A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 36-37 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (sports and conditional). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

Start every German lesson with an interesting random fact in German with vocabulary help. Will get students wanting to work it out as soon as they come in. Or combine it with verb practice with a quick revision of past, present and future and inversion of a German phrase. 35 slides of facts or 20 different phrases+fact slides plus answers

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 15- 16 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (school system and describing your school). Includes three word puzzles and answers. Note: Crossword corrected now

Get your students used to GCSE style questions early with translations, picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Studio 3 Module 1 “Ma vie social d’ado”. It is based on the vocabulary of the foundation book, but can be used for vert + rouge. This download includes: -powerpoint with three pictures with 5 GCSE style questions each in French with optional English to guide students along. -translation worksheet with three different tasks -two role play cards for student pair work, bullet points either in French or English answers for the translation task are included in the powerpoint

Make the students use their brain with this thinking skill activity. Includes two different puzzles each with vocab help and instructions. Students read clues about family members, character and birthdays to work out connections, fill in a grid and solve the puzzle.

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

** A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! Now digital version included - no prep - self marking 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 year 12 or year 13 for AQA German AS/A Level. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays! It includes vocab from the topics celebrations, digital world, architecture and Berlin. There is a “digital only” version and a" digital+paper" version. The “digital+paper” 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 only” version can be used without preparation and for remote learning. Comments from 6th form students: “This is intense!” “This was the best lesson I’ve had in some time!” “Can we do another one soon?” The resource includes: Link to “Findet den Maulwurf!” 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

Start the GCSE course with a French crime story that lasts a whole module! This Murder Mystery is designed to run alongside Studio AQA GCSE Higher/Foundation Chapter 1 “Qui suis-je”, (and can be be adapted for Edexcel version) 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 today ‘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. Topics: describing appearance and character speaking about friendship family relationships and reasons why you (don’t) get on with each other future tense + going out to town places in town + prepositions perfect tense+ going out imperfect+ childhood Includes: • puzzles, reading, writing, listening (teacher reading), 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

Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 1 Stimmt 1 "Meine Welt und ich" This download includes: -powerpoint with three pictures with questions in English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work. It includes some colour questions which can be taken out. -translation worksheet -two role play cards for student pair work -example answers for speaking and answers for translation task included in the powerpoint More chapters available soon! Note: vocabulary slide should be first in ppt, was put to back so preview on TES shows pictures.

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.

Use the new Pixar film to introduce pets in German with enough material for about 3 lessons. These lessons are based on chapter 2, units 1 and 2, pages 30-34 in “Stimmt 1” but can also be used in combination with Zoom 1 and other text books. It includes picture description and translation tasks, modelled on the new GCSE exams. Topics are pets, genders, description (body/character) and modal verbs. Some tasks are based on a YouTube clip, but can be skipped if you can’t access YouTube in your school. This download includes a 90-slide PowerPoint presentation, three worksheets and a lesson plan. Lesson Overview • Slide 2: German Trailer • Slides 3-15: introduction of animals and genders • Slides 17-26: listen and repeat animals • Slides 27-37: Pass Auf! Game • Slides 48-59: Was fehlt? Game • Slides 60-67: Speaking description words • Slide 68: writing task venn diagram description words • Slide 69-73: plurals • Slide 74: reading tasks, additional description words • Slides 75-77: listening task, ways of saying good bye • 78-84: modal sentences with “kann” • Slides 85-88: Picture description • Slide 89-90: Bingo • Slides 91-94: Translation tasks answers • Translation Worksheet • Puzzle Worksheet Note: PPT now corrected