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Interactive German Exercises

These exercises are unique to this website and are free to use. They are also listed in the NEW German Interactive Exercises Index.

All of the exercises that were formerly on this website are being reworked so that they are interactive, encourage higher-order thinking skills, and look consistent with the rest of the website. Many more to come!

German Language and Linguistics ( 13 items )

Grammatical tips for determining case, prepositions, noun gender and plurals; Information and collections of loan words, Denglisch, interjections, palindromes and mneumonics.
German Resource Reviews ( 5 items )

Looking for something different to use/do with your classes? Includes reviews of free online resources, commercial products and German-specific incursion/excursion ideas.
Travel in Germany ( 3 items )

Reviews of some places in Germany, with an emphasis on tips for travel with student groups.
German Tongue-Twisters ( 4 items )

This collection of over 300 tongue-twisters is arranged according to repeated letter. It includes special collections of battologisms (sentences with repeated words) and Schüttelreime (a bit like spoonerisms).
German Farmers Proverbs ( 16 items )

This collection of over 1800 Bauernregeln is arranged by months and other themes. Please note that for reasons of poetic licence, not all are in High German. For some teaching ideas, see my article: Using 'Bauernregeln' - Farmers Proverbs and the Interactive Exercises.
German Jokes and Cartoons ( 16 items )

This collection of over 250 jokes is arranged by theme. Unlike so many other collections online, all are suitable for classroom use.
German Dictionaries and Translation ( 1 items )

A collection of the best online dictionaries for German and German-English.

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