This is a brilliant aspect of German to revise with your students ahead of their GCSE exams, or indeed to introduce at any point in the GCSE course. Resource contains:
List of 32 pairs of opposite adjectives (e.g. hot/cold, happy/sad) split into 3 increasingly difficult blocks. These have been handpicked from the GCSE syllabus for AQA/Edexcel/CIE.
List of 32 sets of synonymous words (e.g. brilliant/amazing/great, delicious/tasty) split into 3 increasingly difficult blocks.
Some ideas of how these two lists might be integrated into your lessons and students’ independent revision.
Set of 6 differentiated match-up activities based on the opposite adjective pairs.
Set of 6 differentiated match-up activities based on the synonymous sets of words.
Included is an easily printable .pdf as well as an editable .doc document.
I hope this resource helps your students. Feedback is, as ever, welcomed!
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?).
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.
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German Greetings and Introductions Presentation and Activities
German Greetings Games
German Greetings Board Game
German Greetings Role-Play Cards
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AQA GCSE German mindmaps, containing key structures and verbs, idioms, adjectives, fancy phrases and a key discussion aspect for each of the topics covered. Designed to be a revision tool or beginning/end of unit resource.
A double sided worksheet that will last an entire lesson. Ideal for cover work. Students can work independently on a variety of tasks of increasing difficulty. Answers and other useful vocab provided for non-specialist cover teachers. Ideas for open ended tasks provided at the end as an extension or for early finishers. Language included = sports and hobbies vocab, regular and irregular verbs in the I, you, he/she/it and we forms, Some time phrases and the odd bit of extra vocab (which is provided in a list at the end)
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1x reading workbook
A series of cover work lessons for beginner’s German, covering house types, pencil-case items, birthdays, family members and pets. Alternatively, the tasks could be used as part of your lessons.
Across the worksheets, there is a range of tasks including translations, written tasks, reading comprehensions, as well as more creating tasks such as word searches and drawings (family tree, dream zoo etc.)
GCSE German Family Relationships Workbook. Contains Knowledge Organisers, Sentence Builders, Reading Comprehension tasks, essay stimulus and conversation questions. Can be used for independent study and cover work
This booklet contains 12 pages of useful phrases learners can use in their writing and speaking exams. The German and English is provided. The phrases are organised by Theme and sub-topic.
This is a fast paced activity reviewing the perfect tense conjugation of German verbs. There are over 100 slides and five games to play. Slides give the English and pupils have ten seconds to find the German translation. The presentation is easily adaptable and can be used either as a whole lesson or as several short activities within a lesson. You can come back to it as often as you like. It helps pupils to perfect their translation of verbs in preparation for exams and helps boost confidence when speaking.
Activities + answer key on Halloween. A free vocab sheet is available online. Useful booklet if you are looking for an end-of-term activity. This work is accessible to students who haven’t been studying the subject for a long time or those who find German challenging. Variety of tasks ( word search, colouring, gap fill…). As the answers are provided on PowerPoint, students can participate and peer/self-assess their work.
-12 activities in total
Ideal for KS2 or early KS3 or equivalents, this lesson presentation covers German Greetings (Die Begrüßungen auf Deutsch) and Introductions Beginners Vocabulary. Introduce and review this unit with a 116-slide interactive PowerPoint (and additional PDF version). Includes greetings such as Guten Tag (Hello) and Guten Abend (Good evening) and farewells such as Auf Wiedersehen (Goodbye) and Bis bald (See you soon). Students will learn responses to 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?).
Almost all text in this presentation is editable. Most slides feature answers that appear on the the click of a mouse. Recapping slides and role-play slides (with answer keys) are also included for plenty of oral practice and there’s a fun interactive Hexagons review game at the end. There’s enough here to plan multiple lessons around. In the Zip file, there is the original PowerPoint and a PDF version. While the PDF version does not retain the ability for teachers to reveal answers by clicking, it will still enable you introduce and review this topic if you do not have PowerPoint where you work. The Hexagons game is not compatible with PDF.
Slides about where you live and where you come from focus on examples about Germany and other German-speaking countries, together with English-speaking countries such as US, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
This presentation is suitable for teaching younger or older students and adults as you have all the slides and examples you need to teach using either the informal ‘du’ or formal ‘Sie’ for ‘you’. It begins by using the informal ‘du’, which is ideal for younger students but at the end of the presentation (from slide 117), there are additional versions of relevant slides, the role-plays and the hexagon game, all using the formal ‘Sie’. You can either use the presentation all the way through, teaching both ‘du’ and ‘Sie’ or stop at slide 116 (especially if teaching younger students).
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German GCSE Listening Lessons
A bundle of 10 native speaker German listening practice lessons with 10 MP3 audio files (read by native speakers) with verbatim transcript and 5-6 activities for each topic to help GCSE GCSE students to improve their topic-related vocabulary, speaking, writing and listening skills.
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This is a lockdown-friendly complete Speaking Pack for GCSE German.
The PowerPoint presentation (201 slides!) has links to allow you to easily navigate the menus and switch between candidate, teacher and example cards.
It is designed to support your students in developing speaking exam skills and to provide practice opportunities. For each theme and sub-theme there are 3 exam style tasks (role play, photo card and conversation questions) based on both the foundation and higher papers.
Easy to follow marking grids for all aspects of the speaking exam for both foundation and higher tiers
Top tips for Role-Plays, Picture Cards and General Conversations
Example Student cards
Example Teacher cards
Example scripts for Role-Plays and Picture cards
Printable marking grids for student feedback
Edexcel based but could be adapted for AQA
This booklet is ideal for Year 11 revision or it could be dipped in and out of from the start of Year 10. You could also set them as homework tasks or even give them to Year 9 to try out.
Fun activities + answers on Christmas. There is also a free vocabulary sheet available online. The tasks are varied and some of them make references to other topics such as numbers or colours. As the answers are provided on Powerpoint, students can participate and self-assess their work.
15 activities in total
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This worksheet with a map helps students to learn how to navigate through the streets abroad.
It is ideal for students that have no previous experience in giving directions to get from A to B.
This activity can last anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes. It is ideal for group as well as individual teaching and contains the solutions on page 2.
Total Pages 2
Answer Key Included
An excel worksheet revising all aspects of directions in German. Both asking the way and giving directions. A gap-fill on the computer that will mark as pupils go along. Accuracy in spelling is needed, but capital letters is not checked.