Supported retrieval task on perfect and imperfect pages of stimmt 2
Make every sqaure count - pupils must find the sentence chunks and colour them the colour it says - every square must be coloured at the end - approx 20 minute task with mixed ability group
Range of repetitive activities to support year 8 lower ability students to be able to write about a past holiday - saying where they went, who with, what they did, ate and basic opinion
Sentence builders
Trapdoors
Connect 4
Spot the errors in weil sentences - with answers
Translation into German using er/sie/es as it - with answers
Gapped translation
Tangled translation to support teaching of this unit - with answers
Activities and sentence builders to work on stimmt 2 chapter 2 includes: sentence builders, four in a row, gapped translation, tangled translation, trapdoor activity, make every square count
Revision template to make a poster on unit 1
Students translate the model and look at the options and do some sentence building using the red words
They then either a) use template as retrieval task, what can you write, b) as an interview task they ask the questions and write a report on the person they have interviewed or c) use as a revision worksheet and complete with their book
Tangled translation - revising opinions on watching programmes, films and reading and saying what watched and opinion in the past
Also includes statements on time in front of a screen and whether healthy etc
9 activities to be used on past holidays in French as retrieval or revision tasks - include spot the error, translations, pick the odd one out, picture prompts etc
Ideas manipulated after reading books on the topic of retrieval practice
Format copied from a Twitter user who I will acknowledge when I can find the post again!
Jigsaw translations into French and English to help prepare for a writing task - crossover on units 1 and 2
A PPT with key verbs for writing and speaking exam in 5 different tenses; present, future, perfect, imperfect and conditional
Test template
Match up of time frame phrases
Translation into French activity using the sheet and also mini whiteboard check
Notes at bottom of how I’ve used with year 11 as retrieval activity on things like partitive article and negative de and remembering jouer au tennis but jouer du piano
Could leave as cover work or use as teaching resource
JIGSAW Translation, Game of slap to practise tenses, gapped translation to look at complex structures, 4 versions of same text to highlight changes and translate, one pen one dice, plus OXO games to practice the Filme und Fernsehen and music start to chapter
Can be used as individual activities or can incorporate into lesson planning
My students love these activities! x
Range activities to support teaching from STimmt 2 - chapter 2, unit 4
3 retrieval tasks at start on films/books/tv shows - 1st could be used as do it now or homework task
Bad listening task - changed transcript - changes and translation answer included
Sentence builder
Mind reading/delayed dictation and sentence stealer template
match up, split the words, fill in the mising vowels and translate into German tasks - could be done in class, as cover or as homework
Make every square count - students must find the clues given in english in German in the grid and highlight both the clue and the squares in the same colour
Can extend and ask them to write a paragraph using the clues in German
Spiral reading task - comprehension,
spiral reading task - separate the text
Translate
Answers included to translation and comprehension
great for classwork, cover or homework
Sentence builder and then cover work sheets or homework sheet - include fill in the missing vowels, match up, use word shape to work out answers among other things
Retrieval task on subjects, Time activities, sentence builder on subjects, tangled translation, tile translation - Great re-introduction to the school section of theme 3