GCSE German

Succeed in the Exams!	Grammar Practice	Conversation Topics	Self, Family and Friends	Home, Local Environment	Shopping	Leisure	Healthy Living	Home Life
School	Part-time Jobs and Work Experience	Tourism	Careers and Future Plans	Travel, Finding the Way	Environment	Services	Help Sheets	Useful Links

Click on a topic in the above table or choose a link from the lists below.
 

	GCSE Examination Skills: How to Succeed!
1 Quia	Practise question words to improve your performance at GCSE reading and listening. Essential for foundation and higher level candidates!
2 Quia	Improve your understanding of the rubrics, instructions and questions that will be on your exam papers.
3 Quia	Adjectives are a very common feature of the listening exams. If you can match these up, you will get a higher mark in the exam!
4 Activity A    Activity B    Activity C	Useful preparation for GCSE reading and listening exams. Make sure you do each activity in sequence beginning with activity A. Get into the mind set of the people who write your exams!
5 Quia	Rags to Riches game: Can you pick out key words to do well in the GCSE reading examination?
6 Quia	GCSE Higher Reading activity for candidates who want one of the highest grades.
7 Reading	Read through these passages and answer the questions - useful revision of many topics. Check your answers using a dictionary.
8 Quia	To do well at Higher Role Plays check you can understand these prompts from recent past papers. Play the games as often as you can!
	Grammar Practice
1 Quia	Practise plurals of some common nouns.
2 Quia	Win a million dollars - how well do you know the past tense (perfect)?
	(For more grammar revision see links under topic headings below.)
	Conversation Topics
1 Gespräch	Download this document from Black Rock College to get some ideas for your conversation topic answers.
	Unit 1: Self, Family and Friends
1 Quia	Can you recognise very large numbers in German?
2 Quia	Challenge game to learn nationalities - how many points can you get?
3 Quia	Build your knowledge of adjectives to describe people.
4 Quia	Games to practise German words to describe people.
5	Meet your dream partner through this fun Channel 4 game and revise personal information at the same time!
6 Quia	Quiz testing 'weil' sentences for the topic of family relationships.
7 Quia	Practise GCSE vocabulary for self, family and friends topic.
8 Tiere	Read German texts on pets to help you to write a description of your own pet.
9 Blinde Kuh	Read these descriptions of pets sent in by German children, use them to help you to write a description of your own pet.
10 Blinde Kuh	Read these emails sent by German children - they are all descriptions of pets and include amongst others rabbits, cats, ponies, hamsters, guinea pigs - use these to help you build your own pet description.
11	TaskMagic games to describe a best friend.
12 Test	How to do well in vocabulary tests! Test yourself on the words in the Year 10 list beginning with A.
13 Test	So how well did you do on the last spelling test? Choose to improve! Test yourself on the words B-D until you get every answer right!
14	TaskMagic games to help you to learn a selection of the words beginning E-F.
15 Test	Test yourself on the words G-H.
16 Test	Test yourself on the words J-L until you get 100%.
17 Quia	Play this matching activity to help you to learn the words M-P before trying the spelling quiz below.
18 Test	How well do you know the vocabulary M-P?
19 Test	Practise the words beginning with S-T.
20 Test	Now learn the words beginning V-Z.
21 Challenge	Try this challenge board game for one or two players on the Y10 vocabulary pack for personal information A-Z.
	Unit 2a: Home and Local Environment
1	TaskMagic activities to say why different rooms in the house are your favourite.
2 Quia	Games to practise furniture vocabulary.
3 Quia	Higher level quiz on furniture. What is your score out of ten?
4	TaskMagic description of a bedroom.
5 Quia	Practise GCSE vocabulary on home and local environment.
6	TaskMagic description of a town.
7 Quia	What is the traffic like in your town?
8	TaskMagic games to help with leaflet coursework (Einleitung).
9	TaskMagic games to help with leaflet coursework (Geschichte).
10	TaskMagic games to help with leaflet coursework (Andere Sehenswürdigkeiten).
11 Test	How well can you spell the 'Home and Local Environment' words beginning with A-E?
12 Test	Can you spell the 'Home and Local Environment' words beginning with F-H?
13 Test	Test yourself on the 'Home and Local Environment' words beginning with I-P.
14 Test	Try spelling the 'Home and Local Environment' words beginning with R-Z.
	Unit 2b: Shopping
1 Quia	Activity to practise shopping (at the market).
2 Quia	Matching games to practise asking the price of fruit and vegetables. Good for the foundation role play, listening and reading exams.
3 Quia	Revise German words for shops using these games.
4 Quia	'Rags to Riches' game for shopping vocabulary.
5 Quia	Shopping for clothing.
6 Jigword	Matching game for shopping vocabulary.
7 Quia	Join up the halves of sentences about shopping.
8	Try this Channel 4 shopping challenge from the on-line magazine extr@.
9 Test	How well do you know shopping words beginning with A-F?
10 Test	Now test yourself on shopping G-K.
11 Test	Check how well you know shopping words L-R.
12 Test	Now test yourself on shopping S-Z.
	Unit 3: Leisure
1 Quia	Games to practise free time activities.
2 Quia	Practise GCSE vocabulary for leisure topic.
3	Games to help you learn common verbs for the free time topic.
4 Quia	Practise past tense sentences for leisure topic.
5 Quia	Build vocabulary to help you to do the next activity.
6 Quia	Put this past tense dialogue about an unhappy weekend into the right order.
7 Quia	Picture matching games for future tense free time sentences.
8 Quia	Build vocabulary to help you to do the next activity.
