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

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

Reading activity in which10 teenagers say something about what they did on their birthday. Students must match these statements to others in a list below the stimulus texts.

A toolkit modelling separable verbs in three tenses followed by a written exercise.

GCSE Higher level text with questions in English

Playscript in which Simon Cowell asks various stars to go out with him.

Variation on something I uploaded a couple of weeks ago. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students pick a number and are then hyperlinked to an image and a sentence containing'Er / sie ist' plus an adverb. Students have to complete the sentence.

Another variation on something I uploaded a couple of weeks ago. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students pick a number and are then hyperlinked to an image. They should then use the mini-toolkit on the slide to generate a sentence..

Text in which teenagers list the contents of their school bags. The text is followed by a set of questions in English, an anaysis of the singular and plural forms of the school items mentioned in the text, and a writing task.

Structure for extended pair work in which pupils must compare what they are allowed and not allowed to do.\nParadigm of dürfen provides on-page support.\nCould be followed by whole-class discussion.

A World Cup footballer (Mario Götze or Daniel Sturridge, depending on which file you use) describes his daily routine in simple terms. Text is followed by a comprehension activity and a manipulation activity. Can be converted to any national team with a bit of find-and-replace and a new picture.

Vocab sheet, set out in colour-coded tables to help reinforce the concept of gender, and the changing articles in the Nominative and the Accusative.

Powerpoint in which an overview of how to say 'the', 'my', 'your' and 'he / she / it / them' after 'mit' is built up one slide at a time. Students can be invited to deduce the patterns from the clues present on slide 1. Once the table has been built up, each subsequent slide has a single item missing, so you can play Kim's Game.

This is a facilitated activity I did with my Year 11s (i) to help them share ideas on how to revise and (ii) to help the recalcitrant see that the others were busy revising. After the creation of the Post-It wall I typed up all their ideas and distributed them to the whole class.

Multi-choice activity practising the use of bleiben versus wohnen or übernachten.

This is about as simple an account of the Gunpowder Plot as I could come up with. Hopefully the visuals and the cognates will aid comprehension!

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.

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.