I’ve taken the specimen tasks for inspiration and turned them into a Powerpoint presentation. Click on the individual task to reveal a model answer. I’ve included some pointers about the role play as well

A fully editable programme which allows teachers to set spellings to practise and allows student to practise and receive automatic feedback, Designed for French but would work in any subject that needs spelling tests. Instructions included Support available if needed via email doneill@sidmouthcollege.devon.sch.uk

Model lots of complex perfect tense language in this trapdoor activity. Lesson sequence 1 )Read aloud French; pupils note down numbers of phrase heard 2) Read aloud English; pupils note down number of French translation 3) Allow pupils to play the trapdoor guessing game in pairs 5) Display numbers for pupils to write up sentences. 6) Pupils swap sentences and translate each others.

A happy families style card game. Adverbs, auxiliaries, participles and infinitives are colour coded to help. All cards are placed face down and pupils take in turns to flip four cards to make correct sentences.

A simple worksheet for pupils to stick in their exercise books. It lists the regular patterns for 'er', 'ir' and 're' verbs.

Some speech bubbles with generic phrases that might be used to talk describe any photo . Suitable for display. Helps prepare students for the photo task in the new GCSE German speaking test.

Spreadsheet that easily lets you keep a record of candidates marks for the AQA GCSE speaking test.

25 places in town in French Click on the photo itself to reveal the text or click elsewhere to advance. Some nice photos here, mostly in France.

As exciting as the description suggests. A table clearly laying out the three time frames. At the bottom there is a neat explanation about using the 'wir' form. My year 9 have this in the grammar section of their books and no doubt on their bedroom walls.

A powerpoint that you can print off and display. It highlights some essential phrases needed to describe any photograph. Useful for the new AQA GCSE, and probably for other boards too.

A handful of opinion phrases shown in a range of tenses suitable for classroom display.

Simple worksheet suitable for revision or for a cover lesson. Pupils have ten sentences which they have to unjumble.

A reasonably challenging quiz about Germany. My Yr 10 class came up with the questions which we then displayed at Open Evening. The answers are at the end of the presentation.

If you need a nice quiet lesson then let your Yr 11s work their merry way through this double sided bank of environmental phrases. Side one : cut up the chain over letters to provide a translation of the given English Side two : rearrange the order of the French words to give a translation of the English Takes a good class around 30mins

Print these slides two to a sheet and cut up. Have three of the boxes that paper comes in. ( One for French English German) Guests at evening win prizes for pulling out a pair or a trio of matching words. Pictures on cards make it easier for Yr7 volunteer who can run the show.

24 sentences to translate to round off the media topic.

Suitable for classroom display although I have also copied the slides and stuck them in pupils books. I took a handful of opinion phrases and presented them in a range of different tenses.

Short simple explanation of the Future and Perfect Tense Colour coded to help pupils see the make up of the sentences. Only common verbs used.

To display in classrooms. A simple colour coded explanation of German Word order rules.