reading as a single...
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* Learning German with ease by enjoying reading
* Particularly suitable for boys and girls who are learning German and for beginners
* the first-person narrative form in the present tense enables a direct transfer to everyday communication.
* The simple language facilitates independent reading and leads to a sense of achievement
* Each book in the Rosenstrasse 111 series tells three self-contained stories and is therefore suitable for reading as a single piece. New books on other topics will be published regularly.
* The entire series also enables progressive learning. Covering various subject areas promotes the development of a solid and diversified basic vocabulary
* based on internationally proven didactic methods
* Use of a color system for nouns and articles in the stories and pictures for visually supported learning
* Endings, e.g. the article and adjectives, can be understood intuitively.
* Differentiation of different learning levels is done through optional text sections for advanced learners

About the book content:
In "Bonn von oben" Leo tells the story. It's mum's birthday and she gets a special birthday gift this year: a trip on a hot air balloon. Leo and his family get to see Bonn from a bird's eye view and even witness a burglary.

About the author and the genesis of the book series:
Jacqueline Woche has many years of international experience as a teacher of German as a foreign language teaching both children and adults at various intercultural learning institutions in Germany and abroad. Again and again she noticed the challenge for her students to learn articles and endings. The author therefore created colored texts and accompanying illustrations in watercolor, which promote learning and focus on the enjoyment of reading. With this series of books, the author realizes what she and her colleagues have always wished for: easy-to-understand, motivating and learning-enhancing reading for boys and girls.

More details about the concept:
The stories contain many words written phonetically, internationalisms and a simple sentence structure. This series of books offers nouns in the article colors that are common in textbooks for German as a foreign language. The article colors can also be found in the pictures in many details and correspond to the color of the noun in the text. Some objects in the pictures have unusual colors, such as the blue tea. They are meant to amuse the children, point to the article and encourage them to playfully imitate this learning technique.

Information for the lesson planning:
Vocabulary: birthday, party, breakfast, clothes, weather, home and garden,
Grammar: present tense, I-form, we-form, you-form/ future with "will + infinitive"/ great that.../ a toucan box with past tense, many plural forms, describe things (in the guessing game)
Speaking or writing occasions: Regional studies: Bonn / play a guessing game / draw a floor plan (e.g. sketch from an eagle's perspective) and then describe it / weather report / advertising, advertising posters / breakfast habits / role-playing games at the carousel, at the throwing booth, at the food stand / call the police, to report something
Interdisciplinary: Art/Science: difference in perspective from eye level and from a bird's eye view, floor plans, comparison of the representation of your own school building with google street view and google earth, advertising posters // Physics: why does the hot air balloon fly? // German: different reasons for writing or types of text - the burglary e.g. as a newspaper report, as a letter to grandma, as a short message via Messenger