Angelika Davey's Blog, page 55
April 5, 2015
Improve your German reading with Amira
Are you looking for more German things to read? Something nice and easy? Something challenging? Something you can read together with your child(ren)?
I may have found an interesting website for you: Amira
It was created as a reading aid for German primary school children and has stories at three different levelswhich you can read yourself or listen to while you read.
Level 1 is very basic.To access them, click on ‘lesen 1′ which shows you all the easy books. I show you some screenshots of‘Me...
March 29, 2015
Montag montage with funny moments from Twitter
Yesterday I was looking for a message which I had saved on twitter and while I was searching for it I foundsomefunny picturesabout learning German or languages in general.
I don’t know who posted them initially, but I’m sharing them here to give youa giggle too:
The last one is my favourite, just in time for Easter. Which one(s) do you like best?
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March 22, 2015
Improve your German with Antosch & Lin
If you are a regular reader yo know that I’m always looking for extra activities that you, the German learner, can do in addition to your normal German lesson. I have found sites with videos, music, games, smartphone apps, to name a few. If you want to find online ideas, check out the ‘Free online resources‘ category.
But practising German with videos, music or games isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, so today I’m telling you about a different site. Oliver Antosch and his wife Wei Hsiang Lin have...
March 18, 2015
Deutsch am Donnerstag – Wiltshire von A bis Z
I hope you enjoyed the last 10 weeks of Deutsch am Donnerstag. My book Wiltshire von A bis Z has a lot more chapters than I used here but they were not really suitable for reading comprehension exercises. They do, however, have lots of photos and also links to websites, so if you’d like to improve your German and find out a little bit more about wonderful Wiltshire, I’d be delighted if you’d buy my kindle book!
Deutsch am Donnerstag is taking a break n...
March 14, 2015
How to use a German parking disc
Do you remember disc parking?
A conversation in a Facebook group reminded me that I still had mine. In Devizes we had the disc parking scheme until 2003 and most people binned theirs afterwards, but I kept mine because it is still used in Germany and because mine is a German disc.
The German disc – die Parkscheibe – allows you free parking for a certain time in certain areas. If, for example, you see this sign, it means you can park here for two hours for free as long as you display your park...
March 11, 2015
Deutsch am Donnerstag – a reading comprehension about Wiltshire’s White Horses
Welcome to part 10 of my reading comprehension exercises based on my book Wiltshire von A bis Z. Today you’ll find out out a little bit aboutthe White Horses.
In Wiltshire gibt es viele weiße Pferde, aber acht davon sind etwas Besonderes. Sie galoppieren nicht auf Weiden herum und lassen sich nicht füttern oder reiten, denn sie sind aus Kalkstein. Ursprünglich gab es mal 13 weiße Pferde in Wiltshire, aber einige sind verloren und überwachsen. Andere sind wiederum neu gemacht und heute gibt e...
March 8, 2015
How to buy a German train ticket from a machine
Whenever I teach a beginners’ class there is always the obligatory lesson on how to buy a train ticket. You know the ones, asking how much a ticket is and then buying it …
But what do you do when you get to the station and there is no kiosk to buy your ticket, only a machine or nothing at all?
You panic! Right?
No, you won’t because a) there will be machines, either at the station or on the train, b) the machines can be set to the English language, but that’s not much fun, and c) I will show...
March 4, 2015
Deutsch am Donnerstag – a reading comprehension about Swindon
Welcome to part 9 of my reading comprehension exercises based on my book Wiltshire von A bis Z. Today you’ll find out out a little bit about Swindon.
Wenn Sie während ihres Aufenthaltes in Wiltshire mal keine Lust mehr auf Landschaft und Sehenswürdigkeiten haben, sonder lieber einmal Einkaufen gehen wollen, fahren Sie doch nach Swindon.
Swindon ist mit über 200.000 Einwohnern die größte Stadt in Wiltshire und hat von daher natürlich viele Geschäfte zum Einkaufen.
Zum einen gibt es viele Gesc...
March 1, 2015
Practise your German with videos from BookBox
I came across BookBox this weekend. Although they seem to have been around for a while, it was the first time that I saw one of their videos. Based in India, they make short videos of children’s stories in various languages, including German. Each story has subtitles, so you can read along with it, or you can download the stories as PDFs from the website (make sure it’s set to ‘German’). Even better is their Android app (iPhone not available yet in German)
I’ve just had great fun watching so...
February 25, 2015
Deutsch am Donnerstag – a reading comprehension about Salisbury
Welcome to part 8 of my reading comprehension exercises based on my book Wiltshire von A bis Z. Today you’ll find out out a little bit about Salisbury.
Salisbury darf bei einem Urlaub in Wiltshire nicht fehlen, und eines der ersten Besuche gilt natürlich der Kathedrale. Und das ist auch richtig so, denn Salisbury Cathedral ist eine der schönsten Kathedralen Englands. Sie enthält unter anderem die älteste, noch funktionierende Kirchturmuhr Großbritanniens und auch das beste Exemplar der verbl...
