- 3ShoeBoxes - for learning words
- OLLE - for practicing grammar
3ShoeBoxes is a word teaching tool that can be used either with your own word lists and also downloadable ones. The „3 shoe boxes” is a commonly known, effective method to learn new words and making passive knowledge active.
Originally, it is based on 3 shoe boxes and works as follows:
1. You put small pieces of papers (with a word in your own native language on the one side and the meaning of the word on the other) into the first box.
2. You close the box and shake it well to have the papers mixed (to make sure they always come in a different order).
3. Then you start to get the papers one by one out of the box. If you know the meaning of the word you took, you put it in the second box, if not, you put it back in the first one.
4. You repeat , with the second and then the third box, until all the words are taken. Two or three days later you take the whole box again and do the same.
By this method, a word only reaches the third box (and finally get out of it) if you really learned it.
Download instructions:
- Click here for the CAB file
- Click here for the desktop installer
- Click here for the Wordlist Creator
(requires Microsoft Excel)
Olle is a player application that can be used with tests and exercises downloadable below (you can only see the files if you are logged in). It is designed to help you practice grammar. The application can be used any cases anytime including if:
- you are enrolled to a language school,
- you just want to refresh your knowledge.
Download instructions:
- Click here for the CAB file
- Click here for the desktop installer
Available topics by language can be found below. All test contains at least 30 questions.
English click here to download them all!
1. Active / Passive
2. Articles
3. Causative
4. Comparison
5. Conditional
6. Determinants
7. Future forms
8. Future perfect and future perf continous
9. Gerund and infinitive
10. Inversion
11. Linking words
12. Make, do, have or get
13. Mixed tenses
14. Modal verbs
15. Much, many, few
16. Negation
17. Past Perfect-Past Perfect Cont.
18. Phrasal Verbs
19. Plural-non plural
20. Prepositions
21. Prepositions after nouns, verbs and adjectives
22. Presen p.cont-present perf
23. Present Pr. Simple Past
24. Pronouns
25. Question Tags
26. Relative pronouns
27. Reported Speech
28. Simple past
29. Simple Present-Pr.continous
30. Unreal past
German click here to download them all!
1. Adjektivdeklination
2. Aktiv Indikativ Perfekt
3. Aktiv Indikativ Perfekt
4. Aktiv Indikativ Präteritum
5. Aktiv Konjunktiv I – Gegenwart
6. Aktiv Konjunktiv I – Vergangenheit
7. Futur I.
8. Gleichzeitigkeit
9. Imperativ
10. Indirekte Rede
11. Modalverben, Aktiv Indikativ Futur I
12. Modalverben, Aktiv Indikativ Präsens
13. Modalverben, Aktiv Indikativ Präteritum
14. Modalverben, Passiv Indikativ Futur I.
15. Modalverben, Passiv Indikativ Präsens
16. Nachzeitigkeit
17. Passiv Indikativ Futur I.
18. Passiv Indikativ Perfekt
19. Passiv Indikativ Präsens
20. Passiv Indikativ Präteritum
21. Passiv Konjunktiv I Vergangenheit
22. Passiv Konjunktiv I, Gegenwart
23. Präpositionen
24. Präsens Indikativ
25. Relativpronomen
26. Unbestimmte Numeralien
27. Unbestimmte Pronomen
28. Verlassung und andere Funktionen des Verbes "lassen"
29. Vorzeitigkeit
Italian click here to download them all!
1. Articoli
2. Aggettivi
3. Alimentari, abbigliamenti
4. Avverbi
5. Condizionale composto
6. Condizionale semplice
7. Famiglia, casa
8. Futuro I.
9. Futuro II.
10. Imperativo diretto I.
11. Imperativo diretto(con pronomi) II.
12. Imperfetto
13. Lessico, espressioni
14. Ora, data, giorni, mesi, anno
15. Passato prossimo
16. Passato prossimo+imperfetto
17. Preposizioni articolate
18. Preposizioni I.
19. Preposizioni II.
20. Presente indicativo
21. Pronomi diretti
22. Pronomi indiretti
23. Pronomi possessivi
24. Pronomi: questo, quello, tutto, ogni, qualche
25. Singolare, Plurale
26. Tempo, viaggio
27. Verbi irregolari, passato
28. Verbi irregolari, presente
29. Verbi riflessivi, passato
30. Verbi riflessivi, presente
Spanish click here to download them all!
1. Condicional
2. El acusativo
3. El adjetivo y algunos gentilicios
4. El dativo y el acusativo
5. El futuro imperfecto
6. El gerundio
7. El imperativo de cortesía
8. El imperativo negativo
9. El indefinido
10. El participio
11. El presente
12. El pretérito perfecto
13. El verbo gustar y el dativo
14. Imperativo, imperativo negativo
15. La gradación de los adjetivos y la comparación
16. Los artículos
17. Los interrogativos
18. Los pronombres posesivos acentuados
19. Los verbos hacer, tener, saber
20. Los verbos hay, estar, ser
21. Los verbos ir, ver
22. Muy, mucho, mucha, muchos, muchas
23. Oraciones indirectas
24. Preposiciones
25. Pretérito imperfecto
27. Préterito plusquamperfecto y indefinido
28. Verbos irregulares
29. Verbos reflexivos