This is a battleships game to fit in with them learning about activities using the internet. It introduces the perfect tense with avoir.

This is a worksheet and guide to using modal verbs in the past, present and future tenses. Enjoy!

I have been experimenting and have taught German tenses using a pictorial, dual-coding method which I have found more successful that normal “text book” ways. This is still explicit grammar teaching of the tenses, but it does away with the wordy grammar terms which don’t stick in students memory, but conveys the sentence structure in picture form. I have found this incredibly useful by embedding this into the language of the classroom e.g. “we are creating sandwich and car sentences”, which helps with student self error-correction too e.g. “how do you make a sandwich sentence again?” Each tense is made of 3 ingredients which form a whole picture sandwich and car (for past: not moving and moving), fortune cookie (for future) and bed (for conditional). There is a PowerPoint to explain the concept and a sentence builder so students can follow the pattern straight away.

A writing frame to help pupils describe their dream house in the conditional tense. Enjoy!

This is a speaking activity to encourage spontaneity and improve description. Pictures can easily be changed to fit other topics. I give year 9 some preparation time and then they describe their picture to their partner. Support can be given with speaking mats.

Here are three classroom Target Language Sentence Builders in French, German and Spanish. They could be printed and put on tables or stuck in students’ books.

This is a booklet to help pupils develop their reading skills at IB. Developed for an AB Initio class however looks at skills rather than level so will help Standard and Higher too. It looks at all the different types of questions that could come up e.g. synonyms, gap fill, true or false etc. Enjoy!

Here are 3 displays to brighten up your German classroom. There is a "We (love) languages" banner. A new grades board for the new GCSE to track objectives from year 7 to 11 and different interesting words in other languages to engage. Enjoy!

This is a lesson to develop the GCSE Speaking exam element of the role play. There includes a whole class role play activity. Pupils go to different hotels around the classroom and ask for the price of different rooms based on if they want a single or a double,the date and the length of stay. They then need to ask when breakfast is. Pupils can check their answers by adding up the prices and times. This resource gets every pupil involved and practicing real-world language. The whole-lesson PowerPoint guides pupils through the dialog in preparation for the whole-class activity. There is also a role play card example as a plenary. Enjoy!

Here is an activity for all age ranges learning the different body parts. Print off the body parts cards and stick them around the room. Pupils get the skeleton that they have to label using the clues. Rewards can be given for quickest. Extension activity to find plurals in a dictionary. Enjoy!

Here are 5 trap door games which are related to 4 different topics: Media, TV, Friends, Holiday and Pocket Money. This activity can take up to 10 minutes and promotes spontaneous speaking and listening. Pupils hide their sheet from their partner and mark 1 of the 3 options for each trap door. Pupils take it in turns to read from the start of the passage. The aim of the game is to get to the end of the passage. They imagine that, where there are multiple choice options in the sentence, this is a trap door. In order to past the trap door, they have to guess what their partner has chosen. They should mark if they get it right as they have to start from the beginning each time. When there is an opportunity to guess, afterwards pupils start from the beginning. Enjoy!

Two resources on adjectives based around emojis. One is a table where pupils must use a dictionary to find the adjectives and the second is a crossword puzzle for them to fill in. There is also a bonus verb word search in the puzzle Enjoy!

This is a differentiated starter for 3 groups (low, middle and high) to learn and revise verb conjugations in the present, past, future and conditional. It offers scaffolding for everyone and is focused on the new GCSE. A typical lesson will start with slide 1 on the board. I will have the class move so they are grouped by ability (low, middle and high). Lows will have slide 2 to fill out, with the tense guide printed on the back (slide 3). Middles will have slide 4 to fill out, with the tense guide printed on the back (slide 5). Highs will have slide 6 to fill out, with their class notes to help. Enjoy!

A reading puzzle for KS3-4 practicing places in the town, prepositions and adjective agreements. Pupils read the passage and try and draw the town onto the grid. There may be more than one place on one square and some may be in-between. Answers supplied. Can be adapted for deeper analysis e.g. cases and adjective endings. There are extension questions included.

This is a lesson to develop the GCSE Speaking exam element of the role play. There includes a whole class role play activity. Pupils meet a carry out a job interview on others. There are 7 different scenarios where they are a boss. This resource gets every pupil involved and practicing language. The whole-lesson PowerPoint guides pupils through the dialog in preparation for the whole-class activity. There is also a role play card example as a plenary.

I made this for my reluctant year 10 class who were still not getting their heads around tricky German word order in the past tense. We used this to drill translation exercises until the process was embedded and they could create simple sentences in the perfect tense on their own.

This is a reading exercise where pupils find out about different cities in Europe. They match the descriptions with the pictures and then guess the name of the city from the map. Enjoy!

This is a lesson to develop the GCSE Speaking exam element of the role play. There includes a whole class role play activity. Pupils go to different airlines around the classroom and ask for the price of different tickets based on if they want a return flight, baggage or food on-board. They then need to visit check in and find out when their flight departs. This resource gets every pupil involved and practicing real-world language. The whole-lesson PowerPoint guides pupils through the dialog in preparation for the whole-class activity. There is also a role play card example as a plenary. Pupils also complete their own passport and use it during the role play. Enjoy!

These are small squares which can be printed off, laminated and stuck to your classroom tables to introduce Kagen techniques to your German classes. I have created examples in sets of 4, but these can be edited. They go three ways: by A/B, by 1-4, or by table. Enjoy!