Basic introduction
As you might have noticed, Mrs. Kraft isn't from our country, but from Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. Even though she has been teaching at our school only for a year, she doesn't lack teaching practice at all. I think that her biggest experience has to be teaching at the University of Maryland, USA. Nowadays, she's teaching not only at Grammar school Šlapanice, but at Grammar school Křenová and Österreich Institut as well. This gives us a better way to prepare for the ÖSD certificate. She has always taught German.
Teaching style
She only uses worksheets, she´s often adding accompanying videos as well. In our lessons, she speaks only German and pretends, that she doesn´t understand Czech. However scary it might sound, you will get used to it pretty quickly and it also gets you ready for real situations. Another big plus is, that you practise a phrase “Ich verstehe nicht” and learn, how to work with a dictionary. We talk about various believable and unbelievable events and traditions a lot. Sometimes you´ll think what the hell are those Germans doing. Tuition takes place not only in school desks, it goes in an interactive form as well. We went to Vienna in the middle of December, where we tasted the Christmas atmosphere and practised German. It was nice, only the essay we had to write right after was a bit annoying.