I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 33-34 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (film and tv, plurals and opinions). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
There are two version, one including a task on plurals to go with the book, the other with film and TV vocab only for users of other schemes of work.
A powerpoint to introduce and practise a variety of jobs, places of work and descriptions of the workplace. Gives a quick overview of the conditional. Includes reading and speaking activities and several games.
Stimmt 1 GCSE-style translation and speaking tasks.
Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early on with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Stimmt! 1
-powerpoint with three pictures and questions in English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work.
-translation worksheet
-two role play cards for student pair work
-answers for translation task included and suggested example answers for speaking and picture description.
A lesson that your students will not forget quickly!
Now includes a remote learning ready, digital only version.
A timetable themed escape room activity in which students need to do German language related puzzles to get a find all the codes to help Johann stay out of trouble at school . Ideal as vocab revision for the first year of German. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays!
It includes vocab from the topics school subjects and opinions, numbers, colours, telling the time, hobbies (online activities).
There is a “digital only” version and a" mixed media" (digital+paper) version. The “mixed media” version is more fun because it involves the game website and real life puzzles ( jigsaws, code wheels and string activities) that make the activities more “real”, but requires quite a bit of preparation by the teacher. The “digital” version only requires one print out and can be done last minute. Student will need one computer, laptop or iPad per group.
The resource includes:
Link to "Der Stundenplan” website
Teacher instruction, including how to put together the puzzle items and example pictures
Teacher answers
Powerpoint with game introduction
Puzzles to print out/Files for digital versions
Let history come to life with an escape room lesson!
New version: no preparation, self marking, remote learning ready.
Get students to puzzle their way through the history of the Berlin Wall, trying to stay in touch with their long lost friend Thomas on the other side of the wall.
Engage students with a story website that will require them to work through a mix of text, video, jigsaw puzzles and codes to be the first one to win.
This resource can be used as a revision lesson on the topic of the Berlin Wall or, with some internet research by the students, as a first introduction to the topic. It should take between 45 min and 2 hours, depending on age and prior knowledge. The new digital version is longer.
As a native of Berlin I have been teaching this topic as part of my German lessons for about 10 years now. On the 3rd October, German national day, all my classes (aged 13-18) get a one lesson run through of the history of the wall and students are always fascinated by it.
The topics covered here are:
• the situation of Germany under the occupation of the allies after the war
• the differences between East and West
• why people escaped to the West
• the building of the wall
• what is the Stasi
• what led to the fall of the wall
• what happened on the 9th of November 1989
Includes:
• link to dedicated story website (2 versions)
• documents, excel and powerpoint files
• puzzles
• lesson plan
• answers
I have also included a powerpoint presentation of statistics showing the present-day differences between former East and West Germany and a collection of my favourite youtube videos on the topic.
Can your students help Alex find his long-lost father’s phone number and bring his parents back together again? Can they get some Spreewaldgurken for his mum and find the money to exchange at the bank?
Make A-Level revision fun with this educational Escape Room that follows the story of the film. It is all online and there is no marking or preparation required (but tablets or computers are recommended).
Students need a good knowledge of the film and will revise:
• main vocabulary
• historical timeline
• essay writing phrases
• East vs West items
• Key quotes
• film technology
• order of film scenes
• tragedy or comedy?
• passive and reported speech
• the four main themes
• good vs bad essay examples
New Digital Version now available
A web-based activity to introduce students to German geography and culture and first German words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about Germany. It also does not require any printing as all answers are entered and checked in the webpage.
Ideal activity at the beginning of a course in German language or European geography or as a fun activity last lesson before the holidays.
The activity includes tasks on:
• Germany’s location in the world
• German cities
• 360-degree picture quests
• famous Germans
• German companies
• Greetings in German
A web-based activity to introduce students to France’s geography and culture and first French words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about France . It also does not require any printing as all answers are entered and checked in the webpage.
Ideal activity at the beginning of a course in French or European geography or as a fun activity last lesson before the holidays.
The activity includes tasks on:
• France’s location in the world
• French cities
• 360-degree picture quests
• famous French people
• French companies
• Greetings in French
A fun plenary or starter game for any subject or topic that doesn't need any preparation. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students answer a question and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure.
