Students read the descriptions and match to the title of the book displayed. Great for book week and/or as a starter or plenary activity for the topic of reading and/or media.

A gap fill activity for students to complete while listening to ‘le petit pays’ rap by Gael Faye. Good as a class or homework activity. Another step can be for students to have a ‘rap battle’ once they have finished listening to the song, and adapt the last verse (quand tu pleures, je pleure) to make their own version.

Students read the descriptions and draw a person to fit the description. Great for Primary and lower Secondary to give as a cover activity, and/or homework task.

Gap fill activity to accompany the song ‘l’hymne de la vie’ - great to introduce the environment topic and expose students to listening practice

Survey activity for students to complete in French around the classroom, and/or in the playground. Great for an afternoon lesson where students need something active!

Can be used as a card sort (into positive vs negative statements) or quiz quiz trade. Advantages and disadvantages statements about housework which students than then apply to their speaking and writing.

This worked great with my year 9s! Students choose 5 squares to draw ships, without showing their partner. Students then guess which squares their partners’ ships are in speaking according to the grid e.g. ‘ich dusche mich?’ ‘du rasierst dich?’ etc.

Used with Year 10 students. Recap genitive, accusative, dative prepositions, and students highlight where they find them in the text. Could also be used as a running dictation activity.

A Blog style reading text with A level vocabulary included for higher level GCSE or iGCSE students. Can be given as a homework, mini assessment or as a class activity.

Students can highlight in different colours where they see time, manner, place and past participles. True or false comprehension and writing extension task

A card sort activity (positive and negative) suited to IGCSE and even can be used at A level.

Authentic gap fill reading activity for higher level KS4 & KS5 learners of German. Good to set as a challenging homework or class activity.

Diamond 9 activity for A level. Print out and cut, students arrange the 9 statements into a ‘diamond’ shape, those at the top being what they agree with the most, and those at the bottom being what they disagree with. Excellent for encouraging productive skills: speaking and writing.

Appropriate for use as an assessment or homework, self study project or as a class revision worksheet. Contains source analysis tasks and written tasks.

Appropriate as assessment material, homework, self study project or worksheet to use in class. Contains a variety of challenging tasks.

Text which can be used to identify structures as a highlighting task, as a model for writing practice, or as a reading text with questions. Contains important and useful vocabulary that students should use to access higher level marks.

Comprehension tasks based on 6 different German festivals. This task can be done as a carousel activity, where students complete the tasks together and then present their findings to the rest of the class. Could also be given as an in class or homework project.

Selection of reading tasks based on Units 3 - 5 of Echo 3 which we use with Y9 learners (world of work, environment, daily life) These tasks can be used as mini assessments, cover work, homework, or an in class activity as they are all modelled to reflect the Edexcel iGCSE style.

End of unit assessment with questions - adaptable word file

As part of a whole school STEM week (theme: Space), this was a PowerPoint used to support this in our German lesson.

iGCSE style grammar question (last page) where students write the correct article using the genitive case. As a starter could get students to highlight masculine, feminine, neuter and plural nouns.