DUTCH

Welcome to the DUTCH area at Project HappyChild. Thanks to the translation (and checking) help currently being provided by people across the world (all giving their time and expertise entirely free of charge) we are in the process of building a *huge* area of free translation worksheets for children and students to use, across an increasing range of languages.

We're delighted to say that the Dutch vocabulary worksheets went on line on 17.08.08. Our endless thanks for all their hard work over the last six months go to Agnes Boddington (translating) and Tom Marreel (checking), who have provided the Dutch content for the worksheets now linked below.

Areas covered include: food and drink, your home, garden, family, the human body [everything from the body's inner systems to hair, make-up and clothing], animals, birds and insects [including animal sounds], travel, holidays and sightseeing, cars and driving, tools and equipment, or school, office, sports and leisure, shopping, trees, countryside and general chit-chat. All in easy-to-manage blocks, each with about 10 new words or phrases.

The Dutch verb worksheets are also now linked from the huge table below - available on line on 18th September 2008. Our thanks again to Tom Marreel (translating) and Agnes Boddington (checking) for putting in the hours that have made this resource possible.

The verb names (column down the middle) take you to the index for that verb, and the numbered columns take you to the individual tenses (column 1 is present tense, etc.).

Additional offers of translating help for further languages - see the Translators' page - would be very much appreciated.

Special thanks go to Mario Becroft in New Zealand, for all the
programming work which has made this resource possible.

Each Dutch worksheet is designed to print onto a single A4 sheet [using IE4/IE5 browser setting for "medium text"], and may be used as a non-commercial education resource, free of charge, provided only that each worksheet is printed / photocopied without modification and includes the whole page as it appears on line.
[N.B. - In "My Computer - Internet Options - Advanced - Printing", de-select "print background colours and images"
so as to be able to print a clean black-on-white copy of each page with less use of your ink cartridge.]

It is recommended, when printing, to use the option "print pages 1 to 1" (rather than "print all pages") as each worksheet is designed to print onto a single sheet ["portrait", i.e. shorter side at the top] but because of the html may sometimes overlap onto a second for printing [the second (blank) sheet should not be required]. Draft quality is usually sufficient for a good copy - however use "presentation" if making originals for photocopying.