On screen, they are Admiral Dora, Captain Terminator or even astronaut Chippeur. In the space of a minute, everyone boards the Kepler 4 spacecraft and launches a weather or news report on one of the astral bodies of the solar system. Everything was shot in Goethe’s language before being broadcast on the YouTube platform.
Off camera, resumes his 4-year-old college clothese German DNL (non-linguistic discipline) from La Milliaire college in Thionville. “The idea of this specialization is to allow students to learn a language differently, by practicing another subject,” explains their teacher Mathias Adam. With this project, we try to discover the space simply. “
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Sunglasses required
In front of the green background which dresses a painting and which makes it possible to easily implement special effects, each one plays his part under the scrutinizing eye of the lens of the laptop of the professor. “The students have learned language tools to talk about it, they have each chosen a planet and they dress according to the topology and the climate. “Sunglasses are therefore de rigueur on… the sun. “Initially, it was a question of going to visit the Toulouse space center, but with the health context, that is not possible. “
For these budding actors in any case, the trip seems to pay off. “We work on the texts a bit like a poem, learning bit by bit”, details Milan. “All of this has enabled us to improve our vocabulary,” Yassin adds.
And if everyone confesses that they do not wish to embrace the career of an astrophysicist, for Ilyès, the exercise “makes learning much easier”, while Aidan does not hide his “pride in having a video somewhere on the internet. “
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