Word match up - using days of the week as known vocabulary Egg shaped text on easter traditions around Germany with 10 comprehension questions in English Egg template to decorate to show one of the traditions learned about Suitable for Key stage 3 - 1 lessons work approx

Trapdoor speaking template

Sentence builder, tile translation and other activities - such as bad translation, gap-fill, space the words and write from memory Also includes Jenga template

Trapdoor activity

activities to work through early part of chapter - students try to use cognates/prior knowledge to match up jobs Then identify and sort masculine and feminine job endings Box game One pen/one die game Tile translation Guided reading Sentence builder bad translation gap fill and put spaces in words Use with my low ability pupils - lots of revisiting chunks of language

Speed dating tick list for speaking activity have you any pets? describe your pet how many brothers and sisters do you have describe a member of your family including boxes to listen for connectives, intensifiers, opinions and reasons Example paragraph for students to mark together and amend to make better

Tarsia to revise chapter 2 of stimmt 1 either cut out for students or get them to cut out and then recreate the triangle

Reading task - students look at the three versions of the text, they highlight the changes in each text and translate into english under each text - approx 20-30 minutes work, depending on ability

Small sentence builder - what would you definitely/never/maybe do, with simple added opinion - In my opinion that would be… Bad translation activity, gap fill activity and unjumble activity based on the sentence builder Then gapped translation of katarina’s text from page 55 (no text included) for lower ability students Tile translation to put the segments into a writing - enough for 1 hr lesson (I will also do listening on page 54 and speaking from the pages in class)

Sentence builder, tile translation, bad translation, gap fill and unjumble, one pen, TRAPDOOR speaking - one die on first two pages of stimmt 2, kapitel 3 - Breakfast

Sentence builder, bad translation of nonsense sentences and tangled translation activity with answers for tangled exercise

Brain dump on start of chapter Delayed dictation template following translation page on uniform pros and cons Tangled translation on uniform - task and answers in French and English Match up of imperfect verbs Tile translation using these verbs with sentence ends Gap fill on text, to translate when complete Answer slides if want to give for revision

WAGOLL text with find the …in German instruction to annotate and framework to do final piece of writing and checklist of key elements to include

Pyramid translation on chapter 2 of Stimmt 2 i will then use the final section as a writing frame, with the unit vocab pages, to prepare for a speaking assessment

Pyramid translation activity - done in 3s to practise vocabulary recognition of chapter 2 stimmt 1, and to give students a model answer frame for their writing assessment on this unit I give this and the vocabulary pages at the end of the chapter

Dots and Boxes game for stimmt 2 chapter 2 revision Idea adapted from la prof francais’s resources

Activities to think about integration in Germany based around film Willkommen bei den Hartmanns Gapped translation Ordering activity title an article on refugee situation in Germany

We have sets of Jenga with ends numbered 1-48 - This is the template of questions, answers for the team judge and the record sheet Each unit has two games so that judge also plays This is for Stimmt 2 - chapter 2 and is mainly on books and films/tv but also odd questions on chapter 1 as retrieval and key time phrases and connectives/intensifiers. My classes love this game

Spiral reading task - comprehension, spiral reading task - separate the text Translate Answers included to translation and comprehension great for classwork, cover or homework

Make every square count - students must find the clues given in english in German in the grid and highlight both the clue and the squares in the same colour Can extend and ask them to write a paragraph using the clues in German