I have been teaching French & German up to A Level for nearly 15 years and Head of MFL for over 10.
My resources will save you hours of planning, they include a range of 'outstanding' strategies and they are exam focussed. Each resource comes with detail instruction, differentiated tasks and loads of exam tricks to help your students succeed.
I have been teaching French & German up to A Level for nearly 15 years and Head of MFL for over 10.
My resources will save you hours of planning, they include a range of 'outstanding' strategies and they are exam focussed. Each resource comes with detail instruction, differentiated tasks and loads of exam tricks to help your students succeed.
This complete lesson bundle focusses on the GCSE French Reading exam - it is designed to push your students to a grade 9. It can be used as a whole lesson or use it to dip in and out of during the course.
The PowerPoint lesson goes through the following:
familiarising yourself with the exam paper
using specific question-type strategies
dealing with difficult vocabulary
game changers - tricks the examiner uses and specific vocabulary to avoid these tricks.
inferring information
learning how to focus your attention on the correct information
real exam questions
This could easily be adapted for German/Spanish.
This is a lockdown-friendly complete Speaking Pack for GCSE German.
The PowerPoint presentation (201 slides!) has links to allow you to easily navigate the menus and switch between candidate, teacher and example cards.
It is designed to support your students in developing speaking exam skills and to provide practice opportunities. For each theme and sub-theme there are 3 exam style tasks (role play, photo card and conversation questions) based on both the foundation and higher papers.
Easy to follow marking grids for all aspects of the speaking exam for both foundation and higher tiers
Top tips for Role-Plays, Picture Cards and General Conversations
Example Student cards
Example Teacher cards
Example scripts for Role-Plays and Picture cards
Printable marking grids for student feedback
Edexcel based but could be adapted for AQA
This booklet is ideal for Year 11 revision or it could be dipped in and out of from the start of Year 10. You could also set them as homework tasks or even give them to Year 9 to try out.
GCSE German resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German complete lesson bundle contains everything you need to teach the lesson: Film und Fernsehen. It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lesson is on PowerPoint. Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
This lesson includes the following:
Stimmt listening activities (audio files not included).
Reading activities
In depth exam guidance, support materials and activities for the speaking exam (role play)
Vocabulary activities
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books, followed by differentiated grammar activities.
Homework tasks which consolidate two exam areas: translation, reading and speaking
Activities are differentiated and exam focused
The strategies used are designed to push your students to Grade7- 9 and support lower ability students.
GCSE German resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German complete lesson bundle contains everything you need to teach the lesson: Wer liest heute noch Bücher? It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lesson is on PowerPoint. Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
This lesson includes the following:
Listening activities
Reading activities
In depth exam guidance, support materials and activities for the writing exam (translation question)
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books, followed by differentiated grammar activities.
External QR codes to online grammar and vocabulary learning resources
Homework tasks: translation, grammar and vocabulary
Activities are differentiated and exam focused
The strategies used are designed to push your students to Grade7- 9 and support lower ability students.
This 55 page German speaking revision booklet covers all of the themes and sub-themes on the Edexcel GCSE German specification.
It is designed to support your students in developing their speaking exam skills and to provide practice opportunities.
For each theme and sub-theme there are 3 exam style tasks (role play, photo card and conversation questions) based on both the foundation and higher papers. Model answers are also provided (in a separate booklet) which could then be used further as reading tasks etc.
This booklet is ideal for Year 11 revision or it could be dipped in and out of from the start of Year 10. You could also set them as homework tasks or even give them to Year 9 to try out.
This German writing revision booklet covers all of the themes and sub-themes on the Edexcel GCSE German specification.
It is designed to support your students in developing their writing exam skills and to provide practice opportunities.
For each theme there are 7 exam style tasks based on both the foundation and higher papers. Model answers are also provided which could then be used further as reading tasks etc.
This booklet is ideal for Year 11 revision or it could be dipped in and out of from the start of Year 10. You could also set them as homework tasks or even give them to Year 9 to try out.
This bundle contains the 55 page German speaking revision booklet and 66 page writing booklet.
These booklets cover all of the themes and sub-themes on the Edexcel GCSE German specification.
They are designed to support your students in developing their speaking and writing exam skills and to provide practice opportunities.
For each theme and sub-theme there are:
Speaking: 3 exam style tasks (role play, photo card and conversation questions) based on both the foundation and higher papers.
Writing: 7 exam style tasks based on both the foundation and higher papers.
Model answers are provided for each booklet, which could then be used further as reading tasks etc.
These booklets is ideal for Year 11 revision or it could be dipped in and out of from the start of Year 10.
