German in Year 8

Einleitung	Projekt 1 Wohnort	Projekt 2 Essen	Karneval	Projekt 3 Einkaufen
Projekt 4 Mode	Projekt 5 Transport	Projekt 6 Umwelt	Help Sheets	Useful Links

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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!

	Einleitung
1	Task Magic games to revise personal information questions and answers.
2 Quia	Games to practise things you may need to say in the classroom every lesson.
3 Quia	Games to practise past tense sentences for freetime activities.
4	What did you do on holiday? Remember to install Task Magic Play to try these games.
5 Quia	Games to practise what you did on your last birthday (past tense).
6 Quia	Games to practise the verbs haben and sein to help you with the past tense.
7 Quia	Game on famous people and things from German speaking countries.
8 Quia	Hangman on famous Germans, Austrians and Swiss people.
9 Salzburg	Look at pictures of Salzburg in Austria, where Mozart was born (Mozart was a very famous composer).
10 Schiller	Find out family details for Schiller (a famous classical German author).
	Projekt 1 Wohnort
1 Quia	Practise the words for types of houses and their locations.
2	Try these TaskMagic games for types of houses and their locations.
3 Häuser	Look at this website to see the types of houses and flats in the Leipzig area, our partner school is located in Markkleeberg.
4 Quia	Activities to learn the rooms in the house.
5 Quia	Hangman game for the rooms.
6	Play these TaskMagic games to learn rooms in the house (extended list!).
7 Quia	How well can you spell the rooms, try this challenge game before doing the test in class.
8	TaskMagic activities on the rooms in the house and the past tense.
9 Quia	Matching activity to learn some compound nouns for words connected to the house.
10 Quia	Activities for bedroom words.
11 Quia	Games to practise sentences about your room.
12	TaskMagic activities to describe a bedroom (short paragraph).
13 Quia	Games to practise furniture vocabulary (many new words here!).
14 Quia	Win a million euros - how well can you describe a house?
15 Quia	Games to practise places in a town.
16 Quia	Word search for places in a town.
17 Quia	Win a million euros! How well do you know the places in a town?
18 Quia	More games to practise places in the town.
19 Quia	Spelling test on the places in a town.
20 Quia	Rags to Riches game based on a description of a town.
21	TaskMagic description of a town (Level 5).
22 Quia	Practise directions.
23 Quia	Listening activity. Can you understand these directions? Decide on the answer before you turn the flashcard over!
24	Hennings Haus! Play the Town Trail game.
25 Fling	How far can you fling the teacher? You will have to understand 'Man kann' sentences to do this!
26 Quia	Discover Munich.
	Projekt 2 Essen
1 Jigword	Games to practise the time (o'clock and half past).
2 Jigword	More games to practise time.
3 Quia	Time and numbers challenge game for one or two players.
4 Quia	Games to practise daily routine sentences.
5 Jigword	Matching activity to practise daily routine sentences.
6 Matchword	Memory game for daily routine sentences. Turn over matching cards.
7 Speedword	Choose fast, faster or furious! Can you type the German daily routine sentences correctly?
8	Practise breakfast food and drink items.
9	Play these TaskMagic games to practise breakfast words.
10 Quia	What do you eat at break time?
11 Quia	Matching activities for lunch and dinner words.
12 Quia	Practise German words for food and drinks.
13 Lied	Download this song about food by Barbara MacArthur. The first verse is complete. Read through the song words, have you noticed they have forgotten to add any umlauts. Where do they go?
14 Quia	Practise these common recipe words.
	Have a look at these German recipes, can you understand or find out the ingredients? Try playing the game above this link to help you to understand more of the recipe words.
16 Quia	Picture matching game to practise the past tense of 'essen' and 'trinken'.
17 Quia	Try this quiz on the past tense. What is your score out of 12?
18 Quia	Practise question words.
	Projekt Karneval
1 You Tube	Sing along to 'Polonäse Blankenese' by Gottlieb Wendehals!
2 You Tube	Sing along to 'Da steht ein Pferd aufm Flur' by Klaus and Klaus!
	Projekt 3 Einkaufen
1 Quia	Do you recognise Euros and Cents? Match the pictures to the sentences.
2 Euro	Visit this website and see how much English money you would get for €20.
3 Web	Visit this website to find out about the Swiss currency.
4 Quia	Practise words for the department store on page 36.
5	TaskMagic games to practise phrases connected to a department store.
6 KaDeWe	Visit the website of KaDeWe Berlin - the biggest department store in Europe.
7 Quia	Quiz for one or two players on the euro and the department store.
8 Quia	Games to build the number of words you know about department stores.
9 Quia	How many ice cream flavours do you know?
10 Quia	Picture matching activities for the ice cream topic.
11	Visit Franck's ice cream parlour in Berlin and read his menu! Click on 'Eiskarte'.
12 Eis	Read the ice cream menu from the Eiscafé-Vittoria.
13 Eis	Another ice cream menu to tempt you.
14	Hennings Haus! Play the Market Sweep game. Read the shopping list, select the stall and put the right items into your shopping basket.
15 Quia	What would you buy in the supermarket?
16	Try this Channel 4 shopping challenge from the on-line magazine extr@.
17 Quia	Class assignment on shopping.
	Projekt 4 Mode
1 Quia	Games to practise the German words for clothes.
2 Quia	Picture matching game for clothes and jewellery.
3 Quia	How well can you spell German words for the clothes?
4 Quia	Win a million euros! How well do you know clothes words? Activity written by Y11 pupils during Enterprise Week November 2007.
5	Hennings Haus! 'Dress to Impress' - click on Johann or Heidi then guess which clothes to drag from the floor, bed or wardrobe.
6 Worte	Practise vocabulary connected to clothes. Click on the text to hear how the German is pronounced. Can you spot the one spelling error?
7 Quia	How many colours do you know?
8 Schuhe	Which shoes do these young people like to wear?
9 Quia	Test your knowledge of German words for fashion accessories.
	Projekt 5 Transport
1 Quia	Activities to practise transport vocabulary.
2	Task Magic games to practise transport sentences.
3	Task Magic games to build a text about travelling to school.
4 Quia	How well do you know 24 hour times?
5 Quia	Games for the cycling topic.
6 Quia	Practise vocabulary from Projekt Deutsch 2 pages 60-61.
	Projekt 6 Umwelt
1 Quia	Games for weather vocabulary.
2 Quia	Hangman on the weather.
3 Quia	One or two player nature quiz.
4 Quia	Do you know what is in the rubbish bin?

Links to useful websites:

	This is an on-line course for beginners written by the BBC. Topics 2 and 3 are particularly useful for you.
	This BBC quiz aims to make you better at learning languages.
	The BBC challenges you to be a better listener! (You will need to know numbers, time and basic food words to try this challenge.)
	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 or 2.