Playscript in which Shrek, exhausted by fatherhood, can not remember basic information about his life and his family and has to be corrected repeatedly by Fiona. Revision of birthdays, where I live, my house, my family, likes and dislikes and colours.

Interactive cloze exercise about the military security for London 2012. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive drag and drop exercise practising ten short but very high frequency words in French. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive cloze text presenting a potted history of London's involvement with the modern Olympic Games. Reveals who should have hosted the games in 1944. Will work on PC or IW.

This guide has been edited from Edexcel's generic advice on the research-based essay into a guide for those students who will be researching a text, a play or a film.

One of the Judoon (from Dr Who) lambasts Earth television programmes. Text is followed by a writing task which uses the stimulus text as a platform.

Written to match the Edexcel house style, but may still be useful if you do another board.

The sheet models common separable verbs relating to Tagesroutine in 3 tenses and the provides a set of interview questions which require students to use the verbs in different tenses. Could be done as a written exercise before embarking on the pair work.

Graduated practice of the conjugation of a number of common verbs in the Present Tense. You may wish to ask pupils to cover the paradigm when they add the endings.

A synopsis of the film in the Present Tense up to the point where Hardenberg is kidnapped. Students have to read the synopsis and then re-write the text in either the Perfect or the Imperfect Tense, depending on which of the two attached files you use. (I've uploaded this to replace an earlier version which doesn't seem to display the file.)

This table is set out to help pupils begin to understand patterns of conjugation. Could be printed as a hand-out or blown-up as a poster for display.

A school pupil of the future describes his school day. Text is followed by comprehension questions in French.

Two linked resources. The Word doc contains an account of Beyonces summer holidays. The html file is an interactive gap-fill activity, based on the same text. Work through the text, give the students a couple of minutes to re-read the text carefully, then ask them to cover the text up / put it out of sight, before doing the cloze exercise with the class.

Questions to stimulate discussion about possible work experience or future careers. Pupils must in each case choose between two alternatives and justify their choice. Two daft alternatives to warm up with, followed by a sequence of serious alternatives

Students must reconstitute the exploded dialogue and then practise it in pairs.

Four bloggers talk about what they do for the environment. Followed by comprehension questions in German and two discussion questions. (Typo fixed!)

Extended dialogue in which three cast members of a reality show discuss what to watch on TV and decide on a reality show. The dialogue is followed by a vocab matching exercise, a 'find the phrase exercise', a trawl of the different tenses used in the text, a manipulation exercise and a writing task

A number images of school uniforms from various countries for students to describe and comment on. Also one suggested seventies-style 'teacher uniform' for them to describe and comment on, and which begs the question for further oral work 'Sollten die Lehrer eine Uniform tragen?'

A german text containing a number of pieces of advice for greater on-line safety. Puils have to read the German and match up the advice with the suggestions listed in English below the source text.

Extended multi-choice grammar exercise, practising (i) the selection of haben or sein with verbs in the Perfect and (ii) the selection of singular or plural endings with verbs in other tenses. On completion students will also have model texts for describing holidays.