a simple speaking practise describing appearance, partner A describes the picture on the first slide then partner B describes slide 2, with a speaking frame Then picture of the Simpsons on slide 3 can be used to play a "Guess who game"

Simple Battleships to practise inviting someone to activities and days of the week. For Echo 2

A display/hand out with German word order as condensed as possible.

Single slide with country names in German cut up and mixed up over the page to be put together again by students. Good for recapping country names

A list in German with pictures what students should bring to their German lessons, could be copied in the first lesson

A digital + paper escape room aimed at GCSE German students, revising the topics of hobbies and family. It is mainly a digital activity to be played in teams but requires 3 pages to be printed out (cutting out of cards optional). The answers are in the download. The activity can be adapted into other languages or shortened by clicking “reuse this genially” at the bottom.

Power point for the first lesson to show students your expectations for careful copying in German lessons. Students are shown a sentence on the whiteboard and asked to copy it carefully. Then potential mistakes are highlighted and students have to check their own work, e.g. do they have an underlined title, capital letters and umlaut…

Two simple tables with forms of haben and sein for display in the classroom.

This is the film trailer for my Stimmt GCSE German murder mystery, so you can see it before you buy. Find the main resource here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/stimmt-gcse-murder-mystery-menschliche-beziehungen-chapter-3-11463917

Are you teaching the new AQA GCSE with Stimmt or the new AS Level with Hodder/Dynamic learning? Do you use Stimmt 1? If your students are using memrise.com to learn vocab, follow the links on the attached document to become part of a memrise group that will give you all the vocab sets you need. If you don't use memrise yet, you definitely need to have a look at it. Note: If you don't have a memrise account, you will be asked to create a free one when you follow the link. After you have joined the group, you should find all the sets on the 'groups' page. Please check out my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/jusch12

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.

German phrases with English translations to impress the examiner. Every topic includes phrases in different tenses, colloquial expressions and complex structures. Topics: School, Family, Health and Work. These are phrases that students can learn to prepare for the old or the new style GCSE.

For teaching Good Bye Lenin to 6th form students. This contains two vocabulary lists in German-English, one general Berlin Wall vocab, one more specific Good Bye Lenin film vocab, there is also a big crossword puzzle for each vocab list, including answers.

A short paragraph explaining the building and fall of the Berlin wall. Can be used as an introduction to the topic or as a one of lesson on the Berlin Wall (e.g. on the 3rd October). There are three different sheets with varying amounts of vocab help so they can be used from year 10 to year 13. Each worksheet contains the same paragraph about history, a vocab list, an activity where students have to find words in the text, a dictionary task and a quiz.

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 starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 79-80 in the Stimmt! 1 book (days, times and timetable). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

Three fun puzzles to use as a starter or plenary to revise page 10-11 'Eins, zwei, drei' in Stimmt!1 (numbers). Includes answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 8-9 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (perfect and pencil case items). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

Here is an idea how to add more authentic resources as asked for in the new specifications. This is a worksheet and a presentation based on a German pop song and includes a gap fill, a translation task and a creative project. The song is slow and suitable for beginners but is ideally used after the introduction of numbers and plurals. (E.g. in chapter 2 of Stimmt 1). This download includes a PowerPoint with an introduction, the answer to the tasks and a translation of the text, a worksheet and a lesson plan. Note: This unit of work is based on the song Einmal by Die Prinzen. Please make sure you can access it on YouTube or somewhere else before buying. The song is not included.

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 26-27 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (hobbies, books, instruments and cases). Includes three word puzzles and answers.