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 to practise vocab from chapter 4 in Stimmt 1 (school).
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, cover lessons or end of term.
This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, an answer sheet for the teacher in list form and one showing the shape.
If the print quality of the powerpoint is not good enough, use the attached pdf version.
This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocab from chapter 2 in Stimmt 1 (family and pets.
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, cover lessons or end of term.
This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, an answer sheet for the teacher in list form and one showing the shape.
If the print quality of the student slide isn’t good enough, use the attached pdf file.
This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocab from chapter 1 in Stimmt 1.
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, cover lessons or end of term
This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, an answer sheet for the teacher in list form and one showing the shape.
If the print quality of the student slide isn’t good enough, use the attached pdf file.
A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 78-79 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (food, opinions, past tense). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 74-75 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (where I live, preposition and cases). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 72-73 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (formal/informal you, questions on exchange, house rules). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 70-71 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (food, opinions, separable verbs). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
This is to support AQA German A level, Hodder & Stoughton book Kapitel: Kunst und Architektur, page 74-77 .
It now also includes two 360 degree tours to introduce and practise architectural vocab.
I have used this in combination with semerson6’s resources https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-german-a-level-hodder-and-stoughton-book-kunst-und-architektur-11486144.
The first task is about the famous buildings mentioned in the “Zum Einstieg” box at the beginning of the chapter. The powerpoint “Berühmte Gebäude” contains pictures of each of the buildings, showing each one for a few seconds and then moving on to the next (it plays in a loop). While watching the presentation students should fill in the worksheet about the name, country and function of the building.
The web tasks ppt contains a link to an overview sheet of different styles that I found online. After going through the vocab with the students, they then use their devices to go to 360cities.net to look at a 360 degree view of the buildings (they are the same ones from the text on p. 75 which can be used as the answer sheet) and work out what style they represent.
My students enjoyed that task very much and I think it bring architecture a bit more to life.
A fun plenary or starter game for the main beginners' topics in any language. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students translate the vocabulary on the boxes and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure.
This activity is based on the gamification theory that random rewards make games more addictive and fun.
There are 34 slides with treasures hidden in different places about these topics (two slides for each topic)
Numbers 1-20
Numbers 20-100
Letters
Animals
Family
Months
Dates
Appearance
Verb endings
Question words
Sports
Hobbies
Hobbies/Sports and Time phrases
Subjects
Days
Town
Food
Note: In presentation mode click on squares to make them disappear and reveal the treasures.
A fun plenary or starter game for any subject or topic that doesn't need any preparation. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students answer a question and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure.
There are 11 slides with treasures hidden in different places and the slide to be used can be chosen randomly by clicking the spinning wheel on the first slide.
This activity is based on the gamification theory that random rewards make games more addictive and fun.
Note: In presentation mode click on squares to make them disappear and reveal the treasures.
A fun starter or plenary practising home vocab from pages 68-69 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (house, irregular present tense verbs and meals). 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.
A fun starter or plenary practising family vocab from pages 58-59 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (modal verbs in present and imperfect, speaking about childhood). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
a matching up worksheet with advantages and disadvantages of different forms of transport. Ideal as revision for foundation papers or when preparing coursework about "my town".
Includes answer sheet
A fun starter or plenary practising future tense vocab from pages 56-57 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (future tense and cases with prepositions). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising family vocab from pages 52-53 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (family members and dative). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
A fun starter or plenary practising friendship vocab from pages 50-51 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (friendship, adjectives and genders). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
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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.
A worksheet to practise recognising different tenses. Students fill past tense phrases and time phrases into a past/present/future table. Includes some more difficult ones like modal verbs in the imperfect and separable verbs in the perfect.
They then do a GCSE style reading task (Topic: "where I live") to decide which parts are in which tense.
Includes answer sheet.