German sites

 

Portal sites

Goethe Institut: Material listed for the teaching of German
http://www.goethe.de/gr/dub/deindex.htm
ITE's German links
http://www.ite.ie/nua/deutlink.htm
About German
http://german.about.com/

 

Selected sites

Euronews: videos of daily news in a number of languages including German
http://www.euronews.com

Ashcombe School Website

http://www.ashcombe.surrey.sch.uk/Curriculum/modlang/videos.htm
Online text book for learning German, examples of work pages etc.
http://www.stufen.de

Youth magazine, articles on various topics, archive of older magazine topics, pen pals, projects etc http://www.juma.de
The history of chocolate, 100 years Milka, products, Alpen Spaß, adopt a milka cow!
http://www.milka.de
Harry Potter
http://www.hp-fc.de
Characters, games, extracts in German of books, etc.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/
Gesellschaft der Deutschlehrer Irlands (GDI) Official site giving details of debating and poetry competitions for students http://www.germanteachers.ie
To find info on most cities in Germany just key in: name of city.de into the browser location bar e.g. Mainz.de and you will get Die offizielle Homepage der Landeshauptstadt Mainz.
Or use http://www.meinestadt.de
Railway timetables, special offers etc
http://www.bahn.de
On-line weather
http://www.wetteronline.de