A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 81-82 in the Stimmt! 1 book (description of teachers and possessive pronouns). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

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.

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 77-78 in the Stimmt! 1 book (subjects, opinions and weil) . Includes three word puzzles and answers.

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.

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 school vocab from pages 82-83 in the Stimmt! 1 book (description of class room, rules and prepositions). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

Two longer texts looking at why Germany was divided into two different states in 1949, one looking at the development in the East, the other in the West. Includes a vocab list, a timeline that the students have to fill in and some discussion questions. Suitable for 6th form students preparing for the history option of the research based essay or the topic area of "Aspects of political life" in the new AQA specifications.

A worksheet for lower to middle ability GCSE students, practising writing about part time jobs. There are three tasks for similar texts with decreasing support.

A fun starter or plenary practising family vocab from pages 34-35 in the Stimmt! 1 book (numbers and family members ). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 14-15 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (school rules, rooms and opinions). Includes three word puzzles and answers

A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 32-33 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Green book (sports and conditional). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A comprehensive introduction to using the dictionary in German with exercises for all levels, from lower set KS3 classes to A-Level classes. It includes topics like gender, tenses, words with different meanings and what can go wrong when translating. Also includes an exercise on online dictionaries. There is a worksheet with exercises and puzzles which is aimed at GCSE/A-Level classes.

A presentation to introduce months and birthdays, with exercise on months, numbers, ordinal numbers and speaking about your birthday. Includes a worksheet with three word puzzles.

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 76-77 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (daily routine, reflexive verbs). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 84-85 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (technology, opinions, dass). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocab from chapter 3 in Stimmt 1 (hobbies and sport) 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 80-81 1 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (healthy living, sports and pronouns in different cases). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

This is a tarsia puzzle to practise vocabulary to speak about a work experience or a part-time job in the past tense. It is aimed at GCSE level. 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 term. This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, a answer sheet for the teacher in list form and showing the shape.

A fun starter or plenary practising school vocab from pages 18-19 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (future tense and school trip). Includes three word puzzles and answers.