Each file contains a reading activity for students to complete. The texts are differentiated. The first file is the lower level text, second the mid-level and the third the higher level. On the pages after the four profiles there are a series of questions for students to complete, culminating in a writing task. The higher text also draws on prior knowledge from the self and family unit.

Revision booklet for sports and hobbies with reading comprehension and writing task at the end.

A revision booklet for the topic of sports and hobbies.

A reading activity based on past and current members of the German football team.

Students colour in their own Easter cards and get to add a message inside.

Differentiated worksheet for hair and eye colour. Students fill in the gaps. One has the answers at the bottom of the page, for the other students must work out the missing word for themselves.

Students colour in their own Easter cards and get to add a message inside.

2 Worksheets relating to transport in German. The postcard is a reading and writing activity The match up task is for consolidation of vocab

Differentiated worksheet for family. Students fill in the gaps. One has the answers at the bottom of the page, for the other students must work out the missing word for themselves.

Cards for the German and English world cup squads. Can be used as a card game or writing stimulus. 48 cards in total.

Template for a snakes and ladders game. Add your own pictures to create a vocabulary speaking game.

Listening activity based on a short report by ZDF heute - Onlinesucht bei Jugendlichen The listening activity is differentiated - one set of questions is completely multiple choice, the other the students have to fill in their own answers. The headphones image on the first slide of the powerpoint hyperlinks to the video in the ZDF Mediathek. The video does show some of the answers in text so you might not want to have the video showing when the students do the activity. There's also a set of answers to the questions. You can download the video from the following link (right like "save link as" [chrome]/ "save target as" [IE] on one of the "Abspielen" links): http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/2615338/Onlinesucht-Risiko-bei-Jugendlichen?flash=off

Students read the speech bubbles and decide which description matches which German-speaking sports star. Includes tennis, hockey, ice hockey, football and F1 stars from Germany and Switzerland.

A worksheet using French, Swiss and Canadian sports stars where the students read the speech bubbles and use the information there in to find the correct sports person. Sports included are: tennis, football, rugby and hockey. The descriptions also links to the physical appearance descriptions of hair and eye colour.

A reading activity based on past and current members of the French football team.

There are 3 messages which students can listen to. It can be used as either a listening activity where students have to pick out key information or as a stimulus for students to draft their own responses to the messages, write them up, and record them as if they were calling the person back and leaving them a message. It should also familiarise students with the standard answerphone vocabulary should they make calls to German phones in the future. Recordings made by a friend of mine who is a native speaker. Sound breaks up sometimes and is quite quiet in places so will need turning up.

A worksheet for students to create a profile of a player of their choosing. There is also an example to go alongside this as a model to help with any difficulties with the language

Listening activity based on a short report by ZDF heuteplus - Warum sind wir so #likegeil The listening activity is differentiated - one set of questions is completely multiple choice, the other the students have to fill in their own answers (except on question 5 where it is multiple choice). The headphones image on the first slide of the powerpoint hyperlinks to the video in the ZDF Mediathek. The video does show some of the answers in text so you might not want to have the video showing when the students do the activity. There is also a transcript of the video and a set of answers to the questions. You can download the video from the following link (right like "save link as" [chrome]/ "save target as" [IE] on one of the "Abspielen" links): http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/2607954/Warum-sind-wir-so-%23likegeil%3F?flash=off

Powerpoint describing the German Christmas traditions from Advent and Nikolaus to Food. Gapfill for O Tannenbaum included. Works well with the German Christmas Booklet: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/german-christmas-booklet-updated-11182472

There are two model texts for different target levels, students use the text as a model for writing their own text about a family. There are questions in English to prompt them as to what to include. On one of the sheets there are also some 'sentences starters', which marry up to the question prompts.

German, Tourism: Rund um Karlsplatz - Listening Activity A listening activity about some of the sights in Vienna around Karlsplatz (Karlskirche etc). Students match the descriptions to the photos. Work sheet corresponding to the listening activity is attached. Complements the Reading Comprehension task on Vienna: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/german-tourism-vienna-reading-comprehension-11160962 IMPORTANT: To play the file from the powerpoint - click on the picture of the headphones. The answers are under the red boxes, these disappear when you click on them in the presentation.