3 model texts about designer clothes plus a little bit of grammar to help students express their own ideas.

A list of questions covering typical Year 7 topics and a list of possible answers. Pupils have to match up the answers to the questions. But ... there are two answers for every question. Pupils have to find both answers each time. It can then be used as a platform for extended oral work.

Text in German about the variety of beliefs and tradidtions regarding where Santa lives, followed by GCSE-style questions in English.

Dialogue set at a party in Hogwarts. The students are given the beginning of the dialogue and must reconstruct the rest using a selection of speech bubbles and a bit of imagination. Lots of practice of sich duschen, sich amüsieren and sich erbrechen.

A sequence of activities relating to the thorny issue of G8 in German Gymnasien. There is (i) an article followed by questions in German (ii) a set of opinions to sort into Pro and Contra groups (iii) a discussion and a diamond 9 card sort (iv) an analysis of the structure of the article (which is very similar to an essay structure) and (v) an essay title.

Scaffold to structure a discussion about what kinds of animals pupils would be prepared to eat and why.

Dialogue in which Batman discusses his commitment issues with a psychiatrist. Includes Past, Present and Future tenses

Text about JK Rowling, followed by 'True / False / Not in text' questions

Text about a Goth festival in Leipzig followed by questions in English.

Interactive practice of the Present Tense of the verb trinken. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive exercise practising the present tense of ESSEN. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive drag and drop exercise practising the je form of three high-frequency verb forms in their positive and negative forms. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive practice of countries. Pupils match eight events from the year 2008 with eight countries. Will work on PC or IW.

Simple Powerpoint designed to scaffold pair work on basic daily routine structures.

Reading activity in which10 teenagers say something about what they did on their birthday. Students must match these statements to others in a list below the stimulus texts.

I've piggy-backed the content of this acitivity onto the excellent Trivial Pursuit PPT uploaded by Helen Wolfenden. The content is pitched slightly higher in this version and might suit students revising for Higher papers.

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

Interactive drag-and-drop activity for a bit of random vocab revision in German. 35 words are embedded but the activity will select 10 words at random to practise each time it is opened. It will also arrange the vocab in random order. With any luck it will never be the same twice.

Multiple choice practice of language for saying where someone works or is doing work experience.

Set of 20 slides to stimulate and support discussion of or speculation about people's personalities.