Interactive, self-marking gap-fill exercise based on a relatively accessible portrait of Usain Bolt. Will work on PC or IW.

Open-ended starter. Pupils have to suggest what the people or the animals in the images are thinking. Lots of possible correct answers for each picture. If you want you could set parameters eg 'Utilisez le futur proche.'

Interactive drag and drop exercise focussing on 10 key statistical facts about London 2012. Will work on PC or IW. Presented in Usain Bolt's colours!

(i) Extended text about the surface to air missiles deployed in East London for the Olympics, followed by comprehension questions in German, and (ii) a selection of opinions about the security measures, based on internet blogs, followed by a comprehension task, a speaking task, and two writing tasks, one pitched at AS level and one pitched at A2 level. (Typos spotted and now fixed.)

Drag and drop practice of various tense forms of aller. Will work on PC or IW.

Foundation Level TOOLKIT, designed to help Foundation Level pupils say why they like or dislike someone and also help them construct sentences with two common subordinating conjunctions.

Interactive match-up exercise, featuring synonyms for or alternatives to the verb gehen. Will work on IW or PC.

Exercise in which students must re-arrange scenes from the film into the correct order.

Lots of pictures from which the time might be guessed at but not known for sure. Generates high participation levels as there are so many different possible answers for each picture.

Series of questions to promote discussion in German about products that may or may not be overpriced.

TOOLKIT to help pupils talk about what they have and haven't done during the school year.

Interactive drag and drop activity featuring modal verbs plus werden. There are twenty one items embedded in the game, but it will select ten at random each time it is opened, and will arrange them in random order. Will work in a computer suite, or on the IW.

Text in which Justin Bieber recounts a strange dream, featuring Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and things made of chocolate. The text is followed by questions in German.

This is about as simple an account of the Gunpowder Plot as I could come up with. Hopefully the visuals and the cognates will aid comprehension!

I made this for my FL2 class to practise the Perfect Tense with haben and sein in the context of daily routine. The pair work cycles through three times, with the on-screen support reduced each time.

Multi-choice activity practising the use of bleiben versus wohnen or übernachten.

This a transcript of a scene from the German film Die Welle. Students have to translate the text, then compare their translation to the subtitles given in the film. What differences do they notice and can they explain them? The scene contains the word Scheisse twice. May not be suitable for all audiences.

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.

Powerpoint game for practising basic animal vocab.

Year 12 starter activity. Each slide of the Powerpoint features a headline relating to the topic of Family. Students must decide in each case whether the accompanying statement is true or false.