Household Chores – Free French Listening Practice Video for GCSE Students
Household Chores / Les Tâches Ménagères Video for Listening Practice Need some GCSE French listening practice for KS3 or KS4 students? If so, check out this authentic and original video for French learners. It includes a native French speaker talking for approximately three minutes about household chores (les tâches ménagères) in French. How can you use this video to practise French listening skills? You can use this video in the French classroom as part of a lesson, for homework or as revision for GCSE. It allows KS3 and GCSE French students to practise their French listening skills on the topic of household tasks and chores. What does this les tâches…
Mein Haus GCSE German, Intermediate & DaF Listening Lesson with Audio, Transcript & Activities
Mein Zuhause – My Home – Mein Haus Intermediate German Listening Practice and Revision Lesson If you are an intermediate German student looking for some listening practice or a German teacher looking for original German listening practice material, then my listening lesson will certainly help. Supplement your intermediate German lessons on the topic of ,mein Haus’ or ,mein Zuhause’ with this lesson suitable for A2/B1 level German students, GCSE German students, German Highers students, High School learners or DaF students. What is included in this ‘Mein Haus’ listening lesson? The intermediate level listening lesson on ,Mein Haus’ includes a 300-word transcript, verbatim MP3 audio file and 5 activities testing listening…
Post-School Education & Work in Germany Listening Lesson
GCSE German Intermediate Listening Lesson on Post-School Options in Germany I needed a post-education and work listening lesson for my German language students this week. Unfortunately, I am still struggling to find authentic topic-related listening material from other sources. Despite using the sites in the German Listening Websites for GCSE list I put together a couple of years ago! This month, I am working on the ‘post-education and work’ topic in my German GCSE course. I wanted some supplementary listening material to help my students practise their listening skills. So, I wrote a transcript and had a native male speaker record it. In addition, I added some activities. These focus…
Das deutsche Schulsystem – Listening Activity
When I was at school I needed all the help I could get, to get my head around the German school system! Therefore, I’ve put together a resource, which could either be used as revision, or as an introduction into das deutsche Schulsystem. Why not use it in your German GCSE lessons with students taking either the Higher paper or the foundation paper when teaching the topic of ‘School’? You could also use it in your German lessons with private GCSE German students, which is what I did. What are the resources included for ‘das deutsche Schulsystem’? You will find an audio file (MP3) and a direct transcript (word document) that you can download…
8 German Listening Websites for GCSE
Why do GCSE students need German listening practice? My GCSE German students are fantastic at writing, they get on very well with reading and do well on speaking when they have plenty of vocabulary on a topic. The GCSE skill that many of them struggle the most with, however, is German listening. Due to limited time in lessons, it is vital for students to have the opportunity to practise their German listening outside of the classroom to tune their ears to the speed native Germans speak, since “what pupils reportedly find most problematic about listening is the pace of recorded material.” Barton (2006).In addition, this practice will allow learners to…
