German in Year 7


1 Hallo! 2 Die Schule Weihnachten 3 Familie und Freunde 4 Freizeit Ostern
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  Projekt 1 Hallo!
  Greetings
1 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on greetings.
2 Multichoice How many greetings can you identify before you run out of time? What is your best score?
3 TaskMagic games for greetings. See above for installation of Task Magic to play these games at home.
4 Lied Fun song from Languages Online: How are you?
5 Quiz How many of the 11 bananas can you win in this quiz on personal information?
  Numbers
6 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on the numbers 1-10.
7 Noughts Play noughts and crosses to practise numbers 1-10.
8 Multichoice How many of the numbers 1-10 can you match before you run out of time or lives? What is the highest score in the class?
9 Missing Which of the numbers from 1-10 is missing?
10 Presentation Use this activity to research the German numbers 1-19. What patterns can you see? Which numbers are spelled differently than you would expect?
11 Wdsearch Find the numbers 1-19 in this wordsearch activity.
12 Snap Play snap with the numbers from 1-19.
13 Syllabary Drag and drop spelling activity on the numbers 1-19.
14 Labelling How well can you spell a selection of numbers from 1-19? Copy this German letter to help you win! ü
  Countries
15 Mosaic Can you solve these mosaic puzzles to find 4 countries where German is spoken?
16 Dustbin What do you know about German-speaking countries? Sort these words into the right dustbin!
17 Quia Welche Stadt ist das? Can you take the Geography challenge? (Towns in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland)
18 Diamond 9 Which countries would you most like to visit? Re-arrange the order of the post-its, place the country you would most like to visit at the top and the one you would least like to visit at the bottom. Feel free to edit the sentences. Can you add an opinion of any of the countries? Print a copy for your book or insert a copy into your document using software like Paint.
19 Hangman Hangman games on countries.
20 Bananas Find the hidden pairs of countries German/English.
21 Wdsearch How many countries can you find?
22 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on countries.
23 Noughts One or two player games of noughts and crosses on countries.
24 Multichoice How many countries can you recognise before you run out of time?
25 Snap Play snap with words for countries.
26 Syllabary drag and drop spelling activity on countries.
27 Webcam You need a webcam for this game to work! Use your hand, your head or wave an object to show you know these countries in German.
28 TaskMagic games to practise countries.
29 Test Test how well you can spell countries.
  Flags
30 PicMatch Drag and drop matching activity on flags and countries.
31 PicBelt How many flags can you correctly identify on the conveyor belt?
32 PicChoice How many flags can you identify before you run out of time?
33 PicBlur Can you identify these flags before they come into focus?
34 Quia Can you match these flags to the correct countries. Where do you come from?
  Verbs
35 Penguin Help the penguin cross the ice floes to reach its family. How well do you understand the four verbs you have met so far?
36 Battleships Play battleships to practise four important verbs.
37 Top of Class Who is the top of the class? You will need to know how to use four key verbs if you want to be top!
38 Test Now test yourself on these verbs - what is your score out of 20?
39 Fling Once you've mastered these verbs, you can fling your teacher!
  Alphabet
40 Presentation Click and listen to the German alphabet (A-J).
41 Presentation Click and listen to the German alphabet (K-R).
42 Presentation Click and listen to the German alphabet (S-Z).
43 PicLabel Drag and drop listening activity on the German alphabet (A-J).
44 PicLabel Drag and drop listening activity on the German alphabet (K-R).
45 PicLabel Drag and drop listening activity on the German alphabet (S-Z)
46 PicBingo Picture bingo to practise the German alphabet (A-J).
47 PicBingo Picture bingo to practise the German alphabet (K-R).
