JIGSAW Translation, Game of slap to practise tenses, gapped translation to look at complex structures, 4 versions of same text to highlight changes and translate, one pen one dice, plus OXO games to practice the Filme und Fernsehen and music start to chapter
Can be used as individual activities or can incorporate into lesson planning
My students love these activities! x
I have used this for two lessons of cover work - students must use the sentence builder to complete a set of activities which include: 5 minute word finding challenge, wordsearch, match-up, gapped translation, bad translation, put in the gaps and other things
Activities to extend beyond the book - includes tile translation, battleships, one pen -one dice, running dictation (requires you to print the texts from book), etc
Students must 1st translate the chunks and then colour them according to some given categories - 30 minutes approx
Answers given to save marking - students can mark their own
Trapdoor speaking to revise whole unit
Sentence builder for what do and will do (using present as the future with time phrase)
Translation
Match up, Put spaces in words and bad translation activities
Students must translate the chunk of language in the table and then colour according to the categories given
I use this the lesson before their writing test for this unit as revision
Once done I give the the English for them to write in the German!
Sentence builder, tile translation and other activities - such as bad translation, gap-fill, space the words and write from memory
Also includes Jenga template
Activities to go alongside the activities on pages 60 and 61
Retrieval task of unit and book
Find the person, Find the German
Tangled Translation
Think, Pair, Share plenary
Sound for each week from October 31st 2022 to end of July
We put on clasroom door and refer to each lesson with years 7, 8 and 9. We put in year 7 newsletter, on plasma screen around school and use alongside our planet phonics package that we bought
Revision task - I am using this week as we go back after Easter -to get students to recap learning so far - they enjoy these tasks are they are competitive and also they like sense they can remember lots
We will do a box game and a make the most expensive sentence before this so they are not going in cold straight off
They have to translate to make one side of the box - if they close a box, they get to put their initials in and see who finishes first - can do in 2s or 3s
Activities including gapped translation, spot the mistakes, tarsias to get students able to answer the questions - Faehrst du lieber mit deinen Eltern oder deinen Freunden? and Bleibst du lieber auf einem Campingplatz oder in einem Hotel?
The vocabulary in the colouring activity and tarsia comes from atantot.com and credit for the ideas is given to the creator of this site. Activities are made by me!
Made as powerpoint to make it easier for students to complete and return in lockdown
Short activities to consolidate the key elements of giving/asking for directions - based on Stimmt 2 chapter 4
Could copy and paste each activity onto a word document, if easier
Activities and sentence builders to work on stimmt 2 chapter 2 includes: sentence builders, four in a row, gapped translation, tangled translation, trapdoor activity, make every square count
A pack of sentence builders and activities made on the website, activities made from word wall, and a music tarsia all being used by us to revise for our end of year exams - also includes some key verb work