Simply display the Powerpoint, and read out plausible or implausible football results for the students to note down. This provided a surprisingly compelling context for the simple dictation of numbers in the early stages of learning them. You can of course change the teams however you like.

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 for the artworks. Lots of questions in French to structure discussion and (hopefully) get the pupils thinking More…. The title of each piece can be revealed with a click of the mouse once suggestions have been made. Typo now removed!

Interactive multiple choice quiz on Das Leben der Anderen. Each time the file is opened, the questions and the multi-choice options will be presented in a different order. Will work on IW or PC.

Text featuring an interview with a ghost in which he recounts aspects of his life and death, handily icluding examples of the Perfect with haben and with sein. The text is followed by a capture sheet and some inductive exercises on the selection of the correct auxiliary verb.

Practice of key verbs of travel in Perfect, Present and Future Tenses.

Bart's first letter to his German penfriend. Students read the text and then capture the key points by completing a Steckbrief.

Questions to stimulate discussion about work experience. Could also be used as a written task to provide a scaffold for extended writing.

Interactive drag and drop exercise requiring a knowledge of German and an understanding of the basic idea of football. Will work on the PC or the IW.

The verb ESSEN. Interactive practice of a range of structures in three tenses. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive drag and drop practice of a number of useful structures for talking about pets. The examples here all relate to cats, so pupils have to focus on the structures themselves. Will work on PC or IW.

Another toolkit to help pupils talk about their work experience. This one features adverbial phrases followed by inverted verbs. Also features Perfect and Imperfect tenses.

Text about bizarre, extraterrestrial pets, followed by a 'find the phrase' activity, a bit of grammar, a manipulation exercise and a creative writing task

Kim's game. Pupils have to say which image has disappeared each time.

Dialogue in which Simon and Cheryl discuss the personal qualities of singers, family members and each other, and Cheryl gets a bit upset with Simon. Focus on adjectives. Pupils perform the dialogue as it stands, then improvise changes to the words highlighted in bold.

Interactive practice of the winning countries from the European Championships 1960 - 2008 and the years in which they won. Will work on PC or IW.

A simpl,e unstructured writing task for beginners. Relies on the appeal of the pictures to get a response. Change the images to whoever your pupils like to write about.

Interactive drag and drop activity to help students learn a range of structures for commenting on school subjects. Will work on PC or IW.

Text in which Britney Spears recounts a convoluted dream, featuring multiple locations and unlikely actions by various celebrities. Lots of practice of In der Stadt language and verbs in the Perfect Tense.Text is followed by comprehension questions in German.

The simplified taxonomies can be used to show to students and observers (i) how certain activities demand greater engagement on the part of the learner and (ii) the progression in your lesson in terms of pupils' thinking. Created in collaboration with Rachel Roberts and the MFL team at Gordano.

Year 12 / AS text about unemployed footballers, followed by questions in German and a writing task.