Interactive drag and drop exercise, in which pupils must match up the German and English titles of the Harry Potter films. Will work on PC or IW. Two of the German titles are not quite exact translations. You might want to challenge the pupils to find out which two are not quite the same.
Short texts in which school students express the likelihood of their going into the sixth form versus looking for training or employment, followed by comprehension questions in English, a "Find the phrase" exercize and a text manipulation exercize.
Powerpoint practising the use of GERN. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students must select a letter on the homepage and are then hyperlinked to a multiple choice question on the use of GERN.
9 images and short speculative texts relating to travel in the future, which act as a springboard for class discussion. Used it with my Year 12s. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students pick a number and are hyperlinked to a slide.
Activity featuring the 12 Olympics posters commisionned from artists such as Tracey Emin and Rachel Whitread. The Powerpoint aims to stimulate speculation, discussion, interpretation, a bit of guesswork, and suggestions for titles. Lots of questions in German to structure discussion and (hopefully) get the pupils thinking. The title of each piece can be revealed with a mouse-click once suggestions have been made.
Short animated presentation for CPD on questioning and wait-time. This version will advance automatically through the slides and will loop back to the beginning after the last slide. Change the settings if you want to control the slides with a mouse-click.
Short animated presentation for CPD on Think-Pair-Share. This version will advance automatically through the slides and will loop back to the beginning after the last slide. Change the settings if you want to control the slides with a mouse-click.
Two texts in which Wallace & Gromit and Bruce Wayne é Selina Kyle describe their plans for a trip around the world. The texts are followed by a true/false exercise in German and a writing task.
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.
Text describing some of Katniss's family relationships and friendships in the first book. Text is followed by a 'Correct the false statements' activity and two speaking and/or writing activities.
Relatively simple playscript for beginners who have done SEIN, a few adjectives of personality, and a few basic phrases. There is no real denouement to this dialogue but the pupils generally like it because I have a puppet just like the cat in the script ... Adapt the script to suit whichever props you have to hand. Once the students have practised the script as it stands, they could improvise changes to the words in bold type.
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.