48 PicBingo Picture bingo to practise the German alphabet (S-Z)
  Colours
49 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on colours.
50 Multichoice How quickly can you identify these colours? What's your best score?
51 Bananas Find the hidden colours.
52 Noughts One or two player games of noughts and crosses on colours.
53 Rhubarb Spell out the colours in German, but watch out for quakes!
54 Penguin Help the penguin cross the ice floes to reach his family by completing sentences with the right colour.
55 Elephant Can you help the elephant to walk the tight rope by completing sentences with the right colour.
56 Treasure Find the hidden treasure by completing sentences with the right colour.
57 Snakes Snakes and ladders game on colour sentences.
  School Equipment
58 PicMatch Drag and drop matching activity on school equipment.
59 PicChoice How many items of school equipment can you match before you run out of lives or time. Who has the top score in the class?
60 PicMissing Spot the missing piece of school equipment.
61 Bananas Find the hidden words for school equipment.
62 Noughts One or two player games of noughts and crosses on school equipment.
63 Rhubarb Tap out the school equipment words, but watch out for quakes!
64 Quia Activities to practise items in a school bag.
65 Quia Can you spell school equipment words?
66 Quia Flashcard activity with sound. Pupils in the class are asking your teacher for something. What do they want? Work out what is on the back of the flashcard before you flip it over. Remove the card from the pack when you get it right.
67 Quia Flashcard activity with sounds. What school equipment do you have?
68 Cloze Drag and drop gap fill activity on school equipment. You will need to know the words for 'a'.
69 Jumble What is in your school bag? The words are in the right order, but the letters have all been mixed up. Type in the correctly spelt words to complete the text.
  Months
70 Quia Games to learn the days and the months.
71 Bananas Find the hidden months.
72 Letterdrop Spell out the months by grabbing the correct letters with the magnets.
73 Quia Practise the seasons and the months.
74 Quia Join up the months with the right season.
  Numbers 20-31
75 Presentation Use this activity to research how to form the numbers 20-31.
76 Memory How quickly can you find the hidden pairs of numbers?
77 Multichoice How many points can you score in this number matching activity? Who has the highest score in the class?
78 Penalty Penalty shoot-out game on numbers 1-31. You will need to know these numbers to help you to understand dates.
79 Rhubarb Spell the words for 1st-10th, but watch out for quakes. You can't use a letter tile more than once. Choose your level of difficulty.
80 Noughts One or two player games of noughts and crosses on 11th-19th.
81 Bananas Find the hidden pairs to practise dates between 21st and 31st.
82 Mobile Unjumble these text messages to work out today's date. Write all 10 dates in your book in English.
83 Wheel One or two player wheel of fortune game on dates.
84 Mosaics Move the mosaic tiles around to find the hidden dates. Look at the background pattern if you need any help!
85 Quia Play battleships to practise dates.
86 Quia When is your birthday? (dates)
  Prounciation and Asking Questions
87 Penalty Penalty shoot-out game for 1 or 2 players on pronunciation.
88 Quia Things you need to say in the classroom every lesson.
89 Quiz Multiple choice quiz on classroom language. Would the teacher or a pupil say each sentence?
90 Match-up Introduction: questions and answers.
91 TaskMagic games to practise interview questions and answers.
92 TaskMagic activities for formal and informal questions.
93 Quiz Matching activity for personal information questions and answers.
94 Penalty Penalty shoot-out game on personal information.
95 Task Magic games to revise personal information questions and answers.
96 Klasse Visit this website to read about pupils in a class. How much can you work out?
97 Listen to this Level 3 Podcast on personal information and answer the questions on the worksheet. You can print the worksheet or write the answers in your exercise book. You can listen to the Podcast as many times as you wish.
 

