An activity in which students muss match the descriptions of Elves, Orks, Hobbits etc to the appropriate type of being. Practice of physical description and character traits.

And some more authentic signs and notices with relatively simple questions in English. Aimed at a revision-shy Year 11 class.

Open-ended writing task in which students must create new characters for a soap opera. Originally I linked this to the theme of Meine Stadt, getting pupils to say where they lived and worked and including practice of prepositions eg Er arbeitet im Kiosk vor dem Bahnof. Er ist verliebt in die Freundin von seinem besten Freund etc etc, but you could practise a whole range of structures.

Dialogue in which Jeremy Clarkson discusses his dream holiday with German motoring presenter Sabine Schmitz, and Sabine reveals which of the three Top Gear presenters she likes best. Text is followed by a Richtig/falsch/nicht im Text exercise, a 'f'ind the phrase&' exercise, a manipulation exercise and a gap-fill exercise.

Interactive PPT for practising numbers and personal description. The first slide acts as a homepage with links to nine hidden images. These images can be used as a stimulus for practising (or getting the pupils to request) language relating to personality, mood and appearance.

Playscript in which Simon Cowell is interviewed and extols the physical attributes of Simon Cowell. Students could practise the dialogue as it stands and then adapt the text in bold type.

Interactive PPT for practising numbers and personal description. The first slide acts as a homepage with links to nine hidden images. These images can be used as a stimulus for practising (or getting the pupils to request) language relating to personality, mood and appearance.

Reading Comprehension with questions in English. A boy from the future describes a typical day.

This interactive drag-and-drop match-up game contains fifty German synonyms. Each time it opens it will select a different set of 10 synonyms and will shuffle the order. Should never be quite the same twice. Will work on PC or IW. If you use it in a computer suite, every student gets a different game.

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.

Text about the possible introduction of school uniforms in Nordrhein-Westfalen followed by GCSE-style questions in English. Based on on authentic text, but names of people and schools haves been changed.

Fifteen pictures of cartoon faces are displayed on a master slide. Each time you click, one of the faces will disappear. Students then have to describe the face from memory.

35 authentic items culled from the internet, with questions in English. Designed for a revisophobic year 11 class, but would work as a starter for a more able group.

Text about an inclusive disabled/non-disabled football tournament, with comprehension questions in English

Text in which young people outline what they have to do to earn their pocket money, followed by a comprehension task.

An activity practising language for saying what pets you used to have and what happened to them. There is a grammatical focus on gender and the use of the correct pronoun for 'it'. The first slide acts as a homepage with hyperlinks to other slides. Students then use the linked slides to create grammatically accurate sentences about the deceased and departed pets.

Toolkit to help students produce grammatically accurate sentences about their dead and departed pets. Grammatical focus is on the correct use of pronoun for 'it'.

Slightly simplified version of the AS text I uploaded outlining the origins of contemporary image of Santa, and exploring the mathematical implications of his task. The text is followed by (i) questions in English and (ii) an activity in which students must sort the tasks Santa must perform during each house visit into the correct order.

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

"Who wants to be a millionaire" style vocab quiz on domestic and wild animals. I used the PPT uploaded by ahardiment as a template.