Interactive practice of the present tense of the verb LERNEN. Will work on IW or PC.

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 describing the personalities of the central characters from Farscape, an australian Sci-Fi series, which ran in Germany. The text is followed by reading comprehension exercises in german and a writing task.

Open-ended writing task on Family. Students could write in the third person or in the first person from the point of view of each character.

5 key verbs for beginners, set out to allow pupils to see the pattern of endings. Can be blown-up for display or printed to go in exercise books.

KS3 text featuring a number of high-frequency past tense. Text is followed by questions in German.

Playscript in which Shrek and Mr Incredible compare their physique and argue about who has the nicer wife. Practice of adjectives and comparatives for relative beginners.

Playscript for beginners. The script practises basic personal ID language BUT with a handful of high-frequency constructions in the Perfect tense thrown in. If you have an alien mask and / or a bee costume, you can play all the parts yourself to the bemusement of your pupils. Pupils should practise the script in threes, then write an extension to the story. Vocab list of more improbable characters supplied.

Four short texts in which various movie characters describe where they live and where they have lived. Text is followed by richtig / falsch / nicht im Text questions in German.

Structured reading & writing activity for relative beginners. Students have to read the text and then come up with ideas to fill the gaps. Accept any ideas that make sense.

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.

Simple writing frame for beginners in German. They are gradually weaned off the support structures as they progress through the four individual tasks.

Relatively simple playscript for beginners who have done SEIN, a few adjectives of personality, and a few basic phrases. There is no real denouement to this dialogue but the pupils generally like it because I have a puppet just like the cat in the script ... Adapt the script to suit whichever props you have to hand. Once the students have practised the script as it stands, they could improvise changes to the words in bold type.

Two relatively straightforward,interactive drag and drop revision activities, one for definite and one for indefinite articles. Will work on PC or IW.

Text in German about Usain Bolt followed by comprehension questions in English and a writing task.

Interactive, self-marking gap-fill exercise based on a relatively accessible portrait of Usain Bolt. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive drag and drop exercise featuring all the Olympic disciplines for London 2012. The file will select ten sports at random from the full list, to make a new quiz each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive, self-marking cloze exercise about the London Olympics. Will work on PC or IW.

Text about the world's first wind-powered car, with comprehension questions in German, and discussion questions which could also be answered in written form or used as a scaffold for oral work.

Interactive, multiple choice exercise practising a range of regular and irregular past participles. There are 65 verbs embedded in the file and the file will create a new quiz of 20 verbs selected at random each time the exercise is opened.