German Enrichment 12-Week Flex Camp for Young Learners Level 1

In this young learners' German course, students will practice German greetings and goodbyes and learn a variety of German survival expressions employing everyday nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Students will be led through 36 unique lessons with images and text and be asked to read and respond in German to practice key concepts and vocabulary. Supporting materials will be shared to the Outschool classroom. 

1. There are three interactive-style video-recordings per week given out by the instructor based on TPRS and Pimsleur-type teaching methodologies. The aim of the videos is to provide a wealth of comprehensible input to the students accompanied by texts and open-source images for a rich learning experience. While skill-building occurs during each weekly topic, new topics are started at the beginning of each week with some limited recycling of material. This means that the course does not become progressively more difficult. Students should be prepared to verbally interact with the videos. This is best accomplished with a parent and/or adult for support. Each video is approximately 20 minutes for a total of approximately 700 minutes of virtual live instruction.

2. Students will be expected to post a recording each week of a weekly cumulative activity to share their progress. An activity will be provided each week with supporting instructions to help parents facilitate student learning.

Week 1: "What is it?" and, "It is..." with Everyday Nouns
Week 2: "What do you like?" and "I like," "I don't like," "I like a lot," "I like a little," "I don't like at all," with Everyday Nouns and Activities
Week 3: "Who is it?" with Family, People, and Professions
Week 4: "How many?" 0-20, Seasons, Clothes, Months, and Birthdays
Week 5: "How much?"0-20, Stores, Money, and Shopping
Week 6: "When?" 21-31, Dates and Days of the Week
Week 7: "What time?" 30-60 and Daily Routine
Week 8: "Where is it?" Locations and Travel around Town
Week 9: "What can animals and people do?" Expressing "can" with Actions
Week 10: "What is my dream house?" Expressing "want" with Home Characteristics
Week 11: "What do I need?" Expressing needs like hunger, thirst and tiredness and developing problem-solving strategies
Week 12: "Who am I?" A cumulative class to describe oneself in terms of age, origin, family, likes, dislikes, and more

3. If there is more than one student per class, students are expected to post video or audio responses in German to other students regarding the content question and answers.

All references will be made available to students on the scheduled course start-date and each week thereafter, (e.g., if the course starts on a Monday, materials for each week will go out every Monday).

Students will have direct access to the instructor via Outschool—on both the Classroom page and the Teacher page—should they have any questions. The teacher will respond to questions within 24-48 hours.