Colour coded grammar toolkit to help students formulate sentences such as 'I've got a dog called &'Lumpi&';.' or I used to have cat, called 'Mimi&'.' or 'When I was little, I used to have a cat called &';Mimi'.'
Text in which the characters from Scooby Doo describe what they do in their free time. Text is followed by questions in English and a 'Richtig, falsch, nicht im Text' exercise.
Text about the world's first wind-powered car, with comprehension questions in German, and discussion questions which could also be answered in written form or used as a scaffold for oral work.
4 short texts based on internet threads, in which teenagers blog about their dream job or uncertainty about their dream job. Texts are followed by comprehension questions in English, a 'find the phrase' activity, plus a 'now manipulate the phrase you found' activity.
Interview with Mr Bean about towns in France he likes and has visited, loosely based on 'Mr Bean's Holiday'. Not all of his answers fit the questions but pupils generally pick up on this, ( and they can of course be invited to supply the answers Mr Bean should have given ...)
Short texts in which school pupils express the likelihood of their going into the sixth form versus looking for training or employment, followed by comprehension questions in English, a 'Find the phrase' exercise and a text manipulation exercise.
(The original four texts are from Lernpunkt Deutsch 3, but the two texts featuring authentic German handwriting have proved to be too hard to read for many of my students so I've typed them up!)
Powerpoint story in which Bella from the 'Twighlight' series describes a typical day. The text appears slowly, giving students time to read and work out the meanings. As a follow up you could ask the class for ideas, such as likes and dislikes, to augment the text on each slide and make the story their own.
TOOLKIT outlining ordinal numbers from 1 - 31 with the twelve months. The structures will enable students to say when they and others celebrate their birthdays and when they ans others were born.
This is an edited version of Kiffen und Komasaufen, which I uploaded previously. This version has been altered to suit the needs of my AS class. The text is followed by a richtig/falsch/nicht im Text exercise, questions in German, a 'find the phrase' activity, a translation into German of English language data regarding the situation in the UK, and a writing activity in which students must then compare and contrast the data from both countries.
Short animated presentation for CPD on questioning and wait-time. 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.
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.
The Powerpoint features the verbs sehen, lesen and hören in the Perfect, Present and Future tenses. A click will remove one of the nine verbs and pupils have to say what has been removed. Another click will put the verb back. And so on ...
Higher Level text about an orchestra from Vienna that performs on instruments made out of vegetables. Bizarre but true. The text is followed by a true / false / not in text exercise.