Let history come to life with an escape room lesson! Try out a sample here: https://view.genial.ly/5ef4a659be972e0d68958fbe New version: no preparation, self marking, remote learning ready. Get students to puzzle their way through the history of the Berlin Wall, trying to stay in touch with their long lost friend Thomas on the other side of the wall. Engage students with a story website that will require them to work through a mix of text, video, jigsaw puzzles and codes to be the first one to win. This resource can be used as a revision lesson on the topic of the Berlin Wall or, with some internet research by the students, as a first introduction to the topic. It should take between 45 min and 2 hours, depending on age and prior knowledge. The new digital version is longer. As a native of Berlin I have been teaching this topic as part of my German lessons for about 10 years now. On the 3rd October, German national day, all my classes (aged 13-18) get a one lesson run through of the history of the wall and students are always fascinated by it. The topics covered here are: • the situation of Germany under the occupation of the allies after the war • the differences between East and West • why people escaped to the West • the building of the wall • what is the Stasi • what led to the fall of the wall • what happened on the 9th of November 1989 Includes: • link to dedicated story website (2 versions) • documents, excel and powerpoint files • puzzles • lesson plan • answers I have also included a powerpoint presentation of statistics showing the present-day differences between former East and West Germany and a collection of my favourite youtube videos on the topic.

Murder Mystery to run alongside Stimmt AQA GCSE Higher/Foundation Chapter 3 “Menschliche Beziehungen”, (some of the tasks would have to be adapted for Stimmt Edexcel.) Turn a whole chapter into a crime story! This project is intended to complement/ replace exercises from the text book and will link the pages together into one thrilling crime story. My students ask every lessons if they will find out ‘whodunit’, especially as there is a prize for the best detective! The project should not take up much more time than using the book on its own as some tasks can replace text book tasks and get students to revise the text book vocabulary in a different context. The topics included: describing appearance and character speaking about friendship family relationships and reasons why you (don’t) get on with each other weddings and opinions about marriage separable verbs future tense imperfect modal verbs Includes: • puzzle, reading, writing, listening, speaking, translation and role play tasks • film trailer for the project, powerpoint (more than 60 slides) and work booklet (12 pages) • teacher guidance (hidden in the ppt, can be seen in edit mode) • activity overview • answers to all tasks

The pictures in the presentation can be used to introduce and talk about celebrations in Germany and how important they to the people. It is aimed at AQA AS Level or Higher GCSE level. The first part of the puzzle sheet is a version of my puzzle sheet to go with Stimmt AQA GCSE "Wir feiern", the second part (crossword) is to aid understanding of the text on page 60 in the new Hodder AQA AS Level book. With answers on the worksheet and in the presentation. NB The presentation does not contain the description of all the celebrations, but pictures and names.

A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! Now includes a remote learning ready, digital only version. Try a sample here: https://view.genial.ly/5ee69dd40d7bd20d89ff30b6 A timetable themed escape room activity in which students need to do German language related puzzles to get a find all the codes to help Johann stay out of trouble at school . Ideal as vocab revision for the first year of German. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays! It includes vocab from the topics school subjects and opinions, numbers, colours, telling the time, hobbies (online activities). There is a “digital only” version and a" mixed media" (digital+paper) version. The “mixed media” version is more fun because it involves the game website and real life puzzles ( jigsaws, code wheels and string activities) that make the activities more “real”, but requires quite a bit of preparation by the teacher. The “digital” version only requires one print out and can be done last minute. Student will need one computer, laptop or iPad per group. The resource includes: Link to "Der Stundenplan” website Teacher instruction, including how to put together the puzzle items and example pictures Teacher answers Powerpoint with game introduction Puzzles to print out/Files for digital versions

A fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 74-75 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (where I live, preposition and cases). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

