PPT with a series of slides relating to school life for students to describe and comment on.

Text describibg daily routine and school life in the future, with comprehension questions in German

More authentic materials for revision-phobic GCSE candidates. Questions in English.

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.

Powerpoint featuring pictures of various animals with on-slide vocab to act as a stimulus for the students to talk about the images.

A text about the film "Was tun, wenn's brennt?" edited from two authentic reviews, followed by questions in German.

AS style text with questions in German. This is a more complete representation of the original than the GCSE style text I also uploaded.

Reading and writing activities relating to the film "Nordwand": (i) who's who (ii) scaffolded character description (iii) discussion of relationships in the film

An edited authentic text which explains to German Abiturienten/innen how to write an essay. This is followed by questions in English.

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.

Text in German about Spiderman followed by comprehension questions in English

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.

Example of school rules from a school in Germany, with comprehension and manipulation exercises

An authentic text about recycling in Germany with AS style comprehension questions in German.

A grammar workout on Past, Present and Future focusing on the topic of fitness.

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.