5 verbs in the Imperfect tense, set out as a table so that students can analyse and infer the pattern. Could be given out as a hand-out of blown up for display.
Summarising activity for students to complete after watching this gripping film about an attempt by German and Austrian climbers to scale the North Face of the Eiger in the 1930s. Students cut up the jumbled summary of the plot and re-arrange the cards in order to re-create the storyline.
Solution enclosed on separate Word doc.
Powerpoint with 9 slides each with a stimulus question relating to the topic of Media. The first slide of the PPT acts as a homepage. Students choose a number and are hyperlinked to a slide they can not see.
Three interactive gap-fill exercises, each one corresponding to one of the three repeating phases of the film. The three completed exercises will constitute a summary of the action. Will work on PC or IW.
Interactive drag and drop practice of ser and estar. Will work on PC or IW. (With regard to the comment posted below, the left hand column is not failing to function; it is fixed and you have to drag the items in the right-hand column over to their equivalents on the left-hand side.)
ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS. Powerpoint to help pupils to deduce the grammar underpinning the question 'Wie komme ich zum / zur / zum ... ?'. Examples of masc. fem. and nt. destinations followed by a grid, which can be completed following discusion of the patterns the pupils have observed.
Powerpoint summarising the use of
(i) the Nominative for the Subject
(ii) the Accusative for the Direct Object
(iii) the obligatory use of the Dative after aus, bei, mit etc.
(iv) the elective use of the Dative after an, auf, hinter etc (NB no mention of the possible use of the Accusative with these prepositions at this point).
Designed to support relative beginners in describing their town.
4 reflexive verbs relating to ma routine journalière, set out as a table so that students can analyse and infer the pattern. Could be given out as a hand-out of blown up for display.
Students will need to have seen the first half of the film before doing this exercise. This worksheet contains a jumbled summary of scenes from the first half of the film. They should read the jumbled text and put the scenes into the correct order. There are quite a few adverbs and adverbial phrases to provide clues as to the sequence. Solution also supplied.
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
Simple toolkits to help students go beyond "er / sie ist + adjective" when describing friends and relatives.
- He / she looks ...
- He / she can be ...
- I think he / she is ...
- I find him / her ...
plus a load of adjectives.
Nativity dialogue based on words and phrases from the French Christmas carol "Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris". Also includes a little bit of practise of the date.