Powerpoint practising the use of GERN. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students must select a letter on the homepage and are then hyperlinked to a multiple choice question on the use of GERN.
Relatively simple playscript for beginners who have done SEIN, a few adjectives of personality, and a few basic phrases. There is no real denouement to this dialogue but the pupils generally like it because I have a puppet just like the cat in the script ... Adapt the script to suit whichever props you have to hand. Once the students have practised the script as it stands, they could improvise changes to the words in bold type.
Simply display the Powerpoint, and read out plausible or implausible football results for the students to note down. This provided a surprisingly compelling context for the simple dictation of numbers in the early stages of learning them. You can of course change the teams however you like.
Interactive multiple choice quiz on Das Leben der Anderen. Each time the file is opened, the questions and the multi-choice options will be presented in a different order. Will work on IW or PC.
Summarising activity for students to complete after watching this gripping film about an attempt by German and Austrian climbers to scale the North Face of the Eiger in the 1930s. Students cut up the jumbled summary of the plot and re-arrange the cards in order to re-create the storyline.
Solution enclosed on separate Word doc.
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.
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Interactive drag and drop practice of ser and estar. Will work on PC or IW. (With regard to the comment posted below, the left hand column is not failing to function; it is fixed and you have to drag the items in the right-hand column over to their equivalents on the left-hand side.)
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.
Powerpoint with 9 slides each with a stimulus question. The questions focus on high-frequency Perfect Tense constructions. The first slide of the PPT acts as a homepage. Students choose a number and are hyperlinked to a slide they can not see.
Powerpoint in which students must (i) play Kim's Game with an image of Springfield and (ii) use the picture of Springfield as a stimulus for oral work.
Simple table featuring regular -er, -ir and -re verbs in the first person singular in three tenses. Designed to help weaker students analyse and annotate the patterns. Can be blown up as a poster and / or printed as a hand-out. I've also put the display on a ppt.
A number of resources revolving around the question of what you do when you find things that don't belong to you. The first text features a selection of blogs on the subject followed by comprehension questions in English and a 'Find the phrase' activity. There is then a Powerpoint with discussion questions and a toolkit to help students formulate answers.