Higher level text about the prevalence of drugs in German schools, with comprehension questions in English.

Grammar exercises based on lyrics from 'Das Nikolauslied'. In the first exercise students must choose the correct verb, in order to re-tell the story of Santa's visit on the 6th of December. In the second exercise students must conjugate the key verbs from the story. Grammar dressed up in a bit of tinsel.

Dialogue in which a frustrated tourist attempts to retrieve an umbrella from a fairly useless employee at a lost property office. Pupils practise the dialogue and then adapt the script by introducing different items. Just add props!

Authentic signs and notices with GCSE type questions in English. Pitched at revision-averse Foundation students.

Dr Who and a Cyberman each describe what they do in their free time in relatively simple terms. The two texts are followed by a GCSE-style question.

Sequence of questions relating to Van Gogh's painting of his bedroom. Practice of colour, prepositions, and bedroom objects. For the first set of questions, students can see the painting. For the second set they have to do it from memory. Finally they should compare their own room with Van Gogh's room. Plenty of scope for practice of &'kein&'; as they identify everything that Van Gogh does not have in his room that they have in their room.

Questions about TV for oral discussion.

A young German, apparently called Markus Absendt, expounds on TV programmes. Followed by True / False / Not in Text questions and a writing task.

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.

Simple playscript in which Dracula repeatedly wakes up too soon, asks Igor the time and has to go back to sleep again, until finally it is midnight. Perform it with a colleague or the FLA to your class, or play both parts yourself, then get them to practise it in pairs, and finally ask them to develop the dialogue using the extra vocab and phrases supplied.

An improbable dialogue in which Justin Bieber attempts to get Taylor Swift to go to a party with him and Taylor repeatedly rejects his advances conveniently using the Past, Present and Future every time. The dialogue is followed by some grammar work on ... Past, Present and Future.

Fundamentally a very dry bit of grammar work focusing on this key word order concept. In a thinly veiled attempt to make this more interesting, all the language in the examples and the exercises relate to the Hunger Games.

The stimulus text here is an edited version of 'Internetdiscussion' which I've already uploaded. The statements for and against school uniform have been shortened and adapted slightly to fit the attitudes of the lead characters in the film 'Die Welle'. The texts are followed by comprehension activities and a manipulation exerecise.

Gap-fill exercise practising irregular past participles with haben. It is Valentine's Day and Amy wants to go out with Sheldon. Sheldon wants to stay at home and watch Star Trek. Students fill in the missing past participles. (Some gaps can take more than one possibility.) When complete you have a dialogue, which the students can perform. They could also write up the dialogue adding in language of their own such as more persuasive comments from Amy and more disparaging comments from Sheldon.

Two exercises practising the use of the Nominative for the subject, and the use of either the Accusative or the Dative after 'in'.

Interactive, drag and drop match-up activity of some idioms which may possibly amuse students enough to want to use them. Will work on PC or IW

Questions to stimulate discussion on the topic of the environment

Interview about mobile phone use, featuring relatively accessible language. The dialogue is followed by speaking practice, a 'find the phrase' exercise, a manipulation exercise, another speaking exercise and a writing task.

Fictitious text about a boy who has improbable pets. Followed by questions in English.

A copy of my PPT from the ALL conference. Intended primarily for attendees. May be less useful if you weren’t in the session! Examples in French and German.