Extended text featuring three tenses, in which Shrek talks about his home, the town of Duloc and a visit to Portishead. Having read the text students should enhance the original by adding adverbs, adverbial phrases and conjunctions from a list beneath the text.

Short text, adapted from an authentic source, in which young French speakers discuss what food they like. The stimulus text is followed by comprehension and manipulation exercises, a bit of grammar and a writing task.

Relatively simple activity, in which students must match the names of key characters in the film 'Dr Tunnel' to short descriptipns of the characters.

Powerpoint with images of celebrities, designed to stimulate speculation, and possibly even debate, about what they have in their bedroom. The second version of the Powerpoint leads in with an introduction to / revision of the use of adjectives in French and provides support for the descriptions.

Three short character studies of Gerd Wiesler, Georg Dreyman and Christa-Maria Sieland. Each study contains an anomaly, which the students must identify and delete. (PS typos removed)

Simple table featuring regular -er, -ir and -re verbs in the first person singular in three tenses. Designed to help weaker students analyse and annotate the patterns. Can be blown up as a poster and / or printed as a hand-out. I've also put the display on a ppt.

Higher Level Text on homelessness in Bonn followed by (i) reading comprehension questions in English (ii) a grammar focus (iii) a text manipulation exercize.

Text about the zika virus with questions in English.

Interactive practice of the present tense of the verb 'lernen'. Will work on PC or IW.

20 slides with realia relating in one way or another to the topic of school. Each of the realia is accompanied by a question practising typical challenging AS question forms such as "In welcher Hinsicht ist ..." and "Aus welchem Grund ..."

A relatively simple dialogue about school subjects and teachers with questions in English. Written for beginners.

This dialogue is an upgraded variation of something I originally wrote for Lernpunkt Deutsch. There is a dialogue featuring Superman at the doctor's, followed by True / False / Not in Text questions, a manipulation and extension activity, and a vocab deduction exercise.

A sequence of speaking activities relating to the film 'Der Tunnel' including character identification, conflicts between key characters and character description.

Scaffolded speaking activities: (i) who's who (ii) character descriptions (iii) discussion of relationships in the film (iv) the characters at the end of the film

Reading and writing activities relating to the film "Nordwand": (i) who's who (ii) scaffolded character description (iii) discussion of relationships in the film

TOOLKIT outlining ordinal numbers from 1 - 31 with the twelve months. The structures will enable students to say when they and others celebrate their birthdays and when they ans others were born.

Powerpoint which builds up, slide by slide to create a table illustrating adjectival endings in the Accusative after 'Es gibt ... '. The examples are all in the context of desribing a room. The table is followed by images of celebrities, and students then have to speculate as to what there is in their room.

Revision of useful phrases relating to asking the way and understanding directions. followed by a look at the formal versus the informal imperatives of four key verbs. This sets the students up for a playscript in which heart-throb Harry Styles has to ask the way to the station, having been given his marching orders by Taylor Swift. The script then becomes the basis for a writing task.

Nine images of Marvel characters for students to describe. The first slide acts as a homepage for the presentation. Students choose an number and a clicl wiill hyperlink them to an image of a Marvel superhero / mutant to describe. Each slide has an on-screen toolkit to help students form suitable sentences.

Text about the legal rights and responsibilities of 16-18 year olds in Germany.\nThe text is followed by (i) step by step guidance on how to convert the facts into sentences and then into opinions (ii) practice in expressing opinions.