German for children

Felix the Frog and Franzi the Lady Duck are two handpupetts who live in a typical German mailbox and tell stories abour their new home, England. Materials include videos, texts and extensive lesson plans. 

Karla the Roach and Kai the Maybug take children on a journey. Materials include two books with six chapters each, videos, texts and lesson plans. 

This new game will be fun for the children, build on their language and IT-skills and provide information on their progression.

Das Bild ist weg! is an online game at language level A1.1 for children aged seven to ten. Help your friends to find the stolen painting and bring it back to the museum. At the end, you can also get a certificate.

The Kinderuniversity is a free of charge online platform for children (age 8-12 years old), teachers, and parents. There are three topics -- humanities, natural sciences, and technology.

In the global “Deutsch für dich” community you will find plenty of exercises to help you learn German free of charge. Network and share experiences with 560.000 German learners around the world. 

A website packed with interactive activities for primary pupils in Germany and the UK.

Interactive presentations for the German lesson with comprehensive teacher’s notes. Basic language and introduction to highlights in the German festive calendar. Suitable for non-specialists in Primary schools.

Are your pupils sometimes bored of textbooks and would they prefer to talk about themselves and what is going on in their world? Let them create their very own 'Ich-Buch' where they can experiment with the German language and discover new things.

The ARD produced adaptions of the brothers Grimm’s classic fairy tales. The films were shot at romantic castles and in enchanted forests all over Germany.

Gut macht Schule II is a selection of great animated short films from Germany, which can be easily integrated in German classes.

We offer two teaching units on the book "The house by the lake" in which pupils can learn their first German vocabulary. Further teaching materials, videos and a creative competition introduce the pupils to the German language and history in a playful way. 
Target group: pupils with no or little knowledge of German aged 7-12 (Key Stage 2 + Year 7).

The songbook of Martina Schwarz provides you with many ideas for the use of music in class.

The second volume of Martina Schwarz' songbook for German in primary schools is a great addition to your German lessons.

Our fairytale website offers ideas, tips and guidelines for teaching fairytales in the German classroom. Here you will find exercises for learners of all language levels including primary.

The aim of these materials is to motivate pupils to "venture" into German texts. Through targeted questions, students are asked to use their prior knowledge and German skills to develop content and reading strategies.

Order standardized advertising kits: infomational brochures, printed material to help grow your German program, fun items to decorate your classroom or small prizes to motivate your students. 

Do you want to bring topics to life in your German classroom? Then borrow a poster exhibition free of charge from your nearest Goethe-Institut! 
 

The word lifehack describes ideas that can be used to solve everyday challenges. The eco-lifehacks in the calendar show creative ideas for everyday life, with which you can protect the environment at the same time. Alongside, you can find ideas how to teach these lifehacks in your German lessons. 

We have a number of great German movies available to rent from us in your German classroom. All movies are in German with English subtitles.

It’s time for fun and laughter: Here you can 'browse' through our game collection: Exercises for fun dialogues, activity games, ring games, vocabulary games etc.

These Teaching Modules have been developed and piloted by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow in order to introduce German to very young learners.

The activities in this section are more in-depth, sustained activities that will help learners to become more confident in speaking and listening to languages. These include three original songs in German, Welsh and English, created especially for Cerdd Iaith. On each page, you will find a short description of the activity along with audio files, videos, lyrics and sheet music that will help you and your learners to sing along with the musicians. You will also find additional vocabulary where needed.