Use the new Pixar film to introduce pets in German with enough material for about 3 lessons. These lessons are based on chapter 2, units 1 and 2, pages 30-34 in “Stimmt 1” but can also be used in combination with Zoom 1 and other text books. It includes picture description and translation tasks, modelled on the new GCSE exams. Topics are pets, genders, description (body/character) and modal verbs. Some tasks are based on a YouTube clip, but can be skipped if you can’t access YouTube in your school. This download includes a 90-slide PowerPoint presentation, three worksheets and a lesson plan. Lesson Overview • Slide 2: German Trailer • Slides 3-15: introduction of animals and genders • Slides 17-26: listen and repeat animals • Slides 27-37: Pass Auf! Game • Slides 48-59: Was fehlt? Game • Slides 60-67: Speaking description words • Slide 68: writing task venn diagram description words • Slide 69-73: plurals • Slide 74: reading tasks, additional description words • Slides 75-77: listening task, ways of saying good bye • 78-84: modal sentences with “kann” • Slides 85-88: Picture description • Slide 89-90: Bingo • Slides 91-94: Translation tasks answers • Translation Worksheet • Puzzle Worksheet Note: PPT now corrected

** A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! Digital version - no prep - self marking Try a sample: https://view.genial.ly/5ee51a1558db040dade9f706 A-Level and GCSE versions available as well. A spy themed escape room activity in which students need to do German language related puzzles to get a code to jump from one website to the next in search of the “mole” . Ideal as vocab and grammar revision for year 7, year 8 or year 9. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays! It includes vocab from the topics family, school subjects, hobbies, adjectives, pets, present tense verb endings. Includes answers.

A fun escape-room style revision activity for first year learners of German on the topic of hobbies. It is based on Echt 1 but can be used with other beginners’ courses. Try a sample here: https://view.genial.ly/606c687ae7557e0d18df5ab5 The topics include: music opinions sports hobbies time phrases verb second rule word order with gern present tense verb endings

** A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! Now digital version included - no prep - self marking Try a sample: https://view.genial.ly/5ee4f42237584d0da6288527 A-Level and first year learners available as well. A spy themed escape room activity in which students need to do German language related puzzles to get a code to jump from one website to the next in search of the “mole” . Ideal as vocab and grammar revision for the second, third or fourth year of learning German. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays! It includes vocab from the topics family, celebrations, hobbies, perfect and imperfect tense. Includes answers.

Start the GCSE course with a French crime story that lasts a whole module! This is the French version of my sucessful German Murder Mystery that was featured on TES.com. See reviews here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/stimmt-gcse-murder-mystery-menschliche-beziehungen-chapter-3-11463917 This Murder Mystery is designed to run alongside Studio AQA GCSE Higher/Foundation Chapter 1 “Qui suis-je”, (and can be be adapted for Edexcel version) This project is intended to complement/ replace exercises from the text book and will link the pages together into one thrilling crime story. My students ask every lessons if they will find out today ‘whodunit’, especially as there is a prize for the best detective! The project should not take up much more time than using the book on its own as some tasks can replace text book tasks and get students to revise the text book vocabulary in a different context. Topics: describing appearance and character speaking about friendship family relationships and reasons why you (don’t) get on with each other future tense + going out to town places in town + prepositions perfect tense+ going out imperfect+ childhood Includes: • puzzles, reading, writing, listening (teacher reading), speaking, translation and role play tasks • film trailer for the project, powerpoint (more than 60 slides) and work booklet (12 pages) • teacher guidance (hidden in the ppt, can be seen in edit mode) • activity overview • answers to all tasks

**Try it out here: **https://view.genial.ly/5ee21fb1f260380d8364f755 A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! No prep needed - remote learning ready! A history-themed escape room activity for beginners in French in which students need to solve language related puzzles to chase down the legendary Count de Saint German, who is said to be immortal. They will use historical documents, puzzles and virtual trips to France to open the locks on the website and get closer to the prize. Students need to know French colours, numbers, clothes and months. This will keep them focused, even on the last lesson of term. This resources contains a remote learning version and a classroom based verion. The resource includes: Digital Escape Room on Genially - no other resources needed, will work on any device. Classroom version: paper puzzles and “historical” documents Link to "The mysterious Count de Saint Germain” website. Teacher instruction and answers

