Yet more practice of key vocab for recalcitrant Year 11s. Although designed for lower ability classes, these work well as a starter for more able students too.
Reading and writing activities relating to the film "Nordwand": (i) who's who (ii) scaffolded character description (iii) discussion of relationships in the film
22 quotes in German from the first 45 minutes of the German movie version of the Lord of the Rings. Students have to ascribe the quotes to one of three characters in each case.
This is an activity I did with an improvers class to get them to think a bit about their approach to writing in a foreign language. It could be easily adapted to any language or topic.
This activity based on an article written by Anne Merritt. I have added rogue words and ideas into the original concepts for students to identify and eliminate from the text. They can also be invited to consider what the text should actually say, before you reveal the original script.
A newspaper cartoon about chaos in lessons in some German schools with seven sets of questions designed to get the students to interpret what they see and justify their deductions.
Powerpoint with on-screen help, designed to stimulate and support discussion about (i) what constitutes a uniform (ii) what students think of various school uniforms. This is a more challenging version of something I uploaded previously.
Powerpoint summarising the use of
(i) the Nominative for the Subject
(ii) the Accusative for the Direct Object
(iii) the obligatory use of the Dative after aus, bei, mit etc.
(iv) the elective use of the Dative after an, auf, hinter etc (NB no mention of the possible use of the Accusative with these prepositions at this point).
Designed to support relative beginners in describing their town.
Interview with a headteacher of a school celebrating 18 years as a "Schule ohne Rassismus". The text features authentic details about the school edited into an old AQA resource on the same topic. There are then two reading comprehension activities.