TOOLKIT for reinforcing gender, for reinforcing the use of 'de' as a possessive, and for generating simple sentences on the topic of MY FAMILY

Authentic but uncomplicated details about a school's daily schedule, followed by questions in English.

Structured reading & writing activity for relative beginners. Students have to read the text and then come up with ideas to fill the gaps. Accept any ideas that make sense.

Text about Spider-Man's abilities and how he acquired them plus brief synopsis of the first Spider-Man movie. Text followed by comprehension questions in German.

A single page grid presenting an overview of regular and irregular verb formation in the Present, Imperfect, Perfect and Future tenses, and also with modal verbs.

Interactive drag and drop practice of sentences in the Perfect Tense relating to illnesses and injuries. Suitable for PC or IW.

Animated presentation. Click 'slide show' and 'view show'. Click to make WEIL or OBWOHL appear and click to make the verb move to the end of the clause.

Interactive drag-and-drop IW activity for practising prepositions commonly needed in describing location

Toolkit which will enable pupils to use shopping related verbs in three tenses.

Toolkit for generating simple structures relating to Family. Colour coded to emphasise gender.

2 sentence pattern grids to help pupils construct sentences in the Perfect Tense for describing holidays. Covers verbs with avoir and with etre.

This guide has been edited from Edexcel's generic advice on the research-based essay into a guide for those students who will be researching a text, a play or a film.

Interactive drag and drop exercise in which students must match the brief character descriptions with the name of the character in the Film. Will work on PC or IW.

A sentence generator to help students create, and understand the construction of, more complex sentences relating to next year's holiday plans.

Series of images designed to provoke students into saying which month is represented. There can be several acceptable answers for each image.

Interactive cloze exercise based on a text looking forward to the Paralympic Games 2012. The grammar focus is the future. In each case the missing word is a third person plural future tense. Will work on PC or IW.

Practice of word order after WEIL in the context of MEINE STADT. The activities are set up for students to work through independently.

Lots of photos of German breakfast items. Pupils initially get to see a very small section of each photo and must try to identify the food. The following slide reveals the answer. Generates high participation levels.

Sequence of questions relating to Van Gogh's painting of his bedroom. Practice of colour, prepositions, and bedroom objects. For the first set of questions, students can see the painting. For the second set they have to do it from memory. Finally they should compare their own room with Van Gogh's room. Plenty of scope for practice of &'kein&'; as they identify everything that Van Gogh does not have in his room that they have in their room.

Text based on internet threads about what (some) young french teenagers like and dislike. The text is followed by comprehension questions in English, a grammar point, a toolkit for saying 'I like ...ing' and two writing activities