German · For teachers
Every German printable, chapter by chapter
The whole German curriculum in one place, mapped to its 10 chapters and 327 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.
Chapter 1 · Foundations
Chapter page →- How German worksIntroduction
The article carries the grammar, not the word order. Get der, die and das early and the rest of German is fairly gentle.
Hallo, Guten Tag, Tschüss and Auf Wiedersehen. Fixed phrases you can use on day one, before any grammar.
Thank you, please and sorry, plus the three sentences that keep a conversation alive when your German runs out.
Two words for you: Wie heißt du? for a friend, Wie heißen Sie? for a stranger. When in doubt, Sie.
Three umlauts and an eszett, and the handful of spelling rules that make German pronunciation predictable. Read this once and German spelling stops surprising you.
- Words 1-10Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 1-10
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 11-20Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 11-20
German has three words for the, one per gender, and the gender belongs to the word, not the thing. So you never learn a German noun without its article.
Make the man the object and der becomes den. One letter says who did what, whatever the word order.
- Words 21-30Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 21-30
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 31-40Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 31-40
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 41-50Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 41-50
Drop the -en, add six endings, and most German verbs are done: ich mache, du machst, er macht.
Some verbs change their vowel for du and er only: er sieht, du fährst. Four are irregular, and sein and haben are the two you need first.
- Words 51-60Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 51-60
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 61-70Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 61-70
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 71-80Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 71-80
The verbs that sit in front of another verb and send it to the end of the sentence. No ending with ich and er: ich kann, er kann.
Ich möchte einen Kaffee, not ich will. And gern after the verb for what you like doing: Ich spiele gern.
- Words 81-90Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 81-90
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 91-100Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 91-100
- Read: Guten Abend!Graded-reader story
Ole says good evening in the morning and good morning in the evening, and Lena puts him right. Every word in it is one you have already drilled.
- The number house: null bis neunVocabulary
10 words · Count from nought to nine in one sitting. Watch eins: it is what you say when counting, but it drops the s the moment another word follows.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Number house two: the teensVocabulary
10 words · Zehn to neunzehn. Elf and zwölf follow no pattern, and sechzehn and siebzehn each lose letters from sechs and sieben.
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Number house three: the tens and hundertVocabulary
10 words · Zwanzig to neunzig, then hundert and tausend. Watch dreißig, the only ten spelt with ß instead of -zig.
Dreizehn is three-ten and vierzig is four-ty, much as in English. Two of them lose letters, and thirty has the only ß.
21 is one-and-twenty, all in one word. Then eins or ein, zwo on the phone, and hundreds and thousands as one long word.
- Und, aber, oderThemed review
The words that join German sentences together. They are the commonest in the language and the ones a dictionary explains worst, so they get a session of their own.
- Guten Abend? Nein, neinConversation
Ten lines with Lena, who corrects everybody and enjoys every minute of it.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets130 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
