Text in which Homer compares Springfield and Shelbyville briefly, before enthusing about what there is, and there is not, in Springfield. The text is followed by a Richtig / Falsch exercise, a find-the-phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise and a writing task.

Powerpoint to support / stimulate discussion of the film.

Slides and questions designed to provoke discussion on the topic of marriage.

Interactive presentation which leads learners though a series of closed questions and guides them to the choice of the correct case and the correct form of the articles within that case. Can be used on the IW for demonstration and / or independently by the pupils to help them write with greater accuracy. Well, you never know ...

Advice on revising vocab for learners of French / German / Spanish or any Modern Foreign Language

TOOLKIT which will enable pupils to generate over 1000 different sentences in German about their hobbies and interests

The stimulus text here is an edited version of 'Internetdiscussion' which I've already uploaded. The statements for and against school uniform have been shortened and adapted slightly to fit the attitudes of the lead characters in the film 'Die Welle'. The texts are followed by comprehension activities and a manipulation exerecise.

This guide has been edited from Edexcel's generic advice on the research-based essay into a guide for those students who will be researching a text, a play or a film.

Complete GCSE vocab list in German and English. I replaced the usual prosaic topic and sub-topic titles with song and film titles, song lyrics and some obscure quotations in a desperate attempt to make some of my revision-shy pupils look through it.

Higher Level text about drug abuse in Germany, with comprehension questions in English and a short manipulation exercise

A vocab matching exercise followed by a simple toolkit to help students express opinions about school subjects in French, followed by a writing task with vocab support.

Two resources for able KS4 students. The first is a vocab match-up activity to introduce students to some key vocab relating to Global Problems. The second is a text relating to Global Problems, followed by a True / False / Not in Text activity, a sentence building activity using a toolkit to help students quantify their levels of concern, plus some questions for students to answer about what should or should not be done in order to improve things. (The text is watered down from a text I originally wrote for Lernpunkt Deutsch.)

Short texts in which teenagers describe the situations in which they get in to trouble. The grammatical focus is on Wenn-Sätze. Pupils also have to indentify and record a number of Wenn-Sätze from the text and generate new Wenn-Sätze using a toolkit.

Simple (?) exercises to help pupils master the word order after 'weil'. They have been used with relative beginners.

Each of the attached files covers the same content but one is slightly more challenging than the other.The texts are followed by comprehension questions, a find-the-phrase activity, a manipulate-the-phrase activity, pair work and a written task. The more challenging version also features a gap-fill activity and has less scaffolding of the writing.

Presentation designed to give students the necessary language to analyse and describe the specifically cinematographic elements of the film (codes) such as lighting, camera angles, editing, use of subjective camera etc.

Sequence of questions relating to Van Gogh's painting of his bedroom. Practice of colour, prepositions, and bedroom objects. For the first set of questions, students can see the painting. For the second set they have to do it from memory. Finally they should compare their own room with Van Gogh's room. Plenty of scope for practice of &'kein&'; as they identify everything that Van Gogh does not have in his room that they have in their room.

Simple overview of the modal verbs for handout or display.

Exercise to help students summarise the plot of the film.

Powerpoint which (i) explores what the key attributes of a uniform are (ii) provides images of interesting dress codes with on-screen language support to stimulate discussion about whether certain combinations of clothing constitute a uniform, and (iii) provides images of school uniforms from around the world with on-screen language support to provoke comments. Worked OK with my Year 10 Foundation class.