Notes are provided on the slides. You will need a copy of Martin Luther King's' I have a dream' speech. It can be downloaded from Youtube if necessary.
Students will need to have seen the first half of the film before doing this exercise. This worksheet contains a jumbled summary of scenes from the first half of the film. They should read the jumbled text and put the scenes into the correct order. There are quite a few adverbs and adverbial phrases to provide clues as to the sequence. Solution also supplied.
A set of activities on the topic of pocket money and part-time jobs: (i) a stimulus text (ii) comprehension questions in English (iii) a find the phrase activity (iv) a gap-fill task (v) pair work and (vi) a writing task
Powerpoint to help students practise answering questions about themself, their family, their pets, and their favourite things. Open the PPT, click 'slideshow' and the 'view show'. Each of the pictures has a hyperlink to a question on another slide. And each of the slides with questions has a back button with a hyperlink back to the slide with the pictures on. Pupils should choose a picture and see which question they get,
This activity is derived from a Powerpoint on Asking The Way, originally uploaded by sammy_lou710 , but has been re-worked in terms of content and format. I designed it for my Year 8 class to work through independently in the computer suite, but it could be adapted easily to be presented on the IW.
First steps in grasping the concept of adjectival agreement. Suitable for Year 7. Worksheet 1 : Explanation is followed a multiple choice exercise.
Worksheet 2 : More multi-choice practice.
40 curious facts in English about Germany. The first PPT is a straight presentation with one per week for the whole of the next academic year ... The second PPT is in essence the same, but asks students to speculate as to whether the statements are true or false, and then to try to recall interesting factoids.
The Powerpoint features the verbs sehen, lesen and hören in the Perfect, Present and Future tenses. A click will remove one of the nine verbs and pupils have to say what has been removed. Another click will put the verb back. And so on ...
Interactive drag and drop game focussing on adverbs of time. The game contains thirty adverbs / adverbial phrases but will randomly select ten each time it is opened and arrange them in random order. Should never quite be the same exercise twice. Will work on IW or PC.
Practise of key language relating to asking directions, followed by a playscript, in which Britney Spears asks the characters from Scooby Doo for directions. The location of the station remains a mystery.
The first text is about a Grundschullehrer who answered a pupil's question about Father Christmas with the truth. The second text is a weather report covering the prospects of there being a white Christmas. Both texts are followed by questions in English.
Batman describes his holiday in France with Catwoman, simultaneously modelling the use of the Perfect Tense with haben and sein. The stimulus text is followed by (i) a richtig / falsch / nicht im Text exercise, (ii) a 'find the phrase' exercise, (iii) pupil reflection on the choice of haben or sein, (iv) an explanation of the use of haben or sein, (v) a manipulation exericise focussing on the Perfect, and (vi) three writing tasks.
35 authentic images and short texts with questions in English. Created for a revision-averse Year 11 group but will work as a starter for other students.
Year 12 starter activity. Each slide of the Powerpoint features a headline relating to the topic of Family. Students must decide in each case whether the accompanying statement is true or false.
Short animated presentation for CPD on Mindset and Praise. This version will advance automatically through the slides and will loop back to the beginning after the last slide. Change the settings if you want to control the slides with a mouse-click.