This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocab from chapter 3 in Stimmt 1 (hobbies and sport) A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together. Great activity for Friday afternoons, cover lessons or end of term. This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, an answer sheet for the teacher in list form and one showing the shape. If the print quality of the student slide isn’t good enough, use the attached pdf file.

A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 80-81 1 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (healthy living, sports and pronouns in different cases). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A worksheet to practise adjective endings with clothes. Suitable for KS3 or KS4. Inlcudes a sheet with vocabulary and a gap fill worksheet (ideally copied onto the same sheet). Also includes an answer sheet.

Two columns with pictures/phrases, students choose their own illness, remedy… and then have to guess which of them their partner chose. To practise speaking more the rule is that they have to start the sentence from the beginning and keep going until they use a phrase their partner hasn’t chosen. Similar to battleships but with a longer sentence.

Several tasks to practise regular German verb endings

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 100-101 in the old spec Edexcel GCSE Foundation book (jobs, feminine and masculine forms, reasons for liking jobs and forms of to be). Includes three word puzzles and answers. Corrected Version

This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocabulary to speak about a work experience or a part-time job in the past tense. It is aimed at GCSE level. A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together. Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of term. This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, a answer sheet for the teacher in list form and showing the shape.

Start every German lesson with an interesting random fact in German with vocabulary help. Will get students wanting to work it out as soon as they come in. Or combine it with verb practice with a quick revision of past, present and future and inversion of a German phrase. 35 slides of facts or 20 different phrases+fact slides plus answers

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 18-19 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (future tense and school trip). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

An introduction to family members and speaking about siblings in German using The Simpsons. It includes speaking and translation tasks (differentiated), quizzes and games and several tasks to go with the Song Mein Name ist Mensch (needsd youtube access). With lesson plan.

This is a tarsia puzzle with family vocab for the end of year of year ten German. The vocab is based on unit 4 of the Edexcel German GCSE (old spec) higher book about family, character, marriage and some past tense. A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together. Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of year.

This is a revision and reference grammar booklet (9 pages). Small enough to be always at hand while giving students an overview over all the main topics: word order, cases, prepositions, pronouns and tenses. Aimed at A-Level and Higher GCSE students.

The pictures in the presentation can be used to introduce and talk about celebrations in Germany and how important they to the people. It is aimed at AQA AS Level or Higher GCSE level. The first part of the puzzle sheet is a version of my puzzle sheet to go with Stimmt AQA GCSE "Wir feiern", the second part (crossword) is to aid understanding of the text on page 60 in the new Hodder AQA AS Level book. With answers on the worksheet and in the presentation. NB The presentation does not contain the description of all the celebrations, but pictures and names.

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 30-31 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (film and tv, and opinions). Includes three word puzzles and answers. There are two version, one including a task on plurals to go with the book, the other with film and TV vocab only for users of other schemes of work.

A sentence builder with vocab to describe your school, using subordinate sentences. Includes a writing task in which students have to use the sentence builder to describe the pictures of two schools.

A grid with film questions ("A film with three parts" ect), students need to go around and ask other people for the answers. Practises speaking and using film vocabulary

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book to revise for the Stimmt writing tasks. Includes four word puzzles and answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 28-29 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (music types and opinions, gern/lieber/am liebsten). Includes three word puzzles and answers. The powerpoint shows the CD covers for the crossword puzzle because they might be easier to recognise in colour. Note: corrected version

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 8-9 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (perfect, imperfect and pencil case items). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

This is a tarsia puzzle with mixed vocab for the end of year of a beginner’s class in German. A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together. Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of year. Topics include: Greetings, Countries, numbers, age, family, months, pets, school subjects, days of the week, pencil case items