  Projekt 2 Die Schule
1 Website Investigate what goes into a Schultüte!
  School Subjects
2 Presentation Guess what these subjects are in English - click on a subject to make it jump to the centre, click on the green arrow to swap between languages.
3 Hangman Hangman on school subjects.
4 Matchup Drag and drop the school subjects to the matching English word. play this more than once to try all 17 words.
5 Memory Find the hidden pairs of school subjects.
6 Noughts Play noughts and crosses with school subjects.
7 Anagrams Can you unjumble these mixed up school subjects? This is a fun way to improve your spelling.
8 Syllabary Drag and drop activity to help you to spell the school subjects.
9 Snap Play snap with school subjects.
10 Multichoice How many subjects can you match before you run out of time or lives?
11 Missing Which school subject is missing from this set of 10 pictures?
12 Wdsearch How many school subjects can you spot?
13 Worksht Print this worksheet or write the answers in your book. Fill in the missing letters in these German words for school subjects.
14 Tetris Can you spell the subjects before they stack up to the top?
15 Invaders Space invaders game on school subjects.
16 Quia Do this test on the school subjects.
  Opinions of School Subjects
 
17 Watch this Animoto presentation and try to work out the favourite subjects before each picture appears.
18 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on opinions of subjects.
19 Multichoice How many points can you get matching opinions of subjects with the English.
20 Anagrams Can you sort out these mixed up opinions?
21 Wheel One or two player wheel of fortune game on opinions of school subjects.
22 Mobile Unjumble these text messages on opinions of subjects. Can you work out all 10?
23 Diamond 9 Re-arrange post-its in order of what school subjects you like best. The one you like best should be at the top and the one you like least at the bottom. You might need to edit the 'Lieblingsfach' sentence; use verbs such as 'ich mag ...' or 'ich hasse ...'; or include 'nicht' in the lower sentence(s). Print a copy for your book or insert a copy into your document using software like Paint.
24 Cloud Find 10 sentences/questions about school subjects in the swirling clouds.
25 Mosaic5 Move the mosaic tiles around to find the hidden sentences/questions about school subjects. Look at the background pattern if you need any help!
26 Cloze Put these sentences back in the right order. Can you understand opinions, connectives and qualifiers?
27 Cloze Put these sentences back in the right order, improve your writing and speaking by using 'weil' to link sentences.
28 Listen to this Level 4 Podcast about school subjects and opinions and then complete the task on this worksheet. You can print the worksheet or write the answers in your exercise book. Feel free to listen to the Podcast as many times as you wish.
29 Listen to this Level 4+ Podcast about school subjects and opinions and then complete the task on this worksheet. You can print the worksheet or write the answers in your exercise book. Feel free to listen to the Podcast as many times as you wish.
  Days
30 Presentation Click on the days and listen to the German.
31 SoundDrag Listen to the German days and drag the matching English into place.
32 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on the days of the week.
33 Memory Find the hidden days.
34 Snap Play snap with German words for the days.
35 SoundBingo Listen to the days and select the right picture before you run out of time.
36 SoundSpell Listen to the days and spell them out in German.
37 Anagrams Sort these mixed up words for the days of the week - fun way to improve your spelling.
  Describing a Timetable
38 Download a blank copy of a school timetable - scroll down the page, click on the timetable (Stundenplan) and press print! There is an option to make this your screen background - Bildschirmhintergrund.
39 Cloze Put these sentences about timetables back in the right order - verb second idea word order rule.
40 Fling Can you fling your teacher? You will need to see a copy of the timetable on page 29 of Projekt Deutsch 1 to play this game or save and open this image of the timetable.
  Times
41 Presentation Click on the pictures and listen to the 24 hour clock times in German.
42 SoundMatch Listen to these 24 hour clock times and drag them to the matching pictures.
43 SoundBingo Listen to these 24 hour clock times and click on the right picture before time runs out.
44 Noughts Play noughts and crosses with times (o'clock).
45 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on 24 hour clock times.
46 Memory Find the hidden pairs of times (24 hour clock).
47 PicMatch Drag and drop picture matching activity on 24 hour clock times.
48 PicNoughts Play noughts and crosses with 24 hour clock times.
