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German Grammar Toolkit Contents
Boardworks German Grammar Toolkit consists of seven units, each containing
several PowerPoint presentations and accompanying worksheets. There is also a
Useful Documents section containing helpful word lists, verb tables and a glossary
of technical terms.
Adjectives and Adverbs
Adjectival Endings
22 slides, 6 Flash activities, 4 worksheets
This presentation covers:
Adjectival endings in the nominative,
accusative, dative and genitive cases
How adjectival endings change
depending on whether the definite or
indefinite article is used, or no article
at all
Other articles that behave in the same
way as the definite and indefinite
articles
Different types of adjectives.
Adverbs
16 slides, 6 Flash activities, 4 worksheets
This presentation covers:
What are adverbs and how are they
formed in English and German?
How adverbs differ from adjectives
How to say what you like doing, what
you prefer doing and what you like
doing best
Nicht and other negative adverbs
Modifying adverbs (quantifiers).
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Comparatives and Superlatives
19 slides, 6 Flash activities, 5 worksheets
This presentation covers:
What are comparative and superlative
adjectives?
How to form comparative and
superlative adjectives in German (both
regular and irregular adjectives)
How to decide which endings to add
Different types of comparative
adjectives
Comparative and superlative adverbs.
Descriptions
13 slides, 8 Flash activities, 6 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what adjectives are
different German adjectives
quantifiers.
Word Order and Adverbial Phrases
21 slides, 13 Flash activities, 10 worksheets
This presentation covers:
How the words and phrases in a main
clause need to be ordered
Adverbial phrases of time
Adverbial phrases of manner
Adverbial phrases of place.
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Letters and Numbers
Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers
11 slides, 4 Flash activities, 3 worksheets
This presentation covers:
The German cardinal numbers from 1–
200
German ordinal numbers.
Dates
13 slides, 4 Flash activities, 3 worksheets
This presentation covers:
Months
Days of the week
How to say dates in German
Years.
Spelling and Pronunciation
15 slides, 9 Flash activities, 1 worksheet
This presentation covers:
The German alphabet
The umlaut
The es-tset
German spelling, using special German
characters on a computer, and use of
capital letters
Pronunciation of vowels and
consonants.
Telling the Time
11 slides, 6 Flash activities, 4 worksheets
This presentation covers:
How to say o’clock
How to say quarter to, quarter past
and half past
How to say other times
Using the 24-hour clock.
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Nouns and Pronouns
Countries and Languages
14 slides, 7 Flash activities, 4 worksheets
This presentation covers:
German names for continents,
countries and parts of the British Isles
How to form the German words for
nationalities
How to form the German words for
languages.
Genders and Articles
24 slides, 10 Flash activities, 5 worksheets
This presentation covers:
What are genders?
What are definite and indefinite
articles?
Which nouns have which gender?
How to say it, someone and no one
How definite and indefinite articles
change according to case
The negative article kein(–) and the
negative pronoun kein–.
Modes of Address
13 slides, 4 Flash activities, 3 worksheets
This presentation covers:
Different German words for you
When to use du, ihr and Sie
Verb forms with du, ihr and Sie
The personal pronoun man.
Noun Forms
31 slides, 10 Flash activities, 9 worksheets
This presentation covers:
How to form plurals
Dictionary symbols for plural forms
Nouns in the genitive and dative cases
Compound nouns
Weak and mixed nouns
Adjectival nouns.
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Personal Pronouns
10 slides, 4 Flash activities, 4 worksheets
This presentation covers:
Nominative and accusative pronouns
Dative pronouns
Word order with nouns and pronouns.
Possessive Pronouns
22 slides, 2 Flash activities, 5 worksheets
This presentation covers:
What are possessive pronouns?
Different types of possessive pronoun
and how they change for case and
gender
The indefinite pronoun ein–.
Reflexive Pronouns
17 slides, 8 Flash activities, 8 worksheets
This presentation covers:
What are reflexive pronouns?
What are reflexive verbs?
Reflexive verbs with a separable prefix
The difference between accusative
reflexive and dative reflexive.
Sentence Structure
Connectives
30 slides, 16 Flash activities, 11 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what are connectives?
the different connectives, what they
mean and how they behave
paired connectives.
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Infinitive Constructions
8 slides, 3 Flash activities, 2 worksheets
This presentation covers:
when to use zu in an infinitive
construction
when not to use zu in an infinitive
construction
the different meanings and uses of
lassen
how to use lassen in an infinitive
construction.
Prepositions
24 slides, 12 Flash activities, 7 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what are prepositions?
accusative, dative and genitive
prepositions and their meanings
dual case prepositions – their
meanings and how they work
how the different types of preposition
work with the definite and indefinite
articles
devices for helping you learn the rules.
