2 full lessons at both higher (Rot) and foundation (Grün) level, based on Echo 3 Rot/Grün - about describing famous people, giving reasons why you like/don't like them (using 'weil'). The worksheet can be used to support in the second lesson.

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.

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.

Originally conceived to encourage students to improve on an existing piece of writing, this Writing Challenge could be used as a motivational competition (with prizes for the best entries), as a guided writing task in-lesson or an independent homework task. Maturer classes may even be able to cope with this as a cover lesson. The task: write a letter home about your (fictional) German exchange experience - your German exchange partner is Detlev, whose family are incredibly environmentally friendly (no heating, no electricity(!)). This challenge allows all students to create an end-product by choosing one of the three on offer (article, interview, poster). On the back is a colour-coded guide to verb forms and word order (present tense, modal/future structure, and verb-comma-verb/subordination, which could be used separately, or indeed throughout a GCSE course, as a reference tool.

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.

'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!

Students read model answers about work experience placements and use them to learn about the past tense. Focus on features of high-quality German.

Inspired by the wonderful rhawkes, I've put together this tiered retranslation exercise to see what my Year 7s can do!

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.

Lesson and worksheet linked with Echo 3, chapter 2, unit 3, on the topic of school reports. The worksheet is a starter activity (based on types of words); the presentation contains a starter on 'denn/weil', and the lesson leads towards students' writing their own school reports for their teachers using comparisons. Potentially fun!

A game/activity used to revise the topic of health. Full instructions included - print cards onto paper/card and put one set in an envelope (as many sets as you need for the class to work in pairs). Similar to taboo, but in reverse. Fun for advanced students.

A series of three lessons for both higher and lower ability classes, in line with the Echo 3 SoW. Includes worksheet on the structure 'es gibt' with places in town and accusative adjective endings, and a roleplay set in a tourist office. Great for year 9!

A series of lessons slotted into the topic of school for introducing and practising using the perfect and imperfect tenses in German. The poem is a fantastic activity that works like magic when you translate between the perfect and imperfect - suddenly it rhymes! (will be clear when you see it) The .ppt contains help with vocabulary, and the other .ppt is a lesson which links in with the Edexcel textbook text on Kalib/Angola.

Comprehensive worksheet on the topic of health, focusing on practising and producing the verb structure 'second-final' (i.e. future, conditional and modal verbs + infinitive). Because we all like to talk about what we WILL/WOULD/COULD/SHOULD do!! Great for GCSE classes. Clearly demonstrated using 'sentence-builders', which can also be used for revision, or to create longer pieces of writing.

Worksheet introducing and practising the present tense. The grid can be used for a battleships OR Xs and Os type game. Explanation of the present tense on reverse. Great for year 7 or beginners!

Group writing task which could last for two lessons. Used as the concluding task for a series of lessons on work experience, pupils must produce a full report about their imaginary work experience placement using the task sheets, then pupils assess each other's reports and find words/phrases which will be useful to them!

A really useful double-sided handout to help German beginners ask people out, refuse/accept, give reasons why/why not. Grammar: modal verbs, future tense, conditional, subordination. Uses the ever-popular sentence- builder style of presenting multiple options for sentences. Great fun.

Used after one term of German: assesses regular and key irregular verb conjugations in the present tense, modal verbs, the future and conditional, 'weil', frequency adverbs. With a handy marking grid to show students which areas they did least well on and what that means for their next steps.

File contains link to to the new guide to Wladimir Kaminer’s Russendisko, a text featured in the new (2016) specifications for AQA AS/A Level German and CCEA A Level German qualifications. The guide contains 126 pages of materials to help you and your students learn all about the historical background of the text, understand each individual story, and finally to analyse the text and write essays. Full mark schemes including model essays and suggested essay content are included.

Pupils must produce a full answer to the question in groups, then perform as a group and assess each other's answers. This is followed by pairwork on the same question, and homework to write an individual answer.