for teachers
Make them read!
Few hours in the language classroom are not enough. Students need daily contact with the foreign language.
With Easy Readers,
they can, working autonomously, enrich their vocabulary and assimilate new structures.
You will chose the level:
they will not be discouraged by difficulties neither be bored by excessively simple material.
For them, reading in the foreign language will be a
motivating experience.
Fascinate!
Adventure and murder, loyalty and faith: Faust and Siegfried, the lives of Martin Luther or of women like
Marlene Dietrichand Hedy Lamarr, the nun from Monza and the famous robber
Carmine Croccowill bring new life in your classroom. Foreign language, so far away in practical contexts, will open new worlds to your students!
In touch with German culture
Literature, music and philosophy are among the most interesting elements of German speaking cultures. But our text books present very practical ways of communicating. and largely ignore the cultural aspects of our lives: literature and literary figures, music, philosophy and religion.
Germany: They want to know!
Whoever starts studying the German language can not avoid reflecting about totalitarism, war and destruction.
Text books usually avoid the topic. But your students know and perceive a shadow on our language. Make them reflect with the lively narration
of the difficult existence of a teenager in Nazi Germany:
"Der Verrat" (
), a story where facts and moral questions of everyday life in Nazi Germany are presented.
Exercise!
With iTunes, I am currently developing Easy Reader with interactive exercises, to start with Carmine Crocco
, and soon also in German:
"Martin Luther"(to appear in May, 2018).
Italy: Poverty, Politics and Crime
In Italy, life in the 19th century was hard, and long has been the road to national unification. Students ought to know something about the origins of the political problems of the country. And they will be moved by the narration of Carmine Crocco's life.