22 June 2023 4:00-5:00pm SGT 10:00-11:00am CET
"Some people think soccer is a matter of life and death. I can assure you, it's a lot more important than that." Bill Shankley
Soccer is (not only in Germany) so much more than a mass sport, namely a social and global phenomenon: whether we talk about club life and fan culture, about violence and discrimination, about commercialization and corruption, about soccer as a cultural, linguistic, literary, musical or cinematic topic - there are many ways to approach the topic of soccer and to integrate it into your German lessons. It doesn't matter whether you are a soccer enthusiast or an expert. In this workshop, teaching ideas and suggestions for different language levels will be presented and discussed.
Julia Birnbaum-Crowson studied German as a foreign and second language, literature and cultural studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In addition to longer stays abroad in Poland, Ukraine and the USA, she has been teaching German as a foreign and second language for over 15 years, conducts teacher training courses for foreign German teachers (including for the Goethe Institute, the German Society Abroad and the DAAD) and, together with like-minded people, founded the non-profit association aubiko e.V. based in Hamburg in 2014, which focuses on intercultural education projects. aubiko e.V. initiates and organizes, among other things, language courses, youth encounter projects, student exchanges, intercultural training and educational trips. More information can be found at
www.aubiko.de.