Reading comprehension text for beginners in which three pop stars introduce themselves and comment on other pop stars. The text is followed T/F questions in English and dictionary exercise.
TOOLKIT for reinforcing word order with WEIL and OBWOHL, for generating sentences to describe FAMILY and FRIENDS etc, and for the practising of key adjectives relating to CHARACTER and PERSONALITY.
The first text is about a Grundschullehrer who answered a pupil's question about Father Christmas with the truth. The second text is a weather report covering the prospects of there being a white Christmas. Both texts are followed by questions in English.
Text in French about the sinking of the Titanic, followed by comprehension questions in English, a 'find the phrase' exercise, a manipulation exercise, some French FAQs about the Titanic, a bit of internet research to find the answers to the FAQs, and a writing task. The rubrics are in French and in English. Edit as appropriate. (PS Typos now corrected)
Text about the decision of Germany's Young Liberals to support nuclear power. Text is followed by comprehension questions in German and an exercise in the use of the subjunctive. (NB Typo removed following comment below!)
This is an extended version of a ppt I uploaded previously. It consists of a number of pictures of people, celebs and otherwise, and the pupils simply have to speculate as to how old they are.
Dialogue in which Jeremy Clarkson discusses his dream holiday with German motoring presenter Sabine Schmitz, and Sabine reveals which of the three Top Gear presenters she likes best. Text is followed by a Richtig/falsch/nicht im Text exercise, a 'f'ind the phrase&' exercise, a manipulation exercise and a gap-fill exercise.
A questionnaire on health and fitness followed by (i) a reminder about the position of the main verb in a German sentence (ii) an activity in which students must begin sentences about health and fitness with adverbs from a supplied list and subsequently invert the verb (iii) a writing task with a small toolkit to help students include some subordinate clauses.
A PPT in which students must choose from two options (eg petit / petite) in order to describe a number of celebs or film characters. The first slide acts as a home page, hyperlinking to students to unseen photos of characters.
Ppt featuring severely cropped authentic images of places in Berlin (station, supermarket etc). Pupils have to try to guess what the place is and say'Hier gibt es ...'. The cropped image is followed by the full image to confirm the answer or make it a bit easier, and this is then supported with the correct sentence in German. Colour coding has been used to emphasize gender. The final four slides build up a table modelling the use of the Nominative after Das ist vs the Accusative after Es gibt. This could be elicited from students before clicking in each answer.
Powerpoint used for departmental CPD to invite reflection on the relative demands of typical MFL activities, using Bloom's and / or Winebrenner's Taxonomy as a framework.
Interactive multi-choice activity for practising the various grammar points. 30 questions are embedded but the activity will select 20 items at random to practise each time it is opened. It will also arrange the questions and the multi-choice answers in random order. With any luck it will never be the same twice.
PS In response to the comments below I have de-bugged the original file. This one should be error-free. I've changed the background colour of the exercise too.
Script for a short classroom panto featuring Cinderella, one ugly sister, a prince, a cat and an unexpected saviour. Practice of household chores embedded into the script. Just add props and an audience.