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
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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
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.
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.
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
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.
Structured writing support material for GCSE German for first assessment in 2026 with step by step guidance to use variety and complexity of language with opinion phrases, qualifiers/ intensifiers and adjectives, time phrases colour coded for 5 tenses and matching colour coded verb table. 12 pages including space for deliberate practice and feedback.
I use this in my mixed GCSE class as a reference resource to support both speaking and writing.
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.
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!
Following the Oxford University Press course these 9 units contain the AQA minimum core vocabulary and main grammar points.
Theme 1 (People and Lifestyle)
Unit 1: Identity, Relationship with others
Unit 2: Healthy Living and Lifestyle
Unit 3: Education and Work
Theme 2 (Popular Culture)
Unit 4: Free Time Activities
Unit 5: Customs, Festivals, Celebrations
Unit 6: Celebrity Culture
Theme 3 ( Communication and the World around us)
Unit 7: Travel and Tourism
Unit 8: Media and Technology
Unit 9: Environment
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)
Boost your GCSE German students’ listening skills with this complete Celebrity Culture (Promikultur) resources, tailored for the AQA 2026 German specification.
Perfect for teachers and students alike, this high-quality resource includes:
5-Minute Native Speaker Video on celebrity culture, engaging students with authentic listening practice. (Linked within the worksheet).
Differentiated PDF Worksheet with pre-listening, whilst-listening, and post-listening activities to suit both Foundation and Higher Tier learners.
THE TRANSCRIPT WILL BE AVAILABLE AS A SEPARATE RESOURCE.
What’s covered in this GCSE German Celebrity Culture Listening Practice resource?:
Essential vocabulary and phrases related to Promis (celebrities)
Sectors in which we find celebrities
Examples of celebrities from German speaking countries
Key reasons why German celebrities aren’t as globally famous
Interactive tasks to master listening for exams
This celebrity culture resource is designed to increase student engagement, improve comprehension, and prepare them for the AQA GCSE German exams from 2026. Get your students exam-ready with this dynamic and effective resource!
Download now for your GCSE German lessons today!