This complete lesson bundle focusses on the GCSE Listening exam - it is designed to push your students to a grade 9. It can be used as a whole lesson or use it to dip in and out of during the course.
The PowerPoint lesson goes through the following:
familiarising yourself with the exam paper
using specific question-type strategies
dealing with difficult vocabulary
inferring information
learning how to listen
real exam questions
Please note: I am unable to copy and past exam papers into the resource, but I do give links to the questions which best support the skills indicated and it is made obvious where these should be pasted.
Additionally, you might want the freedom to choose a past paper question that is linked to the topic you are currently teaching or have taught, so that students are familiar with the vocabulary.
There is also a worksheet for students to fill in as you go through the PowerPoint and a ‘Guide to the Listening Exam’ handout for your students to refer to throughout the course.
GCSE German resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German complete lesson bundle contains everything you need to teach the lesson: Sport für alle. It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lesson is on PowerPoint. Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
This lesson includes the following:
Stimmt listening activities (audio files not included).
Reading activities
Speaking
In depth exam guidance, support materials and activities for the writing exam (question 2 type task)
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books, followed by differentiated grammar activities.
External QR codes to online grammar learning resources
Homework tasks : writing, grammar and vocabulary learning
Activities are differentiated and exam focused
The strategies used are designed to push your students to Grade7- 9 and support lower ability students.
GCSE German resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German complete lesson bundle contains everything you need to teach the lesson: Zeit für Freizeit. It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lesson is on PowerPoint. Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
This lesson includes the following:
Stimmt listening activities (audio files not included).
Reading activities
In depth exam guidance, support materials and activities for the conversation based task in the speaking exam.
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books followed by differentiated grammar activities.
Vocabulary activities: rubriks cube & dice game
External QR codes to online grammar learning resources
Homework tasks which consolidate two exam areas: speaking , grammar and vocabulary learning.
Activities are differentiated and exam focused
The strategies used are designed to push your students to Grade7- 9 and support lower ability students.
GCSE German lockdown friendly resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German complete lesson bundle contains everything you need to teach the first lesson: So ist das Schulleben. It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lesson is on PowerPoint. Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
This lesson includes the following:
Listening activities which not only give exam tips & tricks but also teach students how to listen.
Exam focussed reading activities with exam tips & tricks
Exam style speaking activities (photo-based task)
Vocabulary activities (wheel of fortune)
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books, followed by differentiated grammar activities.
External QR codes to online vocabulary and grammar learning resources
Homework tasks which consolidate two exam areas: reading and speaking and vocabulary learning and grammar.
support handouts for the speaking exam.
Activities are differentiated and exam focussed
The strategies used are designed to push your students to Grade7- 9 and support lower ability students.
*Please note that due to copyright law it is not possble to include the Stimmt textbook / Exam listening files. However, I do point to the exact audio needed for each listening task.
GCSE German resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German bundle contains everything you need to teach Theme 1: School. It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lessons are on individual PowerPoint (following the same theme throughout). Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
Each bundle includes the following:
Listening activities which not only give exam tips & tricks but also teach students how to listen.
Exam focused reading activities with exam tips & tricks
Exam style speaking activities (role play, photo-based & conversation task)
Exam style: writing activities (informal/formal essay)
Translation activities (TL-Eng & Eng-TL)
Vocabulary activities (bingo, snowballs, wheel of fortune, SAN etc)
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books, followed by differentiated grammar activities.
External QR codes to online vocabulary and grammar learning resources
External QR codes to targeted exam questions
Homework tasks which consolidate the four exam areas, grammar and vocabulary learning.
Learning mats for the different exams
Activities are differentiated and exam focused
The strategies used are designed to push your higher ability students to Grade 9 and support lower ability students.
Theme 2: Identiy & Culture - Cultural Life bundle and individual lessons available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-german-theme-2-identity-and-culture-cultural-life-12368727
GCSE German Theme: School - Vocabulary Activities Practice Worksheet
Independent Vocabulary Revision Practice worksheet with ANSWERS.
Use this revision worksheet as:
Homework
Independent activity for lessons
Self-learning for distance learning
Revision to prepare for examinations.
There are eight vocabulary practice activities which allow the students to help ‘make the vocabulary stick’ using higher order thinking skills and exam skills: working out synonyms, translation etc.
The eight German GCSE vocabulary revision activities for this topic, include:
German to English translation
English to German translation
Create sentences using key vocabulary
Find the synonym or similar phrase
Find the antonym
GCSE German resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German complete lesson bundle contains everything you need to teach: Ordnung muss sein! It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lesson is on PowerPoint. Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
This lesson includes the following:
Listening activities
Reading activities
Guided running Tranlsation activity with support handout
Vocabulary activities (card shuffle)
Grammar activities.
