Cover lesson · MFL: German · Year 10 · Intermediate

A German web page for visitors to your town

DCF: Producing → Creating digital content

Name: Class: Date:

Cover teacher: you need no German and no subject knowledge

What this practises: WJEC GCSE German (Made for Wales, first teaching 2025), Unit 4 Reading and Writing: reading a factual text (a web page), answering questions in English, translating sentences into English, and writing German for a purpose and audience. Broad theme: language for travel (places in town). Pupils may answer in Welsh instead of English if they are taught through Welsh.

Print: this sheet, one per pupil, and the stimulus sheet “Two German web pages for visitors”, one between two. Pupils need a ruler and coloured pencils for the page plan in Step 4. No computers are needed: the web page is planned on paper. No dictionaries or online translators: they are not allowed in GCSE German, and the stimulus explains every word that is not on the GCSE list.

Run: 10 min Step 1, reading questions · 8 min Step 2, how the page is built · 7 min Step 3, translation · 22 min Step 4, plan a German page for your own town · 8 min Step 5, swap and check with a partner. Total 55 minutes.

Collect: this sheet. The class teacher has a worked example with every answer and a model page plan.

What you are doing

Tourist offices in German-speaking countries publish web pages for visitors. You will read one, work out how it is built so that visitors find what they need quickly, and spot what is missing from a weaker draft. Then you will plan, on paper, a German web page that would bring German-speaking visitors to your own town.

Step 1: read Page A

Answer in English.

(a) Where is Waldenau? Give two details.

(b) When and where is the market?

(c) Two adults and two children aged 8 and 12 want to visit the castle on a Monday. What is the problem? If they go on the Tuesday instead, how much do they save with a Familienkarte rather than four separate tickets? Show your working.

(d) Name two things at the open-air pool. When might it be closed, even in July?

(e) Where can you hire a bike, and how much would it cost for 3 days?

(f) How does the page tell visitors to reach the old town by train, and by bus?

(g) When and where is the summer festival, and how much does it cost?

Step 2: how the page is built

Find each feature on Page A. Say who it helps and how.

FeatureWho it helps, and how
The menu at the top (Startseite, Sehenswürdigkeiten…)
A heading for each attraction
Tables for opening times and prices
The image descriptions in [square brackets]
DE / EN
The Anreise and Kontakt sections

Now read Page B, the Kleinbach draft. Give three problems with its design and how to fix each one.

Step 3: translate into English

  1. Hier gibt es viel Natur und jeden Samstag einen großen Markt.
  2. Vom Turm hat man einen tollen Blick auf die Stadt.
  3. Bei schlechtem Wetter ist das Freibad geschlossen.
  4. Im Verkehrsamt kann man Fahrräder mieten.

Step 4: plan a German web page for your town

Plan the page in the boxes below. Draw a simple sketch of where each part goes if you have time. Aim for 100 to 130 words of German in total, counting the menu and the image descriptions. Use these patterns from Page A:

Only write facts you know are true. If you do not know an opening time or a price, write „Öffnungszeiten: siehe Webseite“, just as a real tourist office would. Every picture needs a Bildbeschreibung.

Menu (4 to 6 German words):

Heading and 2 to 3 sentences of introduction:

Place 1: name · 2 sentences · practical information · Bildbeschreibung

Place 2: name · 2 sentences · practical information · Bildbeschreibung

Place 3: name · 2 sentences · practical information · Bildbeschreibung

Tipp (one sentence with weil) and Anreise (how to get here):

Step 5: swap and check

Swap sheets with a partner. Tick each point that is true of your partner’s plan, then write one improvement.

One improvement:

Step by step

  1. 10 min Step 1: read Page A and answer (a) to (g).
  2. 8 min Step 2: explain six features, then fix the Kleinbach draft.
  3. 7 min Step 3: translate the four sentences.
  4. 22 min Step 4: plan your page, 100 to 130 words of German.
  5. 8 min Step 5: swap, check with the list and write one improvement.

Success criteria

If you finish early