Lots of photos of German breakfast items. Pupils initially get to see a very small section of each photo and must try to identify the food. The following slide reveals the answer. Generates high participation levels.
Sequence of questions relating to Van Gogh's painting of his bedroom. Practice of colour, prepositions, and bedroom objects. For the first set of questions, students can see the painting. For the second set they have to do it from memory. Finally they should compare their own room with Van Gogh's room. Plenty of scope for practice of &'kein&'; as they identify everything that Van Gogh does not have in his room that they have in their room.
Vocab quiz on the theme of SCHULE. Adapted from the "Who wants to be a millionaire?" template uploaded by ahardiment. This now works more like a traditional quiz. Students score 5 points for each German word they can give without any prompting and two points for any answer they get from looking at the multichoice options.
Interactive drag-and-drop IW activity for practising jobs and professions. The activity has 50 jobs embedded, but will select at random 10 jobs to practise each time it is opened. With any luck it will never be the same activity twice!
Speaking stimulus for the topic of Handys / Internet. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students select an image from the homepage and are then hyperlinked to a slide with a stimulus question. 24 questions in total.
Back to the future. (i) A table setting out the Past, Present and Future forms of the 20 most frequently used German verbs. (ii) two translation exercises working on each of the 20 verbs in turn.
Toolkit to help Foundation Level students say what they wear, have to wear, would rather wear, like, dislike, despise etc and get the adjectival endings right.
Text in which several characters from Dr WHO explain what they do in their free time. Text is followed by a reminder of Present Tense and comprehension questions in German.
Authentic screenshots and mini-texts on the topic of MEDIA and TECHNOLOGY, with questions in English. Created for a lower ability group but works well as a starter for more able classes.
Sequence of activities to help students learn to say what they have done in German during this academic year and express this in the form of self-penned school reports
Higher Level texts about health and fitness, followed by comprehension, summarising, 'find the phrase', and adaptation exercises plus a writing task to wrap it up.
This dialogue is an upgraded variation of something I originally wrote for Lernpunkt Deutsch. There is a dialogue featuring Superman at the doctor's, followed by True / False / Not in Text questions, a manipulation and extension activity, and a vocab deduction exercise.
Key scene from the film "Sophie Scholl - die letzten Tage" , as it appears in the Drehbuch, in which Sophie is questioned by the Gestapo investigator. Students must (i) answer the questions in English (ii) compare the official script with the scene in the film and spot the differences.