I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
This is a tarsia puzzle with family vocab for the end of year of year ten German.
The vocab is based on unit 4 of the Edexcel German GCSE (old spec) higher book about family, character, marriage and some past tense.
A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together.
Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of year.
This is a tarsia puzzle with family vocab for the end of year of year ten German.
The vocab is based on unit 4 of the Edexcel German GCSE (2009 spec) foundation book about family, character, marriage and some past tense.
A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together.
Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of year.
This is a tarsia puzzle with mixed vocab for the end of year of year ten German.
The vocab is based on units 1 to 4 of the Edexcel German GCSE (2009 spec) foundation book and includes Media, Holiday, School and Family.
A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together.
Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of year.
Practise German pronunciation with this 70-slide PowerPoint. It is suitable for all levels from beginners to A-Level, and can be used whenever the students struggle with a certain sound.
This version includes all the word lists read out by a native speaker. There is a presentation-only version available to buy.
It covers the main difficult letters/letter combinations like ‘ie’ and ‘ei’, ‘sp’ and ‘st’ and ‘J’. The sounds are practiced with the following activities: listen and repeat contrasting pairs (for students to work out the pronunciation), listen and point to what sound you hear, pair work, tongue twisters and a rule to copy down if possible.
The presentation is meant to be presented in chunks, when students come across a new sound or before speaking exams.
Note: the slides are not in alphabetical order but in order of how common the problem is. There is a hyperlinked index.
Practise German pronunciation with this 70-slide PowerPoint. It is suitable for all levels from beginners to A-Level, and can be used whenever the students struggle with a certain sound.
There is also version with sound available to buy.
It covers the main difficult letters/letter combinations like ‘ie’ and ‘ei’, ‘sp’ and ‘st’ and ‘J’. The sounds are practiced with the following activities: listen and repeat contrasting pairs (for students to work out the pronunciation), listen and point to what sound you hear, pair work, tongue twisters and a rule to copy down if possible.
The presentation is meant to be presented in chunks, when students come across a new sound or before speaking exams.
Note: the slides are not in alphabetical order but in order of how common the problem is. There is a hyperlinked index.
This is a revision and reference grammar booklet (9 pages). Small enough to be always at hand while
giving students an overview over all the main topics: word order, cases, prepositions, pronouns and tenses. Aimed at A-Level and Higher GCSE students.
This is a tarsia puzzle with mixed vocab for the end of year of a beginner’s class in German.
A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together.
Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of year.
Topics include: Greetings, Countries, numbers, age, family, months, pets, school subjects, days of the week, pencil case items
This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocabulary to speak about a work experience or a part-time job in the past tense. It is aimed at GCSE level.
A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together.
Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of term.
This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, a answer sheet for the teacher in list form and showing the shape.
This is a Tarsia puzzle to practise numbers 1-20 in German and another one to practise 20-100.
A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together.
Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of term.
This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, a answer sheet for the teacher in list form and showing the shape.
This puzzle is now also included in: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/german-numbers-1-100-die-zahlen-11367200
Use the new Pixar film to introduce pets in German with enough material for about 3 lessons.
These lessons are based on chapter 2, units 1 and 2, pages 30-34 in “Stimmt 1” but can also be used in combination with Zoom 1 and other text books.
It includes picture description and translation tasks, modelled on the new GCSE exams.
Topics are pets, genders, description (body/character) and modal verbs.
Some tasks are based on a YouTube clip, but can be skipped if you can’t access YouTube in your school.
This download includes a 90-slide PowerPoint presentation, three worksheets and a lesson plan.
Lesson Overview
• Slide 2: German Trailer
• Slides 3-15: introduction of animals and genders
• Slides 17-26: listen and repeat animals
• Slides 27-37: Pass Auf! Game
• Slides 48-59: Was fehlt? Game
• Slides 60-67: Speaking description words
• Slide 68: writing task venn diagram description words
• Slide 69-73: plurals
• Slide 74: reading tasks, additional description words
• Slides 75-77: listening task, ways of saying good bye
• 78-84: modal sentences with “kann”
• Slides 85-88: Picture description
• Slide 89-90: Bingo
• Slides 91-94: Translation tasks answers
• Translation Worksheet
• Puzzle Worksheet
Note: PPT now corrected
Are you are German NQT or are you getting a new class room next year? Here are my favourite displays and posters to decorate your new German teaching area!
The poster every classroom should have to encourage students to use all their resources before they give up or ask the teacher. German and English version with pictures
A colourful display of the longest and most difficult to pronounce words in German. Try promising prizes for anyone who can pronounce three of them correctly and see what happens...
Display the numbers so everybody in the class can see them: one number per A4 sheet. To display both number words and colour words, print the numbers on coloured paper and make sure the colour of the sheets for 1-11 match the words at the bottom. Alternatively print in black and white and colour in the numbers or use the version without colour words.
A fun game that can be used to practise speaking about places in town and giving directions.
Works best if there are prizes for finding the treasures!
There are 5 maps with streets and town buildings (church, hospital ect) and three hidden treasure per slide. Students have to guess where the treasure is by naming the place of giving directions there, when you click on the place it reveals either an empty space or a treasure.
The third slide turns the whole game into a race between different teams.
In stronger classes they could practise prepositions and cases/genders (in der Kirche/ au stade ect)
The last two slides are more detailed to practise more complex directions like ‘over the bridge’, ‘at the traffic light’ ect.
Make the students use their brain with this thinking skill activity.
Includes two different puzzles each with vocab help and instructions.
Students read clues about family members, character and birthdays to work out connections, fill in a grid and solve the puzzle.
A comprehensive and clear overview over the cases in German (Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive) including definitions, articles, adjective endings and pronouns.
Also includes a picture to illustrates the connection between roles and cases.
*Corrected version
Make German perfect tense movement verbs more memorable with the Simpsons. Can be used as a classroom display or as a slide in a presentation about the perfect tense.
Do you use a lot of PowerPoint presentations and are bored with using the same design all the time? Here are 14 themed backgrounds to bring variety to your presentations. Most of them should also help students with dyslexia who find it easier to read from coloured backgrounds.
The themes are mainly the ones covered in language lessons but can be used for a variety of subjects.
TES doesn't allow the sharing of Office Themes, so these are saved as presentations. Either use them as they are and add your content or save them as a Office Theme if you want to use them in different presentations.
Note: These presentations do not contain any content but are only backgrounds.