Work

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State word bank

Draw a line from each German name to its English name. Then use the names in a sentence of your own.

Baden-Württemberg
Bayern
Berlin
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg
Hessen
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Niedersachsen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Rheinland-Pfalz
Saarland
Sachsen
Sachsen-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thüringen

Saxony
Bremen
Bavaria
Hamburg
Thuringia
Berlin
Hesse
Saarland
Lower Saxony
Brandenburg
Saxony-Anhalt
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
North Rhine-Westphalia
Schleswig-Holstein
Baden-Württemberg
Rhineland-Palatinate

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Who and where

Draw a line from the person to a place on this site that belongs with them.

Johannes Gutenberg
Johann Sebastian Bach
Albrecht Dürer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jacob Grimm
Angela Merkel

Bonn
Hanau
Leipzig
Berlin
Mainz
Nürnberg

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Timeline with blanks

Word bank: Mainz, 16, 1949, 1961, 1989, 1990, Berlin

Gutenberg printed in ____.
In ____ a wall in Berlin meant families could not cross freely.
In ____ the wall opened.
In ____ the country was one again.
Two governments began in ____.
Germany today has ____ states.
The Bundestag meets in ____.

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The national anthem

Germany sings only the third verse of the Deutschlandlied.

Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the words in 1841. Joseph Haydn wrote the tune earlier, for a different song.

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das deutsche Vaterland!
Danach lasst uns alle streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Sind des Glückes Unterpfand;
Blüh im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe, deutsches Vaterland!
Blüh im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe, deutsches Vaterland!

People sing it at sports and on national days.

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