Information about the quizzes
Using the quiz index
To see the English title of each quiz, let the mouse cursor rest over the ellipsis (...). This will also tell you the type of quiz it is and whether it quizzes grammar or vocabulary. You can click the ellipsis to open the quiz.
The alphabetical list on the right of the index contains links to all of the quizzes linked to by the quiz 1-3 buttons. If you let the mouse rest over the text link, you will see the quiz number, as well as the quiz type and topic.
To toggle the text links between English and German, click the Change language button.
Quiz Type 1
The 60 Type 1 quizzes are web versions of the regular paper-based formative assessments that the students did in class. The grammar quizzes generally increase in difficulty. So, for example, quiz 35 contains more advanced grammar than quiz 11. The vocabulary quizzes generally decrease in word frequency. So quiz 12 contains more frequents words than quiz 36.
The quizzes themselves are generally all of the same type: the student has to write the answer to a question or the fill the gap in a sentence.
All Type 1 quizzes can generate a printable worksheet of the questions for learner who prefer to write answers on paper which they can keep in a folder. Many Type 2 / 3 quizzes have the same functionality.
Quiz Type 2
The 60 Type 2 quizzes contain the same grammar or vocabulary topic as their Type 1 equivalent. So, for example, Type 1 Quiz 18 assesses knowledge of the gender of various common words. And Type 2 Quiz 18 gives further practice in the same grammar topic.
Type 2 quizzes are much more varied in their quiz types. And many of these quizzes have links to further quizzes in the same topic which are not accessible directly from the index page.
Note: Type 2 quizzes include eight special sets of multiple quiz types. There are numbers 7, 12, 19, 28, 43, 49, 54 and 57.
Quiz Type 3
Type 3 quizzes are not related by number to Type 1 and Type 2 quizzes, although they give additional practice in the same grammar and vocabulary topics. Many of the quizzes were created as extra learning and practice activities for students who were ambitious to learn more quickly.
Other quizzes in the type 3 category were created to offer further learning opportunities in areas of grammar that students found difficult. Yet others were created as additional activities to help students study for summative assessments.
The quizzes very roughly increase in difficulty. And the last few are reviews of all the grammar and vocabulary in the course.
Quiz Type 4
Type 4 quizzes contain the answers to the 10 worksheet questions that students completed every day at the beginning of class. They constitute a miscellaneous review of the grammar and vocabulary covered in the previous lesson.
Students used the web version of the worksheet to check their answers individually or in pairs. They could review the content again at home. Absent students also benefitted from these worksheet reviews.
Some of the Type 4 questions are open-ended. In such cases the answer shown is a double question mark ?? to indicate the various possibilities.
Make your own vocabulary quiz
You can make quizzes based on German vocabulary that you yourself have selected or written. You have three options:
- Option 1: A compilation of the eight 20-word sets listed under Quiz Type 2 above. You can quiz yourself in sixteen different ways on the words from the compilation.
- Option 2: A longer list of the complete course vocabulary. Some of the sixteen quiz modes are not available when you select words from this lexicon.
- Option 3: This is an app in which you write your own vocabulary sets (including in each case the word, and optionally its definition, an example sentence containing it and a translation.)
Note: All three apps above allow you to save the word sets you select or write, and to quiz yourself again on them at a later date.
Other information
- Translation: Many German quiz questions or answers have an associated English translation. This may be seen by moving the mouse cursor over the ellipsis (...) symbol or over the whole sentence that the symbol follows.
- Instructions language: In the original pages, quiz instructions were in German. I wanted to maximise the exposure to German and I was able to explain the instructions in class if necessary. In these revamped pages I have changed the instruction language to English in order not to confuse learners in how to do the various quizzes.
- Quiz titles: If you move the mouse cursor over the underlined quiz type and number, you will see a very brief summary of the quiz topic.
- Technical details: Most of the quizzes were made before the advent of mobile phones. They were tested only desktop computer. The quiz functionality will generally work as expected on small screens but some of them may require a lot of scrolling.
Read more about the creation of these pages