Practice of key verbs of travel in Perfect, Present and Future Tenses.

Bart's first letter to his German penfriend. Students read the text and then capture the key points by completing a Steckbrief.

Questions to stimulate discussion about work experience. Could also be used as a written task to provide a scaffold for extended writing.

Interactive drag and drop exercise requiring a knowledge of German and an understanding of the basic idea of football. Will work on the PC or the IW.

The verb ESSEN. Interactive practice of a range of structures in three tenses. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive drag and drop practice of a number of useful structures for talking about pets. The examples here all relate to cats, so pupils have to focus on the structures themselves. Will work on PC or IW.

Another toolkit to help pupils talk about their work experience. This one features adverbial phrases followed by inverted verbs. Also features Perfect and Imperfect tenses.

Text about bizarre, extraterrestrial pets, followed by a 'find the phrase' activity, a bit of grammar, a manipulation exercise and a creative writing task

Kim's game. Pupils have to say which image has disappeared each time.

Dialogue in which Simon and Cheryl discuss the personal qualities of singers, family members and each other, and Cheryl gets a bit upset with Simon. Focus on adjectives. Pupils perform the dialogue as it stands, then improvise changes to the words highlighted in bold.

Interactive practice of the winning countries from the European Championships 1960 - 2008 and the years in which they won. Will work on PC or IW.

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.

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 in which Britney Spears recounts a convoluted dream, featuring multiple locations and unlikely actions by various celebrities. Lots of practice of In der Stadt language and verbs in the Perfect Tense.Text is followed by comprehension questions in German.

The simplified taxonomies can be used to show to students and observers (i) how certain activities demand greater engagement on the part of the learner and (ii) the progression in your lesson in terms of pupils' thinking. Created in collaboration with Rachel Roberts and the MFL team at Gordano.

Year 12 / AS text about unemployed footballers, followed by questions in German and a writing task.

Relatively simple dialogue about free time. Pupils practise the dialogue, then improvise changes to the highlighted parts of the text.

Two short texts in which teenagers talk about why they sometimes get into trouble at home, followed by a 'Which person said what?' exercise.

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

An unlikely dilaogue in which Bella fro Twighlight and Belletrix from Harry Potter discuss health and fitness. I've uploaded the dialogue on its own before but it is now followed by comprehension questions in English, a grammar point relating to word order after aufhoeren and anfangen and two exercises in which students must generate sentences of their own.