Self-marking cloze exercise, in which businesswoman Claudia Langer talks about her career. Will work on PC or IW.

Two reports covering the failed attempts to help a lost whale in the Thames in 2006. The texts are followed by a 'richtig / falsch / nicht im Text' exercise, some questions in German, a 'find the phrase' exercise, and a writing task.

Text describing the personalities of the central characters from Farscape, an australian Sci-Fi series, which ran in Germany. The text is followed by reading comprehension exercises in german and a writing task.

Interactive drag-and-drop activity for practising the French equivalents of the 12 most commonly used English words

Text featuring characters from The Lord of the Rings, their roles in the plot and their relationships to one another. The Text is followed by True/False comprehension questions in German, a writing task, and some open questions about the story which could be used used as a stimulus for writing and / or speaking.

Interactive drag and drop exercise, in which pupils must match up the German and English titles of the Harry Potter films. Will work on PC or IW. Two of the German titles are not quite exact translations. You might want to challenge the pupils to find out which two are not quite the same.

Higher Level text about the sinking of the Titanic, followed by comprehension questions in English, a reminder of the Preterite, 'Find the phrase' and manipulation exercises, some internet research and a writing task. My colleague Barbara Sciarrino tidied up my rusty Spanish.

Relatively simple interview with Jessie J, covering name, age, birthday, family and pets. Pupils can practise the dialogue as it stands and then adapt the language highlighted in bold.

Interactive activity for the IW. Present tense of SEIN.

interactive activity for the IW. Practice of Present Tense of KOMMEN.

Interactive activity for the IW. Present tense of HABEN.

Stimulus for speaking. Pupils have to speculate as to the favourite school subjects of various celebrities and justify their ideas.

Higher Level Text on homelessness in Frankfurt followed by (i) reading comprehension questions in English (ii) a grammar focus (iii) a text manipulation excercise

A number of short blogs on the topic of marriage, followed by (i) reading comprehension questions in English (ii) a 'Find the phrase' exercise (iii) manipulation of sentences in the blogs to create (slightly) new language.

two comprehension exercises and one sentence building exercise to encourage pupils to think about the usage of three key verbs relating to free time. Examples in three tenses.

Extended role play set in Hogwarts school. Pupils may wish / need to prepare this in writing before acting it out. Short vocab list of subjects at Hogwarts supplied in German and English.

Interview with Lady Gaga about school subjects. Students should (i) practise the dialogue as it stands and (ii) improvise changes to the printed dialogue, focussing on the words in bold text.

Nativity dialogue based on words and phrases from the french Christmas carol 'Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris'. Also includes a little bit of practice of the date.

Descriptive text about a jouney in the North of Norway. The text provides a stimulus for structured poetry writing. Students have to list all the descriptive elements of the text and then re-arrange them until they have a poem. Classroom-tested!

5 verbs in the Conditional, set out in a table, so that students can analyse and infer the pattern. Could be printed as hand-out or blown up as a poster.