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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.
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.
Euros and prices
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Euros and prices

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Use the PowerPoint to show what Euro coins and notes look like (including German, French and Spanish coins) and the worksheet to practise recognising euros and writing prices in the target language. The example and the answers are in German but otherwise the worksheet can used in any language.
Numbers in German 1-100 cut out puzzle (Die Zahlen)
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Numbers in German 1-100 cut out puzzle (Die Zahlen)

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This is a Tarsia puzzle to practise numbers 1-20 in German and another one to practise 20-100. A tarsia consists of puzzle pieces that the students cut out and then match words to form a certain shape (ideally students don’t know what shape that is). They will quickly realise their mistakes if the puzzle won’t fit together. Great activity for Friday afternoons or end of term. This download includes: sheets for students with jumbled up puzzle pieces, a answer sheet for the teacher in list form and showing the shape. This puzzle is now also included in: /teaching-resource/german-numbers-1-100-die-zahlen-11367200
Colour and Appearance - Farben und Aussehen
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Colour and Appearance - Farben und Aussehen

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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.
Stimmt GCSE Red Hobbies puzzle – Film und Fernsehen
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Stimmt GCSE Red Hobbies puzzle – Film und Fernsehen

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A fun starter or plenary practising hobby vocab from pages 33-34 in the new AQA GCSE Stimmt! Red book (film and tv, plurals and opinions). Includes three word puzzles and answers. There are two version, one including a task on plurals to go with the book, the other with film and TV vocab only for users of other schemes of work.
An introduction to France WebQuest – Puzzles and Research
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An introduction to France WebQuest – Puzzles and Research

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A web-based activity to introduce students to French geography and culture and first French words. Unlike other webquests, students here use internet research to solve puzzles and codes while learning about France. It also does not require any printing as all answers are entered and checked on the webpage. Ideal activity at the beginning of a course in French language or European geography or as a fun activity last lesson before the holidays. The activity includes tasks on: • France’s location in the world • Main points of French geography • pictures of French cities • 360-degree picture quests • famous French peoples • French companies and what they produce • Greetings in French • French numbers
Improve your text - Introducing yourself
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Improve your text - Introducing yourself

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A worksheet for beginners to make them aware of common mistakes and how to improve them. The task is: Text 1 is not very good. Text 2 would get an excellent grade. How do you get from 1 to 2? 1. Underline mistakes in 1 and annotate with marking codes (see below) 2. Underline extras in 2 3. Write advice in the box (e.g. Use more…, Be careful with…, Connect…)
Introduction to Berlin Wall
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Introduction to Berlin Wall

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A short paragraph explaining the building and fall of the Berlin wall. Can be used as an introduction to the topic or as a one of lesson on the Berlin Wall (e.g. on the 3rd October). There are three different sheets with varying amounts of vocab help so they can be used from year 10 to year 13. Each worksheet contains the same paragraph about history, a vocab list, an activity where students have to find words in the text, a dictionary task and a quiz.
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.
Stimmt 3 Red Chapter 1 (Vorbilder) GCSE Style role play, picture description and translation
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Stimmt 3 Red Chapter 1 (Vorbilder) GCSE Style role play, picture description and translation

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Get your students used to GCSE-style questions early with translations (Eng-Germ and vice versa), picture description and role plays based on vocab learned in Chapter 1 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.
Stimmt 1 GCSE Style role play, picture description and translation
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Stimmt 1 GCSE Style role play, picture description and translation

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Stimmt 1 GCSE-style translation and speaking tasks. 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 Stimmt! 1 -powerpoint with three pictures and questions in 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 -answers for translation task included and suggested example answers for speaking and picture description.
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.
Puzzles for Stimmt 1 Chapter 5 Town and holiday
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Puzzles for Stimmt 1 Chapter 5 Town and holiday

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Save over 60%! Get a puzzle worksheet for each page of Chapter 5 in the Stimmt! 1 book. Each worksheet contains three different types of word puzzles (crossword puzzles, unjumbling, word clouds, cryptograms…) to practise the vocabulary and grammar on each page. Also includes answers.
Past tense opinions
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Past tense opinions

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Picture presentation to introduce opinions in the past tense and then some games to practise them.
Battleship opinions on holidays
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Battleship opinions on holidays

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Two versions of battleship, one easier with words, one harder, with pictures. To practise giving opinions on holidays, Ich war in Spanien, es war langweilig.
Memrise for AQA GCSE Stimmt, Hodder AS-Level and Stimmt 1
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Memrise for AQA GCSE Stimmt, Hodder AS-Level and Stimmt 1

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Are you teaching the new AQA GCSE with Stimmt or the new AS Level with Hodder/Dynamic learning? Do you use Stimmt 1? If your students are using memrise.com to learn vocab, follow the links on the attached document to become part of a memrise group that will give you all the vocab sets you need. If you don't use memrise yet, you definitely need to have a look at it. Note: If you don't have a memrise account, you will be asked to create a free one when you follow the link. After you have joined the group, you should find all the sets on the 'groups' page. Please check out my shop: /teaching-resources/shop/jusch12