Resources for Primary Schools (German) - some picture links are not yet active

1 All about me	2 Songs and games	3 Celebrations	4 Portraits	5 The four friends	6 Growing things	7 All aboard	8 Pocket money	9 Tell me a story
10 Our sporting lives	11 Carnival of the animals	12 What's the weather like?	13 Healthy eating	14 I am the music man	15 On the way to school	16 Beach scene	17 The Return of Spring	18 The Planets
19 Our school	20 The world about us	21 Then and now	22 Out and about	23 A visit to a café	24 What's in the news	Interactive Whiteboard Activities	Powerpoint Presentations	Useful Links

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	Years 3-4
	Unit 1: Alles über mich (All about me)
1 Quia	Matching games for greetings etc.
2	Task Magic games for greetings.
3 Lied	Sing a song! Guten Morgen. Languages Online, Australia.
4 Link	Various on-line activities for greetings. Languages Online, Australia.
5 Quia	Counting to 12.
6 Quia	Columns game for 1-12.
7 Lied	Download this rap by Barbara MacArthur for the numbers 1-10.
	Unit 2: Lieder und Spiele (Songs and games)
1	Task Magic games for the numbers 1-16.
2 Quia	Matching games for 1-20.
	Unit 3: Wir feiern! (Celebrations)
1 Quia	Practise the months of the year.
2 Quia	Match up the words connected to Easter. See also the link to a short story 'Rudi der kleine Osterhase' in the list at the bottom of this page.
	Unit 4: Porträts (Portraits)
1 Quia	Practise German words for colours.
2 Quia	Win a million euros. How well do you know the colours in German?
3 Quia	Match short sentences to paintings by Paul Klee.
4 Quia	Win a million Euros! How many German adjectives do you know?
5	TaskMagic games to practise adjectives.
	Unit 5: Die vier Freunde (The four friends) - see also link at bottom of page
1 Quia	Can you match the German words with the correct pictures of pets?
2 Tiere	Spellmaster jigword activity for pets (from www.yjc.org.uk).
3 Quia	Play battleships to test your knowledge of pets. This also helps you to use 'ein' and 'kein'.
4 Quia	Spelling challenge for pets.
5 Quia	Flashcard activity with sound. Listen to each sentence and say which pet is pictured on the back of the flashcard. If you get it wrong, leave the card in the pack. Remove the card from the pack if you get it right.
6 Quia	What is your favourite animal?
7 Quia	Do you like pets? This matching game practises plurals, likes and dislikes.
8 Quia	Matching game for the numbers 32-41 and the plural of rabbit and guinea pig. The plural form of some German nouns is the same as the singular. Nouns which end with -chen do not change in the plural.
9 Quia	Can you describe pets?
10 Quia	How many adjectives do you know to describe a dog?
11	TaskMagic games - 16 adjectives to describe dogs!
12 Quia	Flashcard activity with sound. Listen to the description of each dog and work out what is written on the back of the flashcard before you turn it over! Remove the card from the pack if you get it right. Keep going until you have removed all of the cards.
13 Quia	Can you win a million euros? How well do you know this topic? This is very hard!
	Unit 6: Es wächst (Growing things)
1 Quia	Matching games for key vocabulary.
2 Quia	Matching games to help pupils understand the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in German - this is included in full at the end of unit 6 of the QCA scheme of work for KS2.
3	TaskMagic text activities for part of the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' from the QCA scheme of work.
	Unit 7: Alle an Bord! (All aboard)
1 Quia	Practise weather vocabulary.
2 Quia	Hangman games for weather vocabulary.
3 Quia	Match pictures to weather vocabulary.
4 Quia	Can you win a million euros? You will need to know the weather words and to collect a weather map from your teacher to play this game. (Weather map is included in SmartBoard activity - see below).
5 Quia	Games to practise the days of the week.
6 Spellings	How well can you spell the days of the week in German?
7 Lied	Download part of a song by Barbara MacArthur for the days of the week. Print a copy of the words and see if you can work out how to sing the whole song!
8 Quia	Visit this website to find out how each day of the week got its name and to compare the days of the week in different languages.
	Unit 8: Taschengeld (Pocket money)
1 Quia	Match up the numbers.
2 Quia	Spelling challenge for the numbers 1-39. How many points can you get?
3 Quia	Can you put the numbers 1-39 in order beginning with the smallest? Use the HINT buttons at the bottom of the list if you get stuck
	Unit 9: Erzähl mir eine Geschichte! (Tell me a story)
1 Quia	Match numbers in multiples of 10 (10-100).
2 Quia	Matching activity to practise key vocabulary from Sleeping Beauty song/story.
3 Quia	Columns matching task for the 8 adjectives featured in this unit.
4 Quia	Can you put the Sleeping Beauty song in the right order?
	Unit 10: Sport macht Spaß! (Our sporting lives)
1 Quia	Can you match the 8 sporting activities to the correct pictures?
2 Quia	How well do you remember the days of the week? Put these activities into the right sequence beginning with Monday and ending with Sunday.
3 Bananas	Turn over the cards to find matching sentences.
4 Snakes	Play snakes and ladders. Do you know the correct word order of these sentences?
5 Quia	Play battleships (healthy lifestyle questionnaire).
	(See also the healthy eating work included below.)
	Unit 11: Karneval der Tiere (Carnival of the animals) - see also links in list at bottom of page
1 Quia	Match the pictures of the animals which appear in this musical composition with the correct German words.
2 YouTube	Karneval der Tiere - der Elefant.
3 YouTube	Karneval der Tiere - der Schwan.
4 YouTube	Karneval der Tiere - das Aquarium
5 Quia	Win a million euros if you can match the animals to the right habitats and descriptions.
6 Quia	Telling the time on the hour.
	Unit 12: Wie ist das Wetter? (What's the weather like?)
	Begin by revising weather vocabulary, see unit 7 above and the interactive whiteboard activity below.
1 Quia	Was brauchst du, wenn es regnet? What do you need for different types of weather? Match the pictures.
2 Quia	Quiz to revise the numbers 1-40. You can get up to 30 points. Who can get the highest score?
3 Quia	Try this quiz on temperatures. The highest possible score you can get is 15.
	Years 5-6
	Unit 13: Gesund essen (Healthy eating)
	Unit 14: Ich bin der Musikant (I am the music man)
1 Quia	Practise key vocabulary about music and musical instruments.
	Unit 15: Auf dem Schulweg (On the way to school)
	Unit 16: Am Strand (Beach scene)
	Unit 17: Der Frühling kommt wieder (The Return of Spring)
	Unit 18: Die Planeten (The planets)
	Unit 19: Unsere Schule (Our school)
1 Quia	Games to practise school equipment.
2 Quia	Flashcard activity with sound. Pupils in the class are asking your teacher for something. What do they want? Work out what is on the back of the flashcard before you flip it over. Remove the card from the pack when you get it right.
3 Quia	How many school items can you ask for? Picture matching task.
	Unit 20: Unsere Welt (The world about us)
1 Quia	Practise the compass points.
	Unit 21: Damals und heute (Then and now)
1 Quia	Win a million euros! Places in a town. Activity written by Y11 pupils during Enterprise Week November 2007.
	Unit 22: Unterwegs (Out and about)
	Unit 23: Ein Besuch im Café (A visit to a café)
	Unit 24: Was gibt's Neues? (What's in the news)

