Foundation Level text about the Paralympics, with on-page vocab support. Text is followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' task focussing on time phrases, a manipulation exercise, and a writing task.

Extended dialogue in which three cast members of a reality show discuss what to watch on TV and decide on a reality show. The dialogue is followed by a vocab matching exercise, a 'find the phrase exercise', a trawl of the different tenses used in the text, a manipulation exercise and a writing task

Practice of (i) e - è - é (ii) different pronunciations of the letter c (iii) some common words with accents that distinguish meaning rather than sound

Text in which Katy Perry and Kevin Petersen are interviewed and then commented on by Wallace and Gromit. Text is followed by True / False exercise in German, a 'find the phrase' text, and a manipulation exercise. Lots of practice of likes and dislikes.

Relatively simple (?) Jungle Book style playscript for practising the language of the breakfast table. Cliffhanger ending.

I think the title just about captures it. These are based on a now redundant exam format, but are still good stimulus materials to base oral work on.

Interactive drag and drop exercise, in which pupils must match up the German and English titles of the Harry Potter films. Will work on PC or IW. Two of the German titles are not quite exact translations. You might want to challenge the pupils to find out which two are not quite the same.

Straightforward conjugation practice of five common German verbs

Interview with Lady Gaga about school subjects. Students should (i) practise the dialogue as it stands and (ii) improvise changes to the printed dialogue, focussing on the words in bold text.

Foundation Level text about the Olympic Torch, with questions in English, a 'find the phrase' exercise, a manipulation exercise, and a writing task.

Short texts in which school pupils express the likelihood of their going into the sixth form versus looking for training or employment, followed by comprehension questions in English, a 'Find the phrase' exercise and a text manipulation exercise. (The original four texts are from Lernpunkt Deutsch 3, but the two texts featuring authentic German handwriting have proved to be too hard to read for many of my students so I've typed them up!)

Powerpoint practising the use of GERN. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students must select a letter on the homepage and are then hyperlinked to a multiple choice question on the use of GERN.

This an upgraded version of a worksheet I originally uploaded for Year 11 pupils. The text contains unpleasant but true information about the self-styled 'Worst hotel in the world' plus comments about dreadful hotels from contributors to TripAdvisor. This is followed by a grammar tip about adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, questions in German, a manipulation exercise, a translation into English, a writing task, more grammar, a speaking task and finally another writing task.

A KS4 level text in which a footballer describes a typical day in Brazil. The text is followed by a GCSE-style True, False, Not in Text exercise.

Relatively simple activity, in which students must match the names of key characters in the film 'Dr Tunnel' to short descriptipns of the characters.

Questions in English to accompany the youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn_B8mR792I

9 images and short speculative texts relating to travel in the future, which act as a springboard for class discussion. Used it with my Year 12s. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students pick a number and are hyperlinked to a slide.

Activity featuring the 12 Olympics posters commisionned from artists such as Tracey Emin and Rachel Whitread. The Powerpoint aims to stimulate speculation, discussion, interpretation, a bit of guesswork, and suggestions for titles. Lots of questions in German to structure discussion and (hopefully) get the pupils thinking. The title of each piece can be revealed with a mouse-click once suggestions have been made.

Grammatical match-up exercise in which students must distinguish between structures in different tenses, all featuring the verb wohnen.

Short animated presentation for CPD on questioning and wait-time. This version will advance automatically through the slides and will loop back to the beginning after the last slide. Change the settings if you want to control the slides with a mouse-click.