The Powerpoint features the verbs sehen, lesen and hören in the Perfect, Present and Future tenses. A click will remove one of the nine verbs and pupils have to say what has been removed. Another click will put the verb back. And so on ...
Higher Level text about an orchestra from Vienna that performs on instruments made out of vegetables. Bizarre but true. The text is followed by a true / false / not in text exercise.
Text describing some of Katniss's family relationships and friendships in the first book. Text is followed by a 'Correct the false statements' activity and two speaking and/or writing activities.
Text about the Selfie Generation in Austria, followed by True/False/Not in text questions in English, then a reading task which is in itself preparation for a speaking task.
Powerpoint in which characters from the Hunger Games are presented with empty speech bubbles. The teacher specifies a topic or asks a question and the students have to answer on behalf of the characters. Can be used with any topic.
Interactive PPT for practising numbers and personal description. The first slide acts as a homepage with links to nine hidden images. These images can be used as a stimulus for practising (or getting the pupils to request) language relating to personality, mood and appearance.
In this PPT the first slide acts a as homepage for the other slides. Students pick a number and are then hyperlinked to a set of word or a phrases to pronounce. Each set practises a particular phoneme. 9 different phonemes are practised.
Authentic screenshots and mini-texts on the topic of TOWN, with questions in English. Created for a lower ability group but works well as a starter for more able classes.
Powerpoint in which students must (i) play Kim's Game with an image of Springfield and (ii) use the picture of Springfield as a stimulus for oral work.
Group activity followed by discussion and essay. Students have to cut out 18 opinion cards and sort them into Pro and Contra groups. They then have to create a diamond nine with each set, before using these as reference materials for a discussion. Finally there is the inevitable essay title.
TOOLKIT to help students generate sentences starting with an adverb, adverbial phrase, or subordinate clause, and continuing with the perfect tense of gehen or an imperfect modal + gehen.
A questionnaire on health and fitness followed by (i) a reminder about the position of the main verb in a German sentence (ii) an activity in which students must begin sentences about health and fitness with adverbs from a supplied list and subsequently invert the verb (iii) a writing task with a small toolkit to help students include some subordinate clauses.
An interview with a homeless person in Berlin, followed by questions in English and an improvisational role play. Pitched at able Year 11s but could be used with Yr 12. The text is authentic, but for a handful of edits.