Worksheet to help students (i) understand how to form questions and (ii) to practise forming simple questions relating to free time

Four texts in which teenagers describe their work experience in fairly brief terms. The texts are followed by a comprehension exercise, a find the phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise and a writing task.

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.

Unlikely dialogue in which Gollum goes ring shopping and is served by Buzz Lightyear. Will Buzz sell him the ring?

Exercise to help students summarise the early scenes in the film.

Jumbled dialogue between, Santa, who has misplaced his reindeer, and an elf, who finds them in his garden. The dialogue can be reassembled in many different ways. You could model a dialogue first and them ask them to improvise something similar, before asking them to write up a plausible dialogue.

Text in German about a curious Christmas tradition in Iceland, followed by GCSE style questions in English.

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

Text on technical elements of the film followed by a 'Find the Phrase' activity. Designed to equip students with some of the technical language they need to write about the film.

(i) A definition of Carsharing followed by a discussion and diamond nine ideas-sort (ii) A variety of statements for and against Carsharing, followed by a comprehension activity, a speaking task, and an AS-style writing task.

Simple presentation introducing (or revising) the plural forms of pets.

Powerpoint with 35 realia, each followed by questions in English.

Two exercises practising the use of the Nominative for the subject and the Accusative for the direct object.

Text about the FSJ followed by AS-style questions in German and an AS-style writing task.

Interview with a headteacher of a school celebrating 18 years as a "Schule ohne Rassismus". The text features authentic details about the school edited into an old AQA resource on the same topic. There are then two reading comprehension activities.

Another 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.

Powerpoint with 24 slides each with a stimulus question relating to the Yr 12 topic "Interessen und Sorgen der Jugend". I used this to stimulate discussion at thee nd of the topic. The first slide of the PPT acts as a homepage. Students choose a number and are hyperlinked to a slide they can not see.

Text about eco-friendly, fairtrade sneakers with questions in German and a discussion question to follow.

List of the months in German followed by images designed to provoke students into guessing the month from the weather / events they are looking at. Lots of possible correct answers = lots of guesses. If you've taught the weather you could invite students to justify their guesses.

Powerpoint which builds up, slide by slide to create a table illustrating adjectival endings in the Accusative after 'Es gibt ... '. The examples are all in the context of desribing a room. The table is followed by images of celebrities, and students then have to speculate as to what there is in their room.