Guidance for writing and model 90 word essay for German GCSE writing practice

Worksheet including answers to practise these verbs. Good for cover lesson

Explains how to form a question.For the starter you need to write the questions on pieces of paper and stick them around the room - in pairs one finds question memorises it and says it to partner - like a running dictation. For the OXO game put class into pairs (boy/girl is best). They learn the 9 sentences. Give each pair a dice. They throw the dice twice to find out which sentence they need to translate. (2 and 12 are wild) Their partner judges whether they have translated correctly. If yes, they can write their O or X in the relevant square. If the partner throws the same number and can translate correctly he/she can overwrite the other's O or X. When one has a line of O's or X;s they tell you and you keep a tally of boys/girls lines - creates great sense of competition in the class. It sounds complex but works really well. ps thanks to another tesser (can't remember who!) for a couple of the slides which allow practice of est-ce que and qu'est-ce que.

Worksheet for low ability year 8 which teaches types of programme and opinions. There is also a wordsearch and a matching pairs game. There is a small mistake in the wordsearch that you can correct before you photocopy it! (cocumentaire should read 'documentaire')

Contains a summary of sentence starters, modal verbs, opinions, infinitive clauses, relative clauses etc to help students to improve their past tense writing.

Worksheet for low ability year 8 to teach j'aime + infinitive. Might be useful for cover lesson

Use to test anything eg vocab/grammar learned in the lesson. Simple but very effective for use as plenary/quiz. Very motivating - a bit like blockbusters but better. I can’t claim all the credit - someone gave it to me.

Ppt and worksheet to teach adjective agreement. It's a very boring topic for year 10 so I thought I would get them to make their own version of Cribs - celebrity house program - you could take in baseball hat / wig / sunglasses and get them to film each other using the slides as background for their rooms.

Simplified explanation and exercises using haben and sein.

A checklist for students to use to assess each others' PowerPoint and give useful feedback

ppt and worksheet to teach directions for the blindfold game blindfold a student and get the class to direct him around the desks or without blindfold get each child to put hand on desk - hide sweet under one hand and class has to direct child to hidden sweet by giving directions

Powerpoint to teach plus ..que and moins ..que

A Powerpoint which explains what the examiner is listening for in speaking exams. A wordframe/worksheet for preparing a presentation on a sporting event (v simple for lower set year 10 - goes with Expo 4 vert page 129), and a score sheet to enable them to assess each other. Pupils listen to each other,give ticks and crosses, a whistle blows and they move on to the next partner.

ppt to teach jobs use the grid for speaking - I think of a code eg 3A and the class in teams try to guess it by saying the name of the job

Useful table to demonstrate present, past and future tenses on the topic of activities je joue j'ai joué je vais jouer etc

Ppt for introducing and practising Tu as quel age? with popular characters. Choose a student and say Comment t'appelles-tu? Student says Je m'appelle Tracey Beaker. You say Tu as quel age? Students can also do this in pairs or groups. Also includes a slap the board game that I found on TES - thanks.

Good for revising Present, Perfect and Future tense

Teaches modal verbs and timephrases using the topic of healthy living. Thanks to MFL Sunderland and others for some activities included here that I have adapted. Instructions for Deutsche Spiel. Print out questions and cut up. Print out board. 2 players per board. Each player places a counter at the start. Player 1 takes a question off the pile and asks Player 2. If they get the answer right, they can move the number of spaces on the board. If they get it wrong Player 1 tells them the answer and then takes his turn. Refers to a listening and reading in the Edexcel book.

Ppt and worksheet for middle/bottom set to go with Expo 4 vert Module 6. Teaches work experience vocab, opinions, complex sentences. Plenary - pretend to be Lord Alan Sugar asking the questions of the candidates - uses rate sheet for peer assessment.

Project for Year 8 to research a region of France and make a holiday brochure on a region of France. I've made it to keep my bottom set busy for the last three lessons.

Worksheet to revise tenses, opinions, connectives etc. Photocopy it onto A3 and then it can be used for pairwork.