We have sets of Jenga with ends numbered 1-48 - This is the template of questions, answers for the team judge and the record sheet
Each unit has two games so that judge also plays
This is for Stimmt 2 - chapter 2 and is mainly on books and films/tv but also odd questions on chapter 1 as retrieval and key time phrases and connectives/intensifiers.
My classes love this game
Pyramid translation on chapter 2 of Stimmt 2
i will then use the final section as a writing frame, with the unit vocab pages, to prepare for a speaking assessment
Reading task - students look at the three versions of the text, they highlight the changes in each text and translate into english under each text - approx 20-30 minutes work, depending on ability
Sentence builder, tile translation and other activities - such as bad translation, gap-fill, space the words and write from memory
Also includes Jenga template
Activities to go alongside the activities on pages 60 and 61
Retrieval task of unit and book
Find the person, Find the German
Tangled Translation
Think, Pair, Share plenary
Small sentence builder - what would you definitely/never/maybe do, with simple added opinion - In my opinion that would be…
Bad translation activity, gap fill activity and unjumble activity based on the sentence builder
Then gapped translation of katarina’s text from page 55 (no text included) for lower ability students
Tile translation to put the segments into a writing - enough for 1 hr lesson
(I will also do listening on page 54 and speaking from the pages in class)
Format copied from a Twitter user who I will acknowledge when I can find the post again!
Jigsaw translations into French and English to help prepare for a writing task - crossover on units 1 and 2
JIGSAW Translation, Game of slap to practise tenses, gapped translation to look at complex structures, 4 versions of same text to highlight changes and translate, one pen one dice, plus OXO games to practice the Filme und Fernsehen and music start to chapter
Can be used as individual activities or can incorporate into lesson planning
My students love these activities! x
Make every square count - students must find the clues given in english in German in the grid and highlight both the clue and the squares in the same colour
Can extend and ask them to write a paragraph using the clues in German
Spiral reading task - comprehension,
spiral reading task - separate the text
Translate
Answers included to translation and comprehension
great for classwork, cover or homework
Recap on present tense endings, common irregulars, spot the mistake on WW2 topic in A level Edexcel and Eduqas spec, and translation task with mark scheme and suggested answers
50 minute lesson
activities to work through early part of chapter - students try to use cognates/prior knowledge to match up jobs
Then identify and sort masculine and feminine job endings
Box game
One pen/one die game
Tile translation
Guided reading
Sentence builder
bad translation
gap fill and
put spaces in words
Use with my low ability pupils - lots of revisiting chunks of language
Running dictation - includes role models given in stimmt 3 gruen
Fill in details on the role models and then lift and remember the sentences in German
Additional information from text book given for higher ability students - found on Wikipedia - date of birth/age/where born/prizes won etc
Then a gapped translation using Mo Farah text and a spot the mistakes using the Rihanna text
Hope it is useful!