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 game that can be used to practise speaking about places in town and giving directions.
Works best if there are prizes for finding the treasures!
There are 5 maps with streets and town buildings (church, hospital ect) and three hidden treasure per slide. Students have to guess where the treasure is by naming the place of giving directions there, when you click on the place it reveals either an empty space or a treasure.
The third slide turns the whole game into a race between different teams.
In stronger classes they could practise prepositions and cases/genders (in der Kirche/ au stade ect)
The last two slides are more detailed to practise more complex directions like ‘over the bridge’, ‘at the traffic light’ ect.
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.
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 Chapter 4 Stimmt 3 Red.
This download includes:
-PowerPoint with three pictures with questions in German and optional 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
-example answers for speaking and translation tasks 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.
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 Chapter 3 Stimmt 3 Red.
This download includes:
-PowerPoint with three pictures with questions in German and optional 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
-example answers for speaking and translation tasks 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.
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 Chapter 2 Stimmt 3 Red.
This download includes:
-PowerPoint with three pictures with questions in German and optional 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
-example answers for speaking and translation tasks 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.
This quiz is based on a six minute medley of German songs and it is aimed at intermediate German learners.
It would be ideal as an introduction to the topic of music or as a fun game at the end of term. It includes 12 different genres of music from folk to heavy metal and an exercise on description words to give opinions about music.
If played in teams it usually takes about 20-30 min - students answer questions about the genre, description and content and guess which band picture goes with which song.
A web-based activity to introduce students to Spain’s geography and culture and first Spanish words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about Spain. 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 Spanish language or European geography or as a fun activity last lesson before the holidays.
The activity includes tasks on:
• Spain’s location in the world
• Spanish cities
• 360-degree picture quests
• famous Spanish people
• Spanish companies
• Greetings in Spanish
A lesson that your students will not forget quickly!
Digital version - no prep - self marking
Students are immersed in exploring a secret space facility to find the alien and practise German numbers and dates on the way as well as cultural skills like recognising Euro coins.
There are two versions included:
A new digital only version which can be played on any device.
The original version which includes some documents to print out to use in class.
Answers included.
** 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
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.
A vocabulary list in the form of a sentence builder, to help with word order. Vocab to describe addictions and give opinions, with a translation and writing task.
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.
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.
A fun plenary or starter game for the main beginners' topics in any language. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students translate the vocabulary on the boxes and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure.
This activity is based on the gamification theory that random rewards make games more addictive and fun.
There are 34 slides with treasures hidden in different places about these topics (two slides for each topic)
Numbers 1-20
Numbers 20-100
Letters
Animals
Family
Months
Dates
Appearance
Verb endings
Question words
Sports
Hobbies
Hobbies/Sports and Time phrases
Subjects
Days
Town
Food
Note: In presentation mode click on squares to make them disappear and reveal the treasures.
A fun plenary or starter to practise weather and seasons for GCSE level, for example page 118 in Stimmt AQA GCSE Higher, but can be used with any text book or for revision.
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.
A game for the first lesson in a new group or as recap of first few chapters of book. This is an example of 4 sentences in German, one of which is a lie. Every student writes 4 sentence about themselves, and then go around getting other people to guess which one is a lie.