Posters for your classroom with days of the week, months, seasons, cardinal and ordinal numbers, questions, verbs (regular and irreg, past and present, imperfect), cases and prepositions.
Top ten worst German TV adverts - with links to YouTube - together with chart so students can view them, decide which Werbestrategien are used/abused, determine whether they are successful and give their own views. Warning: some v cheesy ads!
The ppt simply takes students through the stages of the lesson.
Students work in groups of 3-5 and have a pack of Group Talk cards and a worksheet per group. They then follow the activities on the worksheet, recording their answers and ideas in their books to refer to later in the course.
Encourage them to use their knowledge of phonics and pronunciation to work out how to say what is on the cards and also their language detective/reading skills to work out what the cards mean.
Reuse the cards for each new topic and soon your students will be debating with ease!
**Amended worksheet now uploaded!** Speaking ex based on Jeremy Kyle / Britta 'Der Talk um Eins' in which students work in groups to create and perform a mini sketch describing family relationships using 'Ich komme gut mit...aus, weil....' Emphasis is on interaction and responding to each other and the unknown, as in the CA. Crib sheet gives sample responses. The pic of Britta on slide 2 has a link to Sat1 and her show.
PPT with photos and videos (they are embedded from YouTube and play when ppt is in slideshow mode) describing how and why the Berlin Wall was built. Covers 1945 - Stasi
A ppt containing a mock Facebook page which students can adapt to include their own details, or do research on a French-speaking celebrity or famous person and make a page for them. Lots of fun, especially for an end of term activity.
A matching noun to verb starter; a phrase matching exercise using various combinations of il faut / on doit and negatives; writing the opposites of the rules for an ideal school; writing extended sentences with reasons justifying opinion on school rules. Authentic pictures for reading exercise and stimulating discussion.
**In the UK the film is a 15 rating** Questions and activities relating to the Goodbye Lenin film. Creative writing homework task (good one for the holidays) to imagine they are a teenager in the DDR at the time of the Wende and to write diary entries about what they experience.
This is enough to cover a few lessons on modals and school rules. The worksheet assumes knowledge of wenn, daß, weil etc and word order in producing good opinions and reasons. The mash up doc needs to be chopped up into strips. The notebook file contains the Grange Hill and Mash themetunes and there are real German pix of signs: watch out for the ones towards the end!
Handout for students containing the detailed grade bands for speaking, success criteria and general tips for speaking assessment success. Much taken directly from AQA documentation, but all put into one place.
An authentic (and v extensive!) German döner and pizza menu with a dice game worksheet. Works just as well with younger and older students, for teaching or revising Essen und Trinken. It would also be good for looking at healthy living.
PPT with photos and videos (they are embedded from You Tube and play properly when the ppt is in slideshow) covering the time from Stasi to 1989. Also includes rousing rendition of Scorpions Wind of Change!
This team working and thinking skills (lots of PLTS!) activity teaches and uses comparatives and superlatives for describing schools in France and the UK. You will need to print off the cards from the two Word documents to allow groups to create and shuffle their own sentences describing and comparing school life with plus and moins que. Student can then extend these with reasons if they feel able. Groups then move on to improve their peers' work and conclude with a memory exercise.
Ich komme sehr gut mit....aus, weil.....
Introduces mit + dative with family members to describe how well you get on with someone and why. Includes pattern spotting exercise for possessive adjectives
Exercises for CA preparation - the seven questions need responses and the white boxes with underlined words encourage text manipulation skills for speaking or writing. Worksheet to accompany lesson takes students through drafting their own responses to the seven qs making sure they include enough detail and development.
Dictionary/vocab skills worksheet with wide range of German false friends. Students work out what the English of the German is, and then the actual German of the English false friend. ***Watch out for the last one!!! :) ****