Activities for a SmartBoard Interactive Whiteboard

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	Year 3 Science: Magnetism. Possible framework objectives: O3.2, O3.3, O3.4, L3.1, L3.3.
	Year 3 Healthy eating and teeth. Fits QCA scheme of work units 10 and 13. Possible framework objectives: O3.2, O3.3, O3.4, L3.1, L3.3, L4.4, O5.2.
	Years 3-5 Art/ICT. The work of Paul Klee. Practises colours (QCA scheme of work unit 4). The images on this file have been downloaded from MoMA.org and are protected by copyright. This resource is intended for non-commercial educational purposes. Framework objectives: O3.3, O4.3, L3.1, L3.2, L3.3, L4.1, L5.1, IU3.2.
	Years 3-4 Weather. Fits QCA scheme of work units 7 and 12. Includes a game to win a million euros! Possible framework objectives: O3.2, O3.3, O3.4, O4.1, O6.2, L3.1, L4.1, L4.3.
	Year 3 Pets. Links to QCA scheme of work units 5 and 11. Possible framework objectives: O3.2, O3.3, L3.1.
	Years 3-6 RE/ICT. Poem about a mosque. Interactive games to aid comprehension of the poem. Includes podcast of the poem. Possible framework objectives: L.3.2, O4.1, O4.3, L4.1, L4.3, L5.1, L6.2. Go to the TRE website to download my PowerPoint version of this activity.

