Text about the legal rights and responsibilities of 16-18 year olds in Germany. The text is followed by (i) step by step guidance on how to convert the facts into sentences and then into opinions (ii) practice in expressing opinions.

Three short texts on relationships, followed by two comprehension exercises.

I think the title just about captures it. These are based on a now redundant exam format, but are still good stimulus materials to base oral work on.

Interactive, self-marking multi-choice quiz on Imperfect forms of common verbs. The file has 60 verbs embedded, but will create a quiz with a random selection of 20 each time it is opened. Just about never the same twice. Works on IW and PC.

Belt and braces revision and practice of three tenses!

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.

Relatively simple activity, in which students must match the names of key characters in the film 'Dr Tunnel' to short descriptipns of the characters.

Text in which four people talk about what they do to keep fit and healthy. Text is followed by a 'Which person said what?' exercise.

Toolkit designed to help my Year 10 foundation students practise the patterns required to create a few complex sentences about school and what they would change if they had the power.

Dialogue in which Batman discusses his commitment issues with a psychiatrist. Includes Past, Present and Future tenses

I've piggy-backed the content of this acitivity onto the excellent Trivial Pursuit PPT uploaded by Helen Wolfenden. The content is pitched slightly higher in this version and might suit students revising for Higher papers.

Set of 20 slides to stimulate and support discussion of or speculation about people's personalities.

Interactive practice of ten french prepositions. The exercise will work on the IW as well as on a PC.

Materials to go with the Vodafone ad on Youtube 'Es ist deine Zeit'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxGiWgyetZ8 This has worked well with classes of all abilities.

Lots of photos of German breakfast items. Pupils initially get to see a very small section of each photo and must try to identify the food. The following slide reveals the answer. Generates high participation levels.

Lots of pictures of clock-faces for practising the time.

Put the sentences in the correct order, to reconstruct a day in the life of a vampire. The solution is on page 2.

This an upgraded version of a worksheet I originally uploaded for Year 11 pupils. The text contains unpleasant but true information about the self-styled 'Worst hotel in the world' plus comments about dreadful hotels from contributors to TripAdvisor. This is followed by a grammar tip about adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, questions in German, a manipulation exercise, a translation into English, a writing task, more grammar, a speaking task and finally another writing task.

Playscript based 90% on lyrics from the song 'GutenTag, ich bin der Nikolaus'. What might Santa be tempted to do if he forgot his own boots?

Text about the withdrawal of Ikea Elk Lasagne from its stores in Belgium and Germany. Text is followed by 'true, false, not in text' questions