2 full lessons at both higher (Rot) and foundation (Grün) level, based on Echo 3 Rot/Grün - about describing famous people, giving reasons why you like/don't like them (using 'weil'). The worksheet can be used to support in the second lesson.

File contains link to to the new guide to Wladimir Kaminer’s Russendisko, a text featured in the new (2016) specifications for AQA AS/A Level German and CCEA A Level German qualifications. The guide contains 126 pages of materials to help you and your students learn all about the historical background of the text, understand each individual story, and finally to analyse the text and write essays. Full mark schemes including model essays and suggested essay content are included.

A single lesson revising Chapter/Kapitel 3 Freizeit - juhu! from the Stimmt 1 textbook. Pitched at year 7/8, or learners in their first year of German. Covers present tense sentences, mainly ‘ich’ but some 2nd/3rd person too, as well as gern and time/frequency adverbs and und/aber/denn with a little bit of ‘weil’. Features a mix of reading/listening and speaking, and would be easy to use tasks as writing tasks for further consolidation. Activities inspired by Gianfranco Conti’s EPI method (bad translation, sentence jigsaw, listening slalom, oral pingpong). Includes: Lesson plan 2x handouts .ppt presentation

A lesson based on a text from Lernpunkt Deutsch 3 (p72) for year 10 on the topic of health. Activities all lettered (to explain the order): Starter of opinion vocabulary, then pre-teaching of topic-specific vocabulary, gapfill, multiple choice, etc etc etc. Then returning to the opinion phrases for a final plenary summarizing other's opinions.

Preparation materials for speaking/writing assessments in Year 9 French. Used in combination with Expo 3 Rouge textbooks, and given out along with my 'En bonne santé' sentence-builders sheet.

A really solid introduction to the passive voice (and another of my successful interview lessons)! Warning: many example sentences are based on recipes for e.g. Lebkuchen/Gluehwein - do not teach this on an empty stomach! There is enough for two lessons here, or perhaps one lesson and a homework. First lesson: focus is on UNDERSTANDING the passive voice, in the present tense only. Agents using 'von' are also touched upon. (.ppt and handout 1) Second lesson: the focus turns now to using the passive in a range of tenses: present, imperfect and perfect. This worksheet provides systematic practice in the style of a real-life situation.

Originally conceived to encourage students to improve on an existing piece of writing, this Writing Challenge could be used as a motivational competition (with prizes for the best entries), as a guided writing task in-lesson or an independent homework task. Maturer classes may even be able to cope with this as a cover lesson. The task: write a letter home about your (fictional) German exchange experience - your German exchange partner is Detlev, whose family are incredibly environmentally friendly (no heating, no electricity(!)). This challenge allows all students to create an end-product by choosing one of the three on offer (article, interview, poster). On the back is a colour-coded guide to verb forms and word order (present tense, modal/future structure, and verb-comma-verb/subordination, which could be used separately, or indeed throughout a GCSE course, as a reference tool.

A lesson introducing the concept of verb conjugation to Year 7. They still remember conjugating 'spinnen&'! Plan is also included, as is a follow-up lesson.

'Pimp My Sentence' has been rebranded as '7Up' - this worksheet will help students to reach Level 7 in French writing/speaking - use in combination with my Pimp My Sentence mixed tense PowerPoint!

Used to review tenses after a writing exam, this grid should help my bright year 8s to sort out their tenses (and extend them towards negative sentences). Help sheet on second page with references to Expo 2 rouge textbook.

A double-sided worksheet (file makes two A5 double-sided sheets) revising family members, adverbs of frequency and adjectives describing personality. Sentence-builders demonstrate how to compare family members - ends with a fairly amusing opportunity to say things like 'my mum is funnier than your mum!'; And a double-sided lesson of sentence builders describing your own family. Both suitable for lower sets.

Lesson and worksheet linked with Echo 3, chapter 2, unit 3, on the topic of school reports. The worksheet is a starter activity (based on types of words); the presentation contains a starter on 'denn/weil', and the lesson leads towards students' writing their own school reports for their teachers using comparisons. Potentially fun!

A fun stand-alone lesson leading to students' being able to describe a football match. Based on a game between Germany and Costa Rica in the last world cup, but would still work now. Fits well into free-time topic, and a fun stand-alone lesson for sporty classes. Perfect for Euro '16!

Lesson based on 'Les pays et les langues' - working in three tenses, and using le/la/les/a la/au/aux/en with countries! Excellent for year 9.

A game/activity used to revise the topic of health. Full instructions included - print cards onto paper/card and put one set in an envelope (as many sets as you need for the class to work in pairs). Similar to taboo, but in reverse. Fun for advanced students.

Three worksheets for the topic of jobs. 1) Sheet focusing on masculine/feminine forms of jobs. 2) Sheet focusing on the PRONUNCIATION of these jobs. 3) Sheet encouraging speaking practice - Carroll diagram (basically a grid) can be used for e.g. Os and Xs or battleships and other pairwork or whole class activities to practice language at word- or sentence-level.

A series of three lessons for both higher and lower ability classes, in line with the Echo 3 SoW. Includes worksheet on the structure 'es gibt' with places in town and accusative adjective endings, and a roleplay set in a tourist office. Great for year 9!

1) A useful exercise for oral practice/revision to encourage high-quality answers - one question per tense and per topic, with challenging vocabulary, connectives etc.. For high-achievers! 2) A comprehensive revision resource - a grid of translation sentences on all topics and a range of complex grammar points. 'Answers & Hints' document gives an intermediary support sheet with vocabulary and hints, followed by a sheet of the answers.

A series of lessons slotted into the topic of school for introducing and practising using the perfect and imperfect tenses in German. The poem is a fantastic activity that works like magic when you translate between the perfect and imperfect - suddenly it rhymes! (will be clear when you see it) The .ppt contains help with vocabulary, and the other .ppt is a lesson which links in with the Edexcel textbook text on Kalib/Angola.

Comprehensive worksheet on the topic of health, focusing on practising and producing the verb structure 'second-final' (i.e. future, conditional and modal verbs + infinitive). Because we all like to talk about what we WILL/WOULD/COULD/SHOULD do!! Great for GCSE classes. Clearly demonstrated using 'sentence-builders', which can also be used for revision, or to create longer pieces of writing.