A set of questions for relative beginners to ask the FLA or perhaps a teacher who is a native speaker. Pupils should note the answers and then use the enclosed writing-frame to write a portrait of the person they have interviewed.
Text in which Katy Perry and Kevin Petersen are interviewed and then commented on by Wallace and Gromit. Text is followed by True / False exercise in German, a 'find the phrase' text, and a manipulation exercise. Lots of practice of likes and dislikes.
Some extended Reading for 6th Form. A dystopian look at the future with a surprise / cliche ending, depending on how many Sci-Fi films you've seen. This is an extended and more detailed version of a story I originally wrote for my KS4 French classes. Extended exposure to the Imperfect! The second resource is an interactive cloze text featuring a section of the story. All the missing words are verbs in the Imperfect.
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.
Each slide has a sentence containing a preposition. Pupils have to search the net for images which illustrate the sentences and paste them in. (Good idea to make sure that 'safe search' is switched on or that your filtering system is rigorous.)
Revision and practice of the Immediate Future in French. Pupils have to predict which member of the class will have one of fifteen possible futures. They then have to write a paragraph about the possible futures of their classmates with the support of a TOOLKIT and a short vocab list.
Interactive drag and drop exercise practising the je form of three high-frequency verb forms in their positive and negative forms. Will work on PC or IW.
This resource contains a dialogue in which a ghost recounts his birth, life and spectacular death, and manages to include the standard list of 13 verbs with être in the passé composé. There is a reflexive verb in the passé composé chucked in for good measure. The dialogue is followed by a capture sheet, upon which the pupils must add examples of the 13 verbs in the passé composé to the given list of infinitives.
Mutliple choice exercise practising the present tense of the verb haben. On completion you will have a dialogue set in Middle Earth. May be suited to Friday afternoons.
Powerpoint to help students practise answering questions about themself, their family, their pets, and their favourite things. Open the PPT, click 'slideshow' and the 'view show'. Each of the pictures has a hyperlink to a question on another slide. And each of the slides with questions has a back button with a hyperlink back to the slide with the pictures on. Pupils should choose a picture and see which question they get,
Exemplification of common German separable verbs in 3 tenses, followed by interview questions, which could be prepared as a written exercise and / or practised as a dialogue.