A text about Mehrwegflaschen followed by (i) AS style comprehension questions in German (ii) An exercise practising the Passive and (iii) a translation into German requiring the recycling of lexis from the source text and some use of the Passive.

Text about the Selfie Generation in Austria, followed by True/False/Not in text questions in English, then a reading task which is in itself preparation for a speaking task.

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.

Higher level text about a school in Germany whose pupils initiated their own projects to help refugees. Followed by questions in English.

Toolkit to support pupils in formulating complex sentences relating to the environment. Practice of um ... zu ... , verb ...

A sequence of activities to help students describe their phone: (i) an adjective sorting activity (ii) selct adjectives for an advertising campaign (iii) a bit of grammar (iv) some useful phrases.

TOOLKIT to help students generate sentences starting with an adverb, adverbial phrase, or subordinate clause, and continuing with a reflexive verb in the Perfect Tense.

Three short character studies of Gerd Wiesler, Georg Dreyman and Christa-Maria Sieland. Each study contains an anomaly, which the students must identify and delete. (PS typos removed)

Examples of pronunciation for (i) e, é, è (ii) c followed by different vowels, and ch (iii) redundant accents such as à & â

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

Practice of key verbs of travel in Perfect, Present and Future Tenses.

Practise of key language relating to asking directions, followed by a playscript, in which Britney Spears asks the characters from Scooby Doo for directions. The location of the station remains a mystery.

Kim's game. Pupils have to say which image has disappeared each time.

Powerpoint for practising vocab relating to illness and injury.

Vocab activity and complex sentence building, followed by discussion questions on the topic of homelessness

Set of 20 slides to stimulate and support discussion of or speculation about people's personalities.

I made these before the new GCSE formats were published but they can easily be adapted to your e exam board's preferred testing style.

PPT containing 10 slides culled from authentic internet sources with questions in German. I used this as a starter with a Year 12 group.

Interactive drag-and-drop IW activity for practising key verbs. The activity has 50 verbs embedded, but will select at random 10 verbs to practise each time it is opened. With any luck it will never be the same activity twice!

Interactive drag-and-drop activity for practising adjectives relating to personality in German.