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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 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
German food escape room - Find the recipe spy
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German food escape room - Find the recipe spy

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New version: remote learning ready - digital only - no preparation needed - self-marking A lesson that your students will not forget quickly! A spy themed escape room activity in which students need to solve German language related puzzles to get a code to jump from one website to the next in search of the German spy. There are two versions included here: a new digital only version and the original classroom based version. Ideal as vocab revision on the topic of food . Will keep them focused even in the last lesson before the holidays! It focuses on vocab and research on German food but the origitanl version also includes vocab from the topics school and hobbies, and practises word order and past participles. The resource includes: Link to “Findet den Spion!” website and introduction video. Teacher instruction, including how to put together the puzzle items Teacher answers Puzzles to print out/Files for digital versions
An introduction to Germany Escape Room/  WebQuest
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An introduction to Germany Escape Room/ WebQuest

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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
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.
German GCSE Murder Mystery – Family relationships (Stimmt GCSE book/Pearson Edexcel 2024 book)
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German GCSE Murder Mystery – Family relationships (Stimmt GCSE book/Pearson Edexcel 2024 book)

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Murder Mystery to run alongside Stimmt AQA GCSE Chapter 3 “Menschliche Beziehungen”, Now also includes an adapted version to go with the Pearson Edexcel GCSE book for the 2024 GCSE specification, Chapter 3 “Meine Welt, deine Welt” 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
Treasure Hunt - Places in Town and Directions
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Treasure Hunt - Places in Town and Directions

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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.
Vocabulary Treasure Hunt
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Vocabulary Treasure Hunt

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A fun plenary or starter game for the main beginners' topics in any language. On each slide there are 16 squares with five treasures hidden behind them. Students translate the vocabulary on the boxes and if they get it right they choose a square and get a point/sweet/sticker if they find a treasure. This activity is based on the gamification theory that random rewards make games more addictive and fun. There are 34 slides with treasures hidden in different places about these topics (two slides for each topic) Numbers 1-20 Numbers 20-100 Letters Animals Family Months Dates Appearance Verb endings Question words Sports Hobbies Hobbies/Sports and Time phrases Subjects Days Town Food Note: In presentation mode click on squares to make them disappear and reveal the treasures.
Rescue the fairytales - Escape room on hobbies for beginners
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Rescue the fairytales - Escape room on hobbies for beginners

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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
Revision Stimmt 1 End of unit 1
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Revision Stimmt 1 End of unit 1

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Six word puzzles to revise the vocab of Unit 1 needed for the End of Unit test in writing, reading and listening. Includes answers. Ideal for a revision lesson or as revision homework. Note: These are different puzzles from the ones included in my worksheets for each page of the chapter.
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.
Feste und Traditionen - German holidays and celebrations
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Feste und Traditionen - German holidays and celebrations

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The pictures in the presentation can be used to introduce and talk about celebrations in Germany and how important they to the people. It is aimed at AQA AS Level or Higher GCSE level. The first part of the puzzle sheet is a version of my puzzle sheet to go with Stimmt AQA GCSE "Wir feiern", the second part (crossword) is to aid understanding of the text on page 60 in the new Hodder AQA AS Level book. With answers on the worksheet and in the presentation. NB The presentation does not contain the description of all the celebrations, but pictures and names.
Stimmt 3 Chapter 3 (Meine Ambitionen) GCSE Style role play, picture description and translation
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Stimmt 3 Chapter 3 (Meine Ambitionen) 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 3 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.
An Introduction to Spain Escape Room
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An Introduction to Spain Escape Room

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A web-based activity to introduce students to Spain’s geography and culture and first Spanish words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about Spain. 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 Spanish language or European geography or as a fun activity last lesson before the holidays. The activity includes tasks on: • Spain’s location in the world • Spanish cities • 360-degree picture quests • famous Spanish people • Spanish companies • Greetings in Spanish
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 Word Order Cartoons - Wortstellung mit Comics
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German Word Order Cartoons - Wortstellung mit Comics

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Make German word order more memorable with these funny cartoons. They could be used as displays, as part of a presentation on that topic (most fun if read by different people) or as an example for students to make their own comic strips with bitstrips.com. The topics are word order with verb second place, word order with verb last place after ‘weil’ and Time-Manner-Place.
"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.