9月，爱德曼·华特中学迎来了一批特殊的学生——来自德国Guetersloh市Staedtisches Gymnasium中学的四十余名交换生，他们在这里开展为期三周的访问学习活动。作为中学的重要项目之一，爱德曼·华特孔子课堂为这批德国学生提供了丰富实用的汉语体验课。
图一：叶李贝贝老师向德国交换生介绍中国
9月21日，四十余名中学生被分成两组，分别开始了他们的汉语初体验。上课之前，叶李贝贝老师就他们对中国的了解进行了提问，发现学生们的相关知识比较有限。于是，叶老师先从中国小常识、城市面貌、风景名胜、人文气息等方面用丰富精美的图片大致介绍了当今中国，又用直观有趣的方法介绍了汉字的演变和汉语的四声，学生们纷纷被精彩的内容吸引，积极主动地投入到练习中去。接着，叶老师教了大家如何打招呼、介绍自己的姓名和国籍，还向学生介绍了中国的十二生肖，学生们很快便能用汉语进行自我介绍。
图二：学生们第一次接触声调，非常感兴趣
Staedtisches Gymnasium中学助理校长Michael Brayley先生全程旁听了叶老师的汉语课，下课后，Brayley先生表示，孔子课堂和汉语对他来说是一件非常新鲜的事物，他很高兴自己的学生能在这里接触到中国文化，学习到一些汉语，并对学生的课堂表现和学习成果表示了满意。Brayley先生很羡慕爱德曼·华特中学的学生有这样的好机会，并表示回到德国后，也会考虑为自己学校的学生创造更多和汉语相关的学习条件。
图：张丹丹
文：叶李贝贝
German Exchange Students Learnt Some Mandarin at CCAWS
Two teachers of CCAWS brought interesting Mandarin lessons to the German exchange students from Staedtisches Gymnasium on 21st Sep and 26th Sep.
Mrs Yeli introduced China with plenty of beautiful pictures. The students were really interested in the Great Wall and the Pandas. The teacher then showed how ancient Chinese people developed Chinese characters and how they pronounce four tones in Mandarin. The students got very curious and tried to read the tones together.
The teacher then taught the students how to introduce their names and nationality, how to count from 1-10 and how to find out their zodiac animal. After a lesson’s learning, the students managed to say “hello”, “my name is …”, “I come from …”, “My zodiac is …”, “thank you” and “goodbye” in Mandarin.
Mr Brayley, assistant Head-teacher of the Staedtisches Gymnasium expressed his highly interest towards the Mandarin lesson. He is very satisfied with the students’ learning performance and interested in providing similar chances for his students in German.
