Can be used as a card sort (into positive vs negative statements) or quiz quiz trade.
Advantages and disadvantages statements about housework which students than then apply to their speaking and writing.
A Blog style reading text with A level vocabulary included for higher level GCSE or iGCSE students. Can be given as a homework, mini assessment or as a class activity.
Used with Year 10 students. Recap genitive, accusative, dative prepositions, and students highlight where they find them in the text.
Could also be used as a running dictation activity.
This worked great with my year 9s! Students choose 5 squares to draw ships, without showing their partner. Students then guess which squares their partners’ ships are in speaking according to the grid e.g. ‘ich dusche mich?’ ‘du rasierst dich?’ etc.
A simple worksheet including a class survey to encourage speaking, and also a reading comprehension task where students draw pictures to illustrate the sentence. Ideal for Primary German or less ability Year 7 or 8 students.
Students can highlight in different colours where they see time, manner, place and past participles.
True or false comprehension and writing extension task
Text which can be used to identify structures as a highlighting task, as a model for writing practice, or as a reading text with questions. Contains important and useful vocabulary that students should use to access higher level marks.
A rolling powerpoint including:
Classroom instructions (great with ‘Simon says’ game, or ‘Simon sagt!’)
Numbers and hyperlinked song - telling the time
Days of the week and hyperlinked song - also attached is a wheel where students can write what they do on different days of the week
Months of the year and birthdays and accompanying worksheet
Family tree - suggested activity create your own ‘Stammbaum’
Colours
Appearances and guess who game
Personality traits - slap the board game
Animals
Habitats
Weather - wheel attached where students can colour in and spin to practice weathers
Modes of transport
Directions - use with online temple run game - students call out directions in German
Places in town - wordwall.net complementary resource
Parts of the body - students use sticky notes to ‘annotate’ their partner in German!
Clothes
iGCSE style grammar question (last page) where students write the correct article using the genitive case. As a starter could get students to highlight masculine, feminine, neuter and plural nouns.
Diamond 9 activity for A level. Print out and cut, students arrange the 9 statements into a ‘diamond’ shape, those at the top being what they agree with the most, and those at the bottom being what they disagree with. Excellent for encouraging productive skills: speaking and writing.
Appropriate for use as an assessment or homework, self study project or as a class revision worksheet. Contains source analysis tasks and written tasks.
Comprehension tasks based on 6 different German festivals.
This task can be done as a carousel activity, where students complete the tasks together and then present their findings to the rest of the class.
Could also be given as an in class or homework project.
Selection of reading tasks based on Units 3 - 5 of Echo 3 which we use with Y9 learners (world of work, environment, daily life)
These tasks can be used as mini assessments, cover work, homework, or an in class activity as they are all modelled to reflect the Edexcel iGCSE style.
Interesting lesson displaying unusual and quirky inventions of the industrial revolution.
Tasks included at the end of the information sheet and pictures.
Can be used as a class activity, cover lesson, or homework project.