There are 11 slides with treasures hidden in different places and the slide to be used can be chosen randomly by clicking the spinning wheel on the first slide.
This activity is based on the gamification theory that random rewards make games more addictive and fun.
Note: In presentation mode click on squares to make them disappear and reveal the treasures.
Teach the French Alphabet with these 76 clear photo clipart images without background (PNG format) and a PowerPoint presentation, perfect for a wide range of classroom activities and projects.
Key Features:
78 High-Quality Clipart Images: The French Alphabet pack contains three images per letter of the alphabet, apart of X, from “A” (Arbre) to “Z” (Zèbre). Each image comes in a transparent PNG format, making it easy to use them in your digital or printed resources.
PowerPoint Presentation: Each slide is dedicated to one letter of the alphabet, showcasing the three corresponding images with the French word, along with upper and lowercase letter displays. This PowerPoint is an excellent resource for introducing new vocabulary, phonics, or letter recognition activities in your classroom.
Versatile Usage: The French Alphabet pack is suitable for various age groups and learning levels. Use the clipart images and PowerPoint presentation for activities such as flashcards, posters, bulletin boards, worksheets, digital resources, and more. Unleash your creativity and design custom educational materials tailored to your students’ needs.
Time-Saving & Easy-to-Use: Save valuable preparation time with this ready-to-use pack. Download the files, and you’re all set to create engaging lessons and activities for your students. The user-friendly format allows seamless integration into your existing teaching materials.
A comprehensive introduction to the cases in German aimed at 6th form students, including dual prepositions and flexible word order.
It includes presentation slides, gap fill, writing, match up and drawing task and a quiz.
Also includes a case overview hand out that could be turned into a class room display.
This is a revision and reference grammar booklet (9 pages). Small enough to be always at hand while
giving students an overview over all the main topics: word order, cases, prepositions, pronouns and tenses. Aimed at A-Level and Higher GCSE students.
A worksheet to practise adjective endings with clothes. Suitable for KS3 or KS4 (includes vocab from Stimmt! 2 and Stimmt! GCSE book). Inlcudes a sheet with vocabulary and a gap fill worksheet (ideally copied onto the same sheet). Also includes an answer sheet.
A worksheet to practise recognising different tenses. Students fill past tense phrases and time phrases into a past/present/future table. Includes some more difficult ones like modal verbs in the imperfect and separable verbs in the perfect.
They then do a GCSE style reading task (Topic: "where I live") to decide which parts are in which tense.
Includes answer sheet.
** A lesson that your students will not forget quickly!
Now digital version included - no prep - self marking
Try a sample: https://view.genial.ly/5ee4f42237584d0da6288527
A-Level and first year learners available as well.
A spy themed escape room activity in which students need to do German language related puzzles to get a code to jump from one website to the next in search of the “mole” . Ideal as vocab and grammar revision for the second, third or fourth year of learning German. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays!
It includes vocab from the topics family, celebrations, hobbies, perfect and imperfect tense.
Includes answers.
Murder Mystery to run alongside Stimmt AQA GCSE Chapter 3 “Menschliche Beziehungen”, Now also includes an adapted version to go with the Pearson Edexcel GCSE book for the 2024 GCSE specification, Chapter 3 “Meine Welt, deine Welt”
Turn a whole chapter into a crime story! This project is intended to complement/ replace exercises from the text book and will link the pages together into one thrilling crime story. My students ask every lessons if they will find out ‘whodunit’, especially as there is a prize for the best detective!
The project should not take up much more time than using the book on its own as some tasks can replace text book tasks and get students to revise the text book vocabulary in a different context.
The topics included:
describing appearance and character
speaking about friendship
family relationships and reasons why you (don’t) get on with each other
weddings and opinions about marriage
separable verbs
future tense
imperfect modal verbs
Includes:
• puzzle, reading, writing, listening, speaking, translation and role play tasks
• film trailer for the project, powerpoint (more than 60 slides) and work booklet (12 pages)
• teacher guidance (hidden in the ppt, can be seen in edit mode)
• activity overview
• answers to all tasks
Sentence builder for weather and activities (Es regnet, also spiele ich Fussball). Students write down one sentence and then guess what sentence their parter has written. Can also be used as a kind of bingo game, the students write down 1-3 sentences, if they have the same sentences as the teacher they win.