Two PPTs which act as stimuli to help students say which type of TV programmes they like and dislike. The first slide acts as homepage. Students select a number or a letter and are then hyperlinked to an image to comment on. The first PPT has nine images of reasonably recognisable programme types. The second has a selection of images from German TV and may involve a degree of discussion as to the type of programme it is, before students make their comments.

Powerpoint in which students must supply the correct preposition to complete the description of the picture.

A dialogue featuring some of the central characters from the film "Was tun, wenn's brennt?" The dialogue is not an actual scene from the film but is a fantasy love triangle featuring three of the characters. The text focuses on physical description, with a little bit of jealousy thrown in. It is followed by activities in which students must (i) identify key language, (ii) adapt the dialogue, focusing on the words in bold type, and (iii) enhance the dialogue by adding in adverbial phrases from a given list. Students will need to have seen the end of the film to get the joke at the end of the dialogue.

This an upgraded version of a worksheet I originally uploaded for Year 11 pupils. The text contains unpleasant but true information about the self-styled 'Worst hotel in the world' plus comments about dreadful hotels from contributors to TripAdvisor. This is followed by a grammar tip about adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, questions in German, a manipulation exercise, a translation into English, a writing task, more grammar, a speaking task and finally another writing task.

Question and answer activity. There activity contains a numbered sequence of questions to be asked, and a bullet pointed list of answers to choose from. Students could be expected to answer (i) using only answers on the sheet (ii) an answer on the sheet plus an additional statement of their own devising (iii) an answer on the sheet plus two additional statements of their own devising.

Powerpoint for practising phonics. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students pick a number and re then hyperlinked to a word (or a phrase if you use the other PPT) to pronounce. Change the content to suit your focus.

A gap-fill exerise about fitness featuring a Futurama character with one eye and purple hair.

A series of sentence pattern generators to help students stay in the TL when working independently.

Two activities to help beginners structure an account of a day: (i) a gap-fill on Dracula's day(ii) a scaffolded writing task for students to describe their own day.

Three speaking activities based on an image of a vaguely futuristic Berlin: (i) A Where's Wally? style observational activity (ii) a memory and writing activity and (iii) questions for discussion.

Powerpoint containing a set of activities which become progressively more challenging (i) a multiple-choice quiz (ii) more demanding reading activities regarding the history of the World Cup (iii) reading activities relating to Brazil (iv) images to provoke discussion. Use the bits that suit your class!

Powerpoint containing multiple choice trivia questions followed by images desiged to provoke discussion. (The quiz questions are different to the ones in the German ppt)

Dialogue in which David and Victoria Beckham are interviewed about their attitudes to shopping. Students read the dialogue and then decide which responses best fit which character. They can then practice the dialogue in pairs (ie with just one of the Beckhams) or in threes. Includes Past, Present and Future.

This ppt is for an activity I conducted with our soon-to-be year 7s on their transistion visit. It's a facilitated activity that encourages the pupils to (i) share their perceptions of the benefits of learning a language (ii) think about how learning a language will devlop their generic thinking and learning abilities (iii) reflect on how an MFL lesson, which they have just had, has fostered generic thinking and learning skills. It could be used with Year 7s at the start of their MFL career.

Interview in German relating to the film 'Into the white'. The film features Rupert Grint (of Harry Potter fame) and is based on the true story of German and British air crews, who were shot down in the snowy wastes of Norway in WW2 and who had to co-operate to survive. The interview is with German actor Florian Lukas (Goodbye Lenin!) about the shooting of the film, and is followed by questions in English.

This replaces a previously uploaded version which simply did not work (as my Year 12s discovered.) A text about three contrasting holidays has been broken up and students must reassemble it correctly. This is followed by the original text (ie the solution), a reminder of the Adjective / Comparative / Superlative constructions, and an exercis comparing two of the holidays.

This a version of a resource I've already uploaded. It focuses on gender and the change in masculine articles in the Accusative. Instead of the 'Family' vocab in the other version, this one features vocab from 'Der Hobbit' and was made to help some Tolkien fans in my year 9 FL2 class to have a rudimentary conversation about the film.

Scaffold for describing a typical Monday.

Relatively simple text about a boy who is werewolf and why this makes it hard for him to go out with his best friend's sister. Followed by questions in English.

Toolkit to enable students to generate hundreds of sentences about their possible careers and reasons for their choices.