Higher level text in which an unemployed German describes the changes he is making to his life as a consequence of unemployment. Followed by questions in English.

Text, cobbled together from two authentic sources, about the consequences of environmental change for ski areas in Austria. Followed by reading comprehension questions and a discussion task.

Four higher level texts relating to themes of homelessness, human rights, disability and drug abuse. Each text is followed by questions in English.

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.

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!

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?

Playscript, featuring a relatively simple interview.. Students could practise the dialogue as it is, and then improvise changes to the text in bold type..

Implausible playscript, in which a Judoon interrogates Dr Who and Clara in detail about where exactly they are from.

Text about the elves in the Lord of the Rings followed by by True/False/Not in Text questions in English. Practice of character, personality, qualities, appearance ...

GCSE style text with questions in English. This an edited down version of the AS level text I also uploaded.

Descriptive text about a journey in the North of Norway. The text provides a stimulus for structured poetry writing. Students have to list all the descriptive elements of the text and then re-arrange them until they have a poem. Classroom-tested!

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

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)

List of discussion questions relating to predictions about the World Cup 2014 plus a Future Tense toolkit to support the generation of answers.

Practice of 'Main verb 2nd idea'. Model sentence patterns followed by an exercise.

Toolkits to help students describe characters in 'the Lord of the Rings'.

PPT in which 20 key words lifted from past papers (Foundation level) are practised with simple GCSE style questions.

An activity practising language for saying what pets you used to have and what happened to them. There is a grammatical focus on gender and the use of the correct pronoun for 'it'. The first slide acts as a homepage with hyperlinks to other slides. Students then use the linked slides to create grammatically accurate sentences about the deceased and departed pets.