I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
Three fun puzzles to use as a starter or plenary to revise page 12-13 'Ich wohne in Deutschland' in Stimmt!1 (countries and spelling). Includes answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 15- 16 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (school system and describing your school). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
Note: Crossword corrected now
A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 14-15 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (school rules, rooms and opinions). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 12-13 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (timetable and times). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 8-9 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (perfect, imperfect and pencil case items). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
Are you teaching the new AQA GCSE with Stimmt or the new AS Level with Hodder/Dynamic learning? Do you use Stimmt 1?
If your students are using memrise.com to learn vocab, follow the links on the attached document to become part of a memrise group that will give you all the vocab sets you need.
If you don't use memrise yet, you definitely need to have a look at it.
Note: If you don't have a memrise account, you will be asked to create a free one when you follow the link. After you have joined the group, you should find all the sets on the 'groups' page.
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All you need to get students confidently using German numbers.
This pack focuses on getting the students to use their logic to work out how numbers in German are put together, including irregular ones.
This pack includes a 47-slide powerpoint presentation, crossword puzzles, card sort and jigsaw puzzle and list of game ideas to practise numbers.
Details:
The presentation includes pronunciation practise of ei-ie, different activities and games to practise the numbers and links to quizlet and Kahoot. The card sorting activity shows numbers in different Germanic languages to make students understand language families and cognates. There are two tarsia jigsaw puzzles for lower and higher numbers. Students cut out the square and triangular pieces and work out what shape they need to make by matching up the numbers in German.
Note: For some activities you need to draw on the powerpoint. To get a pen, click control+p while in presentation mode.
A comprehensive introduction to using the dictionary in German with exercises for all levels, from lower set KS3 classes to A-Level classes. It includes topics like gender, tenses, words with different meanings and what can go wrong when translating. Also includes an exercise on online dictionaries.
There is a worksheet with exercises and puzzles which is aimed at GCSE/A-Level classes.
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 presentation of different genres of films in German that can be used as a quiz. There are six rounds including recognising genres from posters, reading film descriptions and listening to trailers. Can be used to introduce the topic of film, for example in Chapter 2 Zeit fur Freizeit in Stimmt GCSE.
Answers after each round and again all together at the end of the presentation, depending on the way the quiz is played and marked.
Please read the slide notes.
This quiz is based on a six minute medley of German songs and it is aimed at intermediate German learners.
It would be ideal as an introduction to the topic of music or as a fun game at the end of term. It includes 12 different genres of music from folk to heavy metal and an exercise on description words to give opinions about music.
If played in teams it usually takes about 20-30 min - students answer questions about the genre, description and content and guess which band picture goes with which song.
A worksheet to practise adjective endings with clothes. Suitable for KS3 or KS4 (includes vocab from Stimmt! 2 and Stimmt! GCSE book). Inlcudes a sheet with vocabulary and a gap fill worksheet (ideally copied onto the same sheet). Also includes an answer sheet.
A comprehensive introduction to the cases in German aimed at 6th form students, including dual prepositions and flexible word order.
It includes presentation slides, gap fill, writing, match up and drawing task and a quiz.
Also includes a case overview hand out that could be turned into a class room display.
Three word puzzles to practise vocab from pages 8-9 in the new GCSE Stimmt! book (what are you looking forward to and giving reasons). Ideal as plenary or recap starter in the next lesson. Includes answers.
Corrected Version!
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.
A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 6-7 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! book (school subjects and uniform). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
Stimmt 1 GCSE-style translation and speaking tasks.
Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early on with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Stimmt! 1
-powerpoint with three pictures and questions in English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work.
-translation worksheet
-two role play cards for student pair work
-answers for translation task included and suggested example answers for speaking and picture description.