A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 80-81 1 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (healthy living, sports and pronouns in different cases). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A worksheet to practise adjective endings with clothes. Suitable for KS3 or KS4. Inlcudes a sheet with vocabulary and a gap fill worksheet (ideally copied onto the same sheet). Also includes an answer sheet.

Presenting new vocabulary, holiday activities in the past tense to go with Echo 2 chapter on Schwarzwald. Starter on time phrases, then presentation and some games to practise new vocabulary.

Two versions of battleship, one easier with words, one harder, with pictures. To practise giving opinions on holidays, Ich war in Spanien, es war langweilig.

A ppt with funny pictures of extreme body types (very tall, fat, small...) and a worksheet with sentences in German (Er ist gross, Sie ist klein...). Teacher shows pictures and says sentences in German, students work out the English translation by looking at the pictures and then write it on the worksheet next to the German sentences. Afterwards they can use the writing frame on the worksheet to describe themselves. Not to be used with classes that will get too excited by funny pictures!

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.

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 8-9 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (perfect, imperfect and pencil case items). 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