I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
I am a German native speaker from Berlin who works in a secondary school in Dorset.
I have been teaching for nine years from year 7 to A-Level and my specialty is using technology, puzzles and games in lessons.
A worksheet to practise recognising different tenses. Students fill past tense phrases and time phrases into a past/present/future table. Includes some more difficult ones like modal verbs in the imperfect and separable verbs in the perfect.
They then do a GCSE style reading task (Topic: "where I live") to decide which parts are in which tense.
Includes answer sheet.
Practise German pronunciation with this 70-slide PowerPoint. It is suitable for all levels from beginners to A-Level, and can be used whenever the students struggle with a certain sound.
This version includes all the word lists read out by a native speaker. There is a presentation-only version available to buy.
It covers the main difficult letters/letter combinations like ‘ie’ and ‘ei’, ‘sp’ and ‘st’ and ‘J’. The sounds are practiced with the following activities: listen and repeat contrasting pairs (for students to work out the pronunciation), listen and point to what sound you hear, pair work, tongue twisters and a rule to copy down if possible.
The presentation is meant to be presented in chunks, when students come across a new sound or before speaking exams.
Note: the slides are not in alphabetical order but in order of how common the problem is. There is a hyperlinked index.
A vocabulary list in the form of a sentence builder, to help with word order. Vocab to describe addictions and give opinions, with a translation and writing task.
A fun starter or plenary practising home vocab from pages 68-69 in the new AQA GCSE Red Stimmt! book (house, irregular present tense verbs and meals). Includes three word puzzles and answers.
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Get a puzzle worksheet for each page of Chapter 5 in the Stimmt! 1 book. Each worksheet contains three different types of word puzzles (crossword puzzles, unjumbling, word clouds, cryptograms…) to practise the vocabulary and grammar on each page. Also includes answers.
A lesson that your students will not forget quickly!
Now includes a remote learning ready, digital only version.
A timetable themed escape room activity in which students need to do German language related puzzles to get a find all the codes to help Johann stay out of trouble at school . Ideal as vocab revision for the first year of German. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays!
It includes vocab from the topics school subjects and opinions, numbers, colours, telling the time, hobbies (online activities).
There is a “digital only” version and a" mixed media" (digital+paper) version. The “mixed media” version is more fun because it involves the game website and real life puzzles ( jigsaws, code wheels and string activities) that make the activities more “real”, but requires quite a bit of preparation by the teacher. The “digital” version only requires one print out and can be done last minute. Student will need one computer, laptop or iPad per group.
The resource includes:
Link to "Der Stundenplan” website
Teacher instruction, including how to put together the puzzle items and example pictures
Teacher answers
Powerpoint with game introduction
Puzzles to print out/Files for digital versions
A fun plenary or starter game for any subject or topic that doesn't need any preparation. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students answer a question and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure.
There are 11 slides with treasures hidden in different places and the slide to be used can be chosen randomly by clicking the spinning wheel on the first slide.
This activity is based on the gamification theory that random rewards make games more addictive and fun.
Note: In presentation mode click on squares to make them disappear and reveal the treasures.
A comprehensive introduction to the cases in German aimed at 6th form students, including dual prepositions and flexible word order.
It includes presentation slides, gap fill, writing, match up and drawing task and a quiz.
Also includes a case overview hand out that could be turned into a class room display.
Two worksheets based on page 36 in Studio 3 rouge to introduce healthy food and phrases to talk about food in the future tense. The gapfill worksheet can be used with the red or the green book to introduce food items in French and for students to produce a vocab list. The other worksheet uses the phrases from task 1 as a match up task and a translation to extend the task.
A web-based activity to introduce students to France’s geography and culture and first French words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about France . It also does not require any printing as all answers are entered and checked in the webpage.
Ideal activity at the beginning of a course in French or European geography or as a fun activity last lesson before the holidays.
The activity includes tasks on:
• France’s location in the world
• French cities
• 360-degree picture quests
• famous French people
• French companies
• Greetings in French
New Digital Version now available
A web-based activity to introduce students to German geography and culture and first German words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about Germany. It also does not require any printing as all answers are entered and checked in the webpage.
Ideal activity at the beginning of a course in German language or European geography or as a fun activity last lesson before the holidays.
The activity includes tasks on:
• Germany’s location in the world
• German cities
• 360-degree picture quests
• famous Germans
• German companies
• Greetings in German
Two columns with pictures/phrases, students choose their own illness, remedy… and then have to guess which of them their partner chose. To practise speaking more the rule is that they have to start the sentence from the beginning and keep going until they use a phrase their partner hasn’t chosen. Similar to battleships but with a longer sentence.
An introduction to family members and speaking about siblings in German using The Simpsons. It includes speaking and translation tasks (differentiated), quizzes and games and several tasks to go with the Song Mein Name ist Mensch (needsd youtube access). With lesson plan.
A worksheet to practise adjective endings with clothes. Suitable for KS3 or KS4 (includes vocab from Stimmt! 2 and Stimmt! GCSE book). Inlcudes a sheet with vocabulary and a gap fill worksheet (ideally copied onto the same sheet). Also includes an answer sheet.
A fun game that can be used to practise speaking about places in town and giving directions.
Works best if there are prizes for finding the treasures!
There are 5 maps with streets and town buildings (church, hospital ect) and three hidden treasure per slide. Students have to guess where the treasure is by naming the place of giving directions there, when you click on the place it reveals either an empty space or a treasure.
The third slide turns the whole game into a race between different teams.
In stronger classes they could practise prepositions and cases/genders (in der Kirche/ au stade ect)
The last two slides are more detailed to practise more complex directions like ‘over the bridge’, ‘at the traffic light’ ect.
Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early on with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 4 Stimmt 3 Red.
This download includes:
-PowerPoint with three pictures with questions in German and optional English to guide students along. The first picture can be used as example/writing task, the other two for pair work.
-translation worksheet
-two role play cards for student pair work
-example answers for speaking and translation tasks included in the PowerPoint.
More chapters available soon!
Note: vocabulary slide should be first in ppt, was put to back so preview on TES shows pictures.
Murder Mystery to run alongside Stimmt AQA GCSE Higher/Foundation Chapter 3 “Menschliche Beziehungen”, (some of the tasks would have to be adapted for Stimmt Edexcel.)
Turn a whole chapter into a crime story! This project is intended to complement/ replace exercises from the text book and will link the pages together into one thrilling crime story. My students ask every lessons if they will find out ‘whodunit’, especially as there is a prize for the best detective!
The project should not take up much more time than using the book on its own as some tasks can replace text book tasks and get students to revise the text book vocabulary in a different context.
The topics included:
describing appearance and character
speaking about friendship
family relationships and reasons why you (don’t) get on with each other
weddings and opinions about marriage
separable verbs
future tense
imperfect modal verbs
Includes:
• puzzle, reading, writing, listening, speaking, translation and role play tasks
• film trailer for the project, powerpoint (more than 60 slides) and work booklet (12 pages)
• teacher guidance (hidden in the ppt, can be seen in edit mode)
• activity overview
• answers to all tasks
A fun escape-room style revision activity for first year learners of German on the topic of hobbies. It is based on Echt 1 but can be used with other beginners’ courses.
The topics include:
music
opinions
sports
hobbies
time phrases
verb second rule
word order with gern
present tense verb endings
The word weil wears a big boot that kicks the verb to the end of the sentence. An exercise on recogognising verbs, then some demonstrations of the boot and then some sentences for the students to work out themselves.