Worksheet focusing on the use of the imperfect and future tenses to describe your town. Great for year 10.

A way of modeling and encouraging extended answers. Model a lengthy sentence, and students must take turns to remove one element but leave the sentence 'intact' (i.e. still sensical) until they get down to the most basic structure. Then it's their turn to build up again from a basic structure, element by element. Some students will want to race ahead and put in 5 things at once - this is ok if they can do it correctly; if not, encourage them to go step by step. The example here is on the topic of environment/Umwelt.

A lesson based on a text from Lernpunkt Deutsch 3 (p72) for year 10 on the topic of health. Activities all lettered (to explain the order): Starter of opinion vocabulary, then pre-teaching of topic-specific vocabulary, gapfill, multiple choice, etc etc etc. Then returning to the opinion phrases for a final plenary summarizing other's opinions.

Handout and battleships grid on the topic of free time, introducing adverbs into present tense sentences. Sentence-builder sheet can be used to play 'guess my sentence' or similar.

Lesson for top-set year 7 learners of French. Following on from learning 'jouer' with sports and instruments, students discover the verb 'faire' through a video!

Students learn all about modal verbs in the past in the context of work experience placements!

Introducing regular verb patterns and certain irregular verbs (using weak/strong imagery), sentence builders to include adverbs of frequency in sentences, worksheet to practice conjugating verbs in tables, and an almost-identical assessment.

A lesson to teach/revise structures with the conditional perfect. Ideal for a small class, each member of the class becomes an investigator of one particular structure, and then in a mini-carousel, students explain their findings to each other and write notes on the summary sheet. If there is an odd number (as in my class), you can use the slot with the student to do some specific oral work or other challenging activity. Extension activity on reverse is on the future perfect. Very challenging - not for the faint-hearted!

Fun independent activity for KS4 German. In lessons we covered jobs, personality words, and modal verbs: then students created a flowchart quiz using questions about personality and future plans (I used lucidchart.com to create mine!). They loved bringing in their flowcharts and doing each other's!

A great series of lessons on the topic of 'pets' with a focus on gender and the accusative case.

A lesson focusing on preparing extended answers to questions about birthdays in the IGCSE oral exam. Pupils must identify the structures in my model answers (main verbs, participles, infinitives), and then adapt the answers to create their own.

Writing essays on films is a skill which students often struggle with, and it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what students need to do to improve their essays and get better marks. This is a sequence of exercises which lead students toward writing their own paragraphs which would score highly in the A Level exams by drawing evidence from the film and analysing it. The exercises will also deepen students' understanding of aspects of the film 'die fetten Jahre sind vorbei', and give them valuable practice of analysing the characters, events and themes of the film. Answers to the exercises are included (but for the full paragraph exercises, clearly many answers are possible).

Full vocabulary glossary for Wladimir Kaminer’s “Russendisko”, currently on the 2016 specifications for AQA AS/A Level and CCEA A Level. Perfect to save busy teachers’ time and energy making vocabulary lists for students. With this vocabulary list, students can read independently and with ease. Format: Vocabulary is given page by page. Included are: an editable booklet in Word format; an easily printable identical version in PDF format an Excel spreadsheet version; the document has already been formatted for printing, so should be simple to use. Suggestions and constructive feedback welcomed!

Series of lessons to equip year 9s to begin their GCSE in French with a sound understanding of the tenses. 3 tenses lesson and knowledge audit is the beginning, then 5 lessons working on the booklets which can then be used when they go into Year 10! Final lesson is peer-assessment. Pupils use the grid to play 'les chaises musicales&' and comment on 5 other booklets.

Similar lesson to 'FAIRE', with a goanimate video - with a focus on forming closed questions. Introducing the class's first irregular verb - present tense only.

I came across this buzzfeed.fr article and was inspired to create this fun starter! buzzly.fr/les-noms-des-grands-groupes-de-musique-traduits-en-francais-quand-la-credibilite-chute.html

Two lessons focusing on modal structures and questions/answers in preparation for a controlled assessment for a mixed year 10 group.

Sequence of 4-5 lessons building towards an oral assessment. Topics: hobbies, housework, pocket money, travel. Grammar: present tense, perfect tense, modal verbs, separable verbs, reflexive verbs, subordinating conjunctions. Lesson 1) All students receive the 2-page handout as a learning aid/revision of syntactic structures studied. The other document is printed out double-sided onto A4 (card if possible) and cut up so each piece has 5 sentences on one side, and the answers on the other. From here it works as a carousel: Everyone has one card, and has 5 minutes (or less) to translate all five sentences. Then one minute to mark (2 marks per sentence - 1 mark up to the /, 1 mark afterwards - if it's not perfect, no mark). Lesson 2) is a series of tasks explained on the ppt. Lesson 3) Is a lesson targeting the students' propensity to forget all about the perfect when on the spot! Ask me if unclear. Lesson 4) Should also be self-explanatory. Lesson 5) (or perhaps the end of lesson 4) was a mock oral exam, using this as a marking grid.

This is a 7-page document which acts as a short frequency dictionary, tailored specifically to the verbs used in the new GCSE German specifications (it is most closely based on AQA and Edexcel). Verbs are presented in short sections, starting with the most frequently used in Reading/Listening texts. For irregular verbs, key forms are given. For all verbs, sentences putting the verbs in context are provided. This allows learners to 1) see how the verb works in a sentence (perfect for reflexives/separables) and 2) take an educated guess at the meaning. NB modal verbs are not given as a separate section, but are included in very many of the example sentences, reflecting usage in GCSE-level texts. If students are familiar with all the verbs in this document, they will succeed at GCSE.