Thinking skills/mystery/quiz/logic puzzle on timetable, which teacher teachers which subject, what day, and what period? Easier and harder version.

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 100-101 in the old spec Edexcel GCSE Foundation book (jobs, feminine and masculine forms, reasons for liking jobs and forms of to be). Includes three word puzzles and answers. Corrected Version

This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocabulary to speak about a work experience or a part-time job in the past tense. It is aimed at GCSE level. 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 or end of term. This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, a answer sheet for the teacher in list form and showing the shape.

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 18-19 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (future tense and school trip). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

An introduction to family members and speaking about siblings in German using The Simpsons. It includes speaking and translation tasks (differentiated), quizzes and games and several tasks to go with the Song Mein Name ist Mensch (needsd youtube access). With lesson plan.

This is a tarsia puzzle with family vocab for the end of year of year ten German. The vocab is based on unit 4 of the Edexcel German GCSE (old spec) higher book about family, character, marriage and some past tense. 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 or end of year.

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 30-31 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (film and tv, 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 sentence builder with vocab to describe your school, using subordinate sentences. Includes a writing task in which students have to use the sentence builder to describe the pictures of two schools.

A grid with film questions ("A film with three parts" ect), students need to go around and ask other people for the answers. Practises speaking and using film vocabulary

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book to revise for the Stimmt writing tasks. Includes four word puzzles and answers.

A powerpoint giving an overview of word order in German. Most of the explanations are in German, it is aimed as a comprehensive overview/revision for 6th form students.

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 12-13 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (timetable and times). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

This is a tarsia puzzle with mixed vocab for the end of year of a beginner’s class in German. 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 or end of year. Topics include: Greetings, Countries, numbers, age, family, months, pets, school subjects, days of the week, pencil case items

A comprehensive and clear overview over the cases in German (Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive) including definitions, articles, adjective endings and pronouns. Also includes a picture to illustrates the connection between roles and cases. *Corrected version

a matching up worksheet with advantages and disadvantages of different forms of transport. Ideal as revision for foundation papers or when preparing coursework about "my town". Includes answer sheet

A fun starter or plenary practising family vocab from pages 58-59 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (modal verbs in present and imperfect, speaking about childhood). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

Two worksheets based on page 36 in Studio 3 rouge to introduce healthy food and phrases to talk about food in the future tense. The gapfill worksheet can be used with the red or the green book to introduce food items in French and for students to produce a vocab list. The other worksheet uses the phrases from task 1 as a match up task and a translation to extend the task.