Reading activity (based on a Listening from Expo 3 Rouge) with comprehension activities; a grid to visually show the different tenses (useful for revision); a multiple-choice quiz on verb conjugations; a re-translation exercise to develop the skill of adapting; a final activity to build Level 7 sentences.
Comprehensive sheet to prepare students for speaking/writing assessment, including Languages Ladder to show students specifically what they need to do/how to improve. The ladder is particularly useful for quickly setting very specific targets.
Used as a follow-up to Levelled assessment, this lesson guides students towards reflecting on their achievements and improving. There are two similar versions of this lesson - the normal one (Levels 6-7) and the HIGHER one (Levels 7-8), with full resources for both. You could even mix them together and do a lesson that covers Levels 6-8!
Self-contained worksheet focusing on the most important vocabulary for the topics from AQA A Level German Theme 3 (Multiculturalism in German-speaking Society):
7. Einwanderung,
8. Integration,
9. Rassismus.
The worksheets each contain a handpicked vocabulary list, followed by four exercises to aid learning of this vocabulary. Both worksheets are included in editable .doc format, as well as an easily printable .pdf. Suitable for a quick starter or revision activity, or to encourage students to find creative ways to learn vocabulary.
If you like this resource, try the vocabulary worksheets for Themes 1, 2 and 4 too, or buy the bundle of all four - feedback welcomed!
Similar lesson to 'FAIRE', with a goanimate video - with a focus on forming closed questions. Introducing the class's first irregular verb - present tense only.
1) Help sheet for year 9 French, corresponds to Expo 3 Rouge Module 3. Guides students towards creating basic sentences, then improving them.
2) An activity, created for a cover lesson, based on this collection of sentence-builders.
Preparation materials for speaking/writing assessments in Year 9 French. Used in combination with Expo 3 Rouge textbooks, and given out along with my 'En bonne santé' sentence-builders sheet.
'Pimp My Sentence' has been rebranded as '7Up' - this worksheet will help students to reach Level 7 in French writing/speaking - use in combination with my Pimp My Sentence mixed tense PowerPoint!
Three self-contained worksheets focusing on the most important vocabulary for topics from Theme 1 of the AQA A Level German specification (Aspects of German-speaking Society):
Familie im Wandel,
die digitale Welt,
Jugendkultur: Musik, Mode und Fernsehen.
For all worksheets there is a selected vocabulary list, followed by four exercises to aid learning of this vocabulary. Both worksheets are included in editable .doc format, as well as an easily printable .pdf.
If you like this resource, try the vocabulary for Themes 2, 3 and 4 too - feedback welcomed!
Used to review tenses after a writing exam, this grid should help my bright year 8s to sort out their tenses (and extend them towards negative sentences). Help sheet on second page with references to Expo 2 rouge textbook.
Slightly tongue-in-cheek lesson about writing a report on your teacher. Pupils read my report and fill in the appropriate endings, then pick out the best grammatical structures, and finally use what they've learnt to write their own reports on a teacher (suitable for a guessing game on which teacher they&'re talking about). Fun for my top-set year 10s.
Three self-contained worksheets focusing on the most important vocabulary for the AQA A Level German Theme 2 (Artistic culture in the German-speaking world) topics:
4. Feste und Traditionen,
5. Kunst und Architektur,
6. Das Berliner Kulturleben damals und heute.
For all worksheets there is a carefully selected vocabulary list, followed by four exercises to aid learning of this vocabulary. All 3 worksheets are included in editable .doc format, as well as an easily printable .pdf.
If you like this resource, try the vocabulary worksheets for Themes 1, 3 and 4, or try the bundle of all four - feedback welcomed!
Self-contained worksheet focusing on the most important vocabulary for the topics from AQA A Level German Theme 4 (Aspects of political life in the German-speaking World):
10. Deutschland und die EU,
11. Politik und die Jugend,
12. Die Wiedervereinigung und ihre Folgen.
The worksheets each contain a handpicked vocabulary list, followed by four exercises to aid learning of this vocabulary. All worksheets are included in editable .doc format, as well as an easily printable .pdf. Suitable for a quick starter or revision activity, or to encourage students to find creative ways to learn vocabulary.
If you like this resource, try the vocabulary worksheets for Themes 1, 2 and 3 too, or get the bundle of all four - feedback welcomed!
A lesson introducing the concept of verb conjugation to Year 7. They still remember conjugating 'spinnen&'! Plan is also included, as is a follow-up lesson.
Four self-contained worksheets focusing on the most important vocabulary for the new Edexcel AS/A Level German topics from Theme 1 (Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in Deutschland):
Natur und Umwelt,
Bildung,
Die Welt der Arbeit (in two parts)
Perfect for introducing the topics, as a quick lesson-starter, or as an independent/homework task. The same lists could be used to set a subsequent vocabulary test, and are an excellent starting point for more in-depth revision.
Included in all worksheets is a carefully selected vocabulary list, followed by five exercises to aid learning of the vocabulary. The worksheets are included in editable .doc format, as well as an easily printable .pdf. Answers and ideas for further use of this vocabulary list are on the second page of the documents.
If you like this resource, or have any feedback as to how it might be improved, please let me know - worksheets for all the other Edexcel topics for all 4 themes are in progress!
A lesson to teach/revise structures with the conditional perfect. Ideal for a small class, each member of the class becomes an investigator of one particular structure, and then in a mini-carousel, students explain their findings to each other and write notes on the summary sheet. If there is an odd number (as in my class), you can use the slot with the student to do some specific oral work or other challenging activity. Extension activity on reverse is on the future perfect. Very challenging - not for the faint-hearted!