A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then recaps the school bag/equipment vocabulary. There is then a reminder about verb conjugation, and then some information on the verb “haben”, plus a grid and a worksheet for students to fill in (included). It finishes with a short writing task and some information about an up-coming assessment. Also included is the “haben” grid and worksheet for students to fill in. This is lesson 13 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 26-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It then introduces 11 colours in German words and practises them with a “brain gym” activity and a listening exercise. There is some information on saying “light” and “dark”, and some translations (combining colours with school bag items). It ends with an extended writing piece about colours and combining it with school bag items. Note that there is a reference to a Linguascope worksheet, which I cannot include as it’s Copywrite. This is lesson 20 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 10-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity thinking about previous German content covered and then introduces some height and size vocabulary. This is practised with a listening exercise, some translations, and a reading comprehension. It ends with a written activity in the style of a “wanted” posted to describe someone else. This is lesson 22 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

An 18-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then introduces the months of the year. There are then some examples of German birthday card texts, followed by the “birthday” vocabulary. It talks through ordinal numbers (changing, e.g. “17” to “17th”), and then practises the vocab with a listening activity and a reading activity. Please note: A Linguascope worksheet is referenced, which I can’t share as it’s protected by Copyright. This is lesson 7 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 19-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then introduces the idea of verb conjugation (using “wohnen”). A grid for students to fill in is included. It then presents 11 country names in German, and practises them with two listening exercises. Please note: There is a reference to the Linguascope worksheet on countries, which I cannot share as it is protected by Copyright. Also included is a grid for students to fill in the conjugation of “wohnen”. This is lesson 10 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 12-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It then introduces lots of clothing vocabulary (along with the gender) and there is some translation (into English and then into German) to practise simple sentences. There is a listening/gap fill activity, before the grammar information about adjectival endings. It ends with a written exercise asking students to write about their school uniform. This is lesson 28 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 5-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It then introduces the writing task, asking students to write about their school in four specific bullet points (subjects and when, opinions on subjects, break time food and drink, and uniform). Also included is a list of targets for quick marking and feedback/PRIDE/DIRT (T1, T2 etc.) This is lesson 31 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It then introduces several sports and activities and there’s a quick video to introduce “Handball”. It then practises the sports and hobbies with a simple listening exercise. There is then some work on conjugating verbs (“spielen” and “gehen”), before some translations into English and into German. After a little more listening practice and a recap of key facts, there’s a short writing exercise to put it together. This is lesson 32 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

An 18-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It then practises some sports with a quick reading activity and then introduces some frequency phrases (e.g. “every day”, “at the weekend”, “three times per week” etc.). There is then a longer reading comprehension activity (included), and lots of information and practice about putting the verb as the second idea. There is a recap of key facts before a writing exercise to put it together. This is lesson 34 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 15-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It then asks students to brainstorm days of the week, activities, opinion adjectives, and times by way of an introduction. There is then an example “invitations” dialogue and a listening exercise to pull out the main facts. There are then some comprehension activities (unjumble the sentences, correct the mistakes, and translation into English and into German and a listening exercise to pull out the day, the activity and the time. It ends with ordering a dialogue and then copying or creating an individual “invitations” dialogue. This is lesson 37 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 14-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It starts with an anagram activity to remind students of the words for some bedroom furniture, then reminds students of the correct words for “the” (at the start of sentences). It then introduces five prepositions (“neben”, “zwischen”, “in”, “auf”, and “unter”), and shows students the Dative Case in action with “a”, “the”, and “my”, with a grid to fill in (included). There then follows lots of practice - multiple choice quizzes, and then tasks asking students to form sentences using the Dative Case, prepositions and furniture. There is a drawing activity to show understanding of the words, a fun “Connect 4” activity where students have to translate phrases from this unit into German, and then a written task asking students to describe the position of the bedroom furniture in their room. This is lesson 43 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

One lesson on the Berlin Wall, which includes: * Spontaneous speaking and/or writing * Historical information * German vocab to do with lifestyles in East and West Germany * Worksheets to bring students up to speed with capitalism, communism and the history of German after WWII * Differentiated resources * Lesson plan

An information sheet about the English to German translation section of the Higher tier Writing exam. It covers an example question and layout, the mark scheme, some general tips, and some basic tense structures.

An information sheet about the AQA GCSE German Writing exam - the 40-word essay part (which only appears on the Foundation tier). It explains the format of the exam, information on the word count, the mark scheme, some general tips, some common question vocabulary, information on stating and explaining your opinion, and some basic tense structures.

An information sheet about the AQA GCSE German Writing exam - the Photo Card description part (which only appears on the Foundation tier). It explains the format of the exam, the mark scheme, some general tips, and some useful vocabulary to structure answers.

A list of 20 holiday homework tasks, e.g. a supermarket challenge, a German song challenge, a bake-off challenge, a board game challenge, an advert challenge… something suitable for everyone. Each challenge has simple instructions with it.

A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 7.1 - Environment. It complements the OUP textbook. It includes key grammar (“Using subordinating conjunctions”, “Using the imperative”, and “Using the pluperfect”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.

A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 1.2 - Marriage and partnership. It complements the OUP textbook. It includes key grammar (“Using adjectives to describe people and things”, “Using the future tense”, and “Using comparative and superlative adjectives”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.