This is a Powerpoint presentation of 9 slides and is no.08 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation revises (or introduces) the imperfect tense with both weak and strong verbs. Along with grammatical explanations there is a gap-fill exercise, a slide for Kim’s game, one for re-writing a present-tense text in the imperfect and a tense mapping exercise for completion with the aid of verb tables.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 9 slides and is no.22 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation explains the use of verbs with specific prepositions and cases attached to them (sich freuen auf + DAT usw). Along with grammatical explanations, there is a list of some important such verbs, translation practice, oral practice with Tic Tac Toe and a game of pairs.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 10 slides and is no. 32 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of French to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation explains and practises the use of the present subjunctive after certain conjunctions and verbs. There is are clear grammatical explanations, oral work with a noughts and crosses and Kim’s game, and translation sentences to stretch students at Higher tier. The presentation would also be appropriate for an A-level class.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 10 slides and is no.18 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation covers how separable and reflexive verbs are used and links both with verbs that are both separable and reflexive e.g. sich anziehen. It also includes more challenging verbs such as ‘sich die Haende waschen’ and ‘sich etwas ansehen’. There are full explanations and lists of many important such verbs, slides for playing Tic Tac Toe, gapfills and translations.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 10 slides and is no.16 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation teaches how to use the imperative in the DU, IHR and SIE forms. There is a full grammatical explanation, oral practice via Tic Tac Toe, text manipulation exercises and also some phrases to translate.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 11 slides and is no.2 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation explains and practises German word order. It is a revision lesson for GCSE and covers verb as 2nd idea, TMP and subordinating + co-ordinating conjunctions. There are many grammatical exercises and the last slide has a passage of German where students have correct the word order for the words in red.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 11 slides and is no. 1 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation explains and practises verbs in the present tense, including both weak and strong, ‘haben’ and ‘sein’, but not modals verbs. There are grammatical drills and a translation at the end, which adds the adverb ‘(nicht) gern’ to express (dis)likes.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 20 slides and is no. 20 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of French to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation introduces and practises in French the use of possessive adjectives (through revision of clothing) and possessive pronouns. There are many visuals, three slides for OXO as well as language drills and translation practice.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 19 slides and is no.14 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation gives a thorough explanation of adjective endings. Starting with clothing and colours, it practices endings for the indefinite article in the Accusative case via Tic Tac Toe before moving on to cover the three tables of endings and also what happens after ‘etwas’ and ‘nichts’. The last slide is a challenging exercise where ANY appropriate adjective with correct ending should be inserted before each noun in the text.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 11 slides and is no.19 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation covers how to use possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns. Along with clear grammatical explanations, there are slides for oral work (Tic Tac Toe), gap-fill exercises and translation.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 11 slides and is no.06 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation explains and practises which prepositions are always followed by the Accusative case, which by the Dative case and which can be followed by either. Slide 4 contains a mnemonic for Accusative prepositions, while slide 7 contains a song for remembering Dative prepositions, following the tune ‘Little, Little, Little Star’! Along with grammatical explanations there are also gap-fills and translation exercises.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 9 slides and is no.26 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation covers the passive voice and its avoidance through the use of ‘man’. Along with a grammatical explanation covering all tenses, there are slides for oral practice (Tic Tac Toe), translation sentences and an exercise to change a text in the passive into an active text using ‘man’.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 6 slides and is no. 04 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of French to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation explains and practises the different ways of asking questions in French, including intonation, inversion, use of ‘est-ce que’ and question words. There are clear grammatical explanations, drills and translation work.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 7 slides and is no.12 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation explains how to form questions in German from use of inversion to interrogatives. There is a grammatical explanation, the opportunity for oral work with two slides for Tic Tac Toe and exercises to practice forming questions.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 8 slides and is no. 19 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of French to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation introduces and practises in French the use of the imperative both when telling someone what to do and what NOT to do. There are language drills, translation practice and two slides for OXO.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 9 slides and is no. 26 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of French to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation teaches use of the Passive Voice in French through a grammatical explanation, oral practice (3 slides for OXO), language drills and translation practice. It also explains how the French often avoid using the passive.

Introduces and practises in French the conditional tense with regular and irregular verbs, plus it looks at the sequence of tenses to use with ‘si’. There is plenty of practice, including answering GCSE questions in the conditional. This is a Powerpoint presentation of 8 slides and is no. 14 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 10 slides and is no.10 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation revises (or introduces) the future and conditional tenses and, along with a detailed grammatical explanations, practises the structures via Tic Tac Toe (2 slides), tense-transfer exercises and translation sentences. It also explains the use of the conditional in ‘wenn’ clauses and includes ‘wäre’, ‘hätte’ and ‘gäbe’.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 15 slides and is no.21 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation revises tense formation and use, but also introduces the structure ‘ich war beim Fernsehen usw’ and the pluperfect tense. Along with grammatical explanations, there are slides for oral work (Tic Tac Toe) and translation. The last two slides set a GCSE writing task.

This is a Powerpoint presentation of 7 slides and is no.25 in a series of 60-minute lessons used by me to tutor a GCSE student via Zoom. The focus of each lesson is grammatical, rather than topic specific, and as such they can be slotted into topic work as required. In addition, each lesson attempts to extend the use of German to match the requirements of GCSE Higher Tier. This presentation covers impersonal verbs. Along with grammatical explanations, there is a sentence-building table, slides for oral work (Tic Tac Toe) and translations exercise.