New online

2nd March 2012, 12:00am

The latest materials on www.tes.co.ukresources

History

With International Women’s Day on 8 March, Parliament UK has developed an article and lesson plans about the suffragettes. It has resources to support politics and history teachers. Visit its TES profile. How much do your pupils know about the suffragettes? Find out with a quiz from EwanCruz.

German

Hochdeutsch is out and jugendsprache is in, with a new German website that allows young people to upload words that are a feature of “youth language”. Can your pupils recognise the similarities in slang used in Germany and England? www.jugend worte.de

English

For a quiz-based starter to inspire creative writing, try queens’ “Eight- Minute Madness”. Or brush up pupils’ poetry writing with HarrisSchool’s speed poetry exercise.