35 authentic items culled from the internet, with questions in English. Designed for a revisophobic year 11 class, but would work as a starter for a more able group.

24 questions on the topics of tourism and the environment. The first slide acts as a homepage. Students choose a letter and then are hyperlinked to a question. Creates an element of unpredictability to the questioning and might be useful for students preparing for their speaking exam.

A PPT for playing Kim's Game. This one features three verbs relating to Health and Fitness in three tenses.

A questionnaire on health and fitness followed by (i) a reminder about the position of the main verb in a German sentence (ii) an activity in which students must begin sentences about health and fitness with adverbs from a supplied list and subsequently invert the verb (iii) a writing task with a small toolkit to help students include some subordinate clauses.

An activity I did with a revision-shy Year 11 class to make them engage with a past paper in a different way.

A text about Mehrwegflaschen followed by (i) AS style comprehension questions in German (ii) An exercise practising the Passive and (iii) a translation into German requiring the recycling of lexis from the source text and some use of the Passive.

A grammar workout on Past, Present and Future focusing on the topic of fitness.

Interview with a headteacher of a school celebrating 18 years as a "Schule ohne Rassismus". The text features authentic details about the school edited into an old AQA resource on the same topic. There are then two reading comprehension activities.

An authentic text about recycling in Germany with AS style comprehension questions in German.

An unlikely dilaogue in which Bella fro Twighlight and Belletrix from Harry Potter discuss health and fitness. I've uploaded the dialogue on its own before but it is now followed by comprehension questions in English, a grammar point relating to word order after aufhoeren and anfangen and two exercises in which students must generate sentences of their own.

Questions in German relating to the Youtube clip Öko-Hauptstadt Hamburg which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w4eoVa5wlk . The comprehension questions are followed by an AS style writing task. I've tacked on some suggested answers to the first part,

Powerpoint featuring pictures of various animals with on-slide vocab to act as a stimulus for the students to talk about the images.

A text about the film "Was tun, wenn's brennt?" edited from two authentic reviews, followed by questions in German.

Yet more practice of key vocab for recalcitrant Year 11s. Although designed for lower ability classes, these work well as a starter for more able students too.

An interview with a homeless person in Berlin, followed by questions in English and an improvisational role play. Pitched at able Year 11s but could be used with Yr 12. The text is authentic, but for a handful of edits.

More authentic materials for revision-phobic GCSE candidates. Questions in English.

More authentic materials for revision-shy GCSE candidates. Questions in English.

Three resources relating to the eclipse on 20th March 2015: (i) An original text for translation into English (ii) An adapted text with helpful diagram and multi-choice questions in English (iii) An adapted text with no helpful diagram and open questions in English

40 curious facts in English about Germany. The first PPT is a straight presentation with one per week for the whole of the next academic year ... The second PPT is in essence the same, but asks students to speculate as to whether the statements are true or false, and then to try to recall interesting factoids.

And some more authentic signs and notices with relatively simple questions in English. Aimed at a revision-shy Year 11 class.