A set of questions about how you spent your birthday with two mini-toolkits to help students generate answers in the Perfect and Future tenses.

A set of images from The Hunger Games which act as a visual stimulus for students to describe and compare the two very different locations in the story.

Three activities using flags to practise colours: (i) Is the flag correctly described? (ii) Describe the flag you see. (iii) Quiz - What colours are certain flags?

Set of 20 slides to stimulate and support discussion of or speculation about people's personalities.

Practice of word order after WEIL in the context of MEINE STADT. The activities are set up for students to work through independently.

An improbable dialogue in which Justin Bieber attempts to get Taylor Swift to go to a party with him and Taylor repeatedly rejects his advances conveniently using the Past, Present and Future every time. The dialogue is followed by some grammar work on ... Past, Present and Future.

Fundamentally a very dry bit of grammar work focusing on this key word order concept. In a thinly veiled attempt to make this more interesting, all the language in the examples and the exercises relate to the Hunger Games.

Fictitious text about a boy who has improbable pets. Followed by questions in English.

A copy of my PPT from the ALL conference. Intended primarily for attendees. May be less useful if you weren’t in the session! Examples in French and German.

Text about teenagers' attitudes to giving and receiving valentine&'s cards, followed by questions in English.

Updated version of an item I've previously uploaded. The worksheet has (i) an example of word order in a simple sentence compare to a normal sentence (ii) a match-up activity (iii) an activity in which students must create both a statement and a question from a given set of words.

Text about the FSJ followed by AS-style questions in German and an AS-style writing task.

Higher level text about youth unemployment in Spain, followed by questions in English.

Higher level text in which an unemployed German describes the changes he is making to his life as a consequence of unemployment. Followed by questions in English.

Text, cobbled together from two authentic sources, about the consequences of environmental change for ski areas in Austria. Followed by reading comprehension questions and a discussion task.

Four higher level texts relating to themes of homelessness, human rights, disability and drug abuse. Each text is followed by questions in English.

Speaking activities to be conducted after students have seen the film. (i) students identify key characters (ii) students describe key characters with the support of on-screen vocab (iii) students identify key conflicts between the characters with the support of on-screen vocab (iv) students answer a number of questions as though they were characters in the film.

A sequence of activities relating to travel and holidays: (i) a discussion and card-sort (ii) a text to read (iii) a 'Richtig/Falsch/Nicht im Text' exercise (iv) a summary exercise (v) a paired speaking activity and (vi) a writing task. Typos now removed!

This is a re-vamped version of a text I have uploaded elsewhere. It now has additional exercises. The text has been simplified slightly and is now followed by (i) a comprehension activity (ii) a find the phrase exercise (iii) grammar practice of TMP (iv) a manipulation exercise (v) a translation exercise (vi) a speaking activity and (vii) an essay

Simple quiz. Each slide of the powerpoint begins with an outline map of one of the competing countries in Euro 2012. A click of the mouse will reveal the football strip of that country, modelled by a Subbuteo / Zeugo figure. Another click will reveal the flag of that country. A fourth click will reveal the name of the team. How many clicks do your pupils need before they identify the team?