Interactive drag and drop exercise, in which pupils must link the eight parts of speech to examples in German. Will work in the computer suite or on the IW.
A match-up activity with a list of questions on topics often covered in Year 8 or Year 9 and a list of answers. BUT there are two answers for every question and pupils must identify both matching answers for each question. Can be used subsequently as a platform for oral work.
"Powerpoint" in which the different forms of you ("du" / "ihr" / "Sie" / "man") are revealed one step at a time. Students can be asked to speculate before each reveal.
Playscript practising transactional language relating to the changing of foreign curency. In this unlikely scenario Darth Vader changes some money in a bank, then returns later to rob it, but is foiled by the quick thinking of Austin Powers ...
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.
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.
Graduated practice of the conjugation of a number of common verbs in the Present Tense. You may wish to ask pupils to cover the paradigm when they add the endings.
Two reports covering the failed attempts to help a lost whale in the Thames in 2006. The texts are followed by a 'richtig / falsch / nicht im Text' exercise, some questions in German, a 'find the phrase' exercise, and a writing task.
Higher Level GCSE text about the frustration of leaving an coat on a train and the intransigence of the Fundservice, followed by comprehension questions in English, a find the phrase activity, a reminder about modal verbs, and a second reading task leading to an extended role-play. Text substantially adapted from an article in die Zeit.
Playscript in which Simon Cowell is interviewed and extols the physical attributes of Simon Cowell. Students could practise the dialogue as it stands and then adapt the text in bold type.
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.
Powerpoint with 9 slides each with a phoneme to practise. The sentences focus relate to the topic of My Home. The first slide of the PPT acts as a homepage. Students choose a number and are hyperlinked to a slide they can not see.