Four short Foundation Level texts in which young Germans talk about their plans or lack of plans for work experience. Texts are followed by comprehension exercises in German, a 'Find the phrase' activity, a manipulation exercise, and a writing task supported by a toolkit
Three texts of increasing sophistication, ghost-written by characters from a reality show. Students have to evaluate the texts and give a NC level to each one. They then have to re-write one of the texts to improve the NC level. There are then two more written tasks to complete
9 photos from National Geographic for exploitation as stimuli for spontaneous TALK. The first slide acts as a homepage for the other 9 slides. Students pick a number on the homepage and are hyperlinked to an image. They could be invited to (i) describe what they see / don't see (ii) speculate about the lives of the people / animals in the image (iii) suggest what will happen next / what has just happened etc etc.
Each of the attached files covers the same content but one is slightly more challenging than the other.The texts are followed by comprehension questions, a find-the-phrase activity, a manipulate-the-phrase activity, pair work and a written task. The more challenging version also features a gap-fill activity and has less scaffolding of the writing.
Aimed at Year 13, a series of activities on the topic of human cloning. First there is a gap-fill activity linked to the song 'Klonen kann sich lohnen'. This is followed by a T / F / NiT activity relating to a news report. Students then have to read and sort 18 statements about human cloning into 'For' and 'Against' groups. They must then analyse and categorise the arguments into moral arguments, medical arguments etc. This is followed by a translation into German and an essay title.
Dialogue in which Jeremy Clarkson discusses his dream holiday with German motoring presenter Sabine Schmitz, and Sabine reveals which of the three Top Gear presenters she likes best. Text is followed by a Richtig/falsch/nicht im Text exercise, a 'f'ind the phrase&' exercise, a manipulation exercise and a gap-fill exercise.
Reading comprehension text for beginners in which three pop stars introduce themselves and comment on other pop stars. The text is followed T/F questions in English and dictionary exercise.
Playscript in which Shrek and Mr Incredible compare their physique and argue about who has the nicer wife. Practice of adjectives and comparatives for relative beginners.
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.
Four texts in which teenagers describe their work experience in fairly brief terms. The texts are followed by a comprehension exercise, a find the phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise and a writing task.
TOOLKIT for generating complex sentences relating to the topic of family and relationships, and for practising word order in sentences featuring a main clause and a subordinate clause.
Text on technical elements of the film followed by a 'Find the Phrase' activity. Designed to equip students with some of the technical language they need to write about the film.