Text with questions in English

Activity in which students must re-construct the plot of the film "Sophie Scholl - die letzten Tage" from a jumbled synopsis.

ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS. Powerpoint to help pupils to deduce the grammar underpinning the question 'Wie komme ich zum / zur / zum ... ?'. Examples of masc. fem. and nt. destinations followed by a grid, which can be completed following discusion of the patterns the pupils have observed.

List of the months in German followed by images designed to provoke students into guessing the month from the weather / events they are looking at. Lots of possible correct answers = lots of guesses. If you've taught the weather you could invite students to justify their guesses.

Jumbled dialogue between, Santa, who has misplaced his reindeer, and an elf, who finds them in his garden. The dialogue can be reassembled in many different ways. You could model a dialogue first and them ask them to improvise something similar, before asking them to write up a plausible dialogue.

Powerpoint containing multiple choice trivia questions followed by images desiged to provoke discussion. (The quiz questions are different to the ones in the German ppt)

Each of the attached files covers the same content but one is slightly more challenging than the other.The texts are followed by comprehension questions, a find-the-phrase activity, a manipulate-the-phrase activity, pair work and a written task. The more challenging version also features a gap-fill activity and has less scaffolding of the writing.

A sequence of speaking activities relating to the film 'Der Tunnel' including character identification, conflicts between key characters and character description.

As promised in the Film session.

As promised during the TL session!

Simple quiz. Each slide of the powerpoint begins with an outline map of one of the competing countries in Euro 2012. A click of the mouse will reveal the football strip of that country, modelled by a Subbuteo / Zeugo figure. Another click will reveal the flag of that country. A fourth click will reveal the name of the team. How many clicks do your pupils need before they identify the team?

Two versions of the same resource at slightly different levels. Interview with the Easter Bunny, in which the bunny outlines the working conditions for all the Easter Bunnies, describes the busy run-up to Easter, explains why the Easter Bunny is believed to be male and reveals what the female bunnies planned to do to protest. Followed by questions in English.

4 short texts in English on the topic of healthy living, for translation into German.

A set of satistics and graphics from the Shell-Jugendstudie 2015. Could be a starter for stimulating discussions on the new A-Level topics: Family, Integration, Social Media, Youth and Politics, & Values and Ideals ...

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.

Four short texts in which students give their opinions about behaviour in school, followed by a comprehension exercise.

PPT focusing on the reinforcement of grammatical gender. (i) Colour coded text and images are used to get students to associate nouns with a particular gender. (ii) students have to recall the correct article for m. f. nt. and pl. (iii) Students then have have to use der / die / das accurately with only the colour coding of the image as a clue to gender.

Relatively simple reading material giving a little bit of geographical background to this gripping film.

Scaffolded speaking activities: (i) who's who (ii) character descriptions (iii) discussion of relationships in the film (iv) the characters at the end of the film

2 interactive drag and drop exercises practising the names of countries via the FIFA rankings for men's and women's football. In each case the rankings are for the top ten countries as of April 2012. Will work on IW or PC.