A PowerPoint presentation regarding the German language, its similarity to English, some cognates and loan words, techniques for working out new words and a classroom class talk speaking activity for students to have in their books and use through the year. You’ll need to adapt the worksheet and PowerPoint so that it reflects your school’s reward name (I talk about gaining a “Silver” and a “Gold”). I have loads of Y7 German lessons (including Knowledge Organisers), plus KS4 German Knowledge Organisers for the entire GCSE course available from my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 8.1 - Holidays and travel. It complements the OUP textbook. It includes key grammar (“Using weather expressions”, “Using the imperfect tense of irregular verbs”, and “Using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.

A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 11.1 - University or Work? It complements the OUP textbook. It includes key grammar (“Understanding and using the future tense”, “Using welcher?”, and “Using infinitives following zu”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.

A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 6.2 - Healthy and unhealthy living. It complements the OUP textbook. It includes key grammar (“Using modal verbs”, “Saying must not and don’t have to”, and “Using als when talking about the past”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.

A knowledge (KO) organiser for German GCSE. It is for theme 12.1 - Choice of career. It complements the OUP textbook. It includes key grammar (“Using ich möchte,* ich werde*, and* ich will*”, “Using subordinating conjunctions”, and “Understanding and using the genitive case”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.

A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 2.3 - Food and eating out. It includes key grammar (“Saying what you ‘like’ and ‘would like’ to do”), “Understanding and using the present tense”, and “Using adverbial phrases correctly”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.

A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 2.1 - Social Media. It complements the OUP textbook. It includes key grammar (“Using the present tense to refer to the future”, “Using direct and indirect pronouns”, and “Using wann, wenn and als correctly”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.

A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 3.3 - Sport. It complements the OUP textbook. It includes key grammar (“Saying what you like/prefer/like best”, “Using separable and reflexive verbs in the future tense”, and “Using wann, wenn, and als correctly”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.

A knowledge organiser (KO) for one of the first half terms of German studies. It’s a packed single side of A4, which includes: Grammar Conjugating “haben” and “sein” Creating the past (perfect) tense Using the conditional tense Key phrases Holiday vocabulary Holiday tense phrases It also includes some brief aims and a couple of “Fancy phrases”. Also available to purchase are my other KS3 Knowledge Organisers: Introduction to German My Family School Free Time My Home My Town Food and Shopping Body and Fitness Daily Routine Film, TV, Music and Social Media These can be purchased individually or as a bundles. You can also find my complete sets of 21 KS4 Knowledge Organisers for AQA GCSE German. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A knowledge organiser (KO) for one of the first half terms of German studies. It’s a packed single side of A4, which includes: Grammar Using the accusative case after “es gibt” Comparatives Using “ich möchte” Key phrases Town vocabulary Town tense phrases It also includes some brief aims and a couple of “Fancy phrases”. Also available to purchase are my other KS3 Knowledge Organisers: Introduction to German My Family School Free Time My Home Holidays Food and Shopping Body and Fitness Daily Routine Film, TV, Music and Social Media These can be purchased individually or as a bundles. You can also find my complete sets of 21 KS4 Knowledge Organisers for AQA GCSE German. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A knowledge organiser (KO) for one of the first half terms of German studies. It’s a packed single side of A4, which includes: Grammar Using separable verbs Verb as the second idea Daily routine in the 3rd person Key phrases Daily routine vocabulary and phrases Word order (time, manner, place) Routine tense phrases It also includes some brief aims and a couple of “Fancy phrases”. Also available to purchase are my other KS3 Knowledge Organisers: Introduction to German My Family School Free Time My Home My Town Food and Shopping Body and Fitness Holidays Film, TV, Music and Social Media These can be purchased individually or as a bundles. You can also find my complete sets of 21 KS4 Knowledge Organisers for AQA GCSE German. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 12-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity thinking about the German language and then goes through the importance of the Knowledge Organiser (KO included!) and then goes through basic “Guten Tag” vocabulary. There is a listening activity of people saying “Hello” to each other" and a vocab matching activity. My Knowledge Organiser for beginners’ German is also included (Word and PDF available). This is lesson 3 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 14-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then tests the numbers up to 12. It then introduces the numbers up to 31 and practises them with a simple match-up activity, a listening activity, and some number puzzles. Please note that there is a reference to the Linguascope worksheet on numbers up to 31, which I can’t share as it’s protected by Copyright. This is lesson 6 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A knowledge organiser (KO) for one of the first half terms of German studies. It’s a packed single side of A4, which includes: Grammar Using “gern” to state opinions Justifying your opinions Using “seit” to say how long you’ve been doing something Key Phrases Music genres and example phrases Film genres Social media vocabulary Musical instruments vocabulary Music/TV/film/social media tense phrases It also includes some brief aims and a couple of “Fancy phrases”. Also available to purchase are my other KS3 Knowledge Organisers: Introduction to German My Family School Free Time My Home My Town Food and Shopping Body and Fitness Holidays Daily Routine These can be purchased individually or as a bundles. You can also find my complete sets of 21 KS4 Knowledge Organisers for AQA GCSE German. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 13-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity thinking about the German language and then goes through some general rules for correct classroom behaviour. It ends with a simple classroom instructions match-up activity. This is lesson 1 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then tests the greetings vocabulary covered so far. It then introduces the numbers up to 12 and the “age” vocab. There is a listening exercise included. It ends with a brief introduction to “sein” and a table to fill in (included). Please note: There is a reference to the Linguascope worksheet to practise the numbers up to 12, which I am unable to share as it’s protected by Copyright. Also included is a “sein” grid to fill in and a “sein” worksheet. This is lesson 5 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 30-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then introduces the idea of nouns and how they have different genders in German. It then introduces 12 items of equipment in the school bag. It then teaches whether to use “der”, “die”, or “das” or “einen”, “eine”, or “ein”. There are a couple of listening exercises, some short writing exercises, a reading comprehension, and some information about forming negatives with “kein/e/n”. This is lesson 12 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 36-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then goes through an introduction to phonics. It then goes through 16 common German phonic sounds for students to note down on a grid (included). It then asks students to try pronouncing some team members of the 2020 Women’s German National football team. There is also a short poem, and an activity to highlight the phonics covered in the lesson in the numbers up to 12. Also included is a grid for students to fill in at the same time. This is lesson 9 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and recaps the German-speaking countries already covered. Students are then tasked with labelling the three main German-speaking countries on their map (included), as well as the capitals and other major cities. There are a couple of reading activities included, and a small writing frame. Also included is the blank map for students to label. This is lesson 11 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger

An 18-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then talks through how to make links between German words and English words, including cognates, logic, and visual clues. It ends with a match-up activity (plus worksheet) for classroom speaking, e.g. “Ich habe mein Heft vergessen” etc. Also included is the worksheet itself for printing. Note that on the worksheet and the PowerPoint, you may need to change “R1” to your school’s reward system term. As well as that, there is a German Quiz PowerPoint included for an introduction to German and Germany. This is lesson 2 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available! Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/IndieSinger