Interactive drag and drop exercise featuring all the Olympic disciplines for London 2012. The file will select ten sports at random from the full list, to make a new quiz each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW.

Text about unusually themed hotels in Germany, followed by questions in English.

TOOLKIT to help students generate sentences starting with an adverb, adverbial phrase, or subordinate clause, and continuing with the Perfect Tense of a selection of common 'Holiday' verbs..

Short text in English about the life of Ulrich Mühe. For translation into English. Solution also supplied.

Inteactive drag-and-drop activity for practising football positions and commenting on best / worst player

Extended text about school subjects followed by questions in German.

Exemplification of common German separable verbs in 3 tenses, followed by interview questions, which could be prepared as a written exercise and / or practised as a dialogue.

Interview with Lady Gaga about school subjects. Students should (i) practise the dialogue as it stands and (ii) improvise changes to the printed dialogue, focussing on the words in bold text.

Playscript with lots of practice of 'Ich esse gern ... ', plus a device to encourage students to pronounce 'Marmelade' correctly.

Playscript in which Simon Cowell asks various stars to go out with him.

TOOLKIT outlining ordinal numbers from 1 - 31 with the twelve months. The structures will enable students to say when they and others celebrate their birthdays and when they ans others were born.

Activity featuring the 12 Olympics posters commisionned from artists such as Tracey Emin and Rachel Whitread. The Powerpoint aims to stimulate speculation, discussion, interpretation, a bit of guesswork, and suggestions for titles. Lots of questions in German to structure discussion and (hopefully) get the pupils thinking. The title of each piece can be revealed with a mouse-click once suggestions have been made.

An activity I did with a revision-shy Year 11 class to make them engage with a past paper in a different way.

The sheet models common separable verbs relating to Tagesroutine in 3 tenses and the provides a set of interview questions which require students to use the verbs in different tenses. Could be done as a written exercise before embarking on the pair work.

Foundation Level text about the Paralympics, with on-page vocab support. Text is followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' task focussing on time phrases, a manipulation exercise, and a writing task.

Review of Adele's second album, followed by 'true / false / not in text questions'

Text about the first snow of winter and the chances of a white Christmas. Followed by comprehension questions in English.

Speaking activities to be conducted after students have seen the film. (i) students identify key characters (ii) students describe key characters with the support of on-screen vocab (iii) students identify key conflicts between the characters with the support of on-screen vocab (iv) students answer a number of questions as though they were characters in the film.

Curious or amusing signs from Germany. Just ask your class to work out and explain why the images are funny.

And... another batch of authentic images and mini-texts with questions in English. Pitched at a lower ability Year 11 group, but works well as a starter for other students.