Grammar exercises based on lyrics from 'Das Nikolauslied'. In the first exercise students must choose the correct verb, in order to re-tell the story of Santa's visit on the 6th of December. In the second exercise students must conjugate the key verbs from the story. Grammar dressed up in a bit of tinsel.

Dialogue in which a frustrated tourist attempts to retrieve an umbrella from a fairly useless employee at a lost property office. Pupils practise the dialogue and then adapt the script by introducing different items. Just add props!

Questions about TV for oral discussion.

A young German, apparently called Markus Absendt, expounds on TV programmes. Followed by True / False / Not in Text questions and a writing task.

A text about the Hunger Games, featuring some character info and a comparison of the Capitol and District 12. This is followed by a true / false / not in text exercise, an adjective identification exercise, a reminder about adjectival endings, and two writing tasks. The second file contains an additional task for students who may need some additional work / challenge. Students have to complete an interview with Katniss Everdeen and must transpose many statements in the third person into the first person.

Simple playscript in which Dracula repeatedly wakes up too soon, asks Igor the time and has to go back to sleep again, until finally it is midnight. Perform it with a colleague or the FLA to your class, or play both parts yourself, then get them to practise it in pairs, and finally ask them to develop the dialogue using the extra vocab and phrases supplied.

An improbable dialogue in which Justin Bieber attempts to get Taylor Swift to go to a party with him and Taylor repeatedly rejects his advances conveniently using the Past, Present and Future every time. The dialogue is followed by some grammar work on ... Past, Present and Future.

Fundamentally a very dry bit of grammar work focusing on this key word order concept. In a thinly veiled attempt to make this more interesting, all the language in the examples and the exercises relate to the Hunger Games.

Gap-fill exercise practising irregular past participles with haben. It is Valentine's Day and Amy wants to go out with Sheldon. Sheldon wants to stay at home and watch Star Trek. Students fill in the missing past participles. (Some gaps can take more than one possibility.) When complete you have a dialogue, which the students can perform. They could also write up the dialogue adding in language of their own such as more persuasive comments from Amy and more disparaging comments from Sheldon.

Two exercises practising the use of the Nominative for the subject, and the use of either the Accusative or the Dative after 'in'.

Interactive, drag and drop match-up activity of some idioms which may possibly amuse students enough to want to use them. Will work on PC or IW

Questions to stimulate discussion on the topic of the environment

Interview about mobile phone use, featuring relatively accessible language. The dialogue is followed by speaking practice, a 'find the phrase' exercise, a manipulation exercise, another speaking exercise and a writing task.

A copy of my PPT from the ALL conference. Intended primarily for attendees. May be less useful if you weren’t in the session! Examples in French and German.

Reading comprehension activity relating to the film 'Der Tunnel'. Students must read the jumbled set of events and put them into the correct chronological order to reconstruct the plot. Solution provided.

Revision of basic verbs relating to watching TV and films in the Perfect, Present and Future Tenses, with some Modals thrown in for good measure.

A school pupil of the future describes his school day. Text is followed by comprehension questions in French.

35 authentic images and short texts with questions in English. Created for a revision-averse Year 11 group but will work as a starter for other students.

Higher level GCSE type text with questions in English.

This resource contains a set of 25 exam practice questions, assembled from edited versions of materials I have uploaded previously. The stimulus materials are mostly followed by questions in English or True/False/Not in text and cover a wide range of topics. This is a Mark II version with a number of wrinkles* ironed out. Markscheme also added. * ie mistakes!