Lesson focusing on speaking skills before a speaking controlled assessment. Easily adaptable to any topic!

A series of three lessons for both higher and lower ability classes, in line with the Echo 3 SoW. Includes worksheet on the structure 'es gibt' with places in town and accusative adjective endings, and a roleplay set in a tourist office. Great for year 9!

A series of lessons slotted into the topic of school for introducing and practising using the perfect and imperfect tenses in German. The poem is a fantastic activity that works like magic when you translate between the perfect and imperfect - suddenly it rhymes! (will be clear when you see it) The .ppt contains help with vocabulary, and the other .ppt is a lesson which links in with the Edexcel textbook text on Kalib/Angola.

Worksheet introducing and practising the present tense. The grid can be used for a battleships OR Xs and Os type game. Explanation of the present tense on reverse. Great for year 7 or beginners!

A really useful double-sided handout to help German beginners ask people out, refuse/accept, give reasons why/why not. Grammar: modal verbs, future tense, conditional, subordination. Uses the ever-popular sentence- builder style of presenting multiple options for sentences. Great fun.

Used after one term of German: assesses regular and key irregular verb conjugations in the present tense, modal verbs, the future and conditional, 'weil', frequency adverbs. With a handy marking grid to show students which areas they did least well on and what that means for their next steps.

A way of modeling and encouraging extended answers. Model a lengthy sentence, and students must take turns to remove one element but leave the sentence 'intact' (i.e. still sensical) until they get down to the most basic structure. Then it's their turn to build up again from a basic structure, element by element. Some students will want to race ahead and put in 5 things at once - this is ok if they can do it correctly; if not, encourage them to go step by step. The example here is on the topic of environment/Umwelt.

Handout and battleships grid on the topic of free time, introducing adverbs into present tense sentences. Sentence-builder sheet can be used to play 'guess my sentence' or similar.

Introducing regular verb patterns and certain irregular verbs (using weak/strong imagery), sentence builders to include adverbs of frequency in sentences, worksheet to practice conjugating verbs in tables, and an almost-identical assessment.

A lesson to teach/revise structures with the conditional perfect. Ideal for a small class, each member of the class becomes an investigator of one particular structure, and then in a mini-carousel, students explain their findings to each other and write notes on the summary sheet. If there is an odd number (as in my class), you can use the slot with the student to do some specific oral work or other challenging activity. Extension activity on reverse is on the future perfect. Very challenging - not for the faint-hearted!

A lesson focusing on preparing extended answers to questions about birthdays in the IGCSE oral exam. Pupils must identify the structures in my model answers (main verbs, participles, infinitives), and then adapt the answers to create their own.

Writing essays on films is a skill which students often struggle with, and it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what students need to do to improve their essays and get better marks. This is a sequence of exercises which lead students toward writing their own paragraphs which would score highly in the A Level exams by drawing evidence from the film and analysing it. The exercises will also deepen students' understanding of aspects of the film 'die fetten Jahre sind vorbei', and give them valuable practice of analysing the characters, events and themes of the film. Answers to the exercises are included (but for the full paragraph exercises, clearly many answers are possible).

Full vocabulary glossary for Wladimir Kaminer’s “Russendisko”, currently on the 2016 specifications for AQA AS/A Level and CCEA A Level. Perfect to save busy teachers’ time and energy making vocabulary lists for students. With this vocabulary list, students can read independently and with ease. Format: Vocabulary is given page by page. Included are: an editable booklet in Word format; an easily printable identical version in PDF format an Excel spreadsheet version; the document has already been formatted for printing, so should be simple to use. Suggestions and constructive feedback welcomed!

Series of lessons to equip year 9s to begin their GCSE in French with a sound understanding of the tenses. 3 tenses lesson and knowledge audit is the beginning, then 5 lessons working on the booklets which can then be used when they go into Year 10! Final lesson is peer-assessment. Pupils use the grid to play 'les chaises musicales&' and comment on 5 other booklets.

Similar lesson to 'FAIRE', with a goanimate video - with a focus on forming closed questions. Introducing the class's first irregular verb - present tense only.

A task to write a holiday complaint letter with step-by-step instructions to create a good answer. Used as an opportunity for students to write their first controlled-asessment style piece of writing, with plenty of support and room for extending with adverbial phrases (on separate sheet). I hope you have as much fun reading/teaching it as I did making it up!

I came across this buzzfeed.fr article and was inspired to create this fun starter! buzzly.fr/les-noms-des-grands-groupes-de-musique-traduits-en-francais-quand-la-credibilite-chute.html

Two lessons focusing on modal structures and questions/answers in preparation for a controlled assessment for a mixed year 10 group.

Originally an observed lesson (hence the lesson plan) introducing verb conjugation in the present tense to beginners of German. Introduces 7 key verbs through a story, using nouns they've already learnt for phonics (Rachel Hawkes' set of 16 nouns, also featured in Stimmt!1). Plus comprehension exercises and creation of a verb table.

Sequence of 4-5 lessons building towards an oral assessment. Topics: hobbies, housework, pocket money, travel. Grammar: present tense, perfect tense, modal verbs, separable verbs, reflexive verbs, subordinating conjunctions. Lesson 1) All students receive the 2-page handout as a learning aid/revision of syntactic structures studied. The other document is printed out double-sided onto A4 (card if possible) and cut up so each piece has 5 sentences on one side, and the answers on the other. From here it works as a carousel: Everyone has one card, and has 5 minutes (or less) to translate all five sentences. Then one minute to mark (2 marks per sentence - 1 mark up to the /, 1 mark afterwards - if it's not perfect, no mark). Lesson 2) is a series of tasks explained on the ppt. Lesson 3) Is a lesson targeting the students' propensity to forget all about the perfect when on the spot! Ask me if unclear. Lesson 4) Should also be self-explanatory. Lesson 5) (or perhaps the end of lesson 4) was a mock oral exam, using this as a marking grid.