Higher Ed This is one way to help your students establish contact with a German- speaking partner. Students could also correspond with your GAPP partner school with their Gastfamilie if they will participate in another exchange. Listed below, you will also find some ways to facilitate exchange between high school college students learning German. Assign students a specific topic based on what you are currently studying in class. Maybe 2 beginning courses are both discussing food vocabulary.
Students then write about what they like to eat.
Discuss an upcoming event in which students from both institutions will take part, for example, Language Day at UNH, The New Minstrels of the Rhine at UVM, or the Theaterfest at Mt. Holyoke College. Students could share information and opinions about this event. Such interaction could also increase attendance at the events. Subscribe to the German News Service and collaborate on synopses of the news or converse via e-mail about topics of the day, comparing the US and German portrayal of a particular world event. Students from both classes could visit a particular WWW site and engage in common activities here.