A sequence of speaking activities relating to the film 'Der Tunnel' including character identification, conflicts between key characters and character description.

Simple quiz. Each slide of the powerpoint begins with an outline map of one of the competing countries in Euro 2012. A click of the mouse will reveal the football strip of that country, modelled by a Subbuteo / Zeugo figure. Another click will reveal the flag of that country. A fourth click will reveal the name of the team. How many clicks do your pupils need before they identify the team?

A set of plenaries adapted largely from ideas uploaded by mikegershon, with additions from myself and my colleague at Gordano, Ruth Jones. The adapted slides have (i) been given a makeover and (ii) been re-phrased so that they all address the students directly and are thus ready for classroom use, hence 'Plenaries TO GO'.

Text describibg daily routine and school life in the future, with comprehension questions in German

22 quotes in German from the first 45 minutes of the German movie version of the Lord of the Rings. Students have to ascribe the quotes to one of three characters in each case.

A newspaper cartoon about chaos in lessons in some German schools with seven sets of questions designed to get the students to interpret what they see and justify their deductions.

Questions in German relating to the Youtube clip Öko-Hauptstadt Hamburg which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w4eoVa5wlk . The comprehension questions are followed by an AS style writing task. I've tacked on some suggested answers to the first part,

An authentic text about recycling in Germany with AS style comprehension questions in German.

Interactive drag-and-drop activity for practising the numbers 60 to 100 in French. 13 key examples are practised.

PPT with a single word in German on each slide. Click "view show" and the PPT scrolls through the slides rapidly and loops continuosly until you click the "ESC" key. Students simply have to note down as many words as they can spot. This is adapted from an original template created by Gemma Culliford.

Text about the elves in the Lord of the Rings followed by by True/False/Not in Text questions in English. Practice of character, personality, qualities, appearance ...

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.

A sequence of activities relating to the film. (i) a relatively straightforward character match-up exercise (ii) translation of a key scene from the Drehbuch (iii) comparison of the scene as it stands in the Drehbuch with the scene as it actually is in the film (iv) structured discussion of what might account for the differences (v) an exercise putting events in the first half of the film into the correct order and (vi) a more demanding match-up exercise using extended quotes from the Drehbuch. I made this for an able Year 11 FL2 group but could easily be adapted for AS or A2.

Structured dialogue about what job you might like to do and why. The questions are fixed but the answers have to be generated from mini-toolkits.

Text describing some of Katniss's family relationships and friendships in the first book. Text is followed by a 'Correct the false statements' activity and two speaking and/or writing activities.

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.

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

Another set of 35 authentic items culled from the internet, with questions in English. Designed for a revisophobic year 11 class, but works well as a starter for the more engaged. Various topics covered.

Short texts in which teenagers say which options they have chosen and why. Texts are followed by comprehension questions in English, a 'find the phrase&' exercise, a manipulation exercise, a speaking activity and a short writing activity. Also includes brief revision of the present tense and word order after &';weil'.

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