Two columns with pictures/phrases, students choose their own illness, remedy… and then have to guess which of them their partner chose. To practise speaking more the rule is that they have to start the sentence from the beginning and keep going until they use a phrase their partner hasn’t chosen. Similar to battleships but with a longer sentence.

Starter activity on time phrases, then translation (guess what these cognates mean), then slides with pictures to introduce more difficult food items

Cut out the cards to play domino, connecting first part of past tense sentence with the right verb.

Simple Battleships to practise inviting someone to activities and days of the week. For Echo 2

Two versions of battleship, one easier with words, one harder, with pictures. To practise giving opinions on holidays, Ich war in Spanien, es war langweilig.

Thinking skills/mystery/quiz/logic puzzle on timetable, which teacher teachers which subject, what day, and what period? Easier and harder version.

A list in German with pictures what students should bring to their German lessons, could be copied in the first lesson

A game for the first lesson in a new group or as recap of first few chapters of book. This is an example of 4 sentences in German, one of which is a lie. Every student writes 4 sentence about themselves, and then go around getting other people to guess which one is a lie.

Power point for the first lesson to show students your expectations for careful copying in German lessons. Students are shown a sentence on the whiteboard and asked to copy it carefully. Then potential mistakes are highlighted and students have to check their own work, e.g. do they have an underlined title, capital letters and umlaut…

a simple speaking practise describing appearance, partner A describes the picture on the first slide then partner B describes slide 2, with a speaking frame Then picture of the Simpsons on slide 3 can be used to play a "Guess who game"

A ppt with funny pictures of extreme body types (very tall, fat, small...) and a worksheet with sentences in German (Er ist gross, Sie ist klein...). Teacher shows pictures and says sentences in German, students work out the English translation by looking at the pictures and then write it on the worksheet next to the German sentences. Afterwards they can use the writing frame on the worksheet to describe themselves. Not to be used with classes that will get too excited by funny pictures!

A first exercise on using the dictionary to find German words, with a few exercises on bringing letters and words (in English) in alphabetical order

Single slide with country names in German cut up and mixed up over the page to be put together again by students. Good for recapping country names

A simple battleship game to practise German hobbies and frequency (Ich spiele jeden Tag Tennis)

A powerpoint to illustrate the steps needed to turn a German present tense sentence into the past tense

A powerpoint to illustrate the steps needed to turn a French present tense sentence into the past tense, 3 different examples

Logo 3 green, Nächstes Trimester, Ich muss pünktlich sein ect. Powerpoint to introduce/practise, not very exciting but includes a crossword puzzle to print out

An activity for a first lesson with a class. My favourite colour, number ect with a twist. Good to get to know the class and revise word endings and word order. First slide is an example, second slide is vocab and third slide the worksheet which the students copy and fill in the gaps. Same activity in French and German. Have corrected some of the mistakes, if you find more, please let me know!