{"id":151,"date":"2025-11-21T14:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/?p=151"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:33:13","slug":"celebrate-autumn-with-words-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/2025\/11\/21\/celebrate-autumn-with-words-and-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Autumn with Words and Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"178\">Discover Autumn: Free Lesson Materials for Words &amp; Poetry<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\" data-start=\"180\" data-end=\"435\">Autumn is a season full of colours, cozy moments, and inspiration. Why not use this inspiring topic for your Language lesson? \u00a0We\u2019ve created <strong data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"332\">free teaching materials<\/strong> to help your learners <strong data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"387\">talk about autumn activities<\/strong> and explore <strong data-start=\"400\" data-end=\"432\">poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\" data-start=\"180\" data-end=\"435\">Our conversation lesson is designed to <strong data-start=\"463\" data-end=\"492\">work for different levels<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-157 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/11\/Herbstaktivitat-150x150.png\" alt=\"Zu sehen sind eine Tasse Tee, ein Eichh\u00f6rnchen, Kastanien und ein Apfelkuchen. Die Farben sind warm und es ist sehr herbstlich, gem\u00fctlich.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden or sad autumn?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #1a1a1a;font-size: 16px\" data-start=\"499\" data-end=\"515\">A2 learners:<\/strong><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;font-size: 16px\"> Focus on autumn activities in German\u2013 walking in the park, collecting colorful leaves, picking pumpkins or apples, and enjoying warm drinks. Simple sentences and conversation prompts help learners express their personal experiences and favorite seasonal activities. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-158 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/11\/herbst2-150x150.png\" alt=\"es ist nebelig, Ahornbl\u00e4tter liegen auf dem Boden, sie welken langsam, aber die Farbstimmung gibt noch Hoffnung.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herbst im Nebel &#8211; die Bl\u00e4tter fallen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>B1 learners:<\/strong> Go deeper by adding Rilke&#8217;s poetry. Students will read and discuss a short autumn poem, exploring vocabulary, emotions and descriptive language. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;font-size: 16px\">This helps learners express feelings and opinions about autumn through both conversation and literature.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Why use this lesson?<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1161\">Engages learners with <strong data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1159\">seasonal vocabulary and real-life topics<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1093\" data-end=\"1161\">Encourages <strong data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1208\">speaking and writing practice<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1213\" data-end=\"1261\">Combines <strong data-start=\"1222\" data-end=\"1259\">language learning with literature<\/strong><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1264\" data-end=\"1329\">Flexible: split for A2 learners or full package for B1 learners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Free lesson + presentation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2025\/11\/RilkeHerbstlesson1.pdf\">RilkeHerbstlesson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover Autumn: Free Lesson Materials for Words &amp; Poetry Autumn is a season full of colours, cozy moments, and inspiration. Why not use this inspiring topic for your Language lesson? \u00a0We\u2019ve created free teaching materials to help your learners talk about autumn activities and explore poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke. Our conversation lesson is designed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/2025\/11\/21\/celebrate-autumn-with-words-and-poetry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Celebrate Autumn with Words and Poetry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/germannetworknow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}