49 PicChoice How many 24 hour clock times can you identify before you run out of time or lives? Who has the highest score in the class?
50 PicMissing Can you identify the missing 24 hour clock times?
51 Jigword Games to practise the time (o'clock and half past).
52 Jigword More games to practise time (12 hour clock).
  Break-time Snacks
53 Presentation Click and listen. What do you eat and drink in the break?
54 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity - what do you eat and drink at break time? Was isst du und was trinkst du in der Pause?
55 Anagrams Now see if you can spell out the sentences on eating and drinking at break time.
56 PicLabel Drag and drop the sound files about eating and drinking at break time by the right picture.
57 PicBingo Listen to the sounds and click on the matching picture before you run out of time.
58 PicChoice What is your highest score in this fun matching activity on food and drink at break time?
59 PicNoughts One or two player games of noughts and crosses on food and drink.
60 PicMissing Identify the missing pictures of food and drink items.
61 PicBlur Can you recognise the food and drink items before the picture comes into focus? Beat the clock to gain more points.
62 Worksheet Print and complete this matching worksheet on break-time food and drink.
63 Quia What do you eat at break time? (Extended list).
  School Uniform
64 Presentation Click and listen. What do you wear in school? Was trägst du in der Schule?
65 SoundDrag Listen to the sentences about clothes and drag the matching English sentence into the right place.
66 PicNoughts Play noughts and crosses with sentences about clothes.
67 PicLabel Drag and drop the sound files about clothes to the right picture.
68 PicChoice How many items of clothing can you identify before you run out of time or lives?
69 PicBingo Listen to these sentences about clothes and match to the right picture before you run out of time.
70 PicMissing Spot the missing item of clothing!
71 SoundSpell Listen to these sentences about clothes and solve the anagrams.
72 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity to practise words to describe clothes.
73 Penguin Help the penguin to cross the ice floes and reach his family by answering questions on describing clothes.
74 Elephant Help Mimi cross the high wire by answering questions on clothes. Take care, if you get an answer wrong she will plummet to the ground!.
75 Quiz Choose from 3 levels for this multiple choice quiz on describing clothes.
76 GridRace How quickly can you bridge the grid from top to bottom by answering questions on describing clothes?
77 Worksheet Print this worksheet and translate the seentences about clothes into German - check your answers in the above quiz activities.
  Describing Teachers
78 TaskMagic games. Can you use adjectives to describe your teachers?
79 Quia Improve your sentences by using qualifiers like extremely, especially, very etc.
80 Mobile Unjumble these mixed up text messages about your teachers. Write the finished messages in your book. Can you write the English meanings as well?
81 Wheel Wheel of fortune game - what are the teachers like at The Sutton Academy?
82 Cloud Drag and drop the swirling words to make sentences to describe your teachers.
83 Mosaic Move the mosaic tiles around to make a sentence about your teachers. The background pattern helps.
84 Plank Make your teacher walk the plank! (Talking about your teachers.)
  Classroom and Revision
85 Quia What is in a classroom?
86 Quia Test yourself on classroom words before the lesson.
87 Dustbin Race against the clock to drop words into the correct dustbin. Where would you find these items? In a school bag (in einer Schultasche), in the classroom (im Klassenzimmer), on a timetable (auf dem Stundenplan) or in the school grounds (im Schulgelände)?
88 Wheel One or two player wheel of fortune to revise school topic.
89 Mobile Can you sort out these mixed up text messages about school?
90 Mosaic Drag and drop mosaic puzzles to revise the school topic.
91 Match What do these questions mean? Beat the clock to find the pairs!
92 Match Match up questions with possible answers.
  Cognates and False Friends
93 Jigword Jump start your language learning by matching these cognates (look-alike words).
94 PicNoughts One or two player games of noughts and crosses on cognates.
95 PicBelt Select the right picture on the conveyor belt (cognates).
96 PicChoice How many cognates can you understand before you run out of lives or time? What is your best score?
97 PicBlur Can you identify the blurry pictures before they come into focus? Practises cognates.
98 Match These words are not cognates, they are false friends. Don't let them catch you out.
99 Matchup Drag and drop activity on false friends.
100 Snap Play snap with false friends - this will drive you crazy!
101 Wksht Print and complete this matching worksheet on false friends.
 

