Beginners' Italian Whole Course PowerpointsQuick View
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Beginners' Italian Whole Course Powerpoints

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Slides for a Year 9 beginners Italian class. See contents list for topics. (greetings, numbers, alphabet, dates, colours, animals, classroom directions, classroom equipment, school subjects, time, family, nationalities, physical descriptions, present tense, hobbies, vorrei + infinitive, Christmas food, fruit and vegetables, weights and measures, past tense (perfect), breakfast foods, shops, places in town, weather, past tense (imperfect), regions, types of house, rooms of the house, prepositions, furniture, hobbies, si puo + infinitive, street directions)
Beginners' German Powerpoints - multi-topicQuick View
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Beginners' German Powerpoints - multi-topic

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Powerpoints from Terms 1, 2, 3 & 5 of a first year of Germany - used Boardworks for Term 4 on 'at home'. greetings, introductions, numbers, birthdays, dates, classroom equipment, school subjects, time, alphabet, countries, general knowledge quiz, countries, clothes and school uniform, snack food, transport, fruit, vegetables, weights, prices, sports and past times, present, past, ich möchte, weather, family, personality
Language mat (German / French)Quick View
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Language mat (German / French)

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Contains classroom language, numbers, alphabet, personal pronouns, past, future, and present tense regular formation rules, connectives and phrases for giving opinions. Italian to come.
Passé Composé Weekend Activity Conversation CardsQuick View
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Passé Composé Weekend Activity Conversation Cards

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Individual profile cards for students to use in conversation with others. Print the question cards and profile back to back so that the students have qs on oneside, profile on the other. Students to ask around the class to find out who they were with at the weekend – i.e. who did the same activities. There are enough for 24 students here, but this can be added to, and could also be adapted for other tenses.
Good Bye, Lenin! DDR/BRD listening gap fillQuick View
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Good Bye, Lenin! DDR/BRD listening gap fill

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This gapfill is based on the script at a point around 15 minutes in the film. I am using it as a warm up exercise and vocabulary-building exercise before the class go on to discuss the way that life changed in East Berlin after the wall came down.
Stadt / Town reading comprehension /class activityQuick View
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Stadt / Town reading comprehension /class activity

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Texts about three German towns and accompanying comprehension questions. You can print the three descriptions onto a piece of paper with the questions and they can do it seated, but I stuck the descriptions around the room and they leant on their books and moved around in pairs.
Imperfect tense - Worksheet with explanationQuick View
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Imperfect tense - Worksheet with explanation

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Introductory worksheet for the imperfect tense in German, including explanations for weak and strong verb groups and follow-up exercises. Most suited to AS and A-Level students, or Gifted and Talented at GCSE. I have also included a list of common strong verbs and their stems. Key words: imperfect, past, German, tense, verbs, irregular, regular, weak, strong, Präteritum, Imperfekt
Stundenplan / school timetable activityQuick View
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Stundenplan / school timetable activity

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Students should already know the school subjects, days of the week, and time. This is an active puzzle so it takes some preparation and the class need to be trustworthy and up for it! Cut the 'clues&' document up and put the clues around the room on he walls. Pair students appropriately and give them a timetable between them. They need to use the clues to complete the timetable. Compare to the solution when finished!
Weihnachten / Christmas PowerpointQuick View
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Weihnachten / Christmas Powerpoint

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A Powerpoint about Christmas in Germany, aspects of it can be used individually or you can use it as a lead up to a project like the one mentioned in the final slides. Focuses on food and similarities and differences between Christmas in the UK and Germany.
Careers puzzle game - GermanQuick View
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Careers puzzle game - German

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This can be used with any age group when learning or revising jobs and work vocabulary. With a large class I photocopy several of these on sheets of different coloured paper/card, cut them and sort them into envelopes, and then time them completing the puzzles in groups.
Snakes and ladders - transport - any languageQuick View
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Snakes and ladders - transport - any language

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Snakes and ladders board which could be used with any language - just teach them the appropriate vocabulary first. The board goes off the slide but prints perfectly onto an A4 sheet of paper.
Snakes and ladders Passatempi boardQuick View
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Snakes and ladders Passatempi board

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Snakes and ladders board for past times / hobbies topic. Students play in pairs, they must say the sentence (ie. 'gioco a calcio&') to stay on the square they land on - if incorrect they go back. Can be used when studying past, present, future tenses.
Alcohol, tobacco and drugs - health - ItalianQuick View
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Alcohol, tobacco and drugs - health - Italian

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Salute. La droga. Il fumo. Alcol. Set of resources. Powerpoint presents vocabulary and includes a slide which can be printed as a reading activity. Role play cards for students to use when practising asking questions about this topic. Worksheet introducing useful adjectives and key verbs.
Key questions - Italian - match up worksheetQuick View
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Key questions - Italian - match up worksheet

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Consolidation work. After first year of Italian, students can see how many questions pairs they can match up. Come ti chiami? Quanti anni hai? Quando è il tuo compleanno? Che tipo sei? Dove abiti? Di dove sei? Qual’è la tua materia preferita? Qual’è il tuo passatempo preferito? Che cosa mangi a colazione?
Feste italiane - Italian festivalsQuick View
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Feste italiane - Italian festivals

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Worksheet. Culture. Students work our key information about important Italian festivals. You can decide how much help to give them - there is a vocabulary list, but depending on their ability you might allow them a dictionary or encourage them to break the sentences down, look for cognates and work it out themselves.
Online dictionary skills - GermanQuick View
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Online dictionary skills - German

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It's so hard to teach students to use a dictionary properly! I have reconciled myself to the fact that it is a matter of practice and time, and looking at this sheet it is easy to see why - so many guidelines. This is really for Post-16 or Gifted and Talented. They can do it in a cover lesson or for homework - they need time to play around with it on their own - but plan enough time for a lengthy discussion in the next lesson!
Passato prossimo - il fine settimanaQuick View
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Passato prossimo - il fine settimana

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Past tense weekend topic sentence formation worksheet - past perfect tense, Italian. Regular past participles worksheet - students follow the rules to create a vocab list of regular past participles. Key irregular past participles list included. Recent past with avere worksheet - fill the gaps with the correct conjugation of avere to form the past tense.
Stadt / Town vocabulary and two interactive gamesQuick View
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Stadt / Town vocabulary and two interactive games

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Vocabulary list for places in town, plus a tessellation puzzle (two levels: with or without the red outer shapes with more difficult vocabulary), and a 'ring of fury&': Photocopy sheets back to back and cut out so each student has a slip with an German one side and English the other (they should not have same meaning). Student 1 reads out the German word on their slip, the student with the English on their slip reads it out, turns their slip over and reads out the German word on the other side. Continue until you have gone through all the slips/students and return to the student who started.