I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
This quiz is based on a six minute medley of German songs and it is aimed at intermediate German learners.
It would be ideal as an introduction to the topic of music or as a fun game at the end of term. It includes 12 different genres of music from folk to heavy metal and an exercise on description words to give opinions about music.
If played in teams it usually takes about 20-30 min - students answer questions about the genre, description and content and guess which band picture goes with which song.
New version: remote learning ready - digital only - no preparation needed - self-marking
A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! A spy themed escape room activity in which students need to solve German language related puzzles to get a code to jump from one website to the next in search of the German spy.
There are two versions included here: a new digital only version and the original classroom based version.
Ideal as vocab revision on the topic of food . Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays!
It focuses on vocab and research on German food but the origitanl version also includes vocab from the topics school and hobbies, and practises word order and past participles.
The resource includes:
Link to “Findet den Spion!” website and introduction video.
Teacher instruction, including how to put together the puzzle items
Teacher answers
Puzzles to print out/Files for digital versions
Murder Mystery to run alongside Stimmt AQA GCSE Chapter 3 “Menschliche Beziehungen”, Now also includes an adapted version to go with the Pearson Edexcel GCSE book for the 2024 GCSE specification, Chapter 3 “Meine Welt, deine Welt”
Turn a whole chapter into a crime story! This project is intended to complement/ replace exercises from the text book and will link the pages together into one thrilling crime story. My students ask every lessons if they will find out ‘whodunit’, especially as there is a prize for the best detective!
The project should not take up much more time than using the book on its own as some tasks can replace text book tasks and get students to revise the text book vocabulary in a different context.
The topics included:
describing appearance and character
speaking about friendship
family relationships and reasons why you (don’t) get on with each other
weddings and opinions about marriage
separable verbs
future tense
imperfect modal verbs
Includes:
• puzzle, reading, writing, listening, speaking, translation and role play tasks
• film trailer for the project, powerpoint (more than 60 slides) and work booklet (12 pages)
• teacher guidance (hidden in the ppt, can be seen in edit mode)
• activity overview
• answers to all tasks
A comprehensive introduction to the cases in German aimed at 6th form students, including dual prepositions and flexible word order.
It includes presentation slides, gap fill, writing, match up and drawing task and a quiz.
Also includes a case overview hand out that could be turned into a class room display.
All you need to get students confidently using German numbers.
This pack focuses on getting the students to use their logic to work out how numbers in German are put together, including irregular ones.
This pack includes a 47-slide powerpoint presentation, crossword puzzles, card sort and jigsaw puzzle and list of game ideas to practise numbers.
Details:
The presentation includes pronunciation practise of ei-ie, different activities and games to practise the numbers and links to quizlet and Kahoot. The card sorting activity shows numbers in different Germanic languages to make students understand language families and cognates. There are two tarsia jigsaw puzzles for lower and higher numbers. Students cut out the square and triangular pieces and work out what shape they need to make by matching up the numbers in German.
Note: For some activities you need to draw on the powerpoint. To get a pen, click control+p while in presentation mode.
A vocabulary list in the form of a sentence builder, to help with word order. Vocab to describe addictions and give opinions, with a translation and writing task.
A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 78-79 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (food, opinions, past tense). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising home vocab from pages 68-69 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (house, irregular present tense verbs and meals). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
A fun plenary or starter game for the main beginners' topics in any language. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students translate the vocabulary on the boxes and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure.
This activity is based on the gamification theory that random rewards make games more addictive and fun.
There are 34 slides with treasures hidden in different places about these topics (two slides for each topic)
Numbers 1-20
Numbers 20-100
Letters
Animals
Family
Months
Dates
Appearance
Verb endings
Question words
Sports
Hobbies
Hobbies/Sports and Time phrases
Subjects
Days
Town
Food
Note: In presentation mode click on squares to make them disappear and reveal the treasures.
A worksheet for lower to middle ability GCSE students, practising writing about part time jobs. There are three tasks for similar texts with decreasing support.
Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early on with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 3 Stimmt 3 Red.
This download includes:
-PowerPoint with three pictures with questions in German and optional English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work.
-translation worksheet
-two role play cards for student pair work
-example answers for speaking and translation tasks included in the PowerPoint.
More chapters available soon!
Note: vocabulary slide should be first in ppt, was put to back so preview on TES shows pictures.
Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early on with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 2 Stimmt 3 Red.
This download includes:
-PowerPoint with three pictures with questions in German and optional English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work .
-translation worksheet
-two role play cards for student pair work
-example answers for speaking and translation tasks included in the PowerPoint.
More chapters available soon!
Note: vocabulary slide should be first in ppt, was put to back so preview on TES shows pictures.
Practise German pronunciation with this 70-slide PowerPoint. It is suitable for all levels from beginners to A-Level, and can be used whenever the students struggle with a certain sound.
This version includes all the word lists read out by a native speaker. There is a presentation-only version available to buy.
It covers the main difficult letters/letter combinations like ‘ie’ and ‘ei’, ‘sp’ and ‘st’ and ‘J’. The sounds are practiced with the following activities: listen and repeat contrasting pairs (for students to work out the pronunciation), listen and point to what sound you hear, pair work, tongue twisters and a rule to copy down if possible.
The presentation is meant to be presented in chunks, when students come across a new sound or before speaking exams.
Note: the slides are not in alphabetical order but in order of how common the problem is. There is a hyperlinked index.
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Get a puzzle worksheet for each page of Chapter 5 in the Stimmt! 1 book. Each worksheet contains three different types of word puzzles (crossword puzzles, unjumbling, word clouds, cryptograms…) to practise the vocabulary and grammar on each page. Also includes answers.
Get your students used to GCSE style questions early with translations, picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Studio 3 Module 1 “Bien dans sa peau”. It is based on the vocabulary of the foundation book, but can be used for vert + rouge.
This download includes:
-powerpoint with three pictures with exam style questions in French with optional English to guide students along.
-translation worksheet with three different tasks
-two role play cards with teacher script for student pair work, bullet points either in French or English
answers for the translation task are included in the powerpoint
For teaching Good Bye Lenin to 6th form students.
This contains two vocabulary lists in German-English, one general Berlin Wall vocab, one more specific Good Bye Lenin film vocab, there is also a big crossword puzzle for each vocab list, including answers.
A web-based activity to introduce students to Spain’s geography and culture and first Spanish words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about Spain. It also does not require any printing as all answers are entered and checked in the webpage.
Ideal activity at the beginning of a course in Spanish language or European geography or as a fun activity last lesson before the holidays.
The activity includes tasks on:
• Spain’s location in the world
• Spanish cities
• 360-degree picture quests
• famous Spanish people
• Spanish companies
• Greetings in Spanish
Sentence builder for weather and activities (Es regnet, also spiele ich Fussball). Students write down one sentence and then guess what sentence their parter has written. Can also be used as a kind of bingo game, the students write down 1-3 sentences, if they have the same sentences as the teacher they win.
A game for the first lesson in a new group or as recap of first few chapters of book. This is an example of 4 sentences in German, one of which is a lie. Every student writes 4 sentence about themselves, and then go around getting other people to guess which one is a lie.