Text in which four teenagers describe the contents of their schoolbag, and say what they have forgotten. It serves as an introduction to the regular plural form in French. The text is followed by an exercise in which students must identify and list the singular and plural forms. They could then describe the contents of their own schoolbag.
Sequence of activities to help students learn to say what they have done in German during this academic year and express this in the form of self-penned school reports
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.
Powerpoint which systematically builds up a table demonstrating the formation of the Dative after certain prepositions (an, auf , hinter etc). After the table has been built up, articles are removed randomly and students have to say what is missing.
Questions on Filmsprache in Das Leben der Anderen followed by (i) a manipulation exercise, in which students must adapt the questions to generate statements about technical aspects of the film and (ii) an essay title.
Toolkit featturing key structures for describing a room. It brings together the Nominative, the Accusative and prepositions with the Dative . It is followed by a multiple choice exercise practising these grammatical points.
Diolgue in German, in which Caesar interviews Katniss about her relationships with other characters in the book / film. The dialogue is followed by two comprehension activities.
PPT focusing on the reinforcement of grammatical gender. (i) Colour coded text and images are used to get students to associate nouns with a particular gender. (ii) students have to recall the correct article for m. f. nt. and pl. (iii) Students then have have to use der / die / das accurately with only the colour coding of the image as a clue to gender.
Simple speaking stimulus. Each slide has a picture of a celeb and students have to choose one of the three options given to express what the celeb does in their free time. No right or wrong answers.
Text looking at the origins of our image of Santa and exploring the mathematical realities of his work. The text is followed by questions in German and an AS-style writing task, whichi s not meant to be taken too seriously
Powerpoint with on-screen help, designed to stimulate and support discussion about (i) what constitutes a uniform (ii) what students think of various school uniforms. This is a more challenging version of something I uploaded previously.
Text in which the characters from Scooby Doo describe what they do in their free time. Text is followed by questions in English and a 'Richtig, falsch, nicht im Text' exercise.
Colour coded grammar toolkit to help students formulate sentences such as 'I've got a dog called &'Lumpi&';.' or I used to have cat, called 'Mimi&'.' or 'When I was little, I used to have a cat called &';Mimi'.'
A GCSE Higher Level text about a young German's decent into drug abuse, followed by questions in English. (NB This is the same text that I used for the "Intro to the Imperfect" but with different exploitation.)