35 authentic items culled from the internet, with questions in English. Designed for a revisophobic year 11 class, but would work as a starter for a more able group.

The Powerpoint features the verbs sehen, lesen and hören in the Perfect, Present and Future tenses. A click will remove one of the nine verbs and pupils have to say what has been removed. Another click will put the verb back. And so on ...

Interactive drag and drop game focussing on adverbs of time. The game contains thirty adverbs / adverbial phrases but will randomly select ten each time it is opened and arrange them in random order. Should never quite be the same exercise twice. Will work on IW or PC.

Practise of key language relating to asking directions, followed by a playscript, in which Britney Spears asks the characters from Scooby Doo for directions. The location of the station remains a mystery.

35 question, multiple-choice, self-marking, interactive exercise, practising a wide range of vocab relating to DAS WETTER. Wiil work on PC or IW.

The first text is about a Grundschullehrer who answered a pupil's question about Father Christmas with the truth. The second text is a weather report covering the prospects of there being a white Christmas. Both texts are followed by questions in English.

Dialogue in which a character from Das Wunder von Bern describes his relationships with other characters. The text is not from the film but is true in spirit to the relationships in the movie. The dialogue is followed by a comprehension exercise with questions in English.

This is a facilitated activity I did with my Year 11s (i) to help them share ideas on how to revise and (ii) to help the recalcitrant see that the others were busy revising. After the creation of the Post-It wall I typed up all their ideas and distributed them to the whole class.

Batman describes his holiday in France with Catwoman, simultaneously modelling the use of the Perfect Tense with haben and sein. The stimulus text is followed by (i) a richtig / falsch / nicht im Text exercise, (ii) a 'find the phrase' exercise, (iii) pupil reflection on the choice of haben or sein, (iv) an explanation of the use of haben or sein, (v) a manipulation exericise focussing on the Perfect, and (vi) three writing tasks.

The Powerpoint contains a set of questions which form a scaffold for pair work. There is a stop watch on every slide to encourage the students to try to improvise a one-minute answer to each question.

Dialogue in which the characters from THE BIG BANG THEORY discuss bedtimes. The dialogue contains the complete paradigm of se coucher and is followed by a grammatical exercise on reflexive verbs, a find the phrase acticity, a manipulation activity, and a writing task. The writing task will produce a script for subsequent speaking practice.

A powerpoint featuring a model of a statement about household chores covering three tenses, followed by several images of celebrities or fictional characters, into whose mouths the pupils might like to put words. Could easily be adapted for any topic.

Year 12 starter activity. Each slide of the Powerpoint features a headline relating to the topic of Family. Students must decide in each case whether the accompanying statement is true or false.

A text about the Hunger Games, featuring some character info and a comparison of the Capitol and District 12. This is followed by a true / false / not in text exercise, an adjective identification exercise, a reminder about adjectival endings, and two writing tasks. The second file contains an additional task for students who may need some additional work / challenge. Students have to complete an interview with Katniss Everdeen and must transpose many statements in the third person into the first person.

A two page list of football-related vocab, ready for the European Championships.

Text about what data you should and should not include in your Facebook profile, what can happen to, or because of, the data that is there, and how to change your settings. Text is followed by a 'Find the phrase' exercise, a text manipulation exercise, an extended speaking task, a bit of grammar (modals), and a writing task.

Authentic screenshots and mini-texts on the topic of FOOD, with questions in English. Created for a lower ability group but works well as a starter for more able classes.

(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.)

Exercise in which students must re-arrange scenes from the film into the correct order.

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.