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.
Get your students used to GCSE style questions early with translations, picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Studio 3 Module 3 “À l’horizon”. It is based on the vocabulary of the foundation book, but can be used for vert + rouge.
This download includes:
-powerpoint with three pictures with exam style questions in French with optional English to guide students along.
-translation worksheet with three different tasks
-two role play cards with teacher script for student pair work, bullet points either in French or English
answers for the translation task are included in the powerpoint
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…
A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 34-35 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (festivals and celebrations). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
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
A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 12-13 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (timetable and times). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
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A worksheet with 3 word puzzles for each double spread in Chapter 3 Menschliche Beziehungen (Relationshipts) of Stimmt! GCSE Higher.
Includes puzzles on word and sentence level to practise vocab and grammar.
Ideal as starter or plenary or for cover lessons.
Answers included.
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Get a puzzle worksheet for each page of Chapter 3 in Stimmt! 1 book. Each worksheet contains three different types of word puzzles (crossword puzzles, unjumbling, word clouds, cryptograms…) to practise the vocabulary and grammar on each page. Also includes answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 14-15 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (school rules, rooms and opinions). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
Three fun puzzles to use as a starter or plenary to revise page 12-13 'Ich wohne in Deutschland' in Stimmt!1 (countries and spelling). Includes answers.
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"
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Puzzles for every double page in chapter 4 in Stimmt 1 German. Each includes three different word puzzles to practise vocab and grammar and answer sheets. Ideal as plenary, revision or for cover lessons.
This quiz is based on a six minute medley of German songs and it is aimed at intermediate German learners.
It would be ideal as an introduction to the topic of music or as a fun game at the end of term. It includes 12 different genres of music from folk to heavy metal and an exercise on description words to give opinions about music.
If played in teams it usually takes about 20-30 min - students answer questions about the genre, description and content and guess which band picture goes with which song.
This is an introduction with exercises on how to use the Collins online dictionary and how to avoid common pitfalls when translating.
No preparation or printing required and all tasks will mark themselves.
The examples used are in French but no prior knowledge of French is required so it could be used for students of other languages as the principles of using a dictionary will be the same. A German version is available from my shop.
This activity covers:
• different meanings
• parts of speech
• conjugation and verb tables
• gender
• plurals
• pronunciation
• idioms
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.
** A lesson that your students will not forget quickly!
Now digital version included - no prep - self marking
Try a sample: https://view.genial.ly/5ee4f42237584d0da6288527
A-Level and first year learners available as well.
A spy themed escape room activity in which students need to do German language related puzzles to get a code to jump from one website to the next in search of the “mole” . Ideal as vocab and grammar revision for the second, third or fourth year of learning German. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays!
It includes vocab from the topics family, celebrations, hobbies, perfect and imperfect tense.
Includes answers.
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.
A mix of resources to teach a unit about the Berlin wall and/or the film Good Bye Lenin.
Suitable for old spec researched based essay or new spec topic “aspects of political life”
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.