A worksheet to practise adjective endings with clothes. Suitable for KS3 or KS4. Inlcudes a sheet with vocabulary and a gap fill worksheet (ideally copied onto the same sheet). Also includes an answer sheet.

Presenting new vocabulary, holiday activities in the past tense to go with Echo 2 chapter on Schwarzwald. Starter on time phrases, then presentation and some games to practise new vocabulary.

Two versions of battleship, one easier with words, one harder, with pictures. To practize giving opinions on holidays, Ich war in Spanien, es war langweilig.

A ppt with funny pictures of extreme body types (very tall, fat, small...) and a handout with sentences in German (Er ist gross, Sie ist klein...). Teacher shows pictures and says sentences in German, students work out the English translation by looking at the pictures and then write it on the handout next to the German sentences. Afterwards they can use the writing frame on the handout to describe themselves. Not to be used with classes that will get too excited by funny pictures!

A game for the first lesson in a new group or as recap of first few chapters of book. This is an example of 4 sentences in German, one of which is a lie. Every student writes 4 sentence about themselves, and then go around getting other people to guess which one is a lie.

Sentence builder for weather and activities (Es regnet, also spiele ich Fussball). Students write down one sentence and then guess what sentence their parter has written. Can also be used as a kind of bingo game, the students write down 1-3 sentences, if they have the same sentences as the teacher they win.

Thinking skills/mystery/quiz/logic puzzle on timetable - Easier and harder version.

Several tasks to practize regular German verb endings.

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 100-101 in the old spec Edexcel GCSE Foundation book (jobs, feminine and masculine forms, reasons for liking jobs and forms of to be). Includes three word puzzles and answers. Corrected Version

This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocabulary to speak about a work experience or a part-time job in the past tense. It is aimed at GCSE level. A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together. Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of term. This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, a answer sheet for the teacher in list form and showing the shape.

Start every German lesson with an interesting random fact in German with vocabulary help. Will get students wanting to work it out as soon as they come in. Or combine it with verb practice with a quick revision of past, present and future and inversion of a German phrase. 35 slides of facts or 20 different phrases+fact slides plus answers

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 18-19 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (future tense and school trip). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

An introduction to family members and speaking about siblings in German using The Simpsons. It includes speaking and translation tasks (differentiated), quizzes and games and several tasks to go with the Song Mein Name ist Mensch (needsd youtube access). With lesson plan.

This is a tarsia puzzle with family vocab for the end of year of year ten German. The vocab is based on unit 4 of the Edexcel German GCSE (old spec) higher book about family, character, marriage and some past tense. A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together. Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of year.

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 30-31 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (film and tv, and opinions). Includes three word puzzles and answers. There are two version, one including a task on plurals to go with the book, the other with film and TV vocab only for users of other schemes of work.

A sentence builder with vocab to describe your school, using subordinate sentences. Includes a writing task in which students have to use the sentence builder to describe the pictures of two schools.

A grid with film questions ("A film with three parts" ect), students need to go around and ask other people for the answers. Practises speaking and using film vocabulary

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book to revise for the Stimmt writing tasks. Includes four word puzzles and answers.

A powerpoint giving an overview of word order in German. Most of the explanations are in German, it is aimed as a comprehensive overview/revision for 6th form students.