A World Cup footballer (Mario Götze or Daniel Sturridge, depending on which file you use) describes his daily routine in simple terms. Text is followed by a comprehension activity and a manipulation activity. Can be converted to any national team with a bit of find-and-replace and a new picture.

Interactive activity for practising the personal qualities frequently tested by the GCSE. The file contains 20 key adjectives but will select a different set of ten every time it is opened, Will work on IW or PC and can used on a computer suite so that each student has a slightly different activity in front of them.

Text about the zika virus with questions in English.

As translation tasks will be in the new GCSE ...

PPT featuring characters from the Hunger Games with information about the d.o.b of the actor who plays each character. Students have to convert this info into a statement about their birthday.

An exploration of the word order principles underpinning the word order when a Nebensatz precedes a Hauptsatz.

PPT containing 10 slides culled from authentic internet sources with questions in German. I used this as a starter with a Year 12 group.

Taboo cards for practising vocab needed for discussion of technical elements of Das Leben der Anderen. Could be easily adapted for other German films.

Interactive resource. Some simple (?) arithmetic to practise basic numbers in French.

Multi-choice reading comprehension based on the plot of the film "Bella Martha".

2 activities to accompany the film "Kokowääh" (i) an excercise in which students must identify who said what and (ii) a plot summary as a GCSE- style gap-fill.

Speaking activity in which students must answer typical questions about the topic of school, but as though they were a pupil at Hogwarts. The first slide acts as a homepage. Students choose a letter and are hyperlinked to a question.

Speaking activity practising school subjects. Students choose a number from the homeslide and are hyperlinked to an image representing a school subject.

Unlikely dialogue in which Gollum goes ring shopping and is served by Buzz Lightyear. Will Buzz sell him the ring?

Pupils have to identify the school subject from a small chunk of the German spelling.

Powerpoint for practising locations in town. Pupils see a severely cropped image of a place in town and have to try to identify what it is. The next slide shows the complete image.

Interactive drag-and-drop IW activity for practising key verbs. The activity has 50 verbs embedded, but will select at random 10 verbs to practise each time it is opened. With any luck it will never be the same activity twice!

Interactive drag-and-drop activity for practising adjectives relating to personality in German.

Guessing game for practice of vocab relating to what pupils buy with their pocket money. Typo now fixed.

Implausible dialogue practising basic language for talking about family and featuring a Toy Story 2 / Star Wars revelation.