PowerPoint Presentations for Teachers

(These were written to fit the QCA's original scheme of work, which has now been updated. I have indicated how they may fit the revised one.)

Links for Primary Teachers

DCSF	KS2 Languages Framework. Download the full framework. Very useful overview of the learning objectives for Years 3-6.
QCA	NEW! Download a scheme of work for German (non statutory). Choose from drop-down list. The 2000 Scheme of Work has been re-written and extended. Units 1-12 are for Years 3-4, units 13-24 for Years 5-6.
	Nacell website: national advisory centre on early language learning.
	The Teacher Resource Exchange (TRE) is a moderated database of resources and activities created by teachers. Resources are free to use and you can also add your own resources to share with other teachers.
WGFL	Warrington Grid for Learning - Free primary resources including a free German and French course by Janet Lloyd (AST) with PowerPoint presentations, support with new KS2 framework, further links and ideas.
Spellmaster	Free activities from Spellmaster.com. Lots of sound files which will help pupils with pronunciation. Download and unzip free software to make your own activities.
YJC	Yvonne Clerehugh's website - lots of brilliant resources.
Song	Listen to the football song by Martina Schwarz. Download the song words in English. This is one of the songs Martina sang when she performed for primary school pupils at our school in November 2007.
SMART	Free e-learning resources
RM	Free resources hosted by RM. Worksheets, ideas and tips - the German resources are mixed in with French and Spanish..
	Beginners' German site from Exeter University.
	Hennings Haus: Computer games, teachers' notes, vocabulary from Channel 4 and NGfL Scotland.
Link	Free downloadable templates to make your own interactive tasks e.g. Tetris and Memory Game Maker. Also includes some ready-made activities and songs. Languages Online, Australia.
Becta	Scroll down to read useful advice on how to use the Channel 4 website Hennings Haus to practise directions (unit 11 of QCA scheme of work) and clothes 'Dress 2 impress' for unit 10.
Channel 4	Transcripts to accompany TV programmes/videos for Hennings Haus.
BPS	Ideas provided by the Bayswater Elementary School in Australia. Includes a scavenger hunt to refine internet searching skills (IU 3.2) and activities about fairy tales (O 3.1, IU 3.2, IU 3.4, L 5.1, IU 5.2, O 6.1 and O 6.2). The 'German fairy tale road' gives an overview of the places linked to the fairy tales.
	Ideas for German festivals, saints' days and nativity plays (Krippenspiele). Matches KS2 framework objectives IU 4.1, IU 4.3 and O 6.2. Quite difficult content, help simplifying the ideas might be needed from a German specialist.
Stille Nacht	Stille Nacht (Silent Night) melody and lyrics in German and English (O 6.2, L 6.3 and IU 6.3).
Ostern	Ideas for Easter.
Rudi der kleine Osterhase	Print this story by Gisela Kunte about Rudi the Easter Bunny or show it on an interactive whiteboard. Download this WORD document for my ideas to exploit the text in the classroom. This activity links to unit 4 of QCA scheme of work for KS2 German.
NME	Free download and video of parts of 'Karneval der Tiere' - see unit 11 of QCA scheme of work.
Website	Workshop suggestions to study 'Karneval der Tiere'. Google will translate this page for you.
Resources	Additional resources and ideas for exploiting 'Karneval der Tiere' (unit 11 of QCA scheme of work).
Song	Lyrics to Alle Vögel - song mentioned in unit 11 of QCA scheme of work. Includes free downloadable music.
Song	Lyrics to Kuckuck - song mentioned in unit 11 of QCA scheme of work.
YouTube	Music to Kuckuck song.
Four friends	Wendy Adeniji's PowerPoint presentation, suggested activities and flashcards to help teach 'The Four Friends' project (TRE Resource).
	Pupils make their own language puzzles on-line.
Lied	Free samples of German songs, you can order the ones by Barbara MacArthur.
Wkshts	Enchanted learning – labelling worksheets for many different topics e.g. days of the week, clothes, body parts, furniture in the different rooms, time, compass points, dairy foods, fruit, members of the family, parts of the tooth, the house etc. Answers are provided.

© R. Lloyd April 2005
The PowerPoint presentations, IWB activities and games on this page which have been written by R. Lloyd (Head of MFL at Sutton High Sports College) are for primary school teachers and pupils. They are intended for normal classroom use and are not to be used for commercial purposes.