Dear Year 9 and Year 10 Parents, We are delighted that your child has chosen to continue studying German. At this level, many students should already have enough background knowledge to begin learning German outside the classroom as well as inside it. With the help of an iPad, your child can listen to podcasts, read simple texts, review vocabulary and check grammar. The range of apps, dictionaries and reading material for language learning is constantly growing. From Year 10 on, your child will also have the opportunity to spend 4 weeks in Germany, going to school for 3 weeks in Lippstadt, where our sister school is situated, and visiting Berlin for one week. An iPad makes it possible to construct a kind of virtual German world. With this device, your child can consolidate existing language knowledge and prepare for the possible experience of visiting and living in Germany. Possible downloads include: dictionaries at a fraction of the cost of the equivalent paper dictionaries podcasts for beginners through to advanced learners apps for German word games, vocabulary revision and grammar consolidation hundreds of books and magazines We hope that the recommendations in the attached file under each of these headings will increase your child’s motivation and growing proficiency in German. Kind regards from Nathan, Anett Dreher, Jana Kühn and Roslyn Green We are trialling the use of QR-Codes in some German classes this year. These codes can be scanned with the free app recommended below. When the student scans the code, the recommended website or page on the school’s German blog opens automatically. In this way a student can zip around to recommended pages without ever being tempted to use the iPad for any other purpose than the quest for knowledge. German knowledge, that is. Link to scanning app: Recommended Dictionary
Dear Year 9 and Year 10 Parents, We are delighted that your child has chosen to continue studying German. At this level, many students should already have enough background knowledge to begin learning German outside the classroom as well as inside it. With the help of an iPad, your child can listen to podcasts, read simple texts, review vocabulary and check grammar. The range of apps, dictionaries and reading material for language learning is constantly growing. From Year 10 on, your child will also have the opportunity to spend 4 weeks in Germany, going to school for 3 weeks in Lippstadt, where our sister school is situated, and visiting Berlin for one week. An iPad makes it possible to construct a kind of virtual German world. With this device, your child can consolidate existing language knowledge and prepare for the possible experience of visiting and living in Germany. Possible downloads include: dictionaries at a fraction of the cost of the equivalent paper dictionaries podcasts for beginners through to advanced learners apps for German word games, vocabulary revision and grammar consolidation hundreds of books and magazines We hope that the recommendations in the attached file under each of these headings will increase your child’s motivation and growing proficiency in German. Kind regards from Nathan, Anett Dreher, Jana Kühn and Roslyn Green We are trialling the use of QR-Codes in some German classes this year. These codes can be scanned with the free app recommended below. When the student scans the code, the recommended website or page on the school’s German blog opens automatically. In this way a student can zip around to recommended pages without ever being tempted to use the iPad for any other purpose than the quest for knowledge. German knowledge, that is. Link to scanning app: Recommended Dictionary