Required+Summer+Work+for+German+2+and+3+AP+&+IB+Students

= **Required summer work for German 2 and German 3 Pre-AP/IB** = === **What plan of action will you design in order to practice German as much as possible in order to reach higher levels of proficiency?** === **Take [|THIS QUIZ] to get some tips to help guide you!**

This site is for students going into these classes this fall: **German II Pre-AP, German 3 III Pre-AP, German III DP**
Log: Download as many of these sheets as you need to complete the summer work of a __minimum__ of 30 minutes per week. Organize these sheets in a way that is easy for me to understand and see what you did: (Available in pdf and Word (in case you want to type on it))



Vary what you use on this site each week. For example, listen to the news one week, then try some games another week, listen to music to understand them or practice your grammar and vocabulary, review some of the textbook activities and games at the bottom of the page. etc. The more variety the more skills you develop.

=== **What plan of action will you design in order to practice German as much as possible in order to reach higher levels of proficiency?** ===

Preparing for the AP/IB language assessments that will happen in German Level IV demands that you also reflect on what you need to learn and practice in order to reach your goals and the goals of the program.. Spending a little time everyday listening to German-language songs, playing games in German, watching German-language television shows cartoon, etc. online, or watching part of a German-language movie on a regular basis will improve your language skills for the AP/IB assessments drastically. By the time the exam comes, you will be able to think in German better each day. Remember **it is up to you** to continue to practice. Language learning is a skill that must be developed frequently and over a long period of time. __//It is a very individualized process! Take your learning into your own hands! Browse the links below and find something that is interesting to you and a little bit challenging.//__

T**his section will be continually updated with links to German Learning Resources**. //If you find something you think should be on here, e-mail me at __kendra.omlid@thompsonschools.org__ so I can share it with others!//

Word Reference:
dict.cc, beolingus.de, wordreference.com

**Grammar Explanation and Practice:**
[|Nancy Thuleen Grammar Page] Languages Online (UK)

Music:
List of German Music Groups I know of on the LHSgermanclasses wikispace [|Step into German] [|Lyricstraining.com] (Click German on the right side of the search bar) Watch music videos and play games to fill in the lyrics as you watch

Videos:
[|Checkeins.de] [|Neuneinhalb Video Podcast] [|Deutsche Welle Telenovela: Jojo sucht das Glück] [|WDR.de - Links für Kinder] - many different shows, including Sendung mit der Maus, Käpt'n Blaubär and others [|Full Length Fairy Tale Movies in German] - Approximately 1 hour each [|Extr@ Series] - from Discovery Learning [|KuBus Video Archiv] - von Goethe Institut - Videos zu verschiedenen Themen [|HalfCast Germany] - Video P[|odcasts from a German Teen] [|KET Distance Learning Videos]

Audio/Podcasts:
[|Vokabeln Top Thema Archive] - Short articles and listening texts with vocabulary exercises from Deutsche Welle [|Slow German Podcast] - podcasts in German about various aspects of German culture - spoken slowly! [|Yabla German] - Videos with online exercises (Expensive subscription, but there is some free content) [|Audio Lingua] - mp3 recordings from native speakers in several languages [|Podcast.de] - many German podcasts, one great one that is included is 'Die Wahrheit über Deutschland'

Online Games and Activities:
[|I like German] from Goethe Institut [|Lyricstraining] fill in the blank game [|Digital Dialects] - hear and see German words and then play games to see how well you know them! [|Hello World] - activities, songs, flashcards in German

Online Reading Resources:
[|Project Gutenberg] - FREE e-books in German! [|Young Germany] - Resources about the German language, as well as information about studying and living in Germany. [|Reader's Digest Deutschland] [] - German Kids' search engine - good for finding easier authentic texts [|Medienwerkstatt Wissenskarten] - More Articles in German for kids [|International Children's Digital Library] [|Children's Books Forever] - Online in many languages [|German Life Magazine] - Cultural articles in English

For Fun:
[|Zungenbrecher - German Tongue Twisters] (with audio files so you can hear them!) [|German Tongue Twisters from About.com] (with audio files so you can hear them!)  [|Kids' Stories and Songs] - Stories and Songs from the UK German Connection

Practice Activities
[|BBC Listening Practice] [|BBC Reading Practice] [|WordChamp] - flashcards ([|Common Verbs], [|School Vocab], [|Hobbies], and more) and conjugation drills. Simply search a verb in German and you can look at conjugation charts and do practice drills