A GCSE Higher Level text about a young German's decent into drug abuse, followed by questions in English. (NB This is the same text that I used for the "Intro to the Imperfect" but with different exploitation.)

A2 text about 9/11 with questions in German.

AS style text with questions in German. This is a more complete representation of the original than the GCSE style text I also uploaded.

GCSE style text with questions in English. This an edited down version of the AS level text I also uploaded.

Higher level text about a school in Germany whose pupils initiated their own projects to help refugees. Followed by questions in English.

PPT focusing on the reinforcement of grammatical gender. (i) Colour coded text and images are used to get students to associate nouns with a particular gender. (ii) students have to recall the correct article for m. f. nt. and pl. (iii) Students then have have to use der / die / das accurately with only the colour coding of the image as a clue to gender.

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.

Text about the elves in the Lord of the Rings followed by by True/False/Not in Text questions in English. Practice of character, personality, qualities, appearance ...

PPT with a single word in German on each slide. Click "view show" and the PPT scrolls through the slides rapidly and loops continuosly until you click the "ESC" key. Students simply have to note down as many words as they can spot. This is adapted from an original template created by Gemma Culliford.

Text about the FSJ followed by AS-style questions in German and an AS-style writing task.

20 slides with realia relating in one way or another to the topic of school. Each of the realia is accompanied by a question practising typical challenging AS question forms such as "In welcher Hinsicht ist ..." and "Aus welchem Grund ..."

A sequence of activities relating to the film. (i) a relatively straightforward character match-up exercise (ii) translation of a key scene from the Drehbuch (iii) comparison of the scene as it stands in the Drehbuch with the scene as it actually is in the film (iv) structured discussion of what might account for the differences (v) an exercise putting events in the first half of the film into the correct order and (vi) a more demanding match-up exercise using extended quotes from the Drehbuch. I made this for an able Year 11 FL2 group but could easily be adapted for AS or A2.

Fictitious text about a boy who has improbable pets. Followed by questions in English.

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.

A newspaper cartoon about chaos in lessons in some German schools with seven sets of questions designed to get the students to interpret what they see and justify their deductions.

Vocab quiz on the theme of UMWELT. 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.

Higher level text about youth unemployment in Spain, followed by questions in English.

Higher level text in which an unemployed German describes the changes he is making to his life as a consequence of unemployment. Followed by questions in English.

"Who wants to be a millionaire" style vocab quiz on domestic and wild animals. I used the PPT uploaded by ahardiment as a template.

The PPT is a stimulus for a bit of spoken practice of the Accusative. The first slide acts as homepage: students select a letter from the homepage and are hyperlinked to a slide; they then have to say create a sentence saying they would like to have/own/but the animal pictured, using the on-screen help to get the Accusative right.