Guided exam focused speaking activity (role play task).
Group Talk activity
Homework tasks which consolidate two exam areas: speaking, translation and vocabulary learning and grammar
Activities are differentiated and exam focused
The strategies used are designed to push your students to Grade7- 9 and support lower ability students.
GCSE German lockdown friendly resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German complete lesson bundle contains everything you need to teach the lesson: Mit Freude in die Schule. It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lesson is on PowerPoint. Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
This lesson includes the following:
Listening activities
Reading activities
Speaking activities (group talk)
In depth exam guidance, support materials and activities for the writing exam (question 1 type task)
Vocabulary activities
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books, followed by differentiated grammar activities.
External QR codes to online vocabulary and grammar learning resources
Homework tasks which consolidate two exam areas: reading and speaking and vocabulary learning and grammar.
support handouts for the speaking exam.
Activities are differentiated and exam focussed
The strategies used are designed to push your students to Grade7- 9 and support lower ability students.
GCSE German resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German complete lesson bundle contains everything you need to teach the lesson: Wissenwertes - Das Schulsystem. It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lesson is on PowerPoint. Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
This lesson includes the following:
Listening activities - exam focused. Audi files not included, however, links to where these cab be found are.
Reading activities
In depth exam guidance, support materials and activities for the writing exam (question 1 type task)
Vocabulary activities
Card sort
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books, followed by differentiated grammar activities.
External QR codes to online grammar learning resources
Homework tasks which consolidate two exam areas: translation, reading and speaking
Activities are differentiated and exam focused
The strategies used are designed to push your students to Grade7- 9 and support lower ability students.
GCSE German resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German bundle contains everything you need to teach Theme 2: Identity & Culture - Cultural Life. It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lessons are on individual PowerPoint (following the same theme throughout). Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
Each bundle includes the following:
Listening activities which not only give exam tips & tricks but also teach students how to listen.
Exam focused reading activities with exam tips & tricks
Exam style speaking activities (role play, photo-based & conversation task)
Exam style: writing activities (informal/formal essay)
Translation activities (TL-Eng & Eng-TL)
Vocabulary activities
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books, followed by differentiated grammar activities.
External QR codes to online vocabulary and grammar learning resources
Homework tasks which consolidate the four exam areas, grammar and vocabulary learning.
Learning mats for the different exams
Activities are differentiated and exam focused
The strategies used are designed to push your higher ability students to Grade 9 and support lower ability students.
Theme 2: Identity & Culture - Daily Life bundle and individual lessons coming soon!
This A Level German Learning Mat is a great tool for students to have handy in their folders. It is designed to guide students to use a wide range of grammatical structures and vocabulary when speaking and writing in German.
My students have found it very useful and they are now used to getting it out at the start of every lesson and having it to hand when they want to try out a new strutur either during a speaking or writing activity.
Feel free to adapt it to suit your students’ needs. I hope you find it useful.
Any feedback is appreciated.
GCSE German resources which follow the Stimmt textbook and are designed to push your students to a grade 7-9 in listening, speaking, reading and writing exams.
This GCSE German complete lesson bundle contains everything you need to teach the lesson: Wir feiern! It follows the Stimmt Higher book but could be quickly adapted for the Foundation book or the AQA course.
The lesson is on PowerPoint. Each slide has step by step teaching instructions and comments.
This lesson includes the following:
Stimmt listening activities (audio files not included).
Reading activities
In depth exam guidance, support materials and activities for the speaking exam (photo based task)
Vocabulary activities
Grammar explanations which can be printed off and stuck in students’ books, followed by differentiated grammar activities.
Homework tasks: speaking, listening and vocabulary learning
Activities are differentiated and exam focused
The strategies used are designed to push your students to Grade7- 9 and support lower ability students.
*Please note that due to copyright law it is not possble to include the Stimmt textbook / Exam listening files. However, I do point to the exact audio needed for each listening task.
These German extension cards are great for having in the classroom when students have finished a task early or they can be used as starter activities. The activities on each card are designed to encourage students to spot patterns and to think for themselves. They can also be used with any year group.
Feel free to adapt these to suit your own students’ needs.
The cards are colour coded by topic / grammar point:
false friends
idiomatic grammar
complex tenses
adjectives
reading activities
speaking activities
It’s best to print them off in colour, laminate them and then keep them in a handy ziplock or box at the front of the classroom. If you use these often enough, you will find your students will soon automatically help themselves to these without instruction!
My students enjoy these cards and I hope your students will too.
Any feedback is appreciated :)
