Playscript in which a stressed teacher foolishly complains about the length and structure of the school day to the Head Teacher, who happens to be Darth Vader. Students could practise the dialogue as is, and then change the words in bold type.\nPS This is not a reference to any particular Head Teacher!

Text about the first snow of winter and the chances of a white Christmas. Followed by comprehension questions in English.

Text about Straßengaukler in Köln followed by true / false / not in text questions in German and a writing task.

Short text in English about the life of Ulrich Mühe. For translation into English. Solution also supplied.

Text in German about a curious Christmas tradition in Iceland, followed by GCSE style questions in English.

Simply display the Powerpoint, and read out plausible or implausible football results for the students to note down. This provided a surprisingly compelling context for the simple dictation of numbers in the early stages of learning them. You can of course change the teams however you like.

Activity featuring the 12 Olympics posters commisionned from artists such as Tracey Emin and Rachel Whitread. The Powerpoint aims to stimulate speculation, discussion, interpretation, a bit of guesswork, and suggestions for titles for the artworks. Lots of questions in French to structure discussion and (hopefully) get the pupils thinking More…. The title of each piece can be revealed with a click of the mouse once suggestions have been made. Typo now removed!

A set of sentence patterns to help students talk about their personality and how others see them.

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.

Text in German about the variety of beliefs and tradidtions regarding where Santa lives, followed by GCSE-style questions in English.

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.

A sequence of activities relating to the thorny issue of G8 in German Gymnasien. There is (i) an article followed by questions in German (ii) a set of opinions to sort into Pro and Contra groups (iii) a discussion and a diamond 9 card sort (iv) an analysis of the structure of the article (which is very similar to an essay structure) and (v) an essay title.

A series of statements loosely based on the themes of technology / media / celebrity. Students must speculate how Harry Styles (or any celeb you care to replace him with) would answer the questions. This is followed by writing task. Students then answer similar questions for themselves before doing some pair-work on the topic.

Vocab activity and complex sentence building, followed by discussion questions on the topic of homelessness

Simple Powerpoint designed to scaffold pair work on basic daily routine structures.

Reading activity in which10 teenagers say something about what they did on their birthday. Students must match these statements to others in a list below the stimulus texts.

A toolkit modelling separable verbs in three tenses followed by a written exercise.

GCSE Higher level text with questions in English

Playscript in which Simon Cowell asks various stars to go out with him.

Variation on something I uploaded a couple of weeks ago. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students pick a number and are then hyperlinked to an image and a sentence containing'Er / sie ist' plus an adverb. Students have to complete the sentence.