Jumbled dialogue between, Santa, who has misplaced his reindeer, and an elf, who finds them in his garden. The dialogue can be reassembled in many different ways. You could model a dialogue first and them ask them to improvise something similar, before asking them to write up a plausible dialogue.
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.
Interview with a headteacher of a school celebrating 18 years as a "Schule ohne Rassismus". The text features authentic details about the school edited into an old AQA resource on the same topic. There are then two reading comprehension activities.
This multi-choice interactive IW resource has 150 key words embedded into it. Each time you open it, it will select at random 35 of the 150 words, display them in random order, and also arrange the multi-choice answers randomly. It should never be quite the same activity twice!
Interactive drag and drop exercise featuring all the Olympic disciplines for London 2012. The file will select ten sports at random from the full list, to make a new quiz each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW.
Extended dialogue in which three cast members of a reality show discuss what to watch on TV and decide on a reality show. The dialogue is followed by a vocab matching exercise, a 'find the phrase exercise', a trawl of the different tenses used in the text, a manipulation exercise and a writing task
Exemplification of common German separable verbs in 3 tenses, followed by interview questions, which could be prepared as a written exercise and / or practised as a dialogue.
Reading comprehension activity relating to the film 'Der Tunnel'. Students must read the jumbled set of events and put them into the correct chronological order to reconstruct the plot. Solution provided.
Higher Level text about an orchestra from Vienna that performs on instruments made out of vegetables. Bizarre but true. The text is followed by a true / false / not in text exercise.
The sheet models common separable verbs relating to Tagesroutine in 3 tenses and the provides a set of interview questions which require students to use the verbs in different tenses. Could be done as a written exercise before embarking on the pair work.
Foundation Level text about the Paralympics, with on-page vocab support. Text is followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' task focussing on time phrases, a manipulation exercise, and a writing task.
A text for higher level students on homelessness in Frankfurt followed by
(i) reading comprehension questions in English
(ii) a text manipulation exercize
(iii) a focus on complex sentence construction
(iv) an extended role-play.
35 authentic images and short texts with questions in English. Created for a revision-averse Year 11 group but will work as a starter for other students.