This is a colour-coded guide to the four cases in German. For each case there is a character (Georg Genitiv, etc) and a personified explanation of what the case does. Includes tables for definite & indefinite articles, pronouns & possessive pronouns & adjective endings, as well as scads of example sentences. Needs to be printed in colour, or on colour-coded paper, for full effect. (No exercises)

I made these sheets to go with crazy_len’s interactive whiteboard presentation of the same name, although they can be used on their own. Thank you crazy_len for a great resource!

I got the template from another teaching website - it can be altered as needed. Macros must be enabled. Click on a box on the first page and you are transported to a page with an English sentence which pupils must translate into German. The more points, the harder the sentence. Click again and the answer appears. Click the return box and you return to the front page, where the original box will disappear to reveal a piece of the picture in the background. Record the points. I find having mixed ability groups all writing the answers on mini-whiteboards is good with this. Note: to change the picture in the background, move one box aside, right click on the picture, click Order and Move to front. Then delete it and put in your new picture, resize it, right click on it - Order - Send to back. Put the box you moved back in place.

This is a worksheet (and accompanying answer sheet) which has cultural info plus practice using the definite and indefinite articles in nominative, accusative and dative. The first bit is just nominative, to get them focused on genders and a vs. the. The second bit adds in accusative and the third bit dative.

Review of questions & answers relating to family, pets é descriptions. A pupil lands on a square and must translate the question. If he fails, he must try again next turn without moving forward. The pupil after him must answer the question in German, or he forfeits his turn.

Whole class game on the SmartBoard, reviewing school subjects, days of the week and time. Page one is a blank timetabe, page two has the English "questions": cut them up and put them in a bag. Divide the class into 3 teams. One team at a time sends up a reader and a writer. The reader must read the English (e.g. German, Wednesday, 9:05) and say "Ich habe Deutsch am Mittwoch um neun Uhr fünf." The writer must then write the subject in the correct slot on the timetable. If any teammember translates or hints, no point! If they don't get it right, the next team can try the same one. Variation One: One point if they get both the spoken part AND spelling correct. Variation Two: One point for correct spoken sentence and one point for spelling.

Powerpoint presentation of the structure of the German school system, with ages and animation. Also Gesamtschule and Noten.

I uploaded this in Publisher years ago and several people requested it in Word. So I have copied it all into Word but unfortunately I could only do it as pictures so it can't be editted - sorry! Hope it is helpful anyway.

For playing Happy Families or other quartet games. There are six colours of cards with four in each colour family. Verbs that take "sein" are grouped together, and otherwise the groupings have some connection in their meaning, as well as one group using each pronoun (except "ihr" - I repeated "ich" instead). Print in colour onto card and use for any games you like.

Powerpoint with pictures for pupils to guess du or Sie.