** A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! Now digital version included - no prep - self marking Try a sample: https://view.genial.ly/5ee4afa0f319630d74c49bdc ** GCSE and first year learners versison available as well. This resource was a featured revision resource on TES.com https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/a-levels-revision-mfl?utm_campaign=13737483&utm_content=mfl-roundup-2019-05-15&utm_source=exact-target&utm_medium=email. A spy themed escape room activity in which students need to do German language related puzzles to get a code to jump from one website to the next in search of the “mole” . Ideal as vocab and grammar revision for year 12 or year 13 for AQA German AS/A Level. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays! It includes vocab from the topics celebrations, digital world, architecture and Berlin. There is a “digital only” version and a" digital+paper" version. The “digital+paper” version is more fun because it involves the game website and real life puzzles ( jigsaws, code wheels and string activities) that make the activities more “real”, but requires quite a bit of preparation by the teacher. The “digital only” version can be used without preparation and for remote learning. Comments from 6th form students: “This is intense!” “This was the best lesson I’ve had in some time!” “Can we do another one soon?” The resource includes: Link to “Findet den Maulwurf!” website Teacher instruction, including how to put together the puzzle items and example pictures Teacher answers Powerpoint with game introduction Puzzles to print out/Files for digital versions

Teamwork, logical thinking and lots of Christmas fun! No preparation needed except printing worksheets. All answers included. A Christmas themed escape room to play as an Advent Calendar, one puzzle a day, or all in one go as a Christmas lesson. 24 different types of puzzles, some Christmas themed, some general knowledge (but googling is allowed!) aimed at 13-18 year olds. You will need: an internet connections, powerpoint and access to Youtube (optional). Let’s get merry!

A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! Digital version - no prep - self marking Try it here: https://view.genial.ly/5efcfb7c9ac3580d7dc7b88a/game-breakout-sample-alien-uber-deutschland Students are immersed in exploring a secret space facility to find the alien and practise German numbers and dates on the way as well as cultural skills like recognising Euro coins. There are two versions included: A new digital only version which can be played on any device. The original version which includes some documents to print out to use in class. Answers included.

Sentence builder for weather and activities (Es regnet, also spiele ich Fussball). Students write down one sentence and then guess what sentence their parter has written. Can also be used as a kind of bingo game, the students write down 1-3 sentences, if they have the same sentences as the teacher they win.

A fun plenary or starter game for any subject or topic that doesn't need any preparation. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students answer a question and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure. There are 11 slides with treasures hidden in different places and the slide to be used can be chosen randomly by clicking the spinning wheel on the first slide. This activity is based on the gamification theory that random rewards make games more addictive and fun. Note: In presentation mode click on squares to make them disappear and reveal the treasures.

New version: remote learning ready - digital only - no preparation needed - self-marking Try it here: https://view.genial.ly/5f00f931e02bd20dab12cdfe A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! A spy themed escape room activity in which students need to solve German language related puzzles to get a code to jump from one website to the next in search of the German spy. There are two versions included here: a new digital only version and the original classroom based version. Ideal as vocab revision on the topic of food . Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays! It focuses on vocab and research on German food but the origitanl version also includes vocab from the topics school and hobbies, and practises word order and past participles. The resource includes: Link to “Findet den Spion!” website and introduction video. Teacher instruction, including how to put together the puzzle items Teacher answers Puzzles to print out/Files for digital versions

A worksheet to practise adjective endings with clothes. Suitable for KS3 or KS4 (includes vocab from Stimmt! 2 and Stimmt! GCSE book). Inlcudes a sheet with vocabulary and a gap fill worksheet (ideally copied onto the same sheet). Also includes an answer sheet.

This is to support AQA German A level, Hodder & Stoughton book Kapitel: Kunst und Architektur, page 74-77 . It now also includes two 360 degree tours to introduce and practise architectural vocab. I have used this in combination with semerson6’s resources https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-german-a-level-hodder-and-stoughton-book-kunst-und-architektur-11486144. The first task is about the famous buildings mentioned in the “Zum Einstieg” box at the beginning of the chapter. The powerpoint “Berühmte Gebäude” contains pictures of each of the buildings, showing each one for a few seconds and then moving on to the next (it plays in a loop). While watching the presentation students should fill in the worksheet about the name, country and function of the building. The web tasks ppt contains a link to an overview sheet of different styles that I found online. After going through the vocab with the students, they then use their devices to go to 360cities.net to look at a 360 degree view of the buildings (they are the same ones from the text on p. 75 which can be used as the answer sheet) and work out what style they represent. My students enjoyed that task very much and I think it bring architecture a bit more to life.