Text about bizarre, extraterrestrial pets, followed by a 'find the phrase' activity, a bit of grammar, a manipulation exercise and a creative writing task
Dialogue in which Simon and Cheryl discuss the personal qualities of singers, family members and each other, and Cheryl gets a bit upset with Simon. Focus on adjectives. Pupils perform the dialogue as it stands, then improvise changes to the words highlighted in bold.
A simpl,e unstructured writing task for beginners. Relies on the appeal of the pictures to get a response. Change the images to whoever your pupils like to write about.
Text in which Britney Spears recounts a convoluted dream, featuring multiple locations and unlikely actions by various celebrities. Lots of practice of In der Stadt language and verbs in the Perfect Tense.Text is followed by comprehension questions in German.
The simplified taxonomies can be used to show to students and observers (i) how certain activities demand greater engagement on the part of the learner and (ii) the progression in your lesson in terms of pupils' thinking. Created in collaboration with Rachel Roberts and the MFL team at Gordano.
Toolkit focusing on (i) the use of the Nominative and the Accusative and (ii) word order in main and subordinate clauses. I made this for my Year 9 FL2 beginners, who like grammar. They really do.
A list of questions covering typical Year 7 topics and a list of possible answers. Pupils have to match up the answers to the questions. But ... there are two answers for every question. Pupils have to find both answers each time. It can then be used as a platform for extended oral work.
Simple Powerpoint to help beginners practise the pronunciation of the following phonemes: ie ei e w v ch sch. I've used vocab which has cropped up in their lessons so far. If necssary, change this to vocab your classes are familiar with.
Powerpoint in which the pattern of adjectival endings after 'Wir haben ein / eine / ein ... ' are built up slide by slide. This followed by an activity in which images of celebrities and fim characters are used as a stimulus for students to say what kind of garden / kitchen / bedroom they have.
Dialogue set at a party in Hogwarts. The students are given the beginning of the dialogue and must reconstruct the rest using a selection of speech bubbles and a bit of imagination. Lots of practice of sich duschen, sich amüsieren and sich erbrechen.