Starters

Here are some tasks I designed based on ideas I saw on Twitter. Quite often, I see great resources that are sadly not in German so often have to create them from scratch, sometime I can simply translate someone else's great resource.

Ping pong translation. This is from the fabulous Gianfranco Conti.
Students work in pairs with each having a different version of the sheet. Student A reads out the TL text and student B has to translate it. They then continue until they've read the whole sheet. Sometimes I put a timer on and the student who completes the most in that time, wins.

Speaking swap shop.
This idea was taken from Twitter. Give students a starting sentence and ask them to develop it as much as they can. The challenge is to add in extra elements.

Vocabulary recall.
Students are given key words to translate. The challenge is to then use them in a sentence and extend the sentence.
I also challenge students to come up with their own key words and test each other.

Pirahnagrama.
This idea was taken from the amazing Gianfranco Conti. I do this activity as a group task and put a timer on to keep control of the pace.