A few resources to use with students on World Book Day.
Resources include a ‘guess the book’ activity, a quiz and resources to support students to either write about reading in general or to write a simple book review about their favourite book.
This set of mindmaps provides a summary of all twelve units taught at A Level. They supplement ‘AQA A-level’ by Hodder Education. Each mindmap comprises of ‘Schlüsselideen’, ‘Aktuelle Informationen’, ‘Vokabeln und Redewendungen’, ‘Bilder, Fakten, Statistiken und Links’ and some preparation for the speaking exam.
GCSE German Speaking Exam Booklet – AQA 8652 (Higher Tier): Photo Cards, Conversation & Model Answers
This resource includes everything students and teachers need to build confidence and success in the Photo Card and General Conversation tasks. Designed for classroom use, homework, and independent revision.
Aligned with AQA GCSE 8652
Includes ready-made model answers
Encourages spontaneous speaking, reflection, and independent practice
Easy to print for classroom use
Thematic coverage of all AQA GCSE topics:
Theme 1: People and Lifestyle
Theme 2: Popular Culture
Theme 3: Communication and the World Around Us
Any questions: TutorAlexandraABC@gmail.com
Goes well with:
GCSE German Writing Support
AQA German Oral - Role Play Booklet (Foundation0
Ready-to-go AQA German Lessons
Wordsearch booklet of all German GCSE vocabulary
For any time! The Ultimate KS3 German Quiz! For no fuss, germanophile fun. This quiz is a whirlwind tour through the curriculum, perfect for a bit of a start of term warm-up, or end of end term wind-down. The quiz is light-hearted and amusing, multiple choice, interactive and focused on all areas of the KS3 curriculum.
The rounds include:
Getting verbal - Common verbs
Listen Up! - Listening round with links to short, German listening video clips
Home sweet home - Around meine haus
Where’s kitty? - Prepositions round
Loud and clear! - Comprehension listening round (again with clips)
Lucky Dip - A round with a mix of fun and challenging questions about Germanic life and culture
The preview images show a few examples from each round.
Please note, the quiz is large so it’s in the ZIP file. The images are just a small preview of what’s inside :)
All answers are included, there is a score sheet (last page of PowerPoint), and the quiz lasts up to 45 mins. It can either be played having the answers revealed as you go along, or the board can be paused and the answers read out at the end (you can play either in teams or individually).
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Bank of England, The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, The British Legion, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Quiz with 30 questions and answers, suitable for any year group.
Questions based on German Christmas and New Year’s traditions and includes multiple choice questions on German vocabulary.
Overview
German Food & Drink Worksheets is a comprehensive resource containing six worksheets aimed at supporting students in learning German food and drink vocabulary. With a focus on engaging activities, this resource is designed to reinforce vocabulary acquisition and enhance language proficiency.
Worksheet Descriptions
1) Food Vocabulary This worksheet introduces essential German food vocabulary. Students learn to associate food with their German counterparts through matching exercises and fill-in-the-blank activities. Visual aids enhance understanding, making the learning process enjoyable.
2) Drink Vocabulary Focused on expanding food and drink related vocabulary, this worksheet provides students with a list of common drinks in German. Through labelling and matching exercises, students reinforce their knowledge of drink terms, laying the groundwork for more advanced language skills.
3) Food Wordsearch The interactive word search challenges students to translate the German food into English, then find the words within a grid. This activity combines vocabulary reinforcement with an engaging puzzle format, promoting both learning and enjoyment.
4) Drink Crossword Students dive into the world of clothing vocabulary with a crossword puzzle. Clues in German prompt the insertion of corresponding English terms, reinforcing vocabulary retention in an interactive and challenging way.
5) Favourite Meal This worksheet expands students’ understanding of German food and drink by getting them to draw and label their favourite meal in German, providing cultural context to the vocabulary learned.
