I am a native German speaker and a fully qualified teacher with many years of experience teaching a range of age groups and abilities, as well as creating educational resources.
I am a native German speaker and a fully qualified teacher with many years of experience teaching a range of age groups and abilities, as well as creating educational resources.
This is a GCSE German higher tier writing paper, modelled on the AQA specification.
Included are:
the exam paper
the mark scheme with suggested model answers for the essay questions.
This is a worksheet, covering the following tenses:
Präsens
Perfekt
Präteritum
Plusquamperfekt
Futur I
Futur II.
The worksheet consists of 25 sentences, where the auxiliary verb and the full verb need to be highlighted and the tense needs to be identified.
Accompanying the worksheet is an answer sheet.
Included in the pack are 50 past participles - in German and English. The matching cards can be printed on card and/or laminated and then need to be cut out.
Learners can do this individually or collaboratively, in pairs or groups.
This is a full video lesson with exercises, that will take you through the following topics:
• What is the perfect tense and when would you use it,
• which auxiliary verb to use,
• how to form the past participle, including exceptions,
• how to construct a perfect tense sentence, including the word order.
The lesson includes the powerpoint, which forms the centrepiece of the lesson and is used in the videos, worksheets that can be downloaded from this page and also online exercises, the links to which can also be found on the page.
If viewing on phones or tablets, you will need to download the PowerPoint app from Google Play or the app store. If you need a different format let me know.
Please note: the videos are hosted on YouTube but are unlisted, so cannot be found by searching on YouTube or search engines such as Google or Bing.
This is a resource teaching the use of ‘haben’ and ‘sein’ in German.
It includes:
A powerpoint teaching the conjugations of the two verbs
A worksheet with two sections
An answer sheet.
These are six puzzle activities including the following:
Matching activity
Worksheet (to translate the words)
Bingo cards
Crossword
Scrambling activity
Wordsearch
The activities include 20 different fruits, some well known, e.g. der Apfel, others less well known, e.g. die Brombeere.
Included are the answer sheets for every puzzle.
This is a full GCSE German Foundation tier reading paper, modelled on the AQA specification, with a mark scheme.
The maximum mark for the paper is 60.
Section A requires answers in English,
Section B requires answers in German,
Section C requires the translation of a passage into English.
20 role-plays for the German GCSE oral exam, modelled on Paper 3 of the AQA syllabus.
The resource includes the candidate cards as well as teacher cards.
This is a resource pack teaching students how to use conjunctions in German - both coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
The pack consists of the following:
Explanation handout
One matching activity
One worksheet requiring students to join two sentences with a given conjunction
One worksheet requiring students to choose a conjunction and join two sentences
The matching activity and the two worksheets come with answer sheets.
20 photocards modelled on the AQA GCSE specification, with high-quality photos and the two additional questions beyond the three compulsory ones.
Topics covered are:
A. Me, my family and friends (family)
B. Technology in everyday life
C. Free time activities (music)
D. Free time activities (sport)
E. Home, town, neighbourhood, region
F. Free time activities (eating out)
G. Global issues (the environment)
H. Me, my family and friends (friends)
I. Technology in everyday life
J. Free time activities (films)
K. Customs and festivals in German-speaking countries/communities
L. Travel and tourism
M. Social issues - healthy/unhealthy living
N. My studies
O. Jobs, career choices and ambitions
P. The environment
Q. Travel and tourism
R. Life at school/college
S. Education post-16
T. Poverty/homelessness
These are three puzzle resources, a crossword, a wordsearch and a matching activity, with 25 adjectives.
All the resources come with separate answer sheets.
Please note - in the crossword puzzle, there are no gaps between two words, e.g. “sehrgut”, the ß is written as “ss” and the Umlaute are separated, e.g. ä would be “ae”.
These are three puzzle resources, a crossword, a wordsearch and a matching activity, with 18 school subjects.
All the resources come with separate answer sheets.
Please note - in the crossword puzzle, the Umlaute are separated, e.g. ä would be “ae”.
These are three puzzle resources, a crossword, a wordsearch and a matching activity, with 20 members of the family.
All the resources come with separate answer sheets.
Please note - in the crossword puzzle, there are no gaps between the articles and the nouns, e.g. “derVater”, the ß is written as “ss” and the Umlaute are separated, e.g. ä would be “ae”.
These are three puzzle resources, a crossword, a matching activitz and a wordsearch, with 20 animals, some easier, e.g. the dog but some a little less common, e.g. the ferret.
All the resources come with separate answer sheets.
Please note - in the crossword, there are no gaps between the articles and nouns, e.g. derHund.
These are three puzzle resources, a crossword, a wordsearch and a matching activity, with 20 hobbies/leisure activities.
All the resources come with separate answer sheets.
Please note - in the crossword puzzle, there are no gaps between the words, e.g. “imGartenarbeiten”. Also Umlaute are separated, e.g. ä would be “ae”.
These are three puzzle resources - a crossword puzzle, a matching activity and a wordsearch, all with answer sheets covering 22 types of sport. Some are the more familiar ones, e.g. football or tennis but others are more unusual, e.g. fencing or high jump, to encourage the students to learn a greater variety of vocabulary.
Included are 19 paragraphs in German for translation into English plus a separate document with suggested answers. The topics are based on the AQA specification.
The topics covered are:
Me, my family and friends
Technology in everyday life
Free-time activities
Customs and festivals
Home, town, neighbourhood and region
Social issues
Global issues
Travel and tourism
My studies
Life at school/college
Education post-16
Jobs, career choices and ambitions
This resource will teach students how to talk about the future in German. Both the future tense using ‘werden’ and the use of the present tense with a time word/phrase are covered.
Included in the resource:
Powerpoint teaching students how to talk about the future in German
A worksheet
An answer sheet
This resource will teach students how to use reflexive verbs in German.
Topics covered:
what are reflexive verbs
what are the reflexive pronouns in the accusative and dative
the correct word order when using reflexive verbs
some common reflexive verbs
a practice worksheet
Included in the resource:
Powerpoint teaching students how to use reflexive verbs/pronouns
A worksheet
An answer sheet
This is a full GCSE German Higher tier reading paper, modelled on the AQA specification, with a mark scheme.
The maximum mark for the paper is 63.
Section A requires answers in English,
Section B requires answers in German,
Section C requires the translation of a passage into English.