Welcome to the only Summer Camp I will be running this year - from 24th July to 4th August. The 8 lessons in this camp are the start of 'Time for German' - a 64 lesson Scheme of Work which will take your learner from complete beginner to pre-intermediate level in the German language. More importantly though, your learner will have lots of fun along the way and will develop a love of language learning. This Summer Camp contains the first 8 lessons, is a great introduction to the German language and is loosely based on the lessons on my website www.zeitfuerdeutsch.com, but adapted and improved for Outschool. The website is very popular and used by German teachers all over the world. Students do not require any previous knowledge of German. This course can therefore be treated as either a taster/short Summer course where you learn the basics or as part of a longer scheme of work. A printable sheet containing all vocabulary for each lesson will be provided a few days before the course begins and an additional activity for each lesson will also be provided so that the learning can continue outside of the classroom. These 'additional activities' include crosswords, wordsearches and translation activities and I find that many of my students have a 'Time for German' folder that they keep all of their documents in to revise and remind them of all the learning done in class.

Throughout my many years experience of teaching German, students have often said that my lessons were 'easy', despite the ambitious learning objectives of the lessons. In my previous schools, I was the co-operative learning specialist and school lead, employing creative learning strategies and techniques to make my lessons more engaging, fun and co-operative. Throughout the course, I will use fun slides and activities to engage the students and learners will also be able to practise conversations with each other. I will ask lots of questions to build up the student's knowledge into functional sentences and at the end of the class, students will take part in a fun quiz to test out their new knowledge. Here is a brief summary of the topics that will be taught:

Week 1 
Lesson 1
Introduction

Week 1
Lesson 2 
Colors

Week 1
Lesson 3
Parts of the Body 

Week 1
Lesson 4
Clothing

Week 2
Lesson 1
Numbers and Time

Week 2
Lesson 2
Animals

Week 2
Lesson 3
To be

Week 2
Lesson 4
Fruit and Fun

After completing the course, your child may be interested in continuing to learn German with me. In that case I would recommended jumping onto one of my regular '101' weekly classes to complete the other 8 lessons in the 16 lesson course. I have timed this camp so that week 9 on all of my regular '101' courses will be soon after this Summer Camp finishes. Obviously there is not expectation to do this, but the option to continue is there. 

Your child will then be ready for 102. These are my courses and the recommended course sequence:

1 - Time for German 101
2 - Time for German 102
3 - Time for German 103 - Beginner to Intermediate World Languages Course: Version 1*
4 - Time for German 103 - Beginner to Intermediate World Languages Course: Version 2*

*Version 1 and Version 2 of 'Time for German 103' are interchangeable. It really does not matter in which order you do these courses. 

***Behaviour***
I have high expectations of behaviour. As an Outschool parent, I understand how frustrating it can be when one child spoils the lesson for the other children. I go over my expectations at the start of the lesson but my main rules are putting you hand up when you want to speak and not excessively playing with filters and emojis.