This is a facilitated activity I did with my Year 11s (i) to help them share ideas on how to revise and (ii) to help the recalcitrant see that the others were busy revising. After the creation of the Post-It wall I typed up all their ideas and distributed them to the whole class.

Year 12 starter activity. Each slide of the Powerpoint features a headline relating to the topic of Family. Students must decide in each case whether the accompanying statement is true or false.

The Powerpoint contains a set of questions which form a scaffold for pair work. There is a stop watch on every slide to encourage the students to try to improvise a one-minute answer to each question.

Dialogue in which the characters from THE BIG BANG THEORY discuss bedtimes. The dialogue contains the complete paradigm of se coucher and is followed by a grammatical exercise on reflexive verbs, a find the phrase acticity, a manipulation activity, and a writing task. The writing task will produce a script for subsequent speaking practice.

A two page list of football-related vocab, ready for the European Championships.

Text about what data you should and should not include in your Facebook profile, what can happen to, or because of, the data that is there, and how to change your settings. Text is followed by a 'Find the phrase' exercise, a text manipulation exercise, an extended speaking task, a bit of grammar (modals), and a writing task.

Short animated presentation for CPD on Mindset and Praise. This version will advance automatically through the slides and will loop back to the beginning after the last slide. Change the settings if you want to control the slides with a mouse-click.

Authentic screenshots and mini-texts on the topic of FOOD, with questions in English. Created for a lower ability group but works well as a starter for more able classes.

An extended text describing and analysing key decision points for the main characters in Das Leben der Anderen, followed by a summary exercise which should help students gain an overview of cause and effect and provide a useful tool for revision. To create this text I have edited down a more complex analysis of Wiesler and Sieland found on wedding-music-and-more.de and interwoven additional material on Dreyman written by Isabella Langheim. I made up the summary task.

Two fairly prosaic texts about Free Time followed by comprehension questions.

Two short but challenging articles about pocket money trends in Germany, followed by questions in English

(i) Extended text about the surface to air missiles deployed in East London for the Olympics, followed by comprehension questions in German, and (ii) a selection of opinions about the security measures, based on internet blogs, followed by a comprehension task, a speaking task, and two writing tasks, one pitched at AS level and one pitched at A2 level. (Typos spotted and now fixed.)

Exercise in which students must re-arrange scenes from the film into the correct order.

Reading comprehension activity relating to the film 'Der Tunnel'. Students must read the jumbled set of events and put them into the correct chronological order to reconstruct the plot. Solution provided.

Text with questions in English

Questions in German to stimulate discusssion about shopping, shopping habits, and possibly even gender stereotypes.

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.

Three short texts about what teenagers use the internet for, followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' activity, a minor Grammar point, a manipulation exercise, a 'find the tense' exercise, and a writing task.

A text about heart-throb Justin Bieber followed by questions in German. Amongst other things, the text reveals why Justion Bieber has a German surname.

Four higher level texts relating to themes of homelessness, human rights, disability and drug abuse. Each text is followed by questions in English.