Text about the fraternisation between British and German troops at Christmas 1914. The text is followed by a comprehension task and a grammar activity.

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.

Questions in German relating to the Youtube clip Öko-Hauptstadt Hamburg which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w4eoVa5wlk . The comprehension questions are followed by an AS style writing task. I've tacked on some suggested answers to the first part,

PPT with a single word in German on each slide. Click "view show" and the PPT scrolls through the slides rapidly and loops continuosly until you click the "ESC" key. Students simply have to note down as many words as they can spot. This is adapted from an original template created by Gemma Culliford.

Structured dialogue about what job you might like to do and why. The questions are fixed but the answers have to be generated from mini-toolkits.

In this PPT the first slide acts a as homepage for the other slides. Students pick a number and are then hyperlinked to a set of word or a phrases to pronounce. Each set practises a particular phoneme. 9 different phonemes are practised.

An activity I did with a revision-shy Year 11 class to make them engage with a past paper in a different way.

And... another batch of authentic images and mini-texts with questions in English. Pitched at a lower ability Year 11 group, but works well as a starter for other students.

Another set of 35 authentic items culled from the internet, with questions in English. Designed for a revisophobic year 11 class, but works well as a starter for the more engaged. Various topics covered.

TOOLKIT to help students generate sentences starting with an adverb, adverbial phrase, or subordinate clause, and continuing with the perfect tense of gehen or an imperfect modal + gehen.

Did this at the end of the academic year with my two Year 7 classes. It's adapted from generic instructions found elsewhere on the net.

A short text about on-line Christmas shopping in Germany, followed by GCSE style questions in English.

Questions to stimulate discussion of new media

Match the star to the desription!

Challenging gap-fill text about WORK EXPERIENCE

Text about pocket money trends in Germany, followed by questions in English.

TOOLKIT to help students create complex sentences relating to the topic of the school day.

Interactive drag and drop activity featuring modal verbs plus werden. There are twenty one items embedded in the game, but it will select ten at random each time it is opened, and will arrange them in random order. Will work in a computer suite, or on the IW.

Higher level GCSE type text with questions in English.

Interactive, self-marking, multi choice practice of various KS3 grammar points. Will work on IW or PC.