Yet more practice of key vocab for recalcitrant Year 11s. Although designed for lower ability classes, these work well as a starter for more able students too.
Practice of
(i) e - è - é
(ii) different pronunciations of the letter c
(iii) some common words with accents that distinguish meaning rather than sound
Ppt featuring severely cropped authentic images of places in Berlin (station, supermarket etc). Pupils have to try to guess what the place is and say'Hier gibt es ...'. The cropped image is followed by the full image to confirm the answer or make it a bit easier, and this is then supported with the correct sentence in German. Colour coding has been used to emphasize gender. The final four slides build up a table modelling the use of the Nominative after Das ist vs the Accusative after Es gibt. This could be elicited from students before clicking in each answer.
Powerpoint for practising phonics. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students pick a number and re then hyperlinked to a word (or a phrase if you use the other PPT) to pronounce. Change the content to suit your focus.
Short texts in which school pupils express the likelihood of their going into the sixth form versus looking for training or employment, followed by comprehension questions in English, a 'Find the phrase' exercise and a text manipulation exercise.
(The original four texts are from Lernpunkt Deutsch 3, but the two texts featuring authentic German handwriting have proved to be too hard to read for many of my students so I've typed them up!)
Playscript in which a stressed teacher foolishly complains about the length and structure of the school day to the Head Teacher, who happens to be Darth Vader. Students could practise the dialogue as is, and then change the words in bold type.
PS This is not a reference to any particular Head Teacher!
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.
Revision of the future tense, followed by predictions about the European Championships for pupils to agree or disagree with, using the future tense. (This is an updated version, in which I've substituted players who I thought would be playing for ones who actually are!)
Short text, adapted from an authentic source, in which young French speakers discuss what food they like. The stimulus text is followed by comprehension and manipulation exercises, a bit of grammar and a writing task.
A questionnaire on health and fitness followed by (i) a reminder about the position of the main verb in a German sentence (ii) an activity in which students must begin sentences about health and fitness with adverbs from a supplied list and subsequently invert the verb (iii) a writing task with a small toolkit to help students include some subordinate clauses.
Updated version of an item I've previously uploaded. The worksheet has (i) an example of word order in a simple sentence compare to a normal sentence (ii) a match-up activity (iii) an activity in which students must create both a statement and a question from a given set of words.