Sentence builder
Activities such as gap fill, bad translation, jumbled sentence to re-order, templates for Conti sentence stealer, delayed dictation and mind reader and then tangled translation that touches upon earlier school uniform and location
Good revision task for school
Recap on present tense endings, common irregulars, spot the mistake on WW2 topic in A level Edexcel and Eduqas spec, and translation task with mark scheme and suggested answers
50 minute lesson
I have used this for two lessons of cover work - students must use the sentence builder to complete a set of activities which include: 5 minute word finding challenge, wordsearch, match-up, gapped translation, bad translation, put in the gaps and other things
Students must 1st translate the chunks and then colour them according to some given categories - 30 minutes approx
Answers given to save marking - students can mark their own
Trapdoor speaking to revise whole unit
Sentence builder for what do and will do (using present as the future with time phrase)
Translation
Match up, Put spaces in words and bad translation activities
Assessment questions, success criteria, sample answer to identify criteria and use as template
Activity to match alternative answers with translations to questions for lower ability groups
Activities to think about integration in Germany based around film
Willkommen bei den Hartmanns
Gapped translation
Ordering activity
title an article on refugee situation in Germany
We have sets of Jenga with ends numbered 1-48 - This is the template of questions, answers for the team judge and the record sheet
Each unit has two games so that judge also plays
This is for Stimmt 2 - chapter 2 and is mainly on books and films/tv but also odd questions on chapter 1 as retrieval and key time phrases and connectives/intensifiers.
My classes love this game
Brain dump on start of chapter
Delayed dictation template following translation page on uniform pros and cons
Tangled translation on uniform - task and answers in French and English
Match up of imperfect verbs
Tile translation using these verbs with sentence ends
Gap fill on text, to translate when complete
Answer slides if want to give for revision
Pyramid translation activity - done in 3s to practise vocabulary recognition of chapter 2 stimmt 1, and to give students a model answer frame for their writing assessment on this unit
I give this and the vocabulary pages at the end of the chapter
Reading task - students look at the three versions of the text, they highlight the changes in each text and translate into english under each text - approx 20-30 minutes work, depending on ability
Small sentence builder - what would you definitely/never/maybe do, with simple added opinion - In my opinion that would be…
Bad translation activity, gap fill activity and unjumble activity based on the sentence builder
Then gapped translation of katarina’s text from page 55 (no text included) for lower ability students
Tile translation to put the segments into a writing - enough for 1 hr lesson
(I will also do listening on page 54 and speaking from the pages in class)