»Genau!«
Stuff to use with the textbook
Genau :: Ganz Genau
Quizzes / Selected Learning Materials
Thema 1
T1: official textbook website
How are you? (L.O.)
Begrüßungen usw. (Greetings etc.) ~ ~ Basic Expressions: General vocabulary for students beginning German; do the Flashcard activity first.
Ländernamen in Deutsch (Names of countries in Germany) - quiz games [look at the Flashcards first]
Abkürzungen für internationale Autokennzeichen (official abbreviations for countries' car licence plates)
Thema 2
T2: official textbook website
Tage der Woche (missing letters - type the word)
Schulfächer (Vokabeln-Spiele)
Die Schule Vokabeln-Spiele
Die Schule (adjectives)
Schulfächer (hangman)
verbs haben and sein- table of examples with practice
Das Schulsystem in Deutschland - Struktur
Zahlen 1-10 (L.O.)
Zahlen 11-20 (L.O.)
Die Zahlen von 0 bis 20: Quiz #1, then Quiz #2, then Quiz #3 (order the numbers)
Thema 3
T3: official textbook website
Musikinstrumente: Hangmanspiel (Namen von Instrumenten)
Freizeit (pick the right word in the sentence)
Names of sports (hangman game)
Sport - was hast du heute? (verbs haben/spielen - multiple choice)
Alex und Sport - Gap-fill reading exercise
Word order - verb as 2nd idea in sentence (sentence unjumbling)
Sport - basic German word-order quiz
Days and months (L.O.)
Thema 4
T4: official textbook website
How old are you? / Family members (L.O.)
Vocab practice games (flashcards, matching & concentration)
Hangman game using vocab for family members
Numbers 20-100 (L.O.)
Die Zahlen von 20 bis 100: mixed-up numbers (three exercises)
Die Zahlen von 20 bis 100: spelling - gap exercise
Where do you live? (L.O.)
Die Familie - Martinas Stammbaum [family tree exercise]
Crossword - who's related to whom?
Über Olaf - seine Familie [multiple-choice reading exercise]
Mathias und seine Familie - interactive reading exercise (more challenge...)
»Meine Familie« (gap-fill and multiple choice sentence exercises)
Gender of German nouns - der/die/das + practice exercise
subject or object?? Gap exercise
"Rags to Riches" quiz competition, Thema 1-4 (Wiederholung-Spiel)
Thema 5
T5: official textbook website
Kleidung - word games (names of clothes)
Kleidung - word games (adjectives to describe clothes)
Clothes (L.O.)
Colours, describing hair/eyes (L.O.)
Direct object (Accusative case) - intro to den/die/das + practice exercise
Kleidung quiz - practising der/die/das (subject) & den/die/das (object) & einen/eine/ein (object)
Farben (colours quiz with flags)
Kleider für eine Party (gap-filling reading text)
Cultural background - Karneval Infos
Trachten-Geschäft > »German Wear« Trachtenmode
Trachten-Geschäft > Wirkes Trachten und Dirndl
Trachten-Geschäft > Pöllinger Leder & Tracht
Karnevalkostüme > Waldi Faschingskostüme
Thema 6
T6: official textbook website
das Frühstück: matching & concentration games with the vocab (D Nutting)
das Frühstück: vocab practice quiz, identify the photos (D Nutting)
trinken/essen - verbs practice, multiple-choice gap-fill (D Nutting)
Verben: essen, trinken, kochen (A C Balaam)
Kreuzworträtsel / Crossword - Das Frühstück und die Konditorei
Essen und Trinken - Mehrfachauswahl-Spiel - more challenge... (Ed Curtis)
Das Frühstücksmenü im Hotel Wettenberg bei Gießen in Hessen (Deutschland) - Fotogalerie
Café Sonne in Fulda (Deutschland) - Frühstücksmenü als Online-Formular
Frühstück-Set - Holzspielzeug für Kinder (Swiss company selling a breakfast set made of wooden toys)
Thema 7
T7: official textbook website
Telling the time (L.O.)
Wie spät ist es? - Telling the time, quiz
German pronouns (Der Strohstern? Ja, ich nehme ihn.) - table of pronouns
Saying “it” and “they” in German (pronouns), quiz
Der Weihnachtsmarkt - unjumbling sentences activity
Thema 8
T8: official textbook website
Wie waren deine Ferien? - talking about your holidays - vocab games
The calendar (note: in Austria they say/write ‘Jänner’ instead of ‘Januar’!)
Days of the Week, Months and Seasons (hangman)
Monate des Jahres (unjumble - type the word)
Monate des Jahres (hangman-style)
Monate des Jahres (name the right month)
die Monate (ordering the months)
die Tage und das Datum (challenge board)
Saying/Writing dates in German - quiz
Quiz: months in order – audio (Die Monate - listen and order)
The months in German
Thema 9
T9: official textbook website
Verben - practising verb meanings
Modal verbs:
incl. können / müssen / dürfen
- matching (dürfen, können, müssen) - match up the pronouns (ich, du etc) with the right verb form (darf, darfst etc)! (D Nutting)
- multiple-choice text (Austauschschüler – exchange students chat)
- matching (dürfen, können, müssen etc) - a quizlet ... click through the flashcards first, then play Scatter, then play Space Race. In Space Race you have to type answers in - be careful with Umlauts!)
- dürfen & können - exercise (Mrs Thompson)
- können gap-fill exercise (R Shea)
- dürfen – fill-in exercise (R Shea)
Thema 10
T10: official textbook website
Haustiere und andere Tiere - matching games - word/picture
Tiere (match word/pic)
Tiere - der, die oder das?
Tiere - der/die/das, den/die/das?
Tiere - crossword puzzle
Tiere [Körper] - zum Beispiel Fell, Krallen, Flossen - vocab games (D Nutting)
Tiere - "sein" [his] & "ihr" [her] - Genau!, Thema 10 (D Nutting)
Animals (L.O.)
Favourite pastimes and pets (L.O.)
Tierhotel Kreuzbruch (for the associated research worksheet)
Thema 11
T10: official textbook website
10 Ways to Express Good Wishes in German (about.com German)
"Zum Geburtstag viel Glück"... (Alpengruß) - cartoon figures sing a German Happy Birthday with an accent typical of the alpine regions
Learning to say Happy Birthday in German (takes you through the phrases)
Kisseo Grußkarten - Geburtstag
Thema 12
T10: official textbook website
modal verbs: revise können / müssen / dürfen / PLUS play with wollen [to want to] / sollen [to be supposed to]
Das Wetter: talking about the weather and what you are going to do because of the weather (examples, tips and practice)
Thema 13
T10: official textbook website
Thema 14
T10: official textbook website
Compiled by D Nutting