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Activities: “How to use interrogative words in German?”

By: Mareen Fuchs

Activity 1: ‘Die alte Postkarte’ (the old postcard)

In the attic, you found an old postcard, but you don’t recognize the name. How mysterious! Of course, your family members have many questions about the card. Take a close look at the postcard. then pick an answer to each question from the answer box, based on the information on the card.

Part 1: Ask a question

Complete each question with a logical interrogative adverb:

  1. schläft Anton heute Nacht?

  2. kostet ein Hotelzimmer?

  3. ist Anton gestern gefahren?

  4. wollte Anton die Burg sehen?

  5. andere Touristen waren auf der Burg?

  6. kam Marie?

  7. hat die Anton Karte geschrieben?

Part 2: Find the answer

Now, use the bank of answers below and the text of the postcard to answer each of the questions in Part 1!
Word BankChoose a word, then choose a blank. You can also drag.

Activity 2: ‘Wer,’ ‘was,’ or ‘wo’-compound

You and your theater troupe are going to put on a play! But someone poured coffee over the only copy of the script and now important parts are missing. Strangely, only the interrogative pronouns have dissolved into puddles of ink! Based on the dialogue, decide whether you need was, a form of wer or a wo-compound to ask for the underlined nouns, pronouns or prepositional objects.

Activity 3: ‘Das Freundschaftsalbum’

In Germany, many school children have a Freundschaftsalbum meaning friendship book. In these books, there is a page that each friend can fill with fun facts about themself to create a memory book.

Today, you will fill out your own friendship book page: write either Was für ein___?and Welch___? with the correct endings and then write your own fun facts about yourself.

  1. Art von Tier hättest du gern?

    ○Säugetier ○Insekt ○Reptil ○Vogel

  2. Filme siehst du gern?

    ________________

  3. Beruf willst du später haben?

    ○rot ○blau ○gelb ○grün ○rosa ○lila

    Etwas anderes: ________________

  4. Wort beschreibt dich?

    ○Komödien ○Actionfilme ○Märchenfilme ○Science-Fiction-Filme

  5. zwei Farben sind am schönsten?

    ________________

  6. Musikstil gefällt dir gut?

    ○Pop ○Rock ○Klassik ○Jazz ○Punk

    Etwas anderes: ________________