Dialogue in which the characters from THE BIG BANG THEORY discuss bedtimes. The dialogue contains the complete paradigm of se coucher and is followed by a grammatical exercise on reflexive verbs, a find the phrase acticity, a manipulation activity, and a writing task. The writing task will produce a script for subsequent speaking practice.

A powerpoint featuring a model of a statement about household chores covering three tenses, followed by several images of celebrities or fictional characters, into whose mouths the pupils might like to put words. Could easily be adapted for any topic.

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.

A text about the Hunger Games, featuring some character info and a comparison of the Capitol and District 12. This is followed by a true / false / not in text exercise, an adjective identification exercise, a reminder about adjectival endings, and two writing tasks. The second file contains an additional task for students who may need some additional work / challenge. Students have to complete an interview with Katniss Everdeen and must transpose many statements in the third person into the first person.

A two page list of football-related vocab, ready for the European Championships.

Text about what data you should and should not include in your Facebook profile, what can happen to, or because of, the data that is there, and how to change your settings. Text is followed by a 'Find the phrase' exercise, a text manipulation exercise, an extended speaking task, a bit of grammar (modals), and a writing task.

Short animated presentation for CPD on Mindset and Praise. This version will advance automatically through the slides and will loop back to the beginning after the last slide. Change the settings if you want to control the slides with a mouse-click.

Authentic screenshots and mini-texts on the topic of FOOD, with questions in English. Created for a lower ability group but works well as a starter for more able classes.

(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.)

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

An extended text describing and analysing key decision points for the main characters in Das Leben der Anderen, followed by a summary exercise which should help students gain an overview of cause and effect and provide a useful tool for revision. To create this text I have edited down a more complex analysis of Wiesler and Sieland found on wedding-music-and-more.de and interwoven additional material on Dreyman written by Isabella Langheim. I made up the summary task.

Reading comprehension activity relating to the film 'Der Tunnel'. Students must read the jumbled set of events and put them into the correct chronological order to reconstruct the plot. Solution provided.

Two fairly prosaic texts about Free Time followed by comprehension questions.

Text with questions in English

Questions in German to stimulate discusssion about shopping, shopping habits, and possibly even gender stereotypes.

Blogs relating to the topic of Ganztagsschulen in Germany. The texts are followed by comprehension questions in English and a manipulation exercise. The latter should enable students to generate language which they could use to comment on the length of their own school day.

Two short but challenging articles about pocket money trends in Germany, followed by questions in English

Three short texts about what teenagers use the internet for, followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' activity, a minor Grammar point, a manipulation exercise, a 'find the tense' exercise, and a writing task.

Yet more practice of key vocab for recalcitrant Year 11s. Although designed for lower ability classes, these work well as a starter for more able students too.

Ppt featuring severely cropped authentic images of places in Berlin (station, supermarket etc). Pupils have to try to guess what the place is and say'Hier gibt es ...'. The cropped image is followed by the full image to confirm the answer or make it a bit easier, and this is then supported with the correct sentence in German. Colour coding has been used to emphasize gender. The final four slides build up a table modelling the use of the Nominative after Das ist vs the Accusative after Es gibt. This could be elicited from students before clicking in each answer.