| And what is a Christmas party without some games? For this reason, we had thought of two games which gave the students the chance to make good use of their German skills and, of course, to have a lot of fun.
Montagsmaler
The first game is called "Montagsmaler" (Monday painters). For this game all you need are just some sheets of paper and a marker. The participants are divided into two equal groups and everyone has to draw words/things. It is the task of the other members of the group to guess the word from the drawing (only German words were allowed of course!). For every word they can guess, the group gets one point, but of course, time is limited in this game and fast drawers have a big advantage! |
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| Students trying to guess what Marshall is drawing |
You cannot imagine how funny some drawings were we saw that evening, some really deserved a place in the museum of modern arts. But especially our Japanese students turned out as fast and clear drawers and they helped their group to earn many points.
If you want to try out this game yourself, here are some words our students had to draw:
- Germany
- Christmas Market
- Language School
- Heidelberg Castle
- Mulled Wine
- Schnitzel
- Döner Kebab (turkish fast food, extremely popular in Germany)
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| Emily trying her best |
Joe in action |
Everybody wondering about
Doug’s drawings |
Wer bin ich?The second game is called "Wer bin ich?" (Who am I?). Initially, everyone had to think of a well-known person, wrote it on a note and stuck it under our neighbour's Christmas hat, so that everyone else but our neighbour could see the name of the person. For example, Shukuko was Britney Spears. Now, the only way to find out who you are is to ask the others questions about the person and the others are only allowed to answer with "Ja" (yes) or "Nein" (no).
Again, it was a great opportunity for our students to make good use of their German skills and our students were very ambitioned to find out who they were as fast as possible.
Here are some persons our students had to guess. How much time would it take you to find out?
- Tokyo Hotel (recently the most popular teenage band in Germany)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (the Terminator)
- Fidel Castro (the Cuban President)
- Wladimir Putin (the Russian President)
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WLE staff Sandra and Shukuko with the notes
sticking under their Christmas caps |
Marshall trying to find
out who he is |
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