A demo suggestopedic German lesson (all cycles)
Click
here to watch a video of a demo suggestopedic lesson of German to beginners. There are
four distinct stages in a
full suggestopedic cycle:
1. the
Introduction of the new material ( watch video from 0:00'' to 50:30'')
during which the teacher uses
drama and a variety of
visual prompts and
props to engage the beginner learners in a
convesation in the new language using for the first time the items to be explained later.
2. the
Concert or "Recital and Session" (watch video from 50:30'' to 1:17:40'')
during which the teacher
recites a dramatic dialogue from the suggestopedic textbook with the learners following in their copies with
classical music in the background for concentrative psychorelaxation which fosters the
analysis of the material they have just been exposed to at the first stage.
Afterwards, the teacher encourages the learners to daydream and changes the music to
preclassical (baroque) to read the same text again at a normal speaking tempo to allow the learners assimilate and
synthesize the material, storing it, thus, in their long-term memory.
3. the
Elaboration of the new material (watch video from 1:17:45'' to 2:06:35'')
during which the learners become more active and involved in the
communicative reading of the same dialogue asking each other and answering for themselves. The conversational reading is interrupted to play
didactic games and sing
didactic songs so as to
practise the basic structures learnt so far in a
multi-sensory way.
4. the
Assessment of what has been acquired (watch from 2:06:36'' to 2:24:20'')
during which the learners
role-play a job interview and introduce themselves and their mates answering a set of questions about their family, interests, studies, personality etc and
using the vocabulary and structures learnt at the previous stages in a natural way.