  Weihnachten
1 PicNoughts Play noughts and crosses with Christmas vocabulary.
2 PicChoice How many christmas words can you identify before you run out of time or lives.
3 PicMissing Spot the missing picture.
4 Quia Picture matching activities on German Christmas traditions.
5 Quia Can you draw lines between the German Christmas words and the correct English translations?
6 Quiz How much do you know about a traditional German Christmas?
7 Presentation Use this activity to find out the meanings of verbs used in the following activities.
8 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on the above verbs.
9 Multichoice How many verbs can you match before you run out of time or lives? What is your top score?
10 Challenge Try this Christmas quiz!
11 Penguin Help the penguin to reach his family by answering quiz questions about Christmas.
12 Gaptext Drag the verbs back into the right place to create a paragraph about Christmas in Germany.
 

  Projekt 3 Familie und Freunde
  Brothers and Sisters
1 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on siblings - Hast du Geschwister?
2 Snap Play snap with sentences saying how many brothers and sisters you have.
3 Anagrams Click on the right letters to create sentences about siblings.
4 Syllabary Drag and drop sentence building activity on siblings - Hast du Geschwister?
5 Worksheet Print and complete this matching worksheet on siblings.
6 Penguin Help the penguin to cross the ice floes to reach his family by answering questions about siblings.
7 Elephant Help the elephant walk the tightrope - Hast du Geschwister?
8 Quiz What's your highest score in this multiple choice quiz on siblings - choose from three levels of difficulty.
9 Snakes One to four player games of snakes and ladders on siblings.
10 Battleships Play battleships by answering questions about siblings. Can you sink the computer's ships?
11 Cloze Monkey madness game on siblings. Write out the German and English sentences as you go. How many of the glass monkeys can you fill to the top? Hast du Geschwister?
  Family Words
12 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on family words.
13 Multichoice How many family words can you match before you run out of time or lives? What's your best score?
14 Snap Play snap with family words.
15 Anagrams Tap on the right letters to spell out family words.
16 TaskMagic games on family words. Try these activities before playing the Hennings Haus family game.

