Extended text about school subjects followed by questions in German.

Exemplification of common German separable verbs in 3 tenses, followed by interview questions, which could be prepared as a written exercise and / or practised as a dialogue.

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.

Playscript with lots of practice of 'Ich esse gern ... ', plus a device to encourage students to pronounce 'Marmelade' correctly.

TOOLKIT to help students generate sentences starting with an adverb, adverbial phrase, or subordinate clause, and continuing with the Perfect Tense of a selection of common 'Holiday' verbs..

Playscript in which Simon Cowell asks various stars to go out with him.

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.

An activity I did with a revision-shy Year 11 class to make them engage with a past paper in a different way.

The sheet models common separable verbs relating to Tagesroutine in 3 tenses and the provides a set of interview questions which require students to use the verbs in different tenses. Could be done as a written exercise before embarking on the pair work.

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.

Text about the first snow of winter and the chances of a white Christmas. Followed by comprehension questions in English.

Speaking activities to be conducted after students have seen the film. (i) students identify key characters (ii) students describe key characters with the support of on-screen vocab (iii) students identify key conflicts between the characters with the support of on-screen vocab (iv) students answer a number of questions as though they were characters in the film.

TOOLKIT outlining ordinal numbers from 1 - 31 with the twelve months. The structures will enable students to say when they and others celebrate their birthdays and when they ans others were born.

And... another batch of authentic images and mini-texts with questions in English. Pitched at a lower ability Year 11 group, but works well as a starter for other students.

Review of Adele's second album, followed by 'true / false / not in text questions'

Powerpoint in which the pattern of adjectival endings after 'Wir haben ein / eine / ein ... ' are built up slide by slide. This followed by an activity in which images of celebrities and fim characters are used as a stimulus for students to say what kind of garden / kitchen / bedroom they have.

Ten TRUE/FALSE questions in German about Rio 2016. If the" TRUE/FALSE" rubric is red the answer is "false". If it's green the answer is "true". Slide one acts as a homepage. Students choose a number and are hyperlinked to a question.

Extended domestic dialogue in which Lois Lane tries to help an improbably untidy Superman remember where he put an essential part of his outfit. Lots of practice of adjectives after the noun, and locations within a house. The dialogue is followed by a true / false exercise, a 'find the phrase' exercise, and two manipulation exercises.

Curious or amusing signs from Germany. Just ask your class to work out and explain why the images are funny.

Revision sheet with an overview of German verbs in three tenses