Learning German with food and drink

New project for illiterates, refugees and migrants
How do you convey the German language as delicious as possible? Best with the topic of food and drink. After all, what deals with every human being on a daily basis offers many opportunities to stimulate dialogue between culturally or socially foreigners.
A new IN FORM project of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, carried out by aid infodienst, has the goal to develop practice-oriented materials for German and literacy courses and to make them known nationwide through further education. It relies on the field-tested aid manual "Food Literacy" for adult education as well as regional approaches from Schleswig-Holstein. Of course, young people should also be addressed in the project. For this purpose, a game box will be presented at the education fair didacta in Cologne in the middle of February 2016 with the title "Aufgetischt! Learning German with the topic Food and Drink ". The reading, writing and conversation events on the everyday topics of eating and drinking help students to expand their vocabulary and strengthen and learn about new food.

Learn language with food and drink. Picture: lunamarina - fotolia

The box was developed in cooperation with the European University of Flensburg and will be available from mid-April via the aid-Medienshop.

And it's high time to take care of it. For in Germany live 7.5 million functional illiterates between 18 and 64 years, according to the Level One study of the University of Hamburg. This means that 14.5 percent of the German-speaking, working-age population can read and write so restrictedly that they often depend on support. Also for refugees and newcomers who get a residence permit or a right to stay in Germany, knowledge of German is the basic prerequisite for successful integration. After all, learning and applying the German language in words and writing means a social participation for all. And a high reference to everyday life and culture such as food is considered an absolute success factor for learning language and other aspects of basic education. (Aid)