Group activity followed by discussion and essay. Students have to cut out 18 opinion cards and sort them into Pro and Contra groups. They then have to create a diamond nine with each set, before using these as reference materials for a discussion. Finally there is the inevitable essay title.

In response to requests from delegates, here are copies of my Powerpoints from the Keynote speech and my workshops at the ALL West of England Conference : ALL Talk, March 2014. (They may not make complete sense if you weren't there.) I&'ve also put a link to my write-up of the TL workshop.

Simple presentation introducing (or revising) the plural forms of pets.

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.

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.

Each slide of the powerpoint practises a different German sound / spelling pattern. Slide 1 acts as a homepage for the activity. Students pick an image. When you click on it, it hyperlinks to a phoneme for the class to practise. (This is similar to the one I made for beginners, but the vocab is appropriate to KS4.)

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.

Powerpoint containing a sequence of slides, each with a lead question and a number of supplementary questions. Designed to support speaking activities as a whole group and / or in pairs.

A very dry granmmar worksheet, featuring a sequence of exercises practising the Perfect, Present and Future formation of regular verbs.

I showed my KS4 classes the Til Schweiger film KOKOWÄÄH and they loved it. Some of the scenes are very accessible in terms of the language level, so I transcribed one of the scenes and added some activities. You'll need a copy of the film, though.

A Powerpoint which (i) step by step builds up a grammatical table to demonstrate the adjectival endings needed when desribing places in a town and (ii) presents pairs of real and fictitious characters which form the basis for paired speaking activities.

Powerpoint in which students must (i) play Kim's Game with an image of Springfield and (ii) use the picture of Springfield as a stimulus for oral work.

These are plenary ideas I've previously ulpoaded in English. I&'ve had a go at creating some TL versions. (The ideas themselves have been collected from a number of sources.)

A text about the Hunger Games, featuring some character info and a comparison of the Capitol and District 12. This is followed by a true / false / not in text exercise, an adjective identification exercise, a reminder about adjectival endings, and two writing tasks. The second file contains an additional task for students who may need some additional work / challenge. Students have to complete an interview with Katniss Everdeen and must transpose many statements in the third person into the first person.

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.

Text in German about the variety of beliefs and tradidtions regarding where Santa lives, followed by GCSE-style questions in English.

Open-ended activity in which students must (i) improvise a dialogue featuring all of the sentences on the sheet and (ii) write the dialogue up. Works well if you improvise a dialogue for the class to watch before asking them to do it.

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 short text about on-line Christmas shopping in Germany, followed by GCSE style questions in English.

Short text in English about the life of Ulrich Mühe. For translation into English. Solution also supplied.