Nativity scene based on words and phrases from the german Christmas carol 'Stille Nacht'. Also includes a little bit of practice of the date.

Mutliple choice exercise practising the present tense of the verb haben. On completion you will have a dialogue set in Middle Earth. May be suited to Friday afternoons.

A hand-out of useful phrases for beginners

Jumbled dialogue about arranging to go out. Students must re-arrange the statements and questions to re-create a dialogue that makes sense.

Text describing the situation in Germany with regards to young people's involvement with illicit substances and excessive drinking. The text is followed by questions in English, a find the phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise based on equivalent stats from the UK, and finally a challenging extended writing task. This was produced for an able KS4 group but could easily be upgraded to AS material.

Sequence of slides showing things that are valued highly in monetary terms. Ask students to speculate as to the value of each object, before clicking to reveal the value. Finally, ask them to tell you what they value that doesn't cost anything. Did this with Year 7 and Year 8, but I suspect it would work OK with any year group.

Interactive, self-marking gap-fill exercise based on a relatively accessible portrait of Usain Bolt. Will work on PC or IW.

Open-ended starter. Pupils have to suggest what the people or the animals in the images are thinking. Lots of possible correct answers for each picture. If you want you could set parameters eg 'Utilisez le futur proche.'

Interactive drag and drop exercise focussing on 10 key statistical facts about London 2012. Will work on PC or IW. Presented in Usain Bolt's colours!

(i) Extended text about the surface to air missiles deployed in East London for the Olympics, followed by comprehension questions in German, and (ii) a selection of opinions about the security measures, based on internet blogs, followed by a comprehension task, a speaking task, and two writing tasks, one pitched at AS level and one pitched at A2 level. (Typos spotted and now fixed.)

Drag and drop practice of various tense forms of aller. Will work on PC or IW.

Foundation Level TOOLKIT, designed to help Foundation Level pupils say why they like or dislike someone and also help them construct sentences with two common subordinating conjunctions.

Interactive match-up exercise, featuring synonyms for or alternatives to the verb gehen. Will work on IW or PC.

Exercise in which students must re-arrange scenes from the film into the correct order.

Lots of pictures from which the time might be guessed at but not known for sure. Generates high participation levels as there are so many different possible answers for each picture.

Series of questions to promote discussion in German about products that may or may not be overpriced.

TOOLKIT to help pupils talk about what they have and haven't done during the school year.

Interactive drag and drop activity featuring modal verbs plus werden. There are twenty one items embedded in the game, but it will select ten at random each time it is opened, and will arrange them in random order. Will work in a computer suite, or on the IW.

Text in which Justin Bieber recounts a strange dream, featuring Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and things made of chocolate. The text is followed by questions in German.

This is about as simple an account of the Gunpowder Plot as I could come up with. Hopefully the visuals and the cognates will aid comprehension!