A single slide with images of Marvel heroes and characters for pair work. One students must describe the physical characteristics of a character and the other student must identify the character.

A more advanced text, originally written for able FL2 beginners, about pets. The text features a variety of tenses and detailed descriptions.. It is followed by (i) comprehension questions (ii) a find the phrase activity (iii) an introduction to the articles in the Accusative and (iv) a manipulation exercise.

Activity practising articles in the Accusative in the context of saying what you got for your birthday. Each slide reveals a cropped picture of a putative birthday present, which the pupils have to identify. Then the full picture is revealed. On the next click a sentence such "Ich habe ein Trkot bekommen." reveals itself slowly and students have to race against the powerpoint. They may not start their sentence before the PPT but have to finish the sentence before the PPT. Worked well with a middle ability Year 9 class.

Multiple choice practice of Perfect Tense structures for relative beginners. The first slide on the PPT acts a homepage for the other slides. Students must select a letter on the homepage and are then hyperlinked to a multiple choice question.

Powerpoint presentation which introduces es gibt + adjectival endings in the Accusative and then invites students to use their new found grammatical knowledge to describe the bedrooms of various celebrities.

Text in which a teenager compares Berlin to the Baltic resort of Damp. The text is followed by a comprehension activity, a find-the-phrase activity and a manipulation exercise.

Two PPTs which act as stimuli to help students say which type of TV programmes they like and dislike. The first slide acts as homepage. Students select a number or a letter and are then hyperlinked to an image to comment on. The first PPT has nine images of reasonably recognisable programme types. The second has a selection of images from German TV and may involve a degree of discussion as to the type of programme it is, before students make their comments.

Powerpoint in which students must supply the correct preposition to complete the description of the picture.

A dialogue featuring some of the central characters from the film "Was tun, wenn's brennt?" The dialogue is not an actual scene from the film but is a fantasy love triangle featuring three of the characters. The text focuses on physical description, with a little bit of jealousy thrown in. It is followed by activities in which students must (i) identify key language, (ii) adapt the dialogue, focusing on the words in bold type, and (iii) enhance the dialogue by adding in adverbial phrases from a given list. Students will need to have seen the end of the film to get the joke at the end of the dialogue.

TOOLKIT outlining ordinal numbers from 1 - 31 with the twelve months. The structures will enable students to say when they and others celebrate their birthdays and when they ans others were born.

Question and answer activity. There activity contains a numbered sequence of questions to be asked, and a bullet pointed list of answers to choose from. Students could be expected to answer (i) using only answers on the sheet (ii) an answer on the sheet plus an additional statement of their own devising (iii) an answer on the sheet plus two additional statements of their own devising.

Two activities to help beginners structure an account of a day: (i) a gap-fill on Dracula's day(ii) a scaffolded writing task for students to describe their own day.

Dialogue in which David and Victoria Beckham are interviewed about their attitudes to shopping. Students read the dialogue and then decide which responses best fit which character. They can then practice the dialogue in pairs (ie with just one of the Beckhams) or in threes. Includes Past, Present and Future.

List of discussion questions relating to predictions about the World Cup 2014 plus a Future Tense toolkit to support the generation of answers.

Interview in German relating to the film 'Into the white'. The film features Rupert Grint (of Harry Potter fame) and is based on the true story of German and British air crews, who were shot down in the snowy wastes of Norway in WW2 and who had to co-operate to survive. The interview is with German actor Florian Lukas (Goodbye Lenin!) about the shooting of the film, and is followed by questions in English.

A playscript featuring lots on furniture and prepositions. The script is followed by a sequence od activities in which students have to deduce the patterns following the prepositions and then apply their deductions to the creation of new sentences.

Questions in English to accompany the youtube video on the topic of homelessness www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06e-3BLHuI

Worksheet with (i) a mini-toolkit modellig the "I've got a ... called ..." construction in German (ii) an exercise practising the structure.

This replaces a previously uploaded version which simply did not work (as my Year 12s discovered.) A text about three contrasting holidays has been broken up and students must reassemble it correctly. This is followed by the original text (ie the solution), a reminder of the Adjective / Comparative / Superlative constructions, and an exercis comparing two of the holidays.

The worksheet features (i) a dialogue between a hotel manager and a disgruntled guest, regarding items in a room which are all in the wrong place (ii) questions in English prompting students to analyse and explain the changes in the definite article after the prepositions an, auf, unter and in.