Sophie And The German Magician

With two great stories in each book, learning German is fun with the German magician! In the first story, the German magician asks everyone to clap and say three times various German words as he makes a coin vanish and some animals appear. In the second story, it's Sophie's birthday party and the German magician makes teddies of various colours appear, as everyone claps and says three times some colours in German.

The German vocabulary in this book includes:

• Essential words: Hallo / Wie geht's? / sehr gut / danke / Auf Wiedersehen
• Introductions: Ich heiße
• Numbers: eins / zwei / drei
• Animals: ein Kaninchen / ein Vogel / ein Hund
• Colours: rot / orange / gelb / grün / blau / lila / rosa
• Food: Süßigkeiten

The author of this book is a qualified teacher, with 20 years experience in teaching languages to children. This story is ideal for children aged 3 - 7 but it may also interest children of other ages. At the back of the book there are two pages that may be photocopied for class or home use:

• Useful German words and phrases - To help learn some German words you could create a poster by copying some of the words and pictures.
• A short song that could be sung or made into a rap - how many different versions can you create using the lyrics?

Also available by the same author are the following books:

• Young Cool Kids Learn German
• Cool Kids Speak German (Books 1, 2 & 3)
• First 100 Words In German Coloring Book Cool Kids Speak German
• German Word Games Cool Kids Speak German