I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
A lesson that your students will not forget quickly!
Now includes a remote learning ready, digital only version.
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 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 a revision and reference grammar booklet (9 pages). Small enough to be always at hand while
giving students an overview over all the main topics: word order, cases, prepositions, pronouns and tenses. Aimed at A-Level and Higher GCSE students.
Can your students help Alex find his long-lost father’s phone number and bring his parents back together again? Can they get some Spreewaldgurken for his mum and find the money to exchange at the bank?
Make A-Level revision fun with this educational Escape Room that follows the story of the film. It is all online and there is no marking or preparation required (but tablets or computers are recommended).
Students need a good knowledge of the film and will revise:
• main vocabulary
• historical timeline
• essay writing phrases
• East vs West items
• Key quotes
• film technology
• order of film scenes
• tragedy or comedy?
• passive and reported speech
• the four main themes
• good vs bad essay examples
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 fun starter or plenary practising food vocab from pages 78-79 in the Stimmt! AQA GCSE Higher book (food, opinions, past tense). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
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Get a puzzle worksheet for each page of Chapter 5 in the Stimmt! 1 book. Each worksheet contains three different types of word puzzles (crossword puzzles, unjumbling, word clouds, cryptograms…) to practise the vocabulary and grammar on each page. Also includes answers.
A worksheet for lower to middle ability GCSE students, practising writing about part time jobs. There are three tasks for similar texts with decreasing support.
Get your students used to GCSE style questions early with translations, picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Studio 3 Module 1 “Bien dans sa peau”. It is based on the vocabulary of the foundation book, but can be used for vert + rouge.
This download includes:
-powerpoint with three pictures with exam style questions in French with optional English to guide students along.
-translation worksheet with three different tasks
-two role play cards with teacher script for student pair work, bullet points either in French or English
answers for the translation task are included in the powerpoint
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.
A comprehensive introduction to the cases in German aimed at 6th form students, including dual prepositions and flexible word order.
It includes presentation slides, gap fill, writing, match up and drawing task and a quiz.
Also includes a case overview hand out that could be turned into a class room display.
Two worksheets based on page 36 in Studio 3 rouge to introduce healthy food and phrases to talk about food in the future tense. The gapfill worksheet can be used with the red or the green book to introduce food items in French and for students to produce a vocab list. The other worksheet uses the phrases from task 1 as a match up task and a translation to extend the task.
Practise German pronunciation with this 70-slide PowerPoint. It is suitable for all levels from beginners to A-Level, and can be used whenever the students struggle with a certain sound.
This version includes all the word lists read out by a native speaker. There is a presentation-only version available to buy.
It covers the main difficult letters/letter combinations like ‘ie’ and ‘ei’, ‘sp’ and ‘st’ and ‘J’. The sounds are practiced with the following activities: listen and repeat contrasting pairs (for students to work out the pronunciation), listen and point to what sound you hear, pair work, tongue twisters and a rule to copy down if possible.
The presentation is meant to be presented in chunks, when students come across a new sound or before speaking exams.
Note: the slides are not in alphabetical order but in order of how common the problem is. There is a hyperlinked index.
An introduction to family members and speaking about siblings in German using The Simpsons. It includes speaking and translation tasks (differentiated), quizzes and games and several tasks to go with the Song Mein Name ist Mensch (needsd youtube access). With lesson plan.
A worksheet to practise recognising different tenses. Students fill past tense phrases and time phrases into a past/present/future table. Includes some more difficult ones like modal verbs in the imperfect and separable verbs in the perfect.
They then do a GCSE style reading task (Topic: "where I live") to decide which parts are in which tense.
Includes answer sheet.
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