A Volunteering Adventure in... for A Level Year 2

French: Madagascar | German: Austria | Spanish: Cuba

Activity Packs

A real triumph, a breath of fresh air

J Turner, Ind. Languages Consultant & Peer Reviewer
French

8 units (each containing 4 activities):

  1. Planning ahead
  2. Arriving in Madagascar
  3. First day at the NGO
  4. Working with the other volunteers
  5. The impact on people in need
  6. Attitudes to marginalisation
  7. A personal reflection
  8. Future plans
German

8 units (each containing 4 activities):

  1. Planning ahead
  2. Arriving in Austria
  3. First day at the NGO
  4. Working with the other volunteers
  5. The impact on people in need
  6. Attitudes to marginalisation
  7. A personal reflection
  8. Future plans
Spanish

8 units (each containing 4 activities):

  1. Planning ahead
  2. Arriving in Cuba
  3. First day at the NGO
  4. Working with the other volunteers
  5. The impact on people in need
  6. Attitudes to marginalisation
  7. A personal reflection
  8. Future plans

Students experience a volunteering adventure in these authentic and inspiring activity packs, designed specially to engage with the target language. Discover fascinating destinations, learn about people and cultures, and reflect upon the impact of volunteering and helping others.

Authentic targeted learning

  • Respond to authentic scenarios through blog posts, radio reports, podcasts, and messages from friends and family, etc.
  • Practise all four skills – listening, reading, speaking and writing – using the target language in a realistic way.
  • Engage and interact with a variety of individual, pair and group activities.
  • Prepare for the exams – all content based on the A Level Year 2 topics from the 2016 specifications of all boards
  • including immigration, integration, discrimination, culture, diversity and political life…

Effortless delivery

  • Flexible! Each unit can be used as a stand-alone lesson, for exam revision, as homework or as cover lessons.
  • Suitable for all students with extension tasks to challenge your advanced learners.
  • Easy marking! All answers provided – perfect for self or peer assessment.

Linguistically, it is superb and its structure is also admirable

J Turner, Ind. Languages Consultant & Peer Reviewer

What do teachers say about this resource? (10936)

This resource is well-designed. The topics covered are relevant to all specifications. I found myself intrigued and engrossed by the storyline proposed. It makes the topics come alive and also will make the students think about the different aspects of the specification in a more relatable way.

I believe this resource will allow students to apply knowledge of the different topics in a situation they may relate to. I like the range of activities offered (listening and reading activities matching the type of exercises needed on Paper 1 and Speaking/writing activities being more creative and also working on research skills needed for the Independent Research Project).

By making the topics relatable and by enabling practice of different skills needed for their A Level exam, I believe this resource ticks many boxes.

I believe this resource matches and interprets the specification well. It is clear the author has researched each topic and found a clever way to integrate each topic in an engaging way that is relevant to students.

It includes extension tasks, answers and transcripts. Perfect for tired teachers!

I Rodriguez, Head of Languages & Peer Reviewer

What do teachers say about this resource? (10658)

I think that this is a real triumph, a breath of fresh air in the world of A Level German resources. It offers the student of A Level German a taste of internationalism, a clear message that learning a language (or 2 or 3) and travelling to use this language within the international community, will surely give you greater empathy with and understanding of the world. I liked so many aspects of this resource, from the map on the first page, informing where the adventure will take us, to the invitation to research independently an equivalent NGO, the way that the varied structure of each unit mirrors the sort of requirements encountered in German A Level comprehension testing, the opportunities for creativity, such as the Leserkommentare on page 15, the open-endedness of the resource which can motivate the gifted and talented. Linguistically, it is superb and its structure is also admirable. I really enjoyed reading through this resource

J Turner, Ind. Languages Consultant & Peer Reviewer

Super idea, something a bit different from the standard topic by topic approach. I particularly liked how an authentic story can contain so many of the topics and areas needed covering in the A level course.

S Lemmetyinen, German teacher & Peer Reviewer