Make German word order more memorable with these funny cartoons. They could be used as displays, as part of a presentation on that topic (most fun if read by different people) or as an example for students to make their own comic strips with bitstrips.com. The topics are word order with verb second place, word order with verb last place after ‘weil’ and Time-Manner-Place.

Several tasks to practise regular German verb endings

Sentence builder for weather and activities (Es regnet, also spiele ich Fussball). Students write down one sentence and then guess what sentence their parter has written. Can also be used as a kind of bingo game, the students write down 1-3 sentences, if they have the same sentences as the teacher they win.

The word weil wears a big boot that kicks the verb to the end of the sentence. An exercise on recogognising verbs, then some demonstrations of the boot and then some sentences for the students to work out themselves.

Explanation of the rule that the verb goes second and next to the pronoun in German.

Wordsearch and jumbled words with opinion words

Presenting new vocabulary, holiday activities in the past tense to go with Echo 2 chapter on Schwarzwald. Starter on time phrases, then presentation and some games to practise new vocabulary.

Picture presentation to introduce opinions in the past tense and then some games to practise them.

Two columns with pictures/phrases, students choose their own illness, remedy… and then have to guess which of them their partner chose. To practise speaking more the rule is that they have to start the sentence from the beginning and keep going until they use a phrase their partner hasn’t chosen. Similar to battleships but with a longer sentence.

Cut out the cards to play domino, connecting first part of past tense sentence with the right verb.

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

Two versions of battleship, one easier with words, one harder, with pictures. To practise giving opinions on holidays, Ich war in Spanien, es war langweilig.

Thinking skills/mystery/quiz/logic puzzle on timetable, which teacher teachers which subject, what day, and what period? Easier and harder version.

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

A game for the first lesson in a new group or as recap of first few chapters of book. This is an example of 4 sentences in German, one of which is a lie. Every student writes 4 sentence about themselves, and then go around getting other people to guess which one is a lie.

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 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"

A ppt with funny pictures of extreme body types (very tall, fat, small...) and a worksheet with sentences in German (Er ist gross, Sie ist klein...). Teacher shows pictures and says sentences in German, students work out the English translation by looking at the pictures and then write it on the worksheet next to the German sentences. Afterwards they can use the writing frame on the worksheet to describe themselves. Not to be used with classes that will get too excited by funny pictures!

A first exercise on using the dictionary to find German words, with a few exercises on bringing letters and words (in English) in alphabetical order

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