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.
Interactive multiple choice quiz on the London Olympics. The programme will shuffle the possible answers into a different order each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW.
PPT which acts as a stimulus for speaking about free time. The first slide acts as a homepage for the whole activity. Students choose an image on the homepage and are hyperlinked to an images of a celebrity with an empty speech balloon. Students can say as much or as little as you want them to say.
Two parallel texts, pitched at different levels, looking forward to the Paralympic Games 2012. The first text is fairly complex and is followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' exercise with a focus on the Future Tense, revision / presentation of the Future, a manipulation exercise, again with a focus on the Future Tense, and finally a writing task featuring past tenses.
The second text, pitched at Foundation level, is virtually verb-free, and is followed by questions in English and no grammar whatsoever.
TOOLKIT to help students generate sentences starting with an adverb, adverbial phrase, or subordinate clause, and continuing with the perfect tense of gehen or an imperfect modal + gehen.
I've piggybacked a load of Foundation Reading Comp questions from my other resources onto the Trivial Pursuit template created by Helen Wolfenden. Worked well with students who are getting a bit worn out and revision-averse just as they should be hanging on my every word ...
Interactive drag and drop exercise in which students must match the brief character descriptions with the name of the character in the Film. Will work on PC or IW.
Three character descriptions of the the three central characters in the film Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei. Pupils have to read the descriptions and work out which character is being described in each case.
Four short texts about the contents of your schoolbag, followed by a grid for capturing various German plural forms. This is intended as an introduction to the variety of plural forms in German.
Dialogue in which Mr Bean is guided around the town by his driving instructor, not entirely successfully. Lots of practice of directions. Mr Bean says 'Gracias' a few times but the pupils usually pick up on this. Add your own sound effects.
A Powerpoint which (i) step by step builds up a grammatical table to demonstrate the adjectival endings needed when desribing places in a town and (ii) presents pairs of real and fictitious characters which form the basis for paired speaking activities.
Authentic screenshots and mini-texts on the topic of EDUCATION and WORK, with questions in English. Created for a lower ability group but works well as a starter for more able classes.
Three texts of increasing sophistication, ghost-written by characters from a reality show. Students have to evaluate the texts and give a NC level to each one. They then have to re-write one of the texts to improve the NC level. There are then two more written tasks to complete