ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS. Powerpoint to help pupils to deduce the grammar underpinning the question 'Wie komme ich zum / zur / zum ... ?'. Examples of masc. fem. and nt. destinations followed by a grid, which can be completed following discusion of the patterns the pupils have observed.
List of the months in German followed by images designed to provoke students into guessing the month from the weather / events they are looking at. Lots of possible correct answers = lots of guesses. If you've taught the weather you could invite students to justify their guesses.
Jumbled dialogue between, Santa, who has misplaced his reindeer, and an elf, who finds them in his garden. The dialogue can be reassembled in many different ways. You could model a dialogue first and them ask them to improvise something similar, before asking them to write up a plausible dialogue.
Aimed at Year 13, a series of activities on the topic of human cloning. First there is a gap-fill activity linked to the song 'Klonen kann sich lohnen'. This is followed by a T / F / NiT activity relating to a news report. Students then have to read and sort 18 statements about human cloning into 'For' and 'Against' groups. They must then analyse and categorise the arguments into moral arguments, medical arguments etc. This is followed by a translation into German and an essay title.
Powerpoint containing multiple choice trivia questions followed by images desiged to provoke discussion. (The quiz questions are different to the ones in the German ppt)
Each of the attached files covers the same content but one is slightly more challenging than the other.The texts are followed by comprehension questions, a find-the-phrase activity, a manipulate-the-phrase activity, pair work and a written task. The more challenging version also features a gap-fill activity and has less scaffolding of the writing.
A sequence of speaking activities relating to the film 'Der Tunnel' including character identification, conflicts between key characters and character description.
Simple quiz. Each slide of the powerpoint begins with an outline map of one of the competing countries in Euro 2012. A click of the mouse will reveal the football strip of that country, modelled by a Subbuteo / Zeugo figure. Another click will reveal the flag of that country. A fourth click will reveal the name of the team. How many clicks do your pupils need before they identify the team?
Two versions of the same resource at slightly different levels. Interview with the Easter Bunny, in which the bunny outlines the working conditions for all the Easter Bunnies, describes the busy run-up to Easter, explains why the Easter Bunny is believed to be male and reveals what the female bunnies planned to do to protest. Followed by questions in English.
A set of satistics and graphics from the Shell-Jugendstudie 2015. Could be a starter for stimulating discussions on the new A-Level topics: Family, Integration, Social Media, Youth and Politics, & Values and Ideals ...
Playscript, featuring a relatively simple interview.. Students could practise the dialogue as it is, and then improvise changes to the text in bold type..
PPT focusing on the reinforcement of grammatical gender. (i) Colour coded text and images are used to get students to associate nouns with a particular gender. (ii) students have to recall the correct article for m. f. nt. and pl. (iii) Students then have have to use der / die / das accurately with only the colour coding of the image as a clue to gender.
Scaffolded speaking activities: (i) who's who (ii) character descriptions (iii) discussion of relationships in the film (iv) the characters at the end of the film
2 interactive drag and drop exercises practising the names of countries via the FIFA rankings for men's and women's football. In each case the rankings are for the top ten countries as of April 2012. Will work on IW or PC.
This multiple-choice quiz contains 30 questions. However, each time you open it, it will randomly select 10 questions from the list of 30, and will shuffle the multiple-choice answers. It will almost never never be the same quiz twice. If you use it in a computer suite, each student in effect gets a different quiz. Will work on PC or IW. (PS Typos now fixed!)
Text looking at the origins of our image of Santa and exploring the mathematical realities of his work. The text is followed by questions in German and an AS-style writing task, whichi s not meant to be taken too seriously