Guten Tag! School Supplies Incoming German 2 Students Incoming German 3 Students

Guten Tag!

Herzlich Willkommen in Deutsch!

As the summer winds down, please find some time to look over the many materials provided to you by Frau Hotze just to begin to refresh your German as the new school year approaches.  If you listen to German music or check out German shows on Netflix or German videos in YouTube, it's a great way to get used to hearing German again.  For example, I've been watching the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Wednesday in German.

We'll spend our year reviewing, practicing, enriching, and developing our German.

I look forward to working with you.

Herr Abney

School Supplies

P.S.  If you would like some early recommendations on school supplies, I recommend a three-ring binder and loose-leaf paper over a wire notebook.  It's also a good idea to get index cards to make physical flashcards for vocab; some students like to get colored cards to fulfill various grammar functions (I use blue for masculine, red/pink for feminine, green for neuter, purple for verbs).  We do a lot of color coding in general, and some students like to have their own colored pens, highlighters, or pencils.  I have colored pencils and markers in the classroom.

Incoming German 2 Students

Can you answer some basic questions about yourself: your name, age, description, interests, family?  Please note that since I wasn't your teacher, I don't know exactly which vocab you have encountered or not, so some of these items may include terms or phrases you have not previously learned.

Here are some resources from my own website that may help you:

General Info Review: Intro and Goodbye

Thorough Match All Greetings

Thorough Match All Goodbyes

Questions and Answers

1.  Interrogatives (Question Words) Flashcards 
2.  Question and Answer Practice 1 (NOTE: When the question appears in a pop up box, just click OK.  It will still become visible on the practice screen.) 

Check the Article Forms (NOTE: You are not expected to know all of them, but you should be familiar with nominative and accusative forms.)

1.  Definite Article

2.  Indefinite Article (Pay attention to the instructions.  There is no plural form of "one," so we must use a substitution.)

General Verbs

wohnen

gehen

tanzen (Do you know what to do when the stem ends in an s-sound?)

heißen (Do you know what to do when the stem ends in an s-sound?) 

reiten (Do you know what to do when the stem ends in a t- or d-sound?)

The Two Most Important Verbs in German

haben

sein

Stem-Change Verbs

essen

fahren 

sehen

Modal Verbs and Friend

dürfen

können

mögen

müssen

sollen 

wollen

möchte

werden

Activities Practices
1.   Activity Matching 1
2.   Activity Matching 2
3.   Activity Check

Family

Picture matching: Familie 1
Picture matching: Familie 2
Picture matching: Familie 3
Quiz yourself on the vocabulary.
Quiz yourself on the plural forms

Incoming German 3 Students

In addition to the basics from German 1, such as those listed above, can you talk about the world around you: home, the city, shopping, food?  Please note that since I wasn't your German 2 teacher, I don't know exactly which vocab you have encountered or not, so some of these items may include terms or phrases you have not previously learned.

Check the Article Forms (NOTE: You may not know all of them, but you should be familiar with nominative, accusative, and dative forms.)

1.  Definite Article

2.  Indefinite Article (Pay attention to the instructions.  There is no plural form of "one," so we must use a substitution.)

Telling Time Practice
1.   Time Matching 1
2.   Time Matching 2
3.   Time Quiz 1