6) Describing Food & Drink Building on the acquired vocabulary, this worksheet challenges students to describe food and drink in German. By using adjectives and phrases, students practice expressing themselves in the target language while honing their understanding of food and drink vocabulary.
Answer Key
A comprehensive answer key is included with the resource, offering educators a valuable tool for quick reference and assessment. This ensures students receive accurate feedback, reinforcing their learning.
Downloadable Format
German Food & Drink Worksheets resource is conveniently available in a downloadable PDF format. This allows for easy printing and distribution to students, making it a flexible resource for both classroom and remote learning environments.
Designed to cater to various learning styles and proficiency levels, this resource not only reinforces German food and drink vocabulary but also encourages students to actively engage with the language through puzzles, descriptions, and cultural exploration. The inclusion of answers facilitates efficient assessment and supports educators in guiding students through the learning process.
Easily adaptable for home learning.
This PowerPoint introduces 11 colours (rot, rosa, orange, gelb, blau, grün, weiß, schwarz, grau, lila, braun) and there are lots of practice activities. The colours are introduced with the words and then there are lots of practice activities without the words. Slides 31 – 33 can be printed as these are colour by number activities. There are match up exercises, unjumble the words, fill in the missing letters, very short sentences to copy and complete and so on. There is also a separate word search document.
German Greetings and Introductions unit (Die Begrüßungen auf Deutsch) writing activities: 6 worksheets (which includes puzzles) with some additional differentiated versions and a vocabulary support page. Reviews basic German words and phrases such as Guten Tag (Hello), Guten Abend (Good evening), Auf Wiedersehen (Goodbye) and Bis bald (See you soon). Students will practise asking and answering questions such as Wie geht’s? (How are you?), Wie heißt du? (What’s your name?), Wie alt bist du? (How old are you?), and Wo wohnst du? (Where do you live?). PDF format.
My German basics resources are made for students beginning German and near beginners in KS2 or early KS3 (Years 5, 6 and 7) and equivalents but they may suit others, depending on experience. Please check the preview file to assess suitability.
Includes:
Vocabulary page (to support students who require it)
Greetings & farewells worksheet (2 levels)
Introductions worksheet - name, age, location etc (2 levels)
Display worksheet - memory aid for key phrases (with and without background images)
Hidden word puzzle
Grid puzzle (3 levels – easier versions with some letters pre-placed in the grid)
Word search puzzle (2 levels)
Full answer keys
Teacher instruction page
Differentiated versions of 4 of the 6 activities are included (not the Hidden Word Puzzle or the display worksheet), with word banks, beginnings of words, or more challenging tasks etc included as appropriate. The one-star versions are the less challenging ones. The display worksheet is included with and without background illustrations. Full answer keys and an instruction page are included.
The Hidden Word Puzzle is an engaging alternative to standard worksheets, and makes an ideal starter, early finisher activity, review task, or homework. German Greetings and Introductions vocabulary has been translated, with some deliberate errors for the students to find. Students circle boxes containing errors, then assemble the letters from the circled boxes to reveal a German number word.
SAVE by purchasing this as part of my German Greetings and Introductions BUNDLE, along with these further 4 resource packs:
German Greetings and Introductions Presentation and Activities
German Greetings Games
German Greetings Board Game
German Greetings Role-Play Cards
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German Numbers Worksheets and Puzzles
Die Familie – German vocabulary and grammar practice worksheets.
Practise speaking and writing about your family in German.
Students will be able to:
• Name and spell nouns for members of the family.
• Use ‘heissen’ in the 1st and 3rd person singular, and 3rd plural.
• Use ‘sein’ to give someone’s age.
• Revise numbers.
• Write a short paragraph using prompts to describe who is in your family, where they live, how old they are, pets and languages revising use of ‘wohnen’ and ‘sprechen’.
• Read a text & answer true or false questions and gap fill key verbs.
• Translate sentences into English and into German.
• Check their learning with a summary ‘I can…’ page covering vocabulary, word order and
key speaking questions for the topic.
