The 5th German Language Day in Ghana was organized by the Verein Deutsche Sprache and the GATG.
November 9: Accra Academy, Accra Wesley Girls, Robert memorial Complex School of Accra
November 14: Ghana Institute of Languages – East Legon
November 16: Methodist University College – Dansoman
November 22: University of Cape Coast
November 26: University of Education – Winneba
November 29: Opoku Ware School, Kumasi
Activities: German learning workshops (LW)
LW 1: Germany at a glance.
Students learned about Germany, its civilization, people, places and political system.Quiz: best students of this category were rewarded
LW 2: German verbs.
Students learned about the conjugation of German verbs in the indicative mood
Quiz: best students of this category were rewarded
LW 3: German sentence and word order
Students learned the structure and the order of each part of speech in a German sentence
Quiz: best students of this category were rewarded
LW 4: German diphthongs
Students learned to differentiate between the various diphthongs in German. The newly acquired knowledge
was displayed in the reading of some German poems.
Quiz: best students of this category were rewarded
LW 5: German vocabulary
Students learned some basic German vocabulary
Quiz: best students of this category were rewarded
LW 6: German verbs with separable and inseparable prefixes
Students learned how to identify a separable prefix, how to treat a verb with such prefix and the differences between a separable and an inseparable prefix.
Quiz: best students of this category were rewarded
LW 7: German songs
Students learned a Christmas song in German “O Tannenbaum”(O Christmas tree) and Liebe ist meine Rebellion (Love is my rebellion)by the Group Frida Gold
LW 8: The sound of German
Students learned about German phonetics by having a brief analysis of two poems written in German.
LW 9: The audio tutor of Deutsche Welle
Students practice the listening comprehension with the audio training materials of Deutsche Welle.
LW 10: German regular and irregular verbs
Students were taken through the irregularities in the German conjugation
Quiz: best students of this category were rewarded
Main Sponsor for this year: The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Accra
The event was supported by:
Verein Deutsche Sprache e.V. Dortmund (Germany), Goethe-Institut Ghana, Deutsche Welle (Germany), Hueber Verlag (Germany)GATG (Ghana Association of Teachers of German)



