Middle school German resources: grammar

As in Mock the Week, pupils guess the question from the answer. When you click on the answer box, the question appears. Great idea as a starter.

Use this to practise asking questions. In presentation mode, your answers will show in each square. Challenge pupils to work out what the question could be. I award one point for any relevant question they come up with and 2 points if they correctly guess the question I came up with. Simply clicking on the square with your answer reveals your question.

A bank of comments based on Presentation, Language, Attainment and Compliments for KS3 German. This may be useful if you are a trainee / an NQT and are interested in common areas for improvement in German. This can be easily adapted for other MFL's.

In this beginner reading, Antonio, a grade 10 student from Texas, describes his typical day. He uses many reflexive verbs to describe his various sports, school and extra curricular activities. Includes reading comprehension questions. After completion, have students write out their own daily routine using the new verbs! Verbs used include: levantarse vestirse desayunarse irse ducharse quedarse

This resource practises using a variety of negatives.

This 10-page file includes one sheet each on the following conjugation forms: Present Imperfect Present perfect Future Konjuntiv 1/2 Present perfect Past perfect Future perfect Imperfect BONUS* One blank sheet These sheets can be used in class for test prep/review/drills/pop quizzes. Each sheet includes one example conjugation. Includes a mixture of regular/stem-change/irregular verbs:

Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early on with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 4 Stimmt 3 Red. This download includes: -PowerPoint with three pictures with questions in German and optional English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work. -translation worksheet -two role play cards for student pair work -example answers for speaking and translation tasks included in the PowerPoint. More chapters available soon! Note: vocabulary slide should be first in ppt, was put to back so preview on TES shows pictures.

An activity for beginners German students to practise the basic vocabulary for members of the family, using 'Die Simpsons' family tree. Focus on mein/meine and the link to der/die. Extension task to be completed in exercise book when completed. Used as a 5-10 minute starter with middle-higher ability year 8 beginners German.

Gives increasingly long, annotated example sentences to show, in a colourful way, all the aspects of word order students of German may need to know. Would suit the full range of students up to KS5 as the longest examples are highly complex and require some knowledge of modal verbs, passive etc

This colourful reference isn't designed to help students to form a tense for any verb, but rather to help them understand and revise which tense to use when (and of course have a summary of the form as well). Would suit higher level students (KS4/5) as all verb forms in German are squeezed in.

Information-dense A3 display/support sheet for KS4/5 students to refer to: has everything they need to know about cases and tips on how they can learn the patterns in all those endings.

Enrich instruction by using my Musik zum Thema Grammatik für Fortgeschrittene sets. Have upper level students at A.2 level listen to authentic songs and then follow a set of text codes to analyze 5 of the grammatical structures used within the lryics. Students get to listen, analyze, build vocabulary and see their grammatical knowledge grow. In my classroom I introduce the song to the class and let them listen to it. Then I have them work on the grammatical analysis, following the text codes. Many of the concepts are familiar to them and some are new. When they come across new concepts I encourage them to look online to try and determine more information about that concept. This empowers them to use the web for a research purpose. The analysis worksheet included asks students to list the coded word/s, identify their grammatical name and give an additional example of the grammatical topic not listed in the song. This forces them to extend beyond what is just listed in the song and helps them to grow their grammatical competence. Each set has 3 German songs by recent artists of various genres. The sets include a PowerPoint slide show that includes the songs embedded, a song analysis worksheet, and the song lyrics with various grammatical concepts coded. The PowerPoint is editable for customization and I also provide the set in PDF form to share with students as well. Songs in this set: Set 1: Du bist die Sonne - Die Drogen (modals, accusative pronouns, coordinating conjunctions, accusative prepositions, da-compound) Erkläre mir die Liebe - Philipp Poisel (interrogatives, accusative pronouns, accusative prepositions, dative pronouns, dative prepositions) Krieger des Lichts- Silbermond (subordinating conjunctions, accusative pronouns, genitive, imperative, infinitive construction) More Song Sets Coming Soon in My Store! PLEASE FOLLOW ME FOR PRODUCT UPDATES. DANKE!