What topics to work with

You can chose the topic for this exercise freely according to your needs or you simply recap this lesson's part of the story that you have already been working with a bit in the other steps. But maybe you'd like to talk about a professional topic or a special interest or friend or experience of yours. This is your chance to prepare talks, presentations or conversations about topics that you are interested in. Of course at B1 level you are rather limited in regards of vocab and the complexity of your speech but learning to keep things simple is a worthwile task.

The idea behind this step

One of the biggest problems German learners have is that they are rarely corrected properly or, worse still, are corrected in an offensive manner. By offensive I do not mean only that one might be made to feel belittled by the corrector, but also that the corrector might rob you of one of the most rewarding experiences in German learning: to find and correct your own mistakes.

But, without any feedback, there would be no learning. The presentation is a wonderfully flexible tool that requires only very little interaction with a native speaker if at all. This way, everyone saves a lot of time and you remain mostly independent in your German learning process. It is important that you repeat the steps above at least once as it is only by sufficient repetition that new information is reinforced and consolidated in your long-term memory.

One word of advice regarding Preaching

The Preaching remains the most important technique to implement new grammar patterns into your long-term memory. The presentation is a lovely way to practice free (!) speaking on your own and therefore a lot more difficult initially but the more valuable in the end.