9 Quia	Put this future tense dialogue on going to the cinema into the right order.
10 Test	Test yourself on the AQA vocabulary for A-F.
11 Test	This test is on the free time words G-M.
12 Test	How well do you know the words N-S.
13 Test	Test yourself on free time words T-Z.
	Unit 4: Healthy Living
1 Quia	Practise GCSE vocabulary connected to food.
2 Quia	Practise vocabulary related to healthy living (good for coursework).
3 Quia	How can you stay fit? (Helps you with your coursework.)
4	TaskMagic games for health problems (smoking, alcohol and drugs).
	Unit 5: Home Life
1 Quia	Games to practise offering and asking for help in the home.
2 Quia	How many housework words do you know?
3 Quia	Match housework sentences to pictures.
4 Quia	Match past tense housework sentences to pictures.
5 Quia	Activities to help you to give past tense sentences for the housework topic.
6 Quia	Match future tense housework sentences to pictures.
7 Quia	Games to practise daily routine sentences.
8 Quia	More games for daily routine sentences.
9 Quia	Practise GCSE vocabulary for daily routine.
10 Quia	Games to practise past and present tense sentences for daily routine.
11 Quia	Put Geri Halliwell's life in order! Daily routine vocabulary.
12 Quia	What are the rules in your home?
	Unit 6: School
1 Quia	Revise school subjects by solving these jumbled words.
2 Schule	Do this gap text on the school timetable.
3 Quia	Learn how to compare school subjects.
4 Quia	Practise describing schools, useful for the conversation topic.
5	Task Magic games to help you to describe a school.
6 Quia	Games to help you learn about the German school system.
7 Quia	Can you describe the school uniform in the picture?
8	Task Magic games for a text about school uniform.
9 RHS	Find out which clubs (Arbeitsgemeinschaften) are run for pupils at our partner school.
10 RHS	Vist our partner school - the Rudolf Hildebrand Schule in Markkleeberg.
	Unit 7: Part-time Jobs and Work Experience
1 Quia	Games to practise part-time job vocabulary.
2 Quia	Work and part-time jobs - match the German to the English.
3 Quia	Quiz on part-time jobs.
4 Quia	Put this day on work experience in the right order.
	Unit 8: Tourism and Holiday Activities
1 Quia	Activities to practise booking a hotel room.
2	Play TaskMagic games to practise making a hotel booking.
3 Quia	Practise accommodation vocabulary.
4 Quia	Practise GCSE vocabulary for tourism.
	Read through this page about Vaduz (the capital of Liechtenstein) to get ideas for your GCSE coursework "Meine Ferien in ...." (Planning a holiday in a German-speaking country).
6 Quia	Challenge game for one or two players - improve your coursework by using linking words.
7 Quia	Can you match up these questions and answers about a past holiday?
8	Improve your knowledge of the past tense by playing these TaskMagic games.
9 Quia	How much holiday vocabulary do you know?
10	TaskMagic sentences for things you might pack to go on holiday. Also practises linking words. Good for coursework.
11	TaskMagic text - how will Bernhard travel and why?
12 Quia	Talking about the weather.
	Have a look at today's weather in Germany - click on 'Deutschland'.
14 Test	How well can you spell 'Tourism' words from A-N on the Y11 learning list?
	Unit 9: Careers and Future Plans
1 Quia	Game to practise jobs.
2 Quia	Match the pictures to the right words for the jobs.
3 Quia	Practise GCSE vocabulary for work and money.
	Unit 10: Travel, Transport and Finding the Way
1 Quia	Practise travel vocabulary.
2 Jigword	Matching game for travel vocabulary.
3 Quia	Join up the halves of sentences about travel.
4 Quia	Game to practise train travel vocabulary.
5 Quia	Higher level 'Rags to Riches' game to practise 'weil' (because) and 'obwohl' (although) with travel vocabulary.
6	TaskMagic games on verbs connected to travel.
	Unit 11 The Environment
1 Jigword	Topic 3 question 12: Matching game to build vocabulary.
2 Wordweb	Topic 3 question 12: Wordweb game.
3 Quia	Topic 3 question 12: Was machst du für die Umwelt?
4 Quia	Games to practise environment words.
5 Quia	Columns matching task for environment vocabulary.
6 Quia	Matching game for sentences about the environment.
	Unit 12: Services: (Post Office, Bank, Accident, Breakdown, Illness, Lost Property, Theft etc.)
1 Quia	Practise GCSE vocabulary for the post office.
2 Quia	Learn general vocabulary for the post office and the bank.
3 Quia	Practise accident and breakdown vocabulary.
4	TaskMagic games to build accident vocabulary.
5 Quia	Activities to learn the parts of the body.
6 Quia	What is wrong with you? Good practice for role plays.
7 Quia	Games to practise vocabulary for a role play set in the doctor's surgery.
8 Quia	Which items have you lost? What has been stolen?
9 Quia	Can you correctly identify the lost items?
10 Quia	What have you lost? Practise this role play for the speaking exam.
11 Quia	Someone has stolen your bag! Practise role play vocabulary.

Links to other useful websites:

	Paul Widergren's PowerPoint presentations to improve your German. Have a look!
	Revision, grammar and exam question practice. Free! You will need to log on using the school ID - ask your teacher.
	Free downloadable, interactive activities provided by the University of York. Excellent preparation for Higher Reading!
	This site helps you to revise for the GCSE examination.
	This on-line course for beginners written by the BBC will help you to revise different topic areas on-line.
	Ashcombe School's website - videos and quizzes which cover many topic areas and are useful for revision. Wait for the video to download.
	On-line exercises for GCSE topics created by the Aiglon College in Switzerland.
BBC	Tips from the BBC for learning words.
	Visit this website or iTunes Music Store to download this podcast for your mp3 player. DW-World: Deutsch, Warum nicht? Select bits that interest you from Series 1-3.