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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.

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

Speaking activities for 6th form students about GOOD BYE LENIN. A grid with 25 scenes from the film "Good Bye Lenin", including ideas what activities to do with it and a short description of each picture in German, both in the correct order and jumbled up order for sorting. Note: corrected version 01/06/17

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This is a powerpoint presentation for about 2 lessons, practising colours and appearance (focusing on hair/eyes) in German. It includes speaking and writing tasks and a game as well as grammar practise for the forms of to be and to have and pronunciation practise of words ending in ‘e’. Answers and teacher’s notes are included in the powerpoint. Extra: Puzzle sheet with three different word puzzles as plenary or starter.

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

A fun starter or plenary practising vocab from pages 30-31 in Stimmt! 1 book (pets, plurals, descriptions). Includes three word puzzles and answers.

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.

A display/hand out with German word order as condensed as possible.

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.

A worksheet for KS3 or GCSE students to make them aware of common mistakes and how to improve them when giving opinions about school subjects. The task is: Text (A) needs improving, text (B) is excellent. What feedback would you give (A) to improve and become (B)? Be as specific as possible and use marking codes. 1. Underline mistakes in (A) and annotate with marking codes 2. Underline extras in (B) 3. What feedback would you give (A) to improve and become (B)?

A fun starter or plenary practising family vocab from pages 38-39 in the Stimmt! 1 book (birthdays). Includes three word puzzles and answers. Also available with a powerpoint introducing birthdays. /teaching-resource/mein-geburtstag-my-birthday-11398964

A fun starter or plenary practising holiday and future tense vocab from pages 104-105 in the Stimmt! 1 book. Includes three word puzzles and answers.

Teamwork, logical thinking and lots of Christmas fun! No preparation needed except printing worksheets. All answers included. A Christmas themed escape room to play as an Advent Calendar, one puzzle a day, or all in one go as a Christmas lesson. 24 different types of puzzles, some Christmas themed, some general knowledge (but googling is allowed!) aimed at 13-18 year olds. You will need: an internet connections, powerpoint and access to Youtube (optional). Let’s get merry!

Two columns with pictures/phrases, students choose their own illness, remedy… and then have to guess which of them their partner chose. To practise speaking more the rule is that they have to start the sentence from the beginning and keep going until they use a phrase their partner hasn’t chosen. Similar to battleships but with a longer sentence.