Text describing the situation in Germany with regards to young people's involvement with illicit substances and excessive drinking. The text is followed by questions in English, a find the phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise based on equivalent stats from the UK, and finally a challenging extended writing task. This was produced for an able KS4 group but could easily be upgraded to AS material.
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.
PPT which acts as a stimulus for speaking about free time. The first slide acts as a homepage for the whole activity. Students choose an image on the homepage and are hyperlinked to an images of a celebrity with an empty speech balloon. Students can say as much or as little as you want them to say.
Gap-fill exercise practising irregular past participles with haben. It is Valentine's Day and Amy wants to go out with Sheldon. Sheldon wants to stay at home and watch Star Trek. Students fill in the missing past participles. (Some gaps can take more than one possibility.) When complete you have a dialogue, which the students can perform. They could also write up the dialogue adding in language of their own such as more persuasive comments from Amy and more disparaging comments from Sheldon.
Text in which Homer Simpson talks about what there is to do in Springfield and compares it to Shelbyville. The text is followed by a True / False exercise, a find-the-phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise and a writing task.
Yet more practice of key vocab for recalcitrant Year 11s. Although designed for lower ability classes, these work well as a starter for more able students too.
Two parallel texts, pitched at different levels, looking forward to the Paralympic Games 2012. The first text is fairly complex and is followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' exercise with a focus on the Future Tense, revision / presentation of the Future, a manipulation exercise, again with a focus on the Future Tense, and finally a writing task featuring past tenses.
The second text, pitched at Foundation level, is virtually verb-free, and is followed by questions in English and no grammar whatsoever.
Authentic screenshots and mini-texts on the topic of FOOD, with questions in English. Created for a lower ability group but works well as a starter for more able classes.
Vocab quiz on the theme of SCHULE. Adapted from the "Who wants to be a millionaire?" template uploaded by ahardiment. This now works more like a traditional quiz. Students score 5 points for each German word they can give without any prompting and two points for any answer they get from looking at the multichoice options.
I've piggybacked a load of Foundation Reading Comp questions from my other resources onto the Trivial Pursuit template created by Helen Wolfenden. Worked well with students who are getting a bit worn out and revision-averse just as they should be hanging on my every word ...
Interactive drag and drop exercise in which students must match the brief character descriptions with the name of the character in the Film. Will work on PC or IW.
Three character descriptions of the the three central characters in the film Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei. Pupils have to read the descriptions and work out which character is being described in each case.
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.