WEB EXERCISES, ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING

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  • Outstanding interactive exercise collection from ZUT. All topics, levels
  • Complete German Course from Exeter U.: Lessons, activities, resources
  • Excellent comprehensive site from CASLT
  • BBC Steps
  • 10/1 Very useful exercises on basic vocab and functions
  • Excellent grammar and vocabulary summary from a high school student.
  • German Electronic Textbook - grammar and vocabulary - explanations and exercises
  • About.com's German for Beginners online lessons and exercises. With audio and much help.
  • The Foreign Language for Travellers page features files for pronunciation practice.
  • Fodor's Welcome to Living Language: useful vocab by topic.
  • Great grammar and vocab summaries, learning strategies, excellent overviews
  • NEW 6/5/01 - exercises from Schubert Verlag - don't sweat the German directions. Try it. You can do it!
  • Excellent early-year activities, much vocab, topics, links from Ed Curtis
  • Awesome new site for learning German and studying Germany: German For Travellers
  • Excellent news and info about Germany: GermanyByNet and their Language Learning Site with Chat
  • Interactive online exercises: dialogues, culture, grammar and vocab lessons. Real Audio. Chat.
  • Frau Kuehn's excellent level one exercises - all topics that we cover
  • Learn-Plus beginners' course with shockwave design German Idiom of the Week.
  • Texthaus: reading selections and dialogs with online help. 2 week trial.
  • German Language Course Website and CD for English-speaking students.
  • The 200 Most Frequent Words in German - learn these!

    Other Collections, Courses and Teaching Sites

  • Many of the best general sites on Germany are on my Germany Page
  • BBC Multimedia units on Family, Homeland, Leisure, Studies, Money.
  • BBC Deutsch Plus Introductions, Numbers/Time, Eating/Drinking, Directions, Shopping.
  • BBC Business: units on Greetings, Introductions, Directions and Eating and Drinking.
  • BBC Cultural Notes: address, greetings, phoning, mealtimes, travel, tipping, leisure, holidays, business.
  • GermanFix: another brilliant BBC site with emphasis on survival German.
  • BBC German ByteSize Revisions - review your intermediate to advanced skills.
  • Deutsche Welle - German Radio. Basic Language Course with audio and further courses.
  • SCOLA - German news with translation as well as TV schedule, video and audio
  • Audio Conversations with exercises and tutorials from German Tutorials.
  • Reading Exercises, vocab, commands and modals from Duveen Penner.
  • Modern Foreign Languages UK - excellent site
  • Katherine Munro's web topics and grammar exercises - nicely organized. br>
  • Hank Schwab's wonderful collection of teacher-authored Quia exercises.
  • Complete Distance Learning course. Numerous activities.
  • CyberGerman: beginner grammar explanations, topics, vocab and exercises.
  • Grammis - good for teachers when reviewing or studying grammar problems. In German
  • Collection of online Grammar Sites from the German for Beginners site.
  • Donna VanHandle's collection of internet exercises, activities and tutorials plus useful teaching sites.
  • Well-designed Web units from USF's Deutsch im Netz page.
  • Illinois Math and Science Academy: German web exercises.
  • Stufen International: exercises, reading texts, listening and pronunciation work, etc.
  • Vassar U.'s Deutsch heute auf dem Computer and Deutsch Heute text series site.
  • Fokus Deutsch and Deutsch Na klar!, Kontakte, Wie geht's and Treffpunkt Deutsch websites.
  • Grammar explanations and exercises from Berlin - vor und nach der Wende!?!
  • Datenbank für DaF Übungen and Mini Web Lessons for Foreign Language.
  • Substitute lesson plans for FL teachers
  • Rick Spüler's frighteningly huge list of German links - he puts me to shame!

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