Open-ended starter. Pupils have to suggest what the people or the animals in the images are thinking. Lots of possible correct answers for each picture. If you want you could set parameters eg 'Utilisez le futur proche.'

Foundation Level TOOLKIT, designed to help Foundation Level pupils say why they like or dislike someone and also help them construct sentences with two common subordinating conjunctions.

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.

Interactive, multiple choice exercise practising a range of regular and irregular past participles. There are 65 verbs embedded in the file and the file will create a new quiz of 20 verbs selected at random each time the exercise is opened.

I made this for my FL2 class to practise the Perfect Tense with haben and sein in the context of daily routine. The pair work cycles through three times, with the on-screen support reduced each time.

Jumbled dialogue between, Santa, who has misplaced his reindeer, and an elf, who finds them in his garden. The dialogue can be reassembled in many different ways. You could model a dialogue first and them ask them to improvise something similar, before asking them to write up a plausible dialogue.

Powerpoint game for practising basic animal vocab.

Interactive multiple choice quiz on the London Olympics. The programme will shuffle the possible answers into a different order each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW.

Playscript for beginners. The script practises basic personal ID language BUT with a handful of high-frequency constructions in the Perfect tense thrown in. If you have an alien mask and / or a bee costume, you can play all the parts yourself to the bemusement of your pupils. Pupils should practise the script in threes, then write an extension to the story. Vocab list of more improbable characters supplied.

Interactive cloze text presenting a potted history of London's involvement with the modern Olympic Games. Reveals who should have hosted the games in 1944. Will work on PC or IW.

A traditional grammar exercise. Students must supply the correct article in the text about the film, using the separate flow-chart to help them.

Two texts relating to the events on the Domplatz in Köln on New Year's Eve 2015. The first text is a report which outlines the kinds of crimes that were committed and states who the perpetrators were believed to be. The second text relates the views of a German woman of Turkish heritage regarding these events. The texts are followed by questions in German.

Practice of the technical language needed to discuss technical elements of the film. The PPT contains a sequence of slides, each containing images / an image from the film plus a statement about Filmsprache which contains an error. Students must identify, and in some instances correct, the error. After each slide containing an error, the correct statement is revealed.

Practice of word order after WEIL in the context of MEINE STADT. The activities are set up for students to work through independently.

Improbable dialogue in which Bella from Twighlight and Belletrix Lestrange from Harry Potter compare and contrast the different routines of vampires and wizards. Embedded in the text is the complete paradigm of se coucher. The dialogue is followed by a 'Find the Phrase' exercise focussing on the reflexive verb 'se coucher', practice in writing the paradigms of other reflexives, and a gap-fill exercise in which students must supply the correct reflexive pronouns.

Higher level text about the prevalence of drugs in German schools, with comprehension questions in English.

Lots of photos of German breakfast items. Pupils initially get to see a very small section of each photo and must try to identify the food. The following slide reveals the answer. Generates high participation levels.

Interactive activity for practising TV programmes

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

Lots of pictures of clock-faces for practising the time.