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I. Sentence structure:
1. : changing the word order in simple sentences.
2. : making statements or questions out of fragments.
3. : complete sentences with an appropriate second clause (coordinating and subordinating conjunctions).
4. : team or individual activity to make sentences with subordinating/coordinating conjunctions. Teachers may wish to assign points for correct sentences and turn this into a friendly competition.
II. Verbs:
1. (present tense): adding correct endings to regular verbs.
2. (present tense): very easy worksheet assigning verb forms to the corresponding subject; regular verbs only.
3. : completing table of irregular verbs in the present tense.
4. : Irregular present tense verbs.
5. Modal verbs/infinitives: easy worksheet. with .
6. : worksheet with four separable prefix activities (Deutsch Heute Kap. 4);
7: reading text ( "The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats") with practice for past participles.
8. : changing present-tense sentences to present perfect.
9. : making simple sentences in the present perfect tense by choosing elements from different categories.
10. : a simple reading text in the present that needs to be turned into present perfect or simple past (answer is given for both).
11. : worksheet for “du” imperative only.
12. : oral partner activity
III. Cases:
1. : practice sentences with typical accusative patterns. Classroom/individual activity.
2. : classroom activity to practice accusative objects or separable prefixes.
3. Dative Prepositions: easy and .
4. : easy; focus on correct case endings.
5. : grammar handout with practice sentences, focus on word order for dative and accusative nouns and pronouns.
6. : exercises for dative and accusative objects and pronouns.
7. : recognizing gender and case markers
8. : pretty easy exercise
IV. Pronouns:
1. : Nominative only! Very easy.
2. : With family vocabulary.Two-in-one exercise.
3. : nominative and accusative personal pronouns.
4. : nominative and dative personal pronouns.
V. Miscellaneous:
1. : Classroom activity for teachers.
2. to write out addition problems.
3. : days of the week, ordinal numbers.
4. : analyzing some German last names found in U.S. phone books.
5. : Review exercises for chapter 1 of Deutsch Heute (9th ed.)
6. : this is actually a placement test, but the first two sections feature good review questions for students with 1-2 semesters of German and could be used in a classroom with teacher assistance/grading. You won’t be able to get online results unless you are applying to Willamette University.
7. : review exercises for chapter 3 of Deutsch Heute (9th ed.)
8. : review exercises for chapter 4 of Deutsch Heute (9th ed.)
9. : review exercises for chapter 5 of Deutsch Heute (9th ed.)
10. : German idioms using body parts. A second worksheet, easy ; a list of .
11. : Writing out the birthdates of some famous people.
12. : writing out ordinal numbers for special days in the German calendar
13. : some common German words that look like English words, but have different meanings.
14. : different ways to express that you are not feeling well.
15. Vocabulary expansion:
16. : worksheet for classroom use.
17. : a very early worksheet about the meanings of some movie titles (can be completed even without any previous knowledge of German)
18. : German alphabet activity. One German noun for each letter. Particularly suitable for children.
19. Vocabulary expansion: . Students find words related to a given word and pin them to the “word hedgehog.”