Three activities relating to jobs and professions, pitched at Foundation Level students. 1 Students match jobs to short clues about those jobs. 2 Students identify key chunks of language from the first eexrcise. 3 Students usea toolkit to generate short descriptions of other jobs.
Three slides with stimulus questions which students must answer as though they were a character in the film. The first two are relatively straightforward, but the third will require a little imagination. Worked well with an able year 9 class.
Dialogue in which the characters from THE BIG BANG THEORY discuss bedtimes. The dialogue contains the complete paradigm of se coucher and is followed by a grammatical exercise on reflexive verbs, a find the phrase acticity, a manipulation activity, and a writing task. The writing task will produce a script for subsequent speaking practice.
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.
A powerpoint featuring a model of a statement about household chores covering three tenses, followed by several images of celebrities or fictional characters, into whose mouths the pupils might like to put words. Could easily be adapted for any topic.
Vocab quiz on the theme of UMWELT. Adapted from the "Who wants to be a millionaire?" template uploaded by ahardiment. This now works more like a traditional quiz. Students score 5 points for each German word they can give without any prompting and two points for any answer they get from looking at the multichoice options.
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.
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.
A sequence of activities relating to travel and holidays: (i) a discussion and card-sort (ii) a text to read (iii) a 'Richtig/Falsch/Nicht im Text' exercise (iv) a summary exercise (v) a paired speaking activity and (vi) a writing task. Typos now removed!
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.
This is a re-vamped version of a text I have uploaded elsewhere. It now has additional exercises. The text has been simplified slightly and is now followed by (i) a comprehension activity (ii) a find the phrase exercise (iii) grammar practice of TMP (iv) a manipulation exercise (v) a translation exercise (vi) a speaking activity and (vii) an essay
Simple quiz. Each slide of the powerpoint begins with an outline map of one of the competing countries in Euro 2012. A click of the mouse will reveal the football strip of that country, modelled by a Subbuteo / Zeugo figure. Another click will reveal the flag of that country. A fourth click will reveal the name of the team. How many clicks do your pupils need before they identify the team?
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.
Playscript, featuring a relatively simple interview.. Students could practise the dialogue as it is, and then improvise changes to the text in bold type..