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Hennings Haus! Play 'Family Ties' - three great games on family words.
18 Bananas Matching game on family words.
19 Quia Battleships game to practise family words.
20 Hangman Hangman games on family words.
21 Wdsearch Find the hidden family words.
22 Tetris Spell out the family words to stop them stacking to the top.
23 Quia Practise words for the/my with family words.
24 Bananas Family quiz to win bananas.
25 Quia Spelling test on family words.
  Describing People's Appearance
26 Presentation Click on the pictures of hair and eyes and listen to the German sentences.
27 PicMatch Drag and drop activity to practise describing people's appearance.
28 SoundMatch Listen to the descriptions and match them to the right pictures.
29 SoundBingo Listen to the Germah descriptions and click on the matching picture before the time runs out.
30 PicNoughts Play noughts and crosses on describing people.
31 PicBelt Can you choose the right picture on the conveyor belt?
32 PicMemory How quickly can you match the hidden pictures and sentences? You will need to know how to describe people's appearance.
33 PicChoice How many descriptions of people can you understand before you run out of time or lives?
34 PicBlur How quickly can you identify these blurry pictures of people?
35 PicMissing Can you identify the missing description?
36 SoundDrag Listen to the sentences and match to the correct English descriptions of people.
37 SoundSpell Listen to the sentences and choose from the letters provided to write the descriptions in German.
38 Worksht Print and complete this matching worksheet on describing people.
39 Quia How many sentences can you find to describe your family?
40 Fling How well can you describe people? Can you fling the teacher?
41 Hennings Haus! Who's who? Narrow down which photo to select by asking questions (using the box top right). When you know who the person is, click on their picture. This game introduces you to descriptions of people and practises questions.
42 Match Use a dictionary to research how these sentences describing people's size and shape match up. How would you have to change these sentences to make them fit someone else in the class?
43 SoundCards Use this flashcard activity to research physical descriptions of people.
44 SoundDrag Listen to German descriptions of people and drag the matching sentences into place.
45 SoundDrag2 Listen to the German descriptions and drag the matching English meanings into place.
46 SoundSpell Listen to these descriptions of people and click on the right letters to spell the sentences correctly in German.
  Describing Character
47 Hangman Play hangman to build your knowledge of adjectives to describe people's character.
48 Matchup Drag and drop activity on adjectives to describe character.
49 Noughts Play noughts and crosses with adjectives to describe people's character.
50 Multichoice How many adjectives can you match before you run out of time or lives?
51 Snap Play snap with adjectives.
52 Rhubarb How well can you spell these 10 adjectives to describe character? The word will turn red if you make a mistake.
53 Use a dictionary to find different adjectives to describe people's character and write sentences to describe your friends and family using them. How many new adjectives can you find?
54 TaskMagic games to practise adjectives.
  Revision Activities
55 Quia Challenge game for one or two players on family and personality- remember German nouns begin with a capital letter.
56 Schiller Find out family details for Schiller (a famous classical German author).
  Pets
57 Presentation Click on the pictures and listen to Ulrike saying what pets she has.
58 SoundDrag Listen to the sentences about pets and drag the matching sentence into place.
59 PicMatch Drag and drop matching activity on pets.
60 SoundMatch Listen to the sentences about pets and match to the right pictures.
61 PicNoughts Play noughts and crosses with sentences about pets. Hast du Haustiere?
62 SoundDrag Listen to the German sentences about pets and select the correct English meanings.
63 SoundBingo Listen to the sentences about pets and click on the right picture before time runs out.
64 PicBlur How quickly can you identify blurry pictures of pets?
65 PicChoice How many pets can you identify before you run out of time or lives?
66 SoundSpell Listen to the sentences about pets and spell them out in German.
67 Quia Match the pictures to the pets.
68 Invaders Space invaders game on pets.
69 Jigword Spellmaster jigword activity for pets.
70 Speedwd How fast can you type the words for pets?
71 Quia Spelling challenge for pets.
72 Penguin Help the penguin cross the ice floes to reach his family by answering quiz questions about opinions of pets.
73 Aztec How many quiz questions on opinions of pets will you get right in this Aztec quiz?
74 Bee quiz How many bees can you win in this quiz about opinions of pets?
75 Treasure Can you find the most valuable treasure? You will need to answer questions about opinions of pets.
76 Mobile Can you sort out these jumbled text messages about pets? (This also practises the plural words for pets).
77 Diamond 9 Re-arrange post-its in order of what pets you would like to have. The one you like best should be at the top and the one you like least at the bottom. Can you adapt the sentences by choosing different pets or different opinions of the pets? Print a copy for your book or insert a copy into your document using software like Paint.
78 Cloze1 Drag words into the right place to describe pets. Write each pair of sentences in your book before you move on to the next sentence. This also practises the words for 'it'.
79 Cloze2 Drag and drop activity - create a paragraph about a family's pets and write it in your book in German and English.

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TaskMagic games on plural words for pets. (Remember to install the software for this game - see the link on the home page of this website.)
  Larger Numbers
81 Quia Put numbers in the correct order 1-60. You need to type the numbers in the boxes starting with the smallest number, this is really challenging!
82 Quia Putting numbers in order, you will see any numbers from 0-100.
  Family Podcasts (Revision)
 

