Powerpoint with 35 realia, each followed by questions in English.

A text about Bio-Mode in which students must (i) analyse and explain the the case of a series of highlighted articles and nouns in the first part of the text and (ii) supply the correct article in the second part of the text. Solution also provided for part (ii)

Playscript in which a stressed teacher foolishly complains about the length and structure of the school day to the Head Teacher, who happens to be Darth Vader. Students could practise the dialogue as is, and then change the words in bold type. PS This is not a reference to any particular Head Teacher!

Interactive activity featuring simple (?) arithmetic to practise numbers 1 to 20 in German.

Interactive practice of key WEATHER verbs in the Present Tense

Interactive practice of 'trinken' in the Present Tense

Interactive practice of 'essen' in the Present Tense

Interactive practice of different tense forms of 'essen'

Powerpoint with 24 slides each with a stimulus question relating to the Yr 12 topic "Interessen und Sorgen der Jugend". I used this to stimulate discussion at thee nd of the topic. The first slide of the PPT acts as a homepage. Students choose a number and are hyperlinked to a slide they can not see.

Interactive IW activity practising language relating to different types of relationship problems with family and friends

Three short texts in which characters from the Hunger Games describe and comment on where they live. Followed by questions in German.

Text about Straßengaukler in Köln followed by true / false / not in text questions in German and a writing task.

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

Open-ended activity in which students must (i) improvise a dialogue featuring all of the sentences on the sheet and (ii) write the dialogue up. Works well if you improvise a dialogue for the class to watch before asking them to do it.

A short text about on-line Christmas shopping in Germany, followed by GCSE style questions in English.

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

Three speaking activities (i) a simple identification exercise (ii) a more challenging character exercise (iii) a more challenging role play activity which will probably need some preparation time.

Questions on Filmsprache in Das Leben der Anderen followed by (i) a manipulation exercise, in which students must adapt the questions to generate statements about technical aspects of the film and (ii) an essay title.

Toolkit featturing key structures for describing a room. It brings together the Nominative, the Accusative and prepositions with the Dative . It is followed by a multiple choice exercise practising these grammatical points.

Powerpoint which systematically builds up a table demonstrating the formation of the Dative after certain prepositions (an, auf , hinter etc). After the table has been built up, articles are removed randomly and students have to say what is missing.