Descriptive text about a jouney in the North of Norway. The text provides a stimulus for structured poetry writing. Students have to list all the descriptive elements of the text and then re-arrange them until they have a poem. Classroom-tested!

Interactive cloze exercise about the military security for London 2012. Will work on PC or IW.

Question and answer activity. There activity contains a numbered sequence of questions to be asked, and a bullet pointed list of answers to choose from. Students could be expected to answer (i) using only answers on the sheet (ii) an answer on the sheet plus an additional statement of their own devising (iii) an answer on the sheet plus two additional statements of their own devising.

Text about a trip to Peru organised by a swiss 'fair holidays' company. The text is followed by a true / false / not in text exercise and a writing task.

Implausible dialogue practising basic language for talking about family and featuring a Toy Story 2 / Star Wars revelation.

Interactive drag and drop practice of football positions in German. Suitable for PC or IW.

2 self-marking, interactive gap-fill exercises based on curiosities from the news. In each case the students must supply the missing verbs in the Imperfect from the list given. Will work on IW or PC.

Interactive drag-and-drop revision activity for the IW

A set of questions about how you spent your birthday with two mini-toolkits to help students generate answers in the Perfect and Future tenses.

Text about the potential consequences of listening to music at very high volumes, followed by questions in English.

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 set of Taboo cards for practising key terminology from Das Leben der Anderen.

A single slide with images of Marvel heroes and characters for pair work. One students must describe the physical characteristics of a character and the other student must identify the character.

Toolkit focusing on (i) the use of the Nominative and the Accusative and (ii) word order in main and subordinate clauses. I made this for my Year 9 FL2 beginners, who like grammar. They really do.

Multi-choice Interactive practice of questions relating to identity, family, pets and reading.

This interactive match-up quiz contains 45 tennis terms. Each time it is opened it will select ten of the 45 at random. It will never quite be the same activity twice. If you use it in a computer suite every student will in effect have a different quiz.

Improbable dialogue in which Fernando Torres consults a fortune-teller about Spain's chances of winning Uefa Euro 2012. Includes a full work-out of the verb werden. (1st, 2nd and 3rd person, singular and plural.)

Cloze exercise in which all the missing words are past participles. One complete, the text provides an improbable account of the relationship between Harry Styles and Taylor swift.

Three short texts relating to very different holidays in Spain, Canada and Myanmar / Burma. The texts have been jumbled together and students must separate out the paragrpahs relating to each trip and then re-order the paragraphs so that they make sense once more.

Powerpoint which systematically builds up a table demonstrating the formation of the Dative after certain prepositions (an, auf , hinter etc). After the table has been built up, articles are removed randomly and students have to say what is missing.