GCSE German revision resources

Higher ability revision sheet for German past tense.

This GCSE revision pack enables students to learn, revise and use the vocabulary and skills needed for the GCSE topic of “school”

It includes:

- Vocabulary Practice Sheets
- GCSE Style Reading Comprehension
- GCSE Style Listening Comprehension
- A Vocabulary List
- Writing Tasks
- Translation Exercises
- Grammar Practice
- Puzzles
- Solutions

Perfect for independent learning, revision and homework.

CONJUGATION WORKSHEETS IN WORKBOOK FORMAT, PERFECT FOR DEVELOPING UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO CONJUGATE REGULAR GERMAN VERBS IN THE PERFECT TENSE WITH FULL ANSWER KEY

These quick conjugation worksheets are a great way of practicing, reinforcing and revising how to conjugate essential verbs in GERMAN. They work well in a range of contexts such as independent work either in class time or at home, holiday refresher work, or individual activities for cover work. Students really benefit from several opportunities to work through the workbook, once or twice a term across a whole school year is a great way of both mapping progress and developing overall understanding and competence.

This workbook features 25 high-frequency regular verbs in the perfect tense. It has ten pages, and contains the following:

* Two alphabetical verb reference lists: GERMAN-ENGLISH and
ENGLISH-GERMAN.

* Three conjugation challenges, each with 50 individual conjugations:

CHALLENGE 1: each verb conjugated in GERMAN across a range of pronouns, with students writing the corresponding ENGLISH verb conjugation.

CHALLENGE 2: gives the infinitive of each verb in GERMAN, specifying the target pronoun. Students write the corresponding verb conjugation in GERMAN.

CHALLENGE 3: students write the corresponding GERMAN verb conjugation, and its infinitive, from an ENGLISH prompt.

* NOTES & NEXT STEPS sheet, which encourages students to think about how their understanding of GERMAN conjugation works, what progress they have made, what their targets for improvement might realistically be, and what they might reasonably do in order to meet those targets.

There is also a 6-page ANSWER KEY booklet which students find really useful, either to self- or peer-assess - this is also a great time saver for teachers, as well as a way of encouraging students to really assume more responsibility for, and independence in, their learning.

I’ve classed the resource as suitable for GRADES 7-12, because it really does depend on when your students began GERMAN, the stage they are currently working at, and what their particular requirements might be as they prepare and revise for exams.

The resource consists of 3 non-editable files in a zipped format. Please read the TERMS OF USE carefully - the pack is copyright, and for single-teacher/purchaser use only.

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Adapted from a resource that was shared at a new spec GCSE course that I attended last year. I have printed the mats in colour, double-sided and laminated. They have been invaluable for helping to prompt weaker students when describing a photo.

A PowerPoint with all the theme-based vocabulary included in AQA's new specification (8668). It has an interactive menu so you can jump to a specific level (foundation/higher) or different topics.

TOPICS:

1: Identity and culture
1: Me, my family and friends
2: Technology in everyday life
3: Free-time activities
4: Customs and festivals in German-speaking countries/communities

2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest
1: Home, town, neighbourhood and region
2: Social issues
3: Global issues
4: Travel and tourism

3: Current and future study and employment
1: My studies
2: Life at school/college
3: Education post-16
4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions


Source for the vocab list: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/german/specifications/AQA-8668-SP-2016.PDF

This 8 page workbook explains the different aspects of German word order, i.e. tenses, conjunctions and opinions. This is an ideal resource for learners to complete as revision, homework or cover work.
Suggestions for German words and phrases are given in grid form to enable students to complete the tasks.

One side English, one side German. Can be used for self assessment or peer assessment. Verbal or written assessment.

Revision tool.

This is a booklet that includes the conversation questions from the Stimmt edexcel higher book. It also contains a checklist so pupils can track the grammar that they've included.

Gives increasingly long, annotated example sentences to show, in a colourful way, all the aspects of word order students of German may need to know. Would suit the full range of students up to KS5 as the longest examples are highly complex and require some knowledge of modal verbs, passive etc

This resource is an example of the General Conversation at GCSE for theme 1.

This book is ideal to show students what is expected of them in the General Conversation. Information and questions are colour-coded for foundation and higher level students.

Key questions (those using tenses) are starred so that students know which questions they must learn to maximise their marks.

The chilli icon is used to document challenge questions, for those students attempting to secure higher level grades such as grade 9.

Some questions are multiple-choice, so that questions can be tailored to students' personalities, circumstances and abilities.

There are two answer booklets attached, showing students the type of vocabulary needed in each answer. One booklet is for lower prior attainers (Foundation) and is 9 pages long. The other booklet is for higher prior attainers (Higher) and is 11 pages long.

The resource also contains a revision activity to help with this. Students practice their speaking by playing expression bingo - students have two minutes and are peer-assessed, to see how many of the sentence starters on theme 1 they can use!

A 52-page workbook with sample writing questions for the new specification German GCSE (AQA), with model answers for every question.
There are 6 sections, for the 6 different question types in the new exam, and each section has a sample question for each sub-topic (with vocab taken from the AQA specification vocab list). There are translations (sentences and paragraphs) from English into German for each sub-topic as well.
This will last students for their entire GCSE course, or can be given in Year 11 for revision.
Can also be split apart and used for assessments in Key Stage 4, as a time-saver for setting homework or in-class writing tasks, or as extension tasks for high-ability Year 9 pupils, to help them get prepared for the GCSE.
Once the students have prepared answers to the longer tasks, they could also be used to help with preparation for the speaking exam.
A free sample of this workbook is available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/german-gcse-writing-free-sample-me-my-family-and-friends-11947654
This workbook has been professionally proofread and re-formatted to ensure it is as close as possible to the new GCSE specification.

