Two reports covering the failed attempts to help a lost whale in the Thames in 2006. The texts are followed by a 'richtig / falsch / nicht im Text' exercise, some questions in German, a 'find the phrase' exercise, and a writing task.
Text describing the personalities of the central characters from Farscape, an australian Sci-Fi series, which ran in Germany. The text is followed by reading comprehension exercises in german and a writing task.
Interview with Lady Gaga about school subjects. Students should (i) practize the dialog as it stands and (ii) improvize changes to the printed dialog, focussing on the words in bold text.
Nativity dialogue based on words and phrases from the French Christmas carol "Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris". Also includes a little bit of practise of the date.
Descriptive text about a journey in the North of Norway. The text provides a stimulus for structured poetry writing. Students have to list all the descriptive elements of the text and then re-arrange them until they have a poem. Classroom-tested!
Text featuring characters from The Lord of the Rings, their roles in the plot and their relationships to one another. The Text is followed by True/False comprehension questions in German, a writing task, and some open questions about the story which could be used used as a stimulus for writing and / or speaking.
Interactive drag and drop exercise, in which pupils must match up the German and English titles of the Harry Potter films. Will work on PC or IW. Two of the German titles are not quite exact translations. You might want to challenge the pupils to find out which two are not quite the same.
Relatively simple interview with Jessie J, covering name, age, birthday, family and pets. Pupils can practise the dialogue as it stands and then adapt the language highlighted in bold.
A number of short blogs on the topic of marriage, followed by(i) reading comprehension questions in English(ii) a "Find the phrase" exercise(iii) manipulation of sentences in the blogs to create (slightly) new language.
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.
A text for higher level students on homelessness in Frankfurt followed by;
(i) reading comprehension questions in English
(ii) a grammar focus
(iii) a text manipulation excercize.
Extended role play set in Hogwarts school. Pupils may wish / need to prepare this in writing before acting it out. Short vocab list of subjects at Hogwarts supplied in German and English.
5 verbs in the Conditional, set out in a table, so that students can analyse and infer the pattern. Could be printed as hand-out or blown up as a poster.
Dialogue in which the Daleks and the Doctor discuss some of their recent journeys using their best GCSE German verbs of travel in the past tense. Ends with a very cheesy joke.
Interactive drag and drop exercise in which pupils must match the German book titles to the year in which they appeared. Good excuse to get the pupils to practise numbers like neunzehnhundertneunundneunzig. Will work on PC or IW.