This a transcript of a scene from the German film Die Welle. Students have to translate the text, then compare their translation to the subtitles given in the film. What differences do they notice and can they explain them? The scene contains the word Scheisse twice. May not be suitable for all audiences.
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.
Text in which Justin Bieber recounts a strange dream, featuring Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and things made of chocolate. The text is followed by questions in German.
I made this for my FL2 class to practise the Perfect Tense with haben and sein in the context of daily routine. The pair work cycles through three times, with the on-screen support reduced each time.
Three activities relating to jobs and professions, pitched at Foundation Level students. 1 Students match jobs to short clues about those jobs. 2 Students identify key chunks of language from the first eexrcise. 3 Students usea toolkit to generate short descriptions of other jobs.
Jumbled dialogue between, Santa, who has misplaced his reindeer, and an elf, who finds them in his garden. The dialogue can be reassembled in many different ways. You could model a dialogue first and them ask them to improvise something similar, before asking them to write up a plausible dialogue.
Year 12 starter activity. Each slide of the Powerpoint features a headline relating to the topic of Family. Students must decide in each case whether the accompanying statement is true or false.
Interactive multiple choice quiz on the London Olympics. The programme will shuffle the possible answers into a different order each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW.
Interactive drag and drop practice of ser and estar. Will work on PC or IW. (With regard to the comment posted below, the left hand column is not failing to function; it is fixed and you have to drag the items in the right-hand column over to their equivalents on the left-hand side.)
This worksheet contains two sets of exercises designed to go with the T-Mobile Royal Wedding spoof which can be found on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLug
The resources are pitched at different levels. (i) Practice of FAMILY and CLOTHING (ii) Slightly easier version practising FAMILY and COLOUR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLug
Four short texts about the contents of your schoolbag, followed by a grid for capturing various German plural forms. This is intended as an introduction to the variety of plural forms in German.
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.