German Level 1, Activity 06: Möbel und Wohnen / Furniture and Living (Online)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will work within a budget to find pieces of furniture to decorate their dorm room.
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German Level 1, Activity 07: Haushalt Einkaufen / Household Shopping (Online)
(View Complete Item Description)In this activity, students will practice shopping using a list to purchase a variety of household items. The students will ask each other questions to find items on their list.
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German Level 1, Activity 09: Essen / Food (Online)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will review new vocabulary words by identifying the ingredients of a meal.
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German Level 1, Activity 10: Hobbys / Hobbies (Online)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will practice telling about their hobbies, their personal interests, and their free time activities.
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German Level 1, Activity 11: Tägliche Routine / Daily Routine (Online)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will talk and practice the daily routine by using flashcards and by asking questions in their group from a groupmate.
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German Level 1, Activity 12: Familie / Family (Online)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn how to talk about their family members, and describe them.
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German Level 1, Activity 14: Winterferien / Winter Holiday (Online)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will practice comprehension skills by answering questions related to German Christmas activities.
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German Level 1, Activity 13: Abschließende Prüfung / Final review (Online)
(View Complete Item Description)Students will practice answering open-ended questions using vocabulary from the past chapters.
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Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL)
(View Complete Item Description)COERLL produces online language learning materials (for example language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, and corpora) for teachers to adopt, adapt, modify, and share, and also provides professional development tools for teachers. You can browse materials on the COERLL website.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Reading, Textbook, Unit of Study
Deutsch im Blick
(View Complete Item Description)This textbook includes all 10 chapters of Deutsch im Blick (2nd ed, 2017). Deutsch im Blick is the web-based first-year German program developed and in use at the University of Texas. It is an open access site with free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees.
Material Type: Full Course
Bundestag Leichte Sprache
(View Complete Item Description)Resource: This is a website made by the German Bundestag explaining where, what and how their government works.
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Circumlocution Practice
(View Complete Item Description)Circumlocution is a necessary skill for negotiating meaning in the target language. This activity could be used at any level as partner practice, as a written assessment, or as a game like "Taboo". Phrases should be taught in advance or students may have them available. Vocabulary could be varied according to the unit and level of instruction. This activity could be a filler for a few minutes at the end of class or as a longer activity.
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German Info Gap AB Stadtplan
(View Complete Item Description)Student activity in pairs.They will work on turns, going straight and counting streets as well as specific street names.
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German Interpretive Die Unwürdige Greisin- Brecht
(View Complete Item Description)This is a set of three tasks for students to do to elaborate on understanding of Bertolt Brecht's Die Unwürdige GreisinThis would be over a few days- working on the interpersonal questions and intial reading in the first two days to activiate their prior knowledge about common family dynamics, and how they could be different now as opposed to 100+ years ago, then give students time to work on reading the entire text, finally having students create a conversation between the two brothers. This does not have comprehension questions for the entire text.
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German Krankheit/Rat Geben
(View Complete Item Description)This is a short writing and grading rubric, taking 20-30 minutes for students to work on giving appropriate advice for a person they know who is sick using simple and complex sentences.
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Going out to eat, German, Novice Mid
(View Complete Item Description)In this lab, students will practice ordering from a menu. Students will also practice posing and answering questions to waiters. Finally, students will engage with the cultural aspects of eating out in a German-speaking country.
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Grimm Grammar
(View Complete Item Description)Grimm Grammar is an online German grammar reference from the University of Texas at Austin. It is an irreverent revival and shameless exploitation of 19th-century Grimm Fairy Tales for honorable pedagogical purposes.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture, Reading
Hanukah Yiddish Worksheet for German Class
(View Complete Item Description)A Worksheet to talk about Hanukah and Yiddish in German class.
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Teaching Materials • Lehrmaterialien
(View Complete Item Description)Website created by Nancy Thuleen for teachers of German. It contains ready made resources and worksheets German teachers can use in their classrooms for free and with no attribution.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Reading
German 102, Lab 02: Food Preferences/ Essen Präferenzen , Novice Mid
(View Complete Item Description)In this lab, students will practice expressing their likes and dislikes in reference to food. Students will also practice identifying ingredients in certain dishes.
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