83 Vokis What does Ulrike say about her mother, her brother and her sister? Make notes in English.
84 Cloze Drag the verbs into the right place to create a paragraph about Ulrike's mother.
85 Cloze Now create a paragraph about her brother.
86 Cloze You can also create a paragraph about her sister.
87 Worksheet Print and complete this worksheet about Ulrike's family - excellent practice of verbs. Then create a text about your own family. How could you include a fourth verb? So far we have used hat, ist and heißt. Remember that you need to use a wide range of verbs and include at least one opinion sentence to attain level 4 in writing or speaking.
88 Listen to this Level 3 Podcast about family and pets and then answer the true/false questions on the worksheet. You can print the worksheet or write the answers in your exercise book. You can listen to the Podcast as many times as you wish.
89 Listen to this Level 4+ Podcast about family and pets and then complete the tasks on the worksheet. You can print the worksheet or write the answers in your exercise book. You can listen to the Podcast as many times as you wish.
 

  Projekt 4 Freizeit
  Sports
1 Presentation Use this activity to find out how to say what sports you do.
2 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on sports.
3 Presentation Click on the pictures and listen to Ulrike say what sports she does.
4 SoundDrag Listen to these sentences about sports and drag the correct German into place.
5 SoundMatch Listen to Ulrike talking about sports and match to the right pictures.
6 SoundDrag listen to these German sentences about sports and drag the matching English into place.
7 SoundBingo Listen to these sentences about sports and select the right picture before you run out of time.
8 Snap Play snap with sentences on sports.
9 Multichoice How many sports can you match before you run out of time or lives?
10 Syllabary Drag and drop spelling activity.
11 SoundSpell Listen to the sentences about sports and click on the right letters to spell them out in German.
12 Wksheet Print this matching worksheet on sentences about sports.
13 Quia Do you do sport?
14 Vokis Listen to this girl talking about her relatives. Note down in English how they are related to her and what their sporting interests are. She talks about 5 different people.
 
15 Diamond 9 Re-arrange post-its in order of what sporting activities you like to do best. The one you like best should be at the top and the one you like least at the bottom. Print a copy for your book or insert a copy into your document using software like Paint. Feel free to change one or more of the sentences. You could also add 'nicht' to the one at the very bottom of your diamond.
  Hobbies
16 Presentation Click on the pictures and listen to the German sentences. What are your favourite things? Was sind deine Lieblingssachen?
17 SoundDrag Listen to Ulrike's favourite things and match to the right pictures.
18 SoundDrag Listen to Ulrike's favourite things and match to the right English.
19 SoundBingo Listen to these sentences about Ulrike's favourite things and click on the right picture before you run out of time.
20 PicMemory What are your favourite things? Find the hidden pairs.
21 PicNoughts Play noughts and crosses on your favourite things.
22 SoundSpell Listen to the sentences about favourite things and then click on the right letters to spell them out in German.
23 PicMissing Which of your favourite things is missing?
24 Rhubarb Spell out your favourite things, but watch out for quakes!
 
