City of Culture

Essen has been chosen as City of Culture 2010 and deutschlern.net has a video about this with accompanying comprehension exercises - Kulturhaupstadt 2010. If you follow the link you will be asked too log in. The registration process is quite simple if you are visiting for the first time.

Exercise Tool

Want to design your own exercises. It's quite easy thanks to the University of Nottingham.

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Adjektive - adjectives

From time to time I shall create Grammar exercises. They will also be available for download, with the solutions, from a page on Jeckylls Heft - Jeckylls Übungen. The first exercise is about adjectives derived - abgeleitet - from nouns.

Adjectives can be formed from nouns by adding the suffix -ig,  -lich oder -isch but you also need to use the correct case.


Setze abgeleitete Adjektive auf -ig, -lich oder -isch im richtigen Fall ein!

der Nebel                an einem _________________  Abend

der Witz                  mit einer ___________________ Bemerkung

der Freund              mit __________________ Grüßen

der Tag                   während der ________________ Fütterung

das Herz                  mit ________________ Grüßen

der Stürm                trotz des _______________ Wetters

die Kraft                 Wohnungen mit ________________ Tönen

das Land                 in ____________________ Umgebung

die Ruhe                 bei ________________ Fahrweise

die Gefahr               in einer ________________ Kurve

die Stadt                 in den _______________ Museen

das Kind                 in seinem ______________ Gesicht

Diese Übung und ihre Lösung können Sie als PDF Datei (Adjektive01.pdf) herunterladen von Jeckylls Übungen

Exercises from Finland

I've just work with some exercises on Michis Übungs-Site and realised I was not as good as I should be with some of the exercises on verbs. It shows I haven't put in enough practice but the really useful thing is it shows some areas where I need to do some revision. If your results in an exercise are a little disappointing don't lose heart but use your mistakes as an incentive for revision or further learning. There's no point in beating yourself up, the whole point about correction is learning to be correct.

The site I was using as a reasonable range of grammatical exercises. Many take the form of supplying the missing word or words in a sentence (Lückentext) but there are also some where you have to put words in the correct order (Zuordung) and others take the form of a simple quiz (Kurzantwort-Quiz). Under the heading Sprache you'll find some exercises on writing letters and on invitations and how to reply. Wortschatz has some thematically organised exercises to test general vocabulary and a useful set on Redewendungen - colloquial expressions.

Deutschlern.net

Jeckylls Heft has links to exercises from many sources. What I plan to do is review these occasionally. I'm also conscious that I need to work through exercises myself. When you learn German your motto has to be üben, üben, üben! - practise, practise, practise!

What I like about Deutschlern.net is the way it uses video and other images to help with learning. So today I looked at some exercises for Fortgeschrittene based on reports about the recent extremely cold weather in Europe. They were not particularly difficult but would help with revision on the associated vocabulary.

When you first go to the site you are asked to register - anmelden. This is easy. Just choose a user name, enter a password and confirm it. You don't have to give any other detail if you wish not to. However, I do recommend giving an email address in case you forget your password.