German Holidays and Tourism for GCSE and Intermediate Students - German Listening Activities with Audio File, Transcript and 6 Activities GET THIS LISTENING LESSON AS PART OF A DISCOUNTED GCSE GERMAN LISTENING BUNDLE - LIMITED TIME ONLY: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-german-listening-practice-lessons-bundle-12244303 WHAT IS THIS GERMAN LISTENING PRACTICE LESSON AND WHO IS IT FOR? Intermediate no-prep listening lesson on the topic of ‘holidays in Germany’ for CEF A2 or B1 level, intermediate or GCSE level German students (both year 10 and year 11). The listening and related activities could be used as an introduction to the Tourismus topic, as well as for consolidation and revision for German GCSE listening and reading examinations. WHAT’S INCLUDED? The lesson comes with an MP3 audio file, a verbatim transcript and five activities to exploit the theme, including listening comprehension questions, vocabulary activities, speaking and writing. Perfect activities for individual work, as well as for pair work and small group work. The MP3 audio file (2 minutes and 33 seconds) contains detailed and recyclable information about holidays in Germany: Holiday destinations in Germany How to get to these places Accomodation What types of holidays German people enjoy with advantages and disadvantages HOW WILL YOUR STUDENTS BENEFIT FROM THIS GERMAN HOLIDAYS LESSON? The audio is read by a German male native speaker, at a medium speed and includes the main elements to cover this German holidays GCSE topic at a challenging, yet manageable level. It includes a fantastic range of vocabulary, tenses, as well as key phrases for the topic which can be recycled. The transcript and questions could also be used as a holidaying reading lesson for cover lessons.

My House / Mein Zuhause / Mein Haus / Zimmer / Mein Traumhaus for GCSE and Intermediate German Students - Listening Activities with Audio File MP3, Transcript and Activities WHAT IS THIS GERMAN LISTENING LESSON AND WHO IS IT FOR? No-prep listening lesson on ‘my house’ for CEFR A2 or B1 level, Scottish Highers, high schools students in America, intermediate or GCSE German students (ideal for year 10 and year 11). The verbatim audio file, listening transcript and related comprehension and practice activities could be used as an introduction to: ‘Mein Haus’ to check current knowledge, but would work best as consolidation in the middle or end of topic, as well as perfect as revision for German GCSE listening and reading examinations. WHAT’S INCLUDED? The comprehensive lesson contains an MP3 audio file, as well as two word document pages with a verbatim transcript and five activities to exploit the topic of ‘mein Zuhause’. The activities on the second page include: listening comprehension questions, vocabulary activities, speaking and writing. Perfect tasks for individual work, as well as for pair work and small group work. The MP3 audio file (2 minutes and 12 seconds) has detailed and recyclable words, phrases and information about ‘mein Haus’: The benefits of having a home Detailed information on where the speaker lived when he grew up Other types of homes in the world The audio is read by a German male native speaker, at a medium speed and includes the main elements to cover this German GCSE MY HOUSE topic at a challenging, yet manageable level. It includes a wide range of useful vocabulary, tenses, as well as key phrases for the topic which can be recycled. The transcript and questions could also be used as a reading lesson for cover lessons if necessary.

Get students straight into learning mode in your German lessons (Year 7, 8, 9, 10, Year 11 or Year 12 and 13!) after the Christmas holidays in the first lesson back with this DIFFERENTIATED, Find Someone Who Activity in German. It can easily be adapted in to any other language for Spanish, French or Italian) and is perfect to revise and practise the past tense, questioning and spontaneous speaking. It contains 18 activities students could do / not do at Christmas and students must put the phrases into questions to ask all members of the class. They must add one student’s name to each box. Contains a ‘Silver’ version which is missing the auxiliary and question word, and a ‘Gold’ version where the infinitive phrase must be changed into the past tense. Easy to edit and add to!

2 WORKSHEETS FOR STUDENTS WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE GDR 1 PPT with my own answers (you may wish to watch the clip and edit answers, although it’s not 100% necessary!) A worksheet to be used whilst watching avery accessible 45-minute video from br.de about the history of the DDR. The video is in German and the questions relate directly to the video and are in order of information. I split this up with my Year 12 film students into 4 lessons: Firstly, we translated the questions and guessed what the answers could be / discussed this in small groups and as a class Secondly, students watched the video in their own time (as homework) to get the gist and add little bits to their sheets Finally, we worked together in the lesson - I played the video and stopped for each question. Students worked in pairs and fours to add further information and then I went through it with them to complete the worksheet.

If you are looking for traditional and modern songs to get your students listening to French based around the AQA GCSE specification, check out this fantastic list of 45 French songs with artist name, song time and a YouTube link. There are 45+ songs split up by theme (family/home/charity/poverty/relationships/school/work/university/environment etc) which are perfect as a starting point to begin the topics, to use as a discussion point, as well as to learn vocabulary, or to exploit with gap fills and comprehension questions.

Sample French GCSE Speaking Questions for General Conversation In order to support the French Speaking of my students, I collated a number of foundation level and higher tier questions and put them into a handout. I have also highlighted keywords that sometimes students struggle to grasp, plus activity suggestions that can be used to support their revision for the general conversation exam. However, these questions might also be useful for the bullet points in the writing examinations, too. AQA French Speaking General Conversation Guidance for Students: FOUNDATION TIER: At foundation level your general french speaking conversation will last between 3 and 5 minutes HIGHER TIER: At higher level your conversation will last between 5 and 7 minutes. The total marks for the french speaking general conversation section of the French speaking examination are 30 marks (50% of the overall speaking exams) and is split as follows: Communication /10 Range and accuracy of language /10 Pronunciation and intonation /5 Spontaneity and fluency /5

Songs for German Lessons If you are looking for traditional and modern songs to get your students listening to German based around the AQA German GCSE specification, check out this list of 45 German songs with artist name, song title and a YouTube link. There are 45+ songs split up by theme (family/relationships/social problems/home/environment/verbs/tenses and grammar etc) which are perfect as a starting point to begin the topics with a discussion, or to exploit with gap fills and comprehension questions. Please review the resource if you download it!

When it comes to speaking in a different language, finding enough opportunity in the classroom can be quite tricky. This is a fun, low-prep and low-cost spontaneous speaking activity to use as revision, but also used within topics as speaking starters to practise speaking in the French, German, Spanish and Italian language classrooms, for example. It is an editable PowerPoint with instructions and slides containing a number of GCSE revision topics. However, the topics can easily be edited, depending on your requirements. It can be adapted for all levels, languages (I’ve used it with French, German and English) and groups. It has been tried and tested, but I have added my own spin to it.

Two updated revision booklets for German A Level (Year 1 and Year 2), split up by topics and sub-themes from the AQA German text books to aid students with revision for the photo card speaking examination. The revision aid contains 4 pages per booklet. They combine a range of verbs, complex phrases, relevant facts and figures, which are key things that the examiners will be looking for to achieve the highest marks in their exams (according to the A Level speaking mark scheme). This German A Level revision document by sub-theme has already aided my students as revision for the photo card speaking exam. Please note: THEME 3 IS MISSING from Year 1 booklet, which has been done on purpose to get students to do a bit of work!