Cake, biscuits and puddings, with the German words to match

Six sweet things are pictured, an apple pie and a brownie and a biscuit and a cupcake and a doughnut and a cake, with their German names hidden in the grid. BROWNIE, CUPCAKE and DONUT are borrowed straight from English, which makes half the sheet quick and gives a nervous child an easy way in before the German proper starts.

KUCHEN is the word to hold on to, because it covers cake generally and then turns up again inside APFELKUCHEN, eleven letters long, where APFEL is the apple. Spotting the same piece twice is really the point of this sheet. KEKS is four letters and means a biscuit; it came into German from the English word cakes, which children find funny once told.

Good for a baking afternoon, or for the week a class is reading and writing about food, when a second sheet is needed for the quicker children. The vocabulary is usable at once, since a child can ask for KUCHEN and be understood anywhere German is spoken. Do warn that the borrowed words are said the German way, with the vowels shifted, so BROWNIE will not come out of a German mouth quite as your child expects it to. That small surprise is often what makes a borrowed word memorable rather than invisible.