A 19-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity to practise work covered so far, then introduces the brother and sister (plus “half” and “step”) vocabulary and the plural forms. There is a worksheet to practise labelling the spellings correctly, two listening exercises, and some translations. It ends with a written task to put it together. Also included is a Knowledge Organiser for this half term (siblings, family, pets, descriptions).
This is lesson 16 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.
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Here are the PowerPoints are resources for the first 15 lessons of learning German. They’re straight-forward lessons: all start with a Do Now activity and have some listening, reading, and writing activities, and even an assessment (plus PRIDE/DIRT) at the end.
Topics covered are: Classroom rules and instructions, Working out Links, Greetings, Numbers, Months, Birthdays, Alphabet, Phonics, Countries, and School Equipment.
Also available in my shop: KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets and lots more.
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A 4-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then goes the instructions for carrying out the assessment as a writing activity.
Also included are the markschemes (slightly different depending on if you do it as a speaking or a writing activity) which will enable you to grade students up to grade 9.
There is also a slide to help you mark it so that you can write, e.g. “T4, T9” to feedback on students’ improvement targets.
Students can then work on these in the next lesson by using the PowerPoint presentation for lesson 15, which explains to students what they need to do to improve the work and re-write it.
This is lesson 14 and 15 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.
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A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then recaps the school bag/equipment vocabulary. There is then a reminder about verb conjugation, and then some information on the verb “haben”, plus a grid and a worksheet for students to fill in (included). It finishes with a short writing task and some information about an up-coming assessment.
Also included is the “haben” grid and worksheet for students to fill in.
This is lesson 13 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.
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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.
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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.
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A 19-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then introduces the idea of verb conjugation (using “wohnen”). A grid for students to fill in is included. It then presents 11 country names in German, and practises them with two listening exercises. Please note: There is a reference to the Linguascope worksheet on countries, which I cannot share as it is protected by Copyright.
Also included is a grid for students to fill in the conjugation of “wohnen”.
This is lesson 10 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.
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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.
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A 9-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then goes through the sounds of the German alphabet (worksheet included). There is some practice of the sounds, a short writing activity, and then a vocab/dictionary activity of finding the translations of words which begin with each letter of the alphabet.
Also included is an alphabet grid worksheet for the students to fill in at the same time.
This is lesson 8 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.
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An 18-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then introduces the months of the year. There are then some examples of German birthday card texts, followed by the “birthday” vocabulary. It talks through ordinal numbers (changing, e.g. “17” to “17th”), and then practises the vocab with a listening activity and a reading activity. Please note: A Linguascope worksheet is referenced, which I can’t share as it’s protected by Copyright.
This is lesson 7 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.
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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.
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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.
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A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then goes through the basic “How are you?” vocabulary with a vocab match-up activity. At the end, there is an introduction to the “Look, Cover, Write, Check” method of vocab learning (worksheet included) and a conversation gapfill as a plenary.
This is lesson 4 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Included in this bundle are five Y8 knowledge organisers. They cover: Holidays, My Town, Food and Shopping, Body, Illness and Fitness, and Daily Routine, Music and Film.
All KOs are one (packed) side of A4. They include brief aims, some grammar points, some key phrases/vocabulary, and some “fancy phrases”.
KO 1 - Holidays
Grammar
Conjugating “haben” and “sein”
Creating the past (perfect) tense
Using the conditional tense
Key Phrases
Holiday vocabulary
Holiday tense phrases
KO 2 - My Town
Grammar
Using the accusative case after “es gibt”
Comparatives
Using “ich möchte”
Key Phrases
Town vocabulary
Town tense phrases
KO 3 - Food and Shopping
Grammar
Using opinions
Prepositions
Using “möchte” to say what you’d like
Key Phrases
Town and shopping vocabulary
Fruit and vegetables vocabulary
Town and shopping phrases
Town and shopping tense phrases
KO 4 - Body, Illness and Fitness
Grammar
Using “seit”
Using imperatives to give advice
Using “können” as a modal verb
Key Phrases
Body parts
Face parts
Illnesses
Saying how to stay fit (“Man kann…”)
KO 5 - Daily Routine
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
KO 6 - Music, TV, Film and Internet
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
They can also be purchased individually from my shop.
You can also find my complete set 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 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 opinions
Prepositions
Using “möchte” to say what you’d like
Key phrases
Town and shopping vocabulary
Fruit and vegetables vocabulary
Town and shopping phrases
Town and shopping 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
Holidays
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