Questions
16 slides, 7 Flash activities, 6 worksheets
This presentation covers:
how to ask a direct question
different question words and phrases
wer, was and was für
wer, wen, wem and wessen.
Relative Clauses
13 slides, 5 Flash activities, 4 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what are relative clauses and relative
pronouns?
determining gender, number and case
what happens when there is a
preposition in the relative clause
how was can be used as a relative
pronoun.
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Time Manner Place
11 slides, 6 Flash activities, 5 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what are adverbs and adverbial
phrases?
categories of adverbs / adverbial
phrases: time, manner and place and
the order in which they go in a
sentence
what to do if a sentence contains more
than one of one type of phrase
the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Uses of seit
9 slides, 2 Flash activities, 3 worksheets
This presentation covers:
how to translate seit
how seit can be used either as a
preposition or a connective
the changes in word order that occur
when seit is used in these different
ways
when to use the present tense and
when to use the imperfect.
Study Skills
Dictionary Skills
30 slides, 5 Flash activities, 3 worksheets
This presentation covers:
types of information dictionaries
contain
how to look up German and English
verbs, adjectives and nouns
the meanings of dictionary
abbreviations
homonyms
labelled examples of verb and noun
entries
idioms
tips for using a bilingual dictionary.
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Reading Harder Texts
18 slides, 10 Flash activities, 4 worksheets
This presentation covers:
skimming and scanning
how to tailor the way you read to the
way you are being tested
two articles with accompanying
comprehension questions and tests.
Writing Formal Letters
16 slides, 10 Flash activities, 4 worksheets
This presentation covers:
the layout of formal German letters
formal greetings and endings
useful phrases and vocabulary
examples of letters for different
purposes.
Tenses
Conditional
14 slides, 4 Flash activities, 6 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what is the conditional?
würde + infinitive
imperfect haben and sein
the imperfect subjunctive.
Future
12 slides, 5 Flash activities, 5 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what the future tense is
comparing the future tense to the past
and present tenses
how to make the future with werden
how to make the future with the
present tense.
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Imperative
10 slides, 4 Flash activities, 2 worksheets
This presentation covers:
classroom instructions
the imperative – du
the imperative – ihr
the imperative – Sie.
Imperfect
11 slides, 3 Flash activities, 5 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what is the imperfect tense?
sein and haben
other common verbs in the imperfect
(regular and irregular).
Passive
8 slides, 3 Flash activities, 5 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what the passive is
the difference between the active and
the passive voices
how to form the passive in the present
tense
comparing the passive in the present
tense to the future tense
how to form the passive in the past
tense.
Perfect
19 slides, 7 Flash activities, 6 worksheets
This presentation covers:
the past tense
the auxiliary verbs haben and sein
how to form the perfect tense
verbs with haben
verbs with sein
regular and irregular verbs.
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Pluperfect
7 slides, 2 Flash activities, 1 worksheet
This presentation covers:
what the pluperfect tense is
how to form the pluperfect
comparing the pluperfect with the
perfect.
Present
21 slides, 11 Flash activities, 9 worksheets
This presentation covers:
explanation of the present tense
verbs in the 1st–3rd person singular
verbs in the 1st–3rd person plural
haben and sein
regular and irregular verbs.
Verbs
Impersonal Verbs
11 slides, 2 Flash activities, 3 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what are impersonal verbs?
es gibt and the accusative case
the difference between es gibt and
es ist
using pronouns with impersonal verbs
and normal verbs
impersonal verbs that take a dative
pronoun.
Modal Verbs
23 slides, 9 Flash activities, 8 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what are modal verbs?
the key modal verbs in the present
tense
modals and infinitives
mögen in the imperfect subjunctive
können in the imperfect subjunctive
modals in other tenses.
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Reflexive Verbs
10 slides, 3 Flash activities, 3 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what reflexive verbs are
simple accusative reflexives of routine
more complex accusative reflexives
dative reflexives
using reflexive verbs in the perfect
tense.
Separable Verbs
16 slides, 8 Flash activities, 5 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what separable verbs are
how to use separable verbs in the
present tense
verbs with inseparable prefixes
using separable verbs in the perfect
tense.
Strong Verbs
10 slides, 5 Flash activities, 3 worksheets
This presentation covers:
what strong verbs are
strong verbs in the present tense
strong verbs in the perfect and imperfect
tenses.
Useful Documents
Glossary
Useful Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases
Useful Separable Verbs
Useful Strong Verbs
Weak and Mixed Nouns
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