Before playing this, choose one word from the clouds and write it on a piece of paper. One pupil starts to read out the sentence and when they arrive at the cloud they guess which response is correct (on your paper). If right, they continue but if they get it wrong then another pupil takes over. They must start from the beginning each time. This ensures that all pupils are focused.

Starter: using language knowledge to skim and scan a text. Understanding a text without using a dictionary. Running dictation task with extension questions.

Starter activity. 1 pupil faces the board, 1 faces away. Pupil facing the board has to describe the picture without using the words on the board. Timer added to slide.

Can be used as a starter or a main. First Powerpoint contains trapdoor activity and a literacy task. Second Powerpoint contains long German words. I get students to guess the pronunciation and then they have to try and work out the meaning of the compound nouns.

2 Starter slides. One is a trapdoor activity where pupils have to read out the sentences, guessing the word in each cloud. You should choose the words before the task and pupils guess what you have chosen. Second slide, pupils make sentences from the words and then try to extend them using weil.

School subjects and numbers

Type in numbers or names or questions. Use it how you wish.

Great for boosting confidence in speaking exams. The examples I have given are in German but you can easily adapt it to different languages and abilities. You'll need to print off picture stimulus and give each student a bingo card. In small groups, students pick up a picture card and create a sentence about the picture which includes a grammar element from the bingo square. The rest of the group must assess if the sentence is grammatically correct. If it is, then students tick off that square and the next person has their turn. The winner is the first person to tick off all squares.

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