Materials to go with the Vodafone ad on Youtube 'Es ist deine Zeit'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxGiWgyetZ8 This has worked well with classes of all abilities.

A newspaper cartoon about chaos in lessons in some German schools with seven sets of questions designed to get the students to interpret what they see and justify their deductions.

Playscript based 90% on lyrics from the song 'GutenTag, ich bin der Nikolaus'. What might Santa be tempted to do if he forgot his own boots?

Examples of pronunciation for (i) e, é, è (ii) c followed by different vowels, and ch (iii) redundant accents such as à & â

Guessing game for practice of vocab relating to what pupils buy with their pocket money. Typo now fixed.

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

A hand-out of useful phrases for beginners

Two interactive self-marking html activities practising vocab relating to social issues. Each activity has twenty words embedded into it but reveals only a random selection of ten each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW. If working with a class in a computer suite, they can all open the files but each student will get a slightly different activity.

A relatively simple dialogue about school subjects and teachers with questions in English. Written for beginners.

Four sentence pattern grids to help pupils express themselves with a little more variety when describing people.

Sentence patterns to help students say what they will do on holiday next year and why.

Dialogue in which the Daleks and the Doctor discuss some of their recent journeys using their best GCSE German verbs of travel in the past tense. Ends with a very cheesy joke.

Text about a German girl who did work experience at the Times in London, followed by questions in English.

Text about the possible introduction of school uniforms in Nordrhein-Westfalen followed by GCSE-style questions in English. Based on on authentic text, but names of people and schools haves been changed.

"Who wants to be a millionaire" style vocab quiz on domestic and wild animals. I used the PPT uploaded by ahardiment as a template.

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The ppt builds up a table of Dative articles and possessive adjectives one slide at a time. Students can be ebcouraged to deduce the missing words before the gradual revealing of the table. This is followed by Kim's Game practice of the Dative. The worksheet contains an overview of the NOM, ACC and DAT forms plus a grammar exercise on this whichm when complete, will serve as a rudimentary model of a romm description.

Questions in German relating to the Youtube clip Öko-Hauptstadt Hamburg which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w4eoVa5wlk . The comprehension questions are followed by an AS style writing task. I've tacked on some suggested answers to the first part,

Simple Powerpoint presenting common things to do with pocket money.

Fundamentally a very dry bit of grammar work focusing on this key word order concept. In a thinly veiled attempt to make this more interesting, all the language in the examples and the exercises relate to the Hunger Games.