25 Vokis Listen to Ulrike talking about her friends Lisa and Thomas. Note down in English Lisa's and Thomas's favourite things - they list 3 each.
26 Cloze Drag and drop the words for my, his and her into the right places in this short text about favourite things.
27 Quia What is your hobby?
  Musical Instruments
28 Quia Do you play an instrument?
29 Quia Can you match 15 pictures of instruments with the correct German word?
30 Quia Play battleships with the words for musical instruments.
31 Matchup Drag and drop matching activity on instruments. How often do you play an instrument?
32 Memory Find the hidden pairs of sentences about instruments.
33 Snap Play snap with sentences about instruments. What is your best score?
  Collectables
34 Quia What do you collect?
35 Matchup Drag and match activity on collectables.
36 Noughts Play noughts and crosses. What do you collect?
37 Multichoice How many collectables can you match before you run out of time or lives?
38 PicMissing Can you spot the missing collectable?
39 PicBlur How quickly can you identify these blurry pictures of collectables?
40 Quia Now see if you can match up the German for 18 collectables with the right picture!
  Questions and Verbs
41 Cloze Cloze activity on questions and answers. Write out the 7 completed tasks in your book.
42 Fling Can you fling the teacher? What do you do at the weekend? This practises the 'ich' form of verbs.
43 Bananas Match up the verb form with the correct English - note that these verbs end with 'e' when used with 'ich'.
44 Noughts How do the verbs change when used with 'er' (he)?
45 Rhubarb Can you spell out the correct form of these verbs to go with 'wir' (we)? Watch out for quakes!
46 Penalty Penalty shoot-out game on the present tense of irregular verbs (essen, fahren, lesen, sehen, treffen).
  Future Plans
47 Cloze Monkey madness sentence building activity on future plans - what will you do at the weekend? Write the completed German and English sentences in your book.
  Letter-writing
48 Link Visit this website to investigate how to write letters in German.
  Revision and Podcasts
49 Quia Play battleships - you will need to know the topic well to win!
50 Quia Rags to Riches game. Win a million euros! How well do you know this topic? You will need to know your verbs.
51 Listen to this Level 4 Podcast about free time interests and then answer the questions on this worksheet. You can print the worksheet or write the answers in your exercise book. You can listen to the Podcast as many times as you wish.
52 Listen to this Level 4+ Podcast about free time interests and then answer the questions on this worksheet. You can print the worksheet or write the answers in your exercise book. You can listen to the Podcast as many times as you wish.
 
 
  Ostern
1 Bananas Find the hidden pairs.
2 Noughts Noughts and crosses games for one or two players.
3 Quia Match up words connected to Easter.
4 Quia Match Easter words with the correct pictures.
 

  Projekt 7 Fernsehen
  TV Programmes
1 TaskMagic games for TV programmes.
2 Quia Can you match TV programmes with the right pictures? Did you know that 'Lindenstraße' is a popular soap in Germany?
3 Quia Match up columns of television programmes.
4 Wikipedia Read the entry about Lindenstraße on Wikipedia.
5 Visit the 'Blinde Kuh' website and click on the 'Fernsehen' link to see a list of children's TV programmes. How many do you recognise? Note down at least 5 of the programme titles in German and in English.
6 MDR is one of the German TV channels. What is on MDR today (heute) and tomorrow (morgen)? What was on yesterday (gestern)? Use the back arrow key of your browser to return to the main page each time. Now click on the alphabetical list of programmes in the menu to the left of the screen (Sendungen von A bis Z) and scroll down to see how many words you can work out. Note down some of these words in German and in English.
  Frequency
7 Quia How often do you watch television?
8 Penalty Penalty shoot-out game for one or two players. How often do you watch TV? Play game 8 first if you want to win!
9 Quia Play this matching activity until you think you are ready to try the next link to an on-line survey. Keep the list of terms open if you still need help.
10 Umfrage Can you complete this on-line survey about television? Please don't enter your e-mail address.
 

German sounds

Foreign accents and your computer
What level have you reached?
Word order (verb is 2nd idea)

Download helpful Word documents from the list above

Do these activities to practise the 'Language of Improvement':
1 Quia Match the German and English sentences.
2 Quia Draw lines between the correct words or phrases
3 Quia Battleships game.
4 Quia Win a million euros!

 


Links to other useful websites:

This is an on-line course for beginners written by the BBC. Try topic 1 Meeting People.
This BBC quiz aims to make you better at learning languages.
BBC Tips from the BBC for learning words.
BBC Tips from the BBC to help you with speaking and listening.
BBC Frederic has written a diary of his move to Germany, where he's working as a teacher in the former East German town of Meißen near Dresden.

Pupils make their own language puzzles on-line.

Visit this website or iTunes Music Store to download podcasts for your mp3 player to help you to learn German at home step by step, day by day, phrase by phrase.

Visit this website or iTunes Music Store to download this podcast for your mp3 player or computer. DW-World: Deutsch, Warum nicht? A beginner's course in German. Select bits that interest you from Series 1.