German Language Sites
www.gut.org.uk NEW
Activities and suggestions for German teachers and learners. Site will
be launched on 14th September 2003 and will doubtless receive the same
critical acclaim as its French sister site, www.zut.org.uk
atschool.eduweb.co.uk/haberg/reallyusefulge/default.htm
REALLY USEFUL GERMAN SITE. This site is just what it says. All sorts of
ideas and suggestions for teaching and exploiting specific topics and
themes. There are materials to print and download and links to other sources
of support. All written by a teacher from Burnley. There is the equivalent
in French.
www.daf-portal.de/
The Internet portal for German as a foreign language. Don't choose the
flash intro, it takes ages, but click on the portal. You'll find materials,
exercises and tests, links to very useful sites, ideas for teaching and
many more interesting things.
www.cornelsen-teachweb.de/
The site of the German publishing company, but with teaching materials
for English, French, German, Greek Italian and Spanish. Some materials
are linked to their course books, but others are made from news items
or on a theme, such as Festivals & Traditions. Take a look. On the red
menu on the left, click on Erwachsenenbildung (Adult Education) and then
on the language of your choice. All sorts of activities & exercises are
available.
www.goethe.de/london
The home page of the Goethe Institute in London. You'll find information
for teachers of German, details of language courses, examinations, materials
and information on language training courses in Germany.
www.goethe.de
This is the home page of the headquarters in Germany. Here you will find
highlighted special events such as 'Euroquiz', a web competition and Goethe's
250th anniversary. There is also a wealth of online teaching and learning
material.
www.bbc.co.uk
On this BBC site, you can go through education or languages and find downloadable
materials related to Deutsche Plus as well as bitesize German, Fix It
and others.
www.about.com/education/german
About has useful materials in all languages; grammar exercises, explanations,
activities and many more links.
www.modlangs.co.uk
Tailor made authentic language activities and the job is done for you.
The texts have been taken from the internet and then handy exercises provided
with them. They can be done on line, or downloaded. Model answers are
provided. Your college needs to subscribe, but it's not expensive and
you can view samples first.
www.stufen.de
This site is quite a gem. It has all types of texts including Hörtexte,
but you'll need the right sound card installed on your computer. There's
also Lernertexte which needs correcting. You are sure to find something
you can use for any level.
www.yahoo.de
The German version of the famous portal and search engine. Links to every
category under the sun.
www.ahlhelm.de/ostern
The Osterwitze will raise a smile and there are recipes, stories about
Easter, customs etc.
www.berlinonline.de
Newspapers - for up to date news straight from the papers, suitable for
those with 2-3 years experience. See example of one story covered by Spiegeel
and Bild, spot the differences.
www.spiegel.de
You can register for a daily newsletter to be sent to your e-mail address.
www.bild.de
www.jahreszeitenverlag.de
This site has a number of journals within it, just click on the one you
want.
www.hessen.de
Take any land or town name and you will find all sorts of tourist info
for all levels.
www.schleswigholstein.de
www.bayern.de
www.bahn.de
If you need timetables for the railways, why not get really up-to-date
ones.
www.wdrmaus.de
For a bit of fun you cannot fail to enjoy this site. Just click on all
the pictures and get a surprise - if want some novel ways to practise
pronunciation sounds - that's here too!.
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