German Higher GCSE revision worksheet based on the vocabulary from "Stimmt! AQA GCSE German Higher" (Kapitel 3), although it could be used with other exam boards and courses. Answers to the tasks are provided so ideal for homework, cover lessons or independent revision. Tasks could be used individually for starters, etc.

This are 6 week vocabulary learning plans to go with GCSE German Stimmt 9-1. There is one for module 1, 2,3 and 6. I give them to students at the start of each module and have a regular vocabulary test day. I also share them with parents.

In order to explain the new structure of the speaking exams, I made a quick powerpoint explaining the different elements.

German GCSE "no frills" revision worksheet based on the vocabulary from "Stimmt! AQA GCSE German Higher" (Kapitel 6), although it could be used with other exam boards and courses. Answers to the tasks are provided so ideal for homework, cover lessons or independent revision. Tasks could be used individually for starters, etc. My guess is that it would be most appropriate for Grade 4-7 students.

This document is in the format of worksheets/ a booklet that can be given to all GCSE students. It is broken down into themes and then into the topics within each theme. For each topic there are 10 translation exercises, as on the Reading Exam. It is contains in total 120 translations of varying lengths and levels of challenge. The translations have been created carefully and are in line with exam board exemplar materials. This could be used by pupils at the end of teaching each topic/ sub-theme in order to test/ check understanding and to practise translation skills or used for wider translation purposes.

A revision activity that can be adapted to practise any grammar structure. Can be used with or without the power point. Students decide in groups whether they think the sentences are grammatically correct and how confident they are of their answer (their bet is based on this). They can "win" a bonus by correcting the sentences that have mistakes in them. If they guess correctly, their bet is a positive score, if they are wrong it is taken away from their total. The team with the highest score wins.

Revision for German Edexcel Foundation GCSE
This paper consists of basic revision exercises: a. Guide to Basic Writing 80-90 words - guides through the bullet points, lots of simple ideas in English to translate per bullet point to finally present an ‘essay’.
b. Basic grammar and structure revision: basic vowel change verbs, basic prepositions, simple verb,verb ideas, simple case situations, the question form, simple modal verb form, gern, - , asking questions in Oral, -all at basic level
c. simple guide to the picture essay of up to 40 words
just some work might be above foundation –diversification!
The pages at the moment run on but can easily be separated for each section
Format: Windows Word and fully adaptable 30+ pages

GCSE German - Ping Pong Translations (Partner Work)
Not an orginial idea I'm afraid - read about it on a forum but these sheets are my own.

Give them 10 mins (or less!) to translate the blank column, then swap with a partner and mark/score. The winner in the pair wins a prize (maoam / merit etc.).

An adaptable resource to enable students to prepare for the question and answer element of the speaking test. Students prepare answers on the wheel. There is a sheet of vocabulary and phrases to help them.
The wheel is best printed out on A3 paper to give students ample space to write their responses. It also works best if the students colour-code their responses to match the colour of the question. Teachers can change the questions easily electronically if they prefer to use different questions. At the end of the Technology document there is a photograph example of a completed wheel to share with students by means of an explanation. Important - the final step is to print off a blank pro forma. Students cut it the circle in the middle so they can see the questions and cut it the ‘triangles’ which cover their answers. They can then reveal questions one by one whilst learning, bit by bit for testing or get partners to test chosen segments.
More themes to follow.

I HAVE UPDATED THIS FOR THE NEW 2016 EDEXCEL GCSE - PLEASE SEE MY OTHER RESOURCES.

Two booklets:
1. Just German words (audit/test booklet)- students fill in the English for all the words they know. Kept in school.

2. German and English words (vocabulary booklet) - students check the words they thought they knew and highlight ones they don't. Take home booklet and revise the words they don't know.

When students have revised, they complete the audit/test booklet again as a personalised test.

Topics checklist also included.

I hope that makes sense!

Regular revision is not only one of the most important activities when learning a language but possibly also one of the toughest tasks, which can often appear little attractive and uninteresting. Here are 15 ways to try and lighten up this chore.
This resource contains suggestions for use and differentiation, 15 ways to learn, revise and practise new words, A4 sized sheets to cut up into 15 note-sized boxes, so you can choose the stage at which you give your students all activities to select from or one activity at any one time.
I hope your pupils and/or students enjoy these.

A student-friendly infographic that can be used as a display or put into books, with the key points from each new GCSE grade.

I designed these German Verbs Dominoes Games, focusing on 99 high-frequency German verbs, because my students love to practise their verb vocab independently. They prefer to have regular opportunities to play the games across the school year - even my more advanced students enjoy revisiting and revising verbs they first encountered a long time ago. I’ve created three differentiated games, so that there are increasing levels of challenge in each game. My students find having a verb reference mat/sheet really useful, and I’ve included two here - both the alphabetical German-English list (Challenge One), and topsy-turvy order (Challenge Two). Challenge Three is English-German.

I do always laminate my dominoes games, because although it’s pretty time-consuming, they are far easier to work and learn with, and last for absolutely years!**

My dominoes games are copyright, with all rights reserved. The license you’re purchasing is for use in your own classroom only - the resource can’t be shared with anyone, in any way. I’ve explained the legal stuff in my Terms of Use. Please note the file is non-editable.

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