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.

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.

Two resources for able KS4 students. The first is a vocab match-up activity to introduce students to some key vocab relating to Global Problems. The second is a text relating to Global Problems, followed by a True / False / Not in Text activity, a sentence building activity using a toolkit to help students quantify their levels of concern, plus some questions for students to answer about what should or should not be done in order to improve things. (The text is watered down from a text I originally wrote for Lernpunkt Deutsch.)

Higher Level text about drug abuse in Germany, with comprehension questions in English and a short manipulation exercise

Authentic signs and notices with GCSE type questions in English. Pitched at revision-averse Foundation students.

Simple (?) exercises to help pupils master the word order after 'weil'. They have been used with relative beginners.

Phonics practice for learners of German. Open and play the Powerpoint. The first slide acts as a homepage for the remaining slides. Clicking on an image on the first slide will hyperlink to practice of a particular phoneme. Clicking on the Back symbol at the top right of each slide will return you to the first slide. The very last slide has a long number written as a word for pupils puzzle over.

A text in which a teenager recounts her entry into drug abuse, followed by (i) an exercise in which students must extract the verbs in the imperfect from the text, link them to infinitives and compare them with the equivalent perfect tense (ii) an explanation in English of the Imperfect in German and (iii) an exercise in which students must translate sentences into German using vocab supplied in the stimulus text.

Two Powerpoints featuring street signs and questions in English, which I have use to practise dictionary skills. The images in the first ppt have been used in resources I have uploaded before, but the images in the second ppt are all new.

Toolkit to enable students to generate hundreds of sentences about their possible careers and reasons for their choices.

Powerpoint with nine slides picturing different types of holiday and with questions to support or provoke discussion. The Word document has arguments for and against tourism which can provide further support. The first slide on the PPT acts as a homepage. Students pick a number and are hyperlinked to an image to discuss.

Presentation designed to give students the necessary language to analyse and describe the specifically cinematographic elements of the film (codes) such as lighting, camera angles, editing, use of subjective camera etc.

Three activities using flags to practise colours: (i) Is the flag correctly described? (ii) Describe the flag you see. (iii) Quiz - What colours are certain flags?

Questions about TV for oral discussion.

Powerpoint containing a sequence of slides, each with a lead question and a number of supplementary questions. Designed to support speaking activities as a whole group and / or in pairs.

Speaking stimulus for the topic of Handys / Internet. The first slide acts as a homepage for the activity. Students select an image from the homepage and are then hyperlinked to a slide with a stimulus question. 24 questions in total.

Powerpoint which (i) explores what the key attributes of a uniform are (ii) provides images of interesting dress codes with on-screen language support to stimulate discussion about whether certain combinations of clothing constitute a uniform, and (iii) provides images of school uniforms from around the world with on-screen language support to provoke comments. Worked OK with my Year 10 Foundation class.

Text in which several characters from Dr WHO explain what they do in their free time. Text is followed by a reminder of Present Tense and comprehension questions in German.

This multiple-choice quiz contains 30 questions. However, each time you open it, it will randomly select 10 questions from the list of 30, and will shuffle the multiple-choice answers. It will almost never never be the same quiz twice. If you use it in a computer suite, each student in effect gets a different quiz. Will work on PC or IW. (PS Typos now fixed!)

Text about an exchange visit to Earth, followed by questions in German.