Miss Ji Kexin has succeeded in arousing her students’ interest in the classroom activities, because she has turned boring drills and controlled exercises into interesting pair-work, making her class full of fun and laughter. Besides, Miss Ji is expert at keeping up students’ spirits by rich body language so the whole class shows great enthusiasm in learning numbers 1-20 in German.

The key to her successful class lies in the fact that Miss Ji has organized various forms of activities to guide her students to master the pronunciation, spelling, and usage of 20 German numbers 1-20. There is pair-work between teachers, pair-work between Miss Ji and the students, pair-work between the assistant teacher and the students, and pair-work between students. In addition, there are many dimensions in her classroom activities. For example, there is a wonderful game of Stand Up to help students master the usage of “Row & Line” in German; there is a joke about using fingers to show “2 & 8”; there is a fantastic song about numbers 1-20 serving as an amazing stimulus because it is full of beats and rhymes; there are many vivid and cute pictures to activate students’ background information about numbers.