Lots of core vocabulary, including question words. All you have to do is cut out the ones you want and mount them.

Children need to fill in the speech bubbles correctly, using the example given and the writing frame to help them. There is also a space for them to write about the sports they love. Could be a good introduction to the Olympics, and to some dictionary work, as children look for the names of new sports.

General knowledge quiz about Spain and life in Spain

Match up the vocabulary for the items that Santa’s elves sell in their shop and then work out the role plays using the Edexcel role play icons.

A series of PowerPoint presentations to help pupils to answer their questions on a basic level. More able pupils will want (and need !) to embellish these answers. The presentations are designed either for pupils to use by themselves or for the teacher to use with a whole class.

A simple wordsearch for practising the colours in Spanish. Children write the correct word on each splat then find the word in the wordsearch. A teacher guide is provided.

A simple wordsearch for practising the colours in French. Children write the correct word on each splat then find the word in the wordsearch. A teacher guide is provided.

For lower ability pupils, to help them to prepare their conversation questions on a basic level.

This is a collection of facts that I put together for the visit of Baroness Coussins to the Links into Languages NE conference in January 2011. Useful for making the case for languages to Year 9s !

A short movie showing French words that we use in English. Show your pupils that they speak more French than they think ! A way of starting the first lesson with Y7, to put the language into a context. It could also start an interesting discussion or fact-finding mission about why these words exist in English.

Looking for a song about animals, with some fun animal noises ? Here you are - the French version of Old MacDonald. Another MFL Sunderland taster - have a look at the website for 24 more songs.

A set of Happy Families cards in Spanish to help the children to practise family vocabulary. You could also use them to introduce the notion of gender and adjectival agreement. An MFL Sunderland taster. On MFL Sunderland you will also find the French version.

A display key for a marking code designed to help students to correct their own written work. The idea is that you underline a word that has a mistake and write the appropriate code above it. Hope it's useful.

These are the key phrases from the Edexcel role-plays for French and Spanish (mainly the A role-plays) Print’em out and stick’em up. Who knows, it might just work ! I originally did them in Publisher but have PDFed them to avoid common Publisher problems.

All the Spanish adverbs your classes will need to enrich and enhance their written work ! Cut them out and then