Four short texts in which various movie characters describe where they live and where they have lived. Text is followed by richtig / falsch / nicht im Text questions in German.
4 reflexive verbs relating to ma routine journalière, set out as a table so that students can analyse and infer the pattern. Could be given out as a hand-out of blown up for display.
Students will need to have seen the first half of the film before doing this exercise. This worksheet contains a jumbled summary of scenes from the first half of the film. They should read the jumbled text and put the scenes into the correct order. There are quite a few adverbs and adverbial phrases to provide clues as to the sequence. Solution also supplied.
Three texts of increasing sophistication, ghost-written by characters from a reality show. Students have to evaluate the texts and give a NC level to each one. They then have to re-write one of the texts to improve the NC level. There are then two more written tasks to complete
4 short texts based on internet threads, in which teenagers blog about their dream job or uncertainty about their dream job. Texts are followed by comprehension questions in English, a 'find the phrase' activity, plus a 'now manipulate the phrase you found' activity.
Fairly challenging text about the history of one of the oldest olympic disciplines. The gaps are all verbs in a variety of tenses. Will work on PC or IW.
Higher Level text about the sinking of the Titanic, followed by comprehension questions in English, a reminder of the Preterite, 'Find the phrase' and manipulation exercises, some internet research and a writing task. My colleague Barbara Sciarrino tidied up my rusty Spanish.
TOOLKIT for reinforcing word order with WEIL and OBWOHL, for generating sentences to describe FAMILY and FRIENDS etc, and for the practising of key adjectives relating to CHARACTER and PERSONALITY.
Higher Level Text on homelessness in Frankfurt followed by
(i) reading comprehension questions in English
(ii) a text manipulation excercise
(iii) a focus on complex sentence construction
(iv) an extended role-play
A number of short blogs on the topic of marriage, followed by
(i) reading comprehension questions in English
(ii) a 'Find the phrase' exercise
(iii) manipulation of sentences in the blogs to create (slightly) new language.
Each slide has a sentence containing a preposition. Pupils have to search the net for images which illustrate the sentences and paste them in. (Good idea to make sure that 'safe search' is switched on or that your filtering system is rigorous.)
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.
Blogs relating to the topic of Ganztagsschulen in Germany. The texts are followed by comprehension questions in English and a manipulation exercise. The latter should enable students to generate language which they could use to comment on the length of their own school day.
Powerpoint practising the use of GERN. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students must select a letter on the homepage and are then hyperlinked to a multiple choice question on the use of GERN.
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.
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.