Simple Powerpoint to help beginners practise the pronunciation of the following phonemes: ie ei e w v ch sch. I've used vocab which has cropped up in their lessons so far. If necssary, change this to vocab your classes are familiar with.

Text in German about the variety of beliefs and tradidtions regarding where Santa lives, followed by GCSE-style questions in English.

Powerpoint in which the pattern of adjectival endings after 'Wir haben ein / eine / ein ... ' are built up slide by slide. This followed by an activity in which images of celebrities and fim characters are used as a stimulus for students to say what kind of garden / kitchen / bedroom they have.

Dialogue set at a party in Hogwarts. The students are given the beginning of the dialogue and must reconstruct the rest using a selection of speech bubbles and a bit of imagination. Lots of practice of sich duschen, sich amüsieren and sich erbrechen.

An unlikely dilaogue in which Bella fro Twighlight and Belletrix from Harry Potter discuss health and fitness. I've uploaded the dialogue on its own before but it is now followed by comprehension questions in English, a grammar point relating to word order after aufhoeren and anfangen and two exercises in which students must generate sentences of their own.

Text in which a number of young Germans express their views about environmental issues. The text is followed by (i) an exercise in which students must make notes from the text on the causes of environmental problems, the problems themselves and the possible solutions and (ii) a scaffolded discussion.

A sequence of activities relating to the thorny issue of G8 in German Gymnasien. There is (i) an article followed by questions in German (ii) a set of opinions to sort into Pro and Contra groups (iii) a discussion and a diamond 9 card sort (iv) an analysis of the structure of the article (which is very similar to an essay structure) and (v) an essay title.

A series of statements loosely based on the themes of technology / media / celebrity. Students must speculate how Harry Styles (or any celeb you care to replace him with) would answer the questions. This is followed by writing task. Students then answer similar questions for themselves before doing some pair-work on the topic.

Vocab activity and complex sentence building, followed by discussion questions on the topic of homelessness

Scaffold to structure a discussion about what kinds of animals pupils would be prepared to eat and why.

Dialogue in which Batman discusses his commitment issues with a psychiatrist. Includes Past, Present and Future tenses

Text about future plans followed by questions in English

Text about JK Rowling, followed by 'True / False / Not in text' questions

Text about a Goth festival in Leipzig followed by questions in English.

Interactive practice of the Present Tense of the verb trinken. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive exercise practising the present tense of ESSEN. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive drag and drop exercise practising the je form of three high-frequency verb forms in their positive and negative forms. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive practice of countries. Pupils match eight events from the year 2008 with eight countries. Will work on PC or IW.

Simple Powerpoint designed to scaffold pair work on basic daily routine structures.

Questions in German about clothing and fashion. The questions could be used as prompts for written or oral work or both.