Text describing the situation in Germany with regards to young people's involvement with illicit substances and excessive drinking. The text is followed by questions in English, a find the phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise based on equivalent stats from the UK, and finally a challenging extended writing task. This was produced for an able KS4 group but could easily be upgraded to AS material.
Open-ended starter. Pupils have to suggest what the people or the animals in the images are thinking. Lots of possible correct answers for each picture. If you want you could set parameters eg 'Utilisez le futur proche.'
(i) Extended text about the surface to air missiles deployed in East London for the Olympics, followed by comprehension questions in German, and (ii) a selection of opinions about the security measures, based on internet blogs, followed by a comprehension task, a speaking task, and two writing tasks, one pitched at AS level and one pitched at A2 level. (Typos spotted and now fixed.)
Foundation Level TOOLKIT, designed to help Foundation Level pupils say why they like or dislike someone and also help them construct sentences with two common subordinating conjunctions.
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.
An extended text describing and analysing key decision points for the main characters in Das Leben der Anderen, followed by a summary exercise which should help students gain an overview of cause and effect and provide a useful tool for revision.
To create this text I have edited down a more complex analysis of Wiesler and Sieland found on wedding-music-and-more.de and interwoven additional material on Dreyman written by Isabella Langheim. I made up the summary task.
Text in which Justin Bieber recounts a strange dream, featuring Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and things made of chocolate. The text is followed by questions in German.
I made this for my FL2 class to practise the Perfect Tense with haben and sein in the context of daily routine. The pair work cycles through three times, with the on-screen support reduced each time.
This a transcript of a scene from the German film Die Welle. Students have to translate the text, then compare their translation to the subtitles given in the film. What differences do they notice and can they explain them? The scene contains the word Scheisse twice. May not be suitable for all audiences.
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.