An improbable dialogue in which Justin Bieber attempts to get Taylor Swift to go to a party with him and Taylor repeatedly rejects his advances conveniently using the Past, Present and Future every time. The dialogue is followed by some grammar work on ... Past, Present and Future.

Fundamentally a very dry bit of grammar work focusing on this key word order concept. In a thinly veiled attempt to make this more interesting, all the language in the examples and the exercises relate to the Hunger Games.

Gap-fill exercise practising irregular past participles with haben. It is Valentine's Day and Amy wants to go out with Sheldon. Sheldon wants to stay at home and watch Star Trek. Students fill in the missing past participles. (Some gaps can take more than one possibility.) When complete you have a dialogue, which the students can perform. They could also write up the dialogue adding in language of their own such as more persuasive comments from Amy and more disparaging comments from Sheldon.

Two exercises practising the use of the Nominative for the subject, and the use of either the Accusative or the Dative after 'in'.

Interactive, drag and drop match-up activity of some idioms which may possibly amuse students enough to want to use them. Will work on PC or IW

Interview about mobile phone use, featuring relatively accessible language. The dialogue is followed by speaking practice, a 'find the phrase' exercise, a manipulation exercise, another speaking exercise and a writing task.

Text based on internet threads about what (some) young french teenagers like and dislike. The text is followed by comprehension questions in English, a grammar point, a toolkit for saying 'I like ...ing' and two writing activities

A copy of my PPT from the ALL conference. Intended primarily for attendees. May be less useful if you weren’t in the session! Examples in French and German.

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.

Revision of basic verbs relating to watching TV and films in the Perfect, Present and Future Tenses, with some Modals thrown in for good measure.

A school pupil of the future describes his school day. Text is followed by comprehension questions in French.

Text on technical elements of the film followed by a 'Find the Phrase' activity. Designed to equip students with some of the technical language they need to write about the film.

Higher level GCSE type text with questions in English.

This resource contains a set of 25 exam practice questions, assembled from edited versions of materials I have uploaded previously. The stimulus materials are mostly followed by questions in English or True/False/Not in text and cover a wide range of topics. This is a Mark II version with a number of wrinkles* ironed out. Markscheme also added. * ie mistakes!

Teacher-led self-assessment tool to help pupils gain a more accurate picture of the effort they are making.

A powerpoint featuring a model of a statement about household chores covering three tenses, followed by several images of celebrities or fictional characters, into whose mouths the pupils might like to put words. Could easily be adapted for any topic.

AS-Level text about Bio-Mode, followed by questions in German.

The ppt builds up a table of Dative articles and possessive adjectives one slide at a time. Students can be ebcouraged to deduce the missing words before the gradual revealing of the table. This is followed by Kim's Game practice of the Dative. The worksheet contains an overview of the NOM, ACC and DAT forms plus a grammar exercise on this whichm when complete, will serve as a rudimentary model of a romm description.

A set of activities on the topic of pocket money and part-time jobs: (i) a stimulus text (ii) comprehension questions in English (iii) a find the phrase activity (iv) a gap-fill task (v) pair work and (vi) a writing task

This is an expanded version of the text "Kein Handy = Kein Leben?" that I uploaded some time ago. This version features additional comprehension and manipulation exercises.