Online Exercises
Self-grading online exercises for different ability levels, listed alphabetically by
grammar topic.
B=Beginner / I=Intermediate / A=Advanced
Adjective endings: Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse" (The Princess and the Pea). Preceded and unpreceded adjectives. An audio version of a similar text (without many of the adjectives) is available for extra listening practice. I
Articles (definitive and indefinite): timed online exercise; accusative and dative objects. B Clauses: matching clauses (using word order to predict clause type, coordinating and subordinating). B Clauses: cause and effect sentences with "denn", "weil" and "deshalb". I
Conjugation (present tense): online exercise, regular verbs only. B Conjugation (irregular verbs, present tense): online exercise (Deutsch Heute, Kap. E-3). B Conjugation (irregular verbs, present tense): online exercise (Deutsch Heute, Kap. E-7). B da-compounds: da-compounds vs. personal pronouns to replace prepositional objects. I Der-words: timed online fill-in-the-blank exercise (nominative/accusative only). B Genitive: online practice for genitive endings. I Genitive: online exercise. Uses a lot of body vocab. I Idioms : idioms with clothing. A Imperatives: online exercise (easy, Deutsch Heute Kap. E - 3). B Infinitives: online exercise for infinitives with "zu" and "um . . . zu". I Numbers: math exercise to write out German numbers. B Participles (irregular verbs)
: timed online quiz (
Deutsch Heute, Kap. 6).
B Passive: adding correct passive verb forms; text based on Deutsche Welle video A Passive: changing active to passive. A Passive: different tenses of passives (with and without modals). A "Position verbs": liegen/legen/stehen/stellen/sitzen/setzen/hängen/stecken; very easy. B Prepositions: Choose the correct preposition, mostly idiomatic expressions (Deutsch Heute, Kap. 7). B Prepositions: online exercise for specific prepositions required by certain verbs. A Questions: online exercise to make simple questions. B Questions: online exercise to make questions. B Reading Comprehension: Franz Kafka "Vor dem Gesetz" (slightly shortened text) with worksheet Subjunctive II: converting rarely used subjunctive forms to "würde + infinitive". I / A Two-way prepositions: verbs with specific prepositions. A
Vocab:
online match-up exercise (Einführung, Deutsch Heute, 9th ed.) B Vocab:
online exercise for articles and English meaning (Einführung, Deutsch Heute, 9th ed.) B Vocab: online match-up (Kapitel 1, Deutsch Heute, 9th ed.) B Vocab: two online match-up exercises for vocab from Kap. 4 of Deutsch Heute Ex.I / Ex. 2 B Vocab: Berufe online match-up exercise about professions B / I Vocab: Beruf: online quiz for vocab related to jobs I wo-compounds: creating questions with wo-compounds vs. wen/wem. I Word order: online exercise to change word order. One clause only. B Word order: online exercise, changing the beginning of a sentence.
B Word order: online exercise for word order after subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
B