Kontakte Online Activities Assistant

The Online Activities are structured around the thematic units which correspond to the topics of each chapter in Kontakte. The activities offer beginning students possibilities to experience simulated interactions and exchanges and practice their language skills in communicative ways which are still structured enough to accomodate their early level of language competency. Because each activity is goal-oriented and incorporates specific contexts and situations, students use the language not as an end in itself but rather as a means to some communicative end. Many activities provide immediate and meaningful feedback to varied student responses while other activities offer students opportunities to produce their own meanings with the language.

Navigating
At the bottom of each activity page, you will find a navigation box that looks similar to this one:


Online Activities

Kontakte Hauptseite

Wörterbuch

<< Familie 1 Familie 3 >>

The Online Activities link will take you back to the index for the interactive activities.
The Kontakte Hauptseite link will redirect you to the main page for the textbook Kontakte.
The Wörterbuch link will open an online German-English/English-German dictionary in a new browser window.
The fourth box will appear only if there is more than one activity per theme. The links will direct you to the next and/or previous activities dealing with the same theme.


Using the Activities
There are several different types of activities. Some require you to recognize language. In recognition activities, you will choose the correct response from a list or click on the picture that corresponds with the questions or statements provided. Alternatively, you may be required to match pictures with the language that describes them. Other activities request your input. In these activity pages, you will often see the symbol   -?-. Wherever you see this   -?- , you are required to type a response into the box where the symbol appears. To guide you in your responses, you will be provided with images or links to authentic Internet resources. Still other activities ask you to write about yourself and your experiences. In these free writing activities, you will mail your responses to your instructor (see below).

The following buttons allow you to work your way through the activities.

The "weiter" button will advance you to the next question in an activity.


Use the "richtig?", "sprechen", and "eingeben" buttons to verify if your input is correct or not.





Special Characters
Use the button bar to make special characters appear in the input box.




E-mail Activities
Make sure to include your name, your e-mail address, and the e-mail address of your instructor. Make sure you type the e-mail addresses very carefully, or your work may never reach its intended destination! After you have reviewed your work carefully and verified the e-mail addresses, click on the "schicken" button to send the activity to your teacher.


Your name:
Your e-mail:
Your instructor’s e-mail:

Exercises created by Christine Goulding and Cindy Jorth, California State University, Chico.