Very clever take on the possibilities/ limits of mobile phones. Little twist at the end... Could be used as discussion starter. Available on CD.

Slightly updated version - KS5 - Yr12, grammar, Passive Voice Introduction

Just doing Media/ Music with my year 11, I realised there are lots of songs but not that much ABOUT music. Hence a little collection of activities to talk about music/ preferences/ singers etc. Some of the sources I used: Kaleidos website, several music blogs (thank you to all fanatic music lovers!). The Whizzy Loop was adapted from some French material - thank you to the creator. The DIY Interview is meant to show the 'Lego' character of language - building bricks for different occasions.

I used this with bottom set year 9. Another idea might be to present it with a choice of (or entirely without) the infinitives.

This was for our year 12 - a survey + examples of how cases work as this always seems one of the biggest issues for English pupils to grasp. Hence the 'personification' and the introduction of my 'verb guys'.

They're building up on each other and cover quite a lot of phrases to do with regular cinema visits, one's habits and reasons, and the last experience. There are examples and 'to do' task for the students; the last slides in the 1st and 3rd could be used for a variety of plenary exercises. Please feel free to change/ add/ delete as appropriate

Last minute upload for use with year 7/8 in an 'Easter' lesson. Short little children&'s poems connected to Easter, plus a little work to do.

One of the AQA KS5 German choices for Literature. - As I couldn't find much on the book per se, only some material around the topic, I have done something like an introduction to the story, made easier by the fact that I grew up in Eastern Germany (bit older than Hensel) and studied in Leipzig when everything happened. PPT contains some of the keywords& pictures, and I tried to stick to a small amount of phrases on the vocab sheet. Plan is to start at the end of year 12, before summer break.

PPT with a look at adj functions (attributive & predicative), accompanying worksheet and German advertising slogans - thank you Wikipedia - for trying it out.

Students are given worksheet with simple sentence statements - how NOT to score high marks. With the help of the connectors/ conjunctions underneath they create a more interesting version. (Possible outcome on bottom of sheet for teacher use.)

PowerPoint on relative Clause constructions with examples, plus worksheet for recognising relative structures and understand/ translate them - with a little 'do you know the facts' twist

Nice for a last lesson as a team competition (prizes?!), PPT containing question about the EU, all in German. Reigns in genereal, historical and geographical knowledge of the pupils. Solutions slides attached. tried it in a year 13 - was quite a challenge for them, but an enjoyable one.

Pupils get the w/s and have to finish the sentences. Checks understanding of tenses and complex structures; big practice for word order!

Starting with formal time that basically needs knowledge of numbers (the grid with lots of times can be used for a variety of tasks), followed by informal time with the 'half past&' challenge and also the 25min past and to challenge. My year 7 enjoyed it very much.

Following the introduction resource, these 2 cover up to chapter 5. Given the students have the same edition, I could work with page numbers. Tasks include discussion questions, partly based on quotes from the text, some translations, comparisons etc. The intention is to either put in on Moodle or send it to the students, then use it as we go along, do some tasks in class, have some for hwk, allow some individual pace, use some of the questions for writing.

Two worksheets with two stories each that are muddled up. Each story is in a different tense, so students have to figure out which parts make up one story. Extra challenge - the stories have similar contents. Viel Spass!

PPT intended for beginners/ as refresher - those 'other' German sounds. Accompanied by (not so serious) little practising phrases. Let me know if any combination is missing.

3 exercises to revise/ extend topic-related verbs, nouns and adjectives

'Lola rennt' was a big hit with our year 9s. The w/s are on different levels and can be used after watching the set-up scenes/ version 1. Text used found at Lola goethe.de (lots more ideas there!)

When I was looking for something on TV habits I came across this school website (bottom of w/s). I used their info for the 3 exercises. Could be used separately/ as pairwork assignment/ as hwk. Complete text for 3rd one (challenging) on last sheet, could be developed further.

Intended as a recap after the Christmas break, losely based on a review found online, adapted and extended. Starter tile in bold, should come full circle. Sets printed out in different colours on cardboard. Students worked in small groups. We followed up with reading the story line out loud in German. Could also be used as starting point for some writing.