A text about pupils in German and Austrian schools using mobiles in exams and the latest counter-measures that have been trialled. The text is followed by questions in English. PS Typo now fixed.

Exemplification and practice of subordinate clauses in German, with a vague Simpsons theme.

Text about the daily routine of two characters from 'Twighlight' and one from 'Harry Potter', who apparently all live together in a house in Portishead. The text is followed by comprehension questions in English, a 'find the phrase' exercise, a little bit of grammar, an 'adapt the phrase' exercise and a writing task.

An activity I did with a revision-shy Year 11 class to make them engage with a past paper in a different way.

Toolkit designed to help pupils generate a range sentences relating to TV and films.

Did this at the end of the academic year with my two Year 7 classes. It's adapted from generic instructions found elsewhere on the net.

TOOLKIT to help students generate sentences starting with an adverb, adverbial phrase, or subordinate clause, and continuing with the perfect tense of gehen or an imperfect modal + gehen.

Text about the first snow of winter and the chances of a white Christmas. Followed by comprehension questions in English.

Toolkit designed to help my Year 10 foundation students practise the patterns required to create a few complex sentences about school and what they would change if they had the power.

Dialogue in which Orlando Bloom is interviewed in german about his free time.

Lara Croft describes a convoluted journey to Germany. Text followed by questions in German and a writing task.

Text in which a number of young Germans express their views about environmental issues. The text is followed by (i) an exercise in which students must make notes from the text on the causes of environmental problems, the problems themselves and the possible solutions and (ii) a scaffolded discussion.

Questions in German about clothing and fashion. The questions could be used as prompts for written or oral work or both.

Two short texts about fashion and designer clothes, followed by a 'Which person said what?' activity.

Toolkit to help pupils say what they want to do in the future and why.

Challenging text in which characters from the Hunger Games talk about what they do in their free time. Based partly on details from the books and partly on plausible speculations regarding their free time. Followed by questions in German.

This multi-choice interactive IW resource has 150 key GCSE words embedded into it. Each time you open it, it will select at random 35 of the 150 words, display them in random order, and also arrange the multi-choice answers randomly. It should never be quite the same activity twice!

Authentic but uncomplicated details about a school's daily schedule, followed by questions in English.

Structured reading & writing activity for relative beginners. Students have to read the text and then come up with ideas to fill the gaps. Accept any ideas that make sense.

Interactive, self-marking resource for practising and / or revising an extensive list of nouns relating to MEINE STADT / MY TOWN