Dialogue in which Batman attempts to arrange a date with Catwoman. Colour-coded to draw attention to the use of au, 'à l’ and à l’a

Interactive drag-and-drop activity for practising the numbers 1 to 21 in French. All 21 numbers are embedded but the activity will select 10 numbers at random to practise each time it is opened. It will also arrange the vocab in random order. With any luck it will never be the same twice.

A sentence generator to help students create, and understand the construction of, more complex sentences relating to next year's holiday plans.

Text based on an article about the German enthusiasm for football. All the gaps in the cloze exercise are verbs. At the end one verb will remain unused.

A synopsis of the film in the Present Tense up to the point where Hardenberg is kidnapped. Students have to read the synopsis and then re-write the text in either the Perfect or the Imperfect Tense, depending on which of the two attached files you use. (I've uploaded this to replace an earlier version which doesn't seem to display the file.)

TOOLKIT to help students formulate sentences in the Perfect relating to the environment

Interactive, drag and drop match-up activity of some idioms which may possibly amuse students enough to want to use them. Will work on PC or IW

Dialogue/playscript in which Santa describes how he spent Christmas, using a few high-frequency Perfect Tense sentences.

Playscript in which Shrek, exhausted by fatherhood, can not remember basic information about his life and his family and has to be corrected repeatedly by Fiona. Revision of birthdays, where I live, my house, my family, likes and dislikes and colours.

Revision sheet with an overview of German verbs in three tenses

Powerpoint which gradually builds up examples of word order when using separable verbs and illustrates the parallel with adverbial phrases. All in the context of daily routine.

A grammar exercise practising the present tense endings of the verb habiter. This doubles up, on completion, as a dialogue in which Shrek and Superman discuss each other's living arrangements, with the occasional interruption from Donkey.

Students must reconstitute the exploded dialogue and then practise it in pairs.

Interactive practice of different tense forms of 'essen'

Challenging gap-fill text about WORK EXPERIENCE

List of the months in German followed by images designed to provoke students into guessing the month from the weather / events they are looking at. Lots of possible correct answers = lots of guesses. If you've taught the weather you could invite students to justify their guesses.

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

Dialogue for students to act out, in which Dracula repeatedly oversleeps and has to ask Igor what time it is. Perform it to them with the FLA or act out both parts yourself. The hammier the better. Then ask them to practise the dialogue. They can then use the additional lexis at the bottom of the sheet to expand the dialogue, either as an oral improvisation or as a written task.

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.

Interactive activity for the IW. Present tense of SEIN.