Includes 7 worksheets to practise vocabulary for German family.
Can be used as stand- alone worksheets or to practise key vocabulary from a lesson.
Suitable for non-specialist German teachers in primary or secondary.
Ideal for home-based learning.
Variety of practice tasks ideal for homework or classroom-based practice.
Complete set of answers.
Suitable for ages 8 and above, KS2 and Yr7, Yr8.
Also available in French and Spanish.
You might also be interested in: German Animals Worksheets
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/german-animals-worksheet-pack-13116672
Suitable as a lesson or as a cover lesson.
x3 sides of A4 - Activities suitable for years 9,10,11 on reviewing films.
There is also an accompanying powerpoint presentation with the answers, if the worksheet is to be used as a lesson and not for cover.
I made this series for my Y12s at the start of the year. Includes a presentation on:
Part 1 - nominative and accusative
Part 2- dative and accusative
Part 3 - personal pronouns
Part 4 - Wechselpräpositionen
Each part has a presentation and a worksheet with the answers.
A crib sheet for GCSE German focusing on the picture card for the speaking exam or Q1 in Foundation Writing Exam (Edexcel).
Includes PALM key phrases, exam technique and link to digital course on Memrise which allows students to revise content from the crib sheet.
A clear and concise reference guide to the German tenses, the subjunctive mood and the passive voice - including word order for negatives and reflexive verbs and separable prefixes.
Particularly suitable for higher level GCSE and A Level students who want to be able to express their own ideas, but who struggle to remember the rules for each tense.
Slide 1 = Simple tenses - present, imperfect and compound tenses with werden - future and conditional. Gives usage, formation of stem, endings, irregulars and word order for negatives and reflexive verbs and separable prefixes.
Slide 2 = Compound tenses with haben or sein - perfect, pluperfect and future perfect tenses - usage, full declension of haben and sein, formation of past participles. Also includes common irregulars, verbs that take sein and word order for negatives and reflexive verbs and separable prefixes.
Slide 3 = Passive voice and Konjuntiv I - usage, formation and word order for past present and future tenses.
Slide 4 = Konjunktiv II - includes formation and usage for weak and strong verbs in the present and past, common forms and word order.
Slide 5 = Word order examples for all the above tenses, voices and moods for sentences with subject first, something else first and after a subordinating conjunction.
Here are 12 cultural starters to teach elements of culture at KS3 and 4. This is an easy way to get your pupils thinking about German culture for their GCSE. Topics:
Places in Germany/Austria/Switzerland
Music
Food
Traditions
Clothing
History
Buildings
Enjoy!
This pack contains my revision work for IGCSE German which helped me to attain a grade 9 in 2019. They include model answers to about 15 common questions per topic that could come up in either the writing or speaking parts of the exam. Moreover there is a document containing key idiomatic expressions to help raise your German to a higher level, alongside a document which summarises most of the key grammar needed at IGCSE.
German Christmas Vocabulary Activity Pack
Have fun learning German Christmas words with this pack of colourful resources.
This ready to go set of German Christmas vocabulary includes:
• Two pages of vocabulary practice worksheets with six tasks complete with answer sheets. Ideal for classroom or homework.
• Single page German Christmas crossword with solution.
• Single page German Christmas wordsearch with solution.
• Six pages of flashcards ideal for introducing vocabulary and playing flashcard games.
The German Christmas Worksheet Pack is designed for KS2, KS3, ages 8 to 13.
All the worksheets in this set are available as A4 printable PDFs.
This set is also available in:
Spanish
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12943405
French
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12943402
Fröhliche Weihnachten
This is a colour-coded guide to the four cases in German. For each case there is a character (Georg Genitiv, etc) and a personified explanation of what the case does. Includes tables for definite & indefinite articles, pronouns & possessive pronouns & adjective endings, as well as scads of example sentences. Needs to be printed in colour, or on colour-coded paper, for full effect. (No exercises)