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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.

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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.
German numbers 1-100 - Die Zahlen
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German numbers 1-100 - Die Zahlen

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All you need to get students confidently using German numbers. This pack focuses on getting the students to use their logic to work out how numbers in German are put together, including irregular ones. This pack includes a 47-slide powerpoint presentation, crossword puzzles, card sort and jigsaw puzzle and list of game ideas to practise numbers. Details: The presentation includes pronunciation practise of ei-ie, different activities and games to practise the numbers and links to quizlet and Kahoot. The card sorting activity shows numbers in different Germanic languages to make students understand language families and cognates. There are two tarsia jigsaw puzzles for lower and higher numbers. Students cut out the square and triangular pieces and work out what shape they need to make by matching up the numbers in German. Note: For some activities you need to draw on the powerpoint. To get a pen, click control+p while in presentation mode.
German Escape room Der Stundenplan - Remote learning End of year activity
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German Escape room Der Stundenplan - Remote learning End of year activity

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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
Good Bye lenin Escape Room
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Good Bye lenin Escape Room

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Can your students help Alex find his long-lost father’s phone number and bring his parents back together again? Can they get some Spreewaldgurken for his mum and find the money to exchange at the bank? Make A-Level revision fun with this educational Escape Room that follows the story of the film. It is all online and there is no marking or preparation required (but tablets or computers are recommended). Students need a good knowledge of the film and will revise: • main vocabulary • historical timeline • essay writing phrases • East vs West items • Key quotes • film technology • order of film scenes • tragedy or comedy? • passive and reported speech • the four main themes • good vs bad essay examples
Stimmt 3 Chapter 4 (Kindheit) GCSE Style role play, picture description and translation
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Stimmt 3 Chapter 4 (Kindheit) GCSE Style role play, picture description and translation

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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.
Berlin Wall Escape Room - remote learning/ end of year activity
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Berlin Wall Escape Room - remote learning/ end of year activity

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Let history come to life with an escape room lesson! New version: no preparation, self marking, remote learning ready. Get students to puzzle their way through the history of the Berlin Wall, trying to stay in touch with their long lost friend Thomas on the other side of the wall. Engage students with a story website that will require them to work through a mix of text, video, jigsaw puzzles and codes to be the first one to win. This resource can be used as a revision lesson on the topic of the Berlin Wall or, with some internet research by the students, as a first introduction to the topic. It should take between 45 min and 2 hours, depending on age and prior knowledge. The new digital version is longer. As a native of Berlin I have been teaching this topic as part of my German lessons for about 10 years now. On the 3rd October, German national day, all my classes (aged 13-18) get a one lesson run through of the history of the wall and students are always fascinated by it. The topics covered here are: • the situation of Germany under the occupation of the allies after the war • the differences between East and West • why people escaped to the West • the building of the wall • what is the Stasi • what led to the fall of the wall • what happened on the 9th of November 1989 Includes: • link to dedicated story website (2 versions) • documents, excel and powerpoint files • puzzles • lesson plan • answers I have also included a powerpoint presentation of statistics showing the present-day differences between former East and West Germany and a collection of my favourite youtube videos on the topic.
German Music Quiz with Medley of German songs
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German Music Quiz with Medley of German songs

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This quiz is based on a six minute medley of German songs and it is aimed at intermediate German learners. It would be ideal as an introduction to the topic of music or as a fun game at the end of term. It includes 12 different genres of music from folk to heavy metal and an exercise on description words to give opinions about music. If played in teams it usually takes about 20-30 min - students answer questions about the genre, description and content and guess which band picture goes with which song.
Studio 3 Module 2 (Bien dans sa peau) GCSE Style role play, picture description and translation
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Studio 3 Module 2 (Bien dans sa peau) GCSE Style role play, picture description and translation

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Get your students used to GCSE style questions early with translations, picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Studio 3 Module 1 “Bien dans sa peau”. It is based on the vocabulary of the foundation book, but can be used for vert + rouge. This download includes: -powerpoint with three pictures with exam style questions in French with optional English to guide students along. -translation worksheet with three different tasks -two role play cards with teacher script for student pair work, bullet points either in French or English answers for the translation task are included in the powerpoint
Escape Room for GCSE German - Remote learning
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Escape Room for GCSE German - Remote learning

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** A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! Now digital version included - no prep - self marking Try a sample: https://view.genial.ly/5ee4f42237584d0da6288527 A-Level and first year learners available as well. A spy themed escape room activity in which students need to do German language related puzzles to get a code to jump from one website to the next in search of the “mole” . Ideal as vocab and grammar revision for the second, third or fourth year of learning German. Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays! It includes vocab from the topics family, celebrations, hobbies, perfect and imperfect tense. Includes answers.
Treasure Hunt Plenary Game
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Treasure Hunt Plenary Game

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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.
The cases in German
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The cases in German

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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.
German pronunciation with sound - Deutsche Aussprache
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German pronunciation with sound - Deutsche Aussprache

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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.
6th form German Grammar Booklet - Deutsche Grammatik
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6th form German Grammar Booklet - Deutsche Grammatik

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This is a revision and reference grammar booklet (9 pages). Small enough to be always at hand while giving students an overview over all the main topics: word order, cases, prepositions, pronouns and tenses. Aimed at A-Level and Higher GCSE students.
Mes résolutions pour manger sain - Health food
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Mes résolutions pour manger sain - Health food

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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.
Revision of tenses for GCSE German reading exam
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Revision of tenses for GCSE German reading exam

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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.
Stimmt GCSE Murder Mystery – Menschliche Beziehungen (Chapter 3)
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Stimmt GCSE Murder Mystery – Menschliche Beziehungen (Chapter 3)

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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
"Weil" sentences
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"Weil" sentences

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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.