Top trumps cards for Euro 2016. The cards can be used to play the card game or as a speaking/writing stimulus, they feature current squads from the Euro 2016 competition.

el contestador automático - this file could act as a stimulus for students to leave a message arranging to meet up with friends or to arrange a business meeting.

There are 3 messages which students can listen to. It can be used as either a listening activity where students have to pick out key information or as a stimulus for students to draft their own responses to the messages, write them up, and record them as if they were calling the person back and leaving them a message. It should also familiarise students with the standard answerphone vocabulary should they make calls to German phones in the future. Recordings made by a friend of mine who is a native speaker. Sound breaks up sometimes and is quite quiet in places so will need turning up.

Students colour in their own Easter cards and get to add a message inside.

A gap fill sheet containing descriptions of characters from French books and kid's TV programmes. Students select the words from the bottom of the sheet and put them in the correct places.

There are two model texts for different target levels, students use the text as a model for writing their own text about a family. There are questions in English to prompt them as to what to include. On one of the sheets there are also some 'sentences starters', which marry up to the question prompts.

Students create a little booklet on Christmas in Germany. The key dates of the Christmas seasons are labelled and students draw and colour in their own images for each date.\n\nThe word document only works in Microsoft Word 2007 onwards, in earlier versions all formatting is lost.\n\nIf you have Word 2003 or earlier please download the .pdf version instead.

Powerpoint describing the German Christmas traditions from Advent and Nikolaus to Food. Gapfill for O Tannenbaum included. Works well with the German Christmas Booklet: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/german-christmas-booklet-updated-11182472

Worksheet combining physical descriptions and clothing topics. Students colour in the images to match the descriptions at the side. This demonstrates their understanding of the descriptions.

Designed to fit with the look of AQA’s 2016 specification. There are 17 Role Play cards. Aimed primarily at the higher tier, but with varying degrees of difficulty. Pack contains: 17 x Candidate cards 17 x Teacher cards

Students create a little booklet on Easter in France. The key dates of the Christmas seasons are labelled and students draw and colour in their own images for each date. \n\nThe word document only works in Microsoft Word 2007 onwards, in earlier versions all formatting is lost.\n\nFor Word 2003 or earlier please use the .pdf file.

A little booklet with the key dates of Easter in German. Students draw their own pictures for each day.

Update to the previous version: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/german-weihnachten-in-deutschland-christmas-booklet-6323509 I have updated my previous resources to make it easier to fold and to print. Students create a little booklet on Christmas in Germany. The key dates of the Christmas seasons are labelled and students draw and colour in their own images for each date. The word document only works in Microsoft Word 2007 onwards, in earlier versions all formatting is lost. If you have Word 2003 or earlier please download the .pdf version instead

Reading comprehension activity using an article from German youth radio puls.

Multi-linugal snakes and ladders board.\n\nInsert your own images or text to creat a speaking game.

Gapfill Listening exercise from an interview with Jochen Müller (ufuq in Berlin). Audio file can be found at: http://www.br.de/radio/bayern1/sendungen/mittags-in-muenchen/jochen-mueller-zur-radikalisierung-jugendlicher-100.html Transcript of interview is also included. Duration of interview: 8mins 18secs NB: The audio file has since been removed from the BR website. I have uploaded a recording of the file. Apologies for the interference towards the end of the file.

Cards for the Spanish and English world cup squads. Can be used as a card game or writing stimulus. 48 cards in total.

Differentiated worksheet for family. Students fill in the gaps. One has the answers at the bottom of the page, for the other students must work out the missing word for themselves.

Reading comprehension text about a weekend in Vienna, mainly in the perfect tense. The file contains the text to read and corresponding questions. Works well with the listening activity on places in Vienna.

Each file contains a reading activity for students to complete. The texts are differentiated. The first file is the lower level text, second the mid-level and the third the higher level. On the pages after the four profiles there are a series of questions for students to complete, culminating in a writing task. The higher text also draws on prior knowledge from the self and family unit.