Potted history of Germany in ten dates. In this interactive exercise students must match the events to the dates. Will work on PC or IW.

Scaffold for speaking practice on the topic of Pocket Money.

36 authentic signs with GCSE style comprehension questions.

Foundation Level toolkit to help pupils talk about teenage problems/

Interactive PPT activity practising sentence structures for describing personality and character. Slide 1 acts as a homepage for the other slides and contains hyperlinks to images of fictional characters. Students must in each case construct a sentence, using the on-slide sentence pattern as a scaffold. Different sentence patterns are practised.

Sentence patterns to help students say what they will do on holiday next year and why.

Text describibg daily routine and school life in the future, with comprehension questions in German

More authentic materials for revision-phobic GCSE candidates. Questions in English.

Yet more practice of key vocab for recalcitrant Year 11s. Although designed for lower ability classes, these work well as a starter for more able students too.

Powerpoint featuring pictures of various animals with on-slide vocab to act as a stimulus for the students to talk about the images.

A text about the film "Was tun, wenn's brennt?" edited from two authentic reviews, followed by questions in German.

Reading and writing activities relating to the film "Nordwand": (i) who's who (ii) scaffolded character description (iii) discussion of relationships in the film

An edited authentic text which explains to German Abiturienten/innen how to write an essay. This is followed by questions in English.

22 quotes in German from the first 45 minutes of the German movie version of the Lord of the Rings. Students have to ascribe the quotes to one of three characters in each case.

Text in German about Spiderman followed by comprehension questions in English

This is an activity I did with an improvers class to get them to think a bit about their approach to writing in a foreign language. It could be easily adapted to any language or topic.

This activity based on an article written by Anne Merritt. I have added rogue words and ideas into the original concepts for students to identify and eliminate from the text. They can also be invited to consider what the text should actually say, before you reveal the original script.

A newspaper cartoon about chaos in lessons in some German schools with seven sets of questions designed to get the students to interpret what they see and justify their deductions.

Powerpoint with on-screen help, designed to stimulate and support discussion about (i) what constitutes a uniform (ii) what students think of various school uniforms. This is a more challenging version of something I uploaded previously.

Activity to follow the film KOKOWÄÄH 2. Students must match the names of the characters to short character descriptions.