A fun escape-room style revision activity for first year learners of German on the topic of hobbies. It is based on Echt 1 but can be used with other beginners’ courses. The topics include: music opinions sports hobbies time phrases verb second rule word order with gern present tense verb endings

A fun starter or plenary practising family vocab from pages 36-37 in the Stimmt! 1 book (colours, hair and eyes ). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 30-31 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (hobbies, books, time phrases, time - manner - place). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

Three fun puzzles to use as a starter or plenary to revise page 16-17 'Meine Sachen' in Stimmt! 1 (indefinite article and questions). Includes answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising family vocab from pages 38-39 in the Stimmt! 1 book (birthdays). Includes three word puzzles and answers. Also available with a powerpoint introducing birthdays. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/mein-geburtstag-my-birthday-11398964

A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 78-79 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (food, opinions, past tense). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocab from chapters 1-3 or 1-4 (depending how far you got). It is suitable for higher and foundation students. A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together. Great activity for Friday afternoons, cover lessons or end of term. This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, an answer sheet for the teacher in list form and one showing the shape. If the print quality of the student slide isn’t good enough, use the attached pdf file.

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 28-29 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (music types and opinions, gern/lieber/am liebsten). Includes three word puzzles and answers. The powerpoint shows the CD covers for the crossword puzzle because they might be easier to recognise in colour. Note: corrected version

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 81-82 in the Stimmt! 1 book (description of teachers and possessive pronouns). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

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 fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 77-78 in the Stimmt! 1 book (subjects, opinions and weil) . Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising home vocab from pages 68-69 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (house, irregular present tense verbs and meals). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising future tense vocab from pages 56-57 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (future tense and cases with prepositions). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 82-83 in the Stimmt! 1 book (description of class room, rules and prepositions). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

Two longer texts looking at why Germany was divided into two different states in 1949, one looking at the development in the East, the other in the West. Includes a vocab list, a timeline that the students have to fill in and some discussion questions. Suitable for 6th form students preparing for the history option of the research based essay or the topic area of "Aspects of political life" in the new AQA specifications.

A worksheet for lower to middle ability GCSE students, practising writing about part time jobs. There are three tasks for similar texts with decreasing support.

A fun starter or plenary practising family vocab from pages 34-35 in the Stimmt! 1 book (numbers and family members ). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 14-15 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (school rules, rooms and opinions). Includes three word puzzles and answers

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 32-33 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (sports and conditional). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A comprehensive introduction to using the dictionary in German with exercises for all levels, from lower set KS3 classes to A-Level classes. It includes topics like gender, tenses, words with different meanings and what can go wrong when translating. Also includes an exercise on online dictionaries. There is a worksheet with exercises and puzzles which is aimed at GCSE/A-Level classes.