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.

A presentation for Stimmt AQA GCSE Foundation/Higher to introduce genres of books with different speaking and writing activities and a quiz. Also includes an introduction to cases in German with focus on the nominative and accusative with a grammar handout for students.

A fun starter or plenary practising description vocab from pages 48-49 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (appearance, character and adjective endings). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 6-7 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! book (school subjects and uniform). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

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...

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.

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.

A worksheet for beginners to make them aware of common mistakes and how to improve them. The task is: Text 1 is not very good. Text 2 would get an excellent grade. How do you get from 1 to 2? 1. Underline mistakes in 1 and annotate with marking codes (see below) 2. Underline extras in 2 3. Write advice in the box (e.g. Use more…, Be careful with…, Connect…)

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 worksheet for GCSE students to make them aware of common mistakes and how to improve them when writing about books. The task is: Text (A) needs improving, text (B) is excellent. What feedback would you give (A) to improve and become (B)? Be as specific as possible and use marking codes. 1. Underline mistakes in (A) and annotate with marking codes 2. Underline extras in (B) 3. What feedback would you give (A) to improve and become (B)?

A poster on my favourite untranslatable German word: Feierabend. Includes explanations and pictures

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.

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.

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.

Two worksheets to help students prepare questions and answers for the German general conversation part of the 2016 spec exam or for a speaking exam for the old 2014 spec specification. They are based on the questions in the back of Stimmt! AQA German higher book, but can be used with any text book. Sheet 1 has questions and answers and sample answers in English and German. (More support) Sheet 2 has the questions and answers English and German and useful vocab, structures and hints on what tenses and content to include. (More independence)

Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 1 Stimmt 1 "Meine Welt und ich" This download includes: -powerpoint with three pictures with questions in English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work. It includes some colour questions which can be taken out. -translation worksheet -two role play cards for student pair work -example answers for speaking and answers for translation task included in the powerpoint More chapters available soon! Note: vocabulary slide should be first in ppt, was put to back so preview on TES shows pictures.

Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early on with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 2 Stimmt 1 Familie und Tiere This download includes: -powerpoint with three pictures with questions in German and English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work. -translation worksheet -two role play cards for student pair work -example answers for speaking and answers for translation task included in the PowerPoint More chapters available soon! Note: vocabulary slide should be first in ppt, was put to back so preview on TES shows pictures. Some of the tasks are also included in my download “Das Geheime Leben der Tiere”

Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early on with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 5 Stimmt! 1 'Holiday and Town’ This download includes: -powerpoint with three pictures with questions in German and English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work. -translation worksheet -two role play cards for student pair work -example answers for speaking and answers for translation task included in the powerpoint Available as a bundle! Note: vocabulary slide should be first in ppt, was put to back so preview on TES shows pictures.

Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early on with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 4 Stimmt! 1 'School’ This download includes: -powerpoint with three pictures with questions in German and English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work. -translation worksheet -two role play cards for student pair work -example answers for speaking and answers for translation task included in the powerpoint More chapters available soon! Note: vocabulary slide should be first in ppt, was put to back so preview on TES shows pictures.