Part of a series of lessons to improve essay writing skills about Goodbye Lenin. 11 idioms are introduced and practised through exercises that are directly linked to the movie. Am a native German speaker so if my English idioms are not quite spot on, just

<p> Role Play cards, card comes up for 5 to 7 seconds then the answer appears. Could be used in class or uploaded in a shared area that is accessible to students so they can practice on their own.</p>

<p>9 Poster of question words in German with illustrations - nice clear and colorful. I am rather pleased with my own effort here.</p>

Carefully guided questions in German to encourage a deeper understanding of ways a director creates a scene through positioning, movement, mise en scene, camera, sound, light etc. I kept the language very accessible.I will give it as a homework task but you might want to do it in class.It is generic, only the scene pictures to explain the terminology of camera shots are from Good Bye Lenin!

As the kids love love songs, I went through my sister's and my cd collection and chose 18 songs that I liked and that represent a wide variety of musical styles of the last 20 years. I made worksheets for each song for the students to fill in as they listen. Some work better than others, just see what works for you and your classes. Many possibilites of exploring it further. Am just always astonished how many kids go away and download the music afterwards. Enjoy!

Students work in pairs and get one sheet each. They translate the top ten sentences and their partner checks (they have the translation), then their partner translates the bottom ten sentences. You can adapt to how able your students are if you want to translate French to English or English to French. This was for a lower ability year 8 class.

This should be enough for one lesson: Matching - kids should be able to work out most of them Odd one out (in the powerpoint I put down my answers obviously others are possible) A bit of** choral repetition ** Song Hier ist Halloween - put text in order Wordsearch - apologies I can’t credit the author as it was sent to me by a colleague words from the wordsearch check - half have been covered durint the first exercise, could be used with dictionaries Background of Halloween and religious origins and practices in Germany, possible discussion Hope you like it! (I have made a similar resource for French)