A match-up activity with a list of questions on topics often covered in Year 8 or Year 9 and a list of answers. BUT there are two answers for every question and pupils must identify both matching answers for each question. Can be used subsequently as a platform for oral work.

Slides of accidents and injuries. (May not be for the squeamish). Pupils have to come up with a sentence in the past tense to describe what has happened. The are given the first letter of each word they need as a prompt.

Self-marking cloze exercise, in which businesswoman Claudia Langer talks about her career. Will work on PC or IW.

Two reports covering the failed attempts to help a lost whale in the Thames in 2006. The texts are followed by a 'richtig / falsch / nicht im Text' exercise, some questions in German, a 'find the phrase' exercise, and a writing task.

Text describing the personalities of the central characters from Farscape, an australian Sci-Fi series, which ran in Germany. The text is followed by reading comprehension exercises in german and a writing task.

Interactive drag-and-drop activity for practising the French equivalents of the 12 most commonly used English words

Text featuring characters from The Lord of the Rings, their roles in the plot and their relationships to one another. The Text is followed by True/False comprehension questions in German, a writing task, and some open questions about the story which could be used used as a stimulus for writing and / or speaking.

Interactive drag and drop exercise, in which pupils must match up the German and English titles of the Harry Potter films. Will work on PC or IW. Two of the German titles are not quite exact translations. You might want to challenge the pupils to find out which two are not quite the same.

Relatively simple interview with Jessie J, covering name, age, birthday, family and pets. Pupils can practise the dialogue as it stands and then adapt the language highlighted in bold.

Interactive activity for the IW. Present tense of SEIN.

interactive activity for the IW. Practice of Present Tense of KOMMEN.

Interactive activity for the IW. Present tense of HABEN.

Stimulus for speaking. Pupils have to speculate as to the favourite school subjects of various celebrities and justify their ideas.

Higher Level Text on homelessness in Frankfurt followed by (i) reading comprehension questions in English (ii) a grammar focus (iii) a text manipulation excercise

Extended role play set in Hogwarts school. Pupils may wish / need to prepare this in writing before acting it out. Short vocab list of subjects at Hogwarts supplied in German and English.

Interview with Lady Gaga about school subjects. Students should (i) practise the dialogue as it stands and (ii) improvise changes to the printed dialogue, focussing on the words in bold text.

Nativity dialogue based on words and phrases from the french Christmas carol 'Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris'. Also includes a little bit of practice of the date.

Descriptive text about a jouney in the North of Norway. The text provides a stimulus for structured poetry writing. Students have to list all the descriptive elements of the text and then re-arrange them until they have a poem. Classroom-tested!

5 verbs in the Conditional, set out in a table, so that students can analyse and infer the pattern. Could be printed as hand-out or blown up as a poster.

Dialogue in which the Daleks and the Doctor discuss some of their recent journeys using their best GCSE German verbs of travel in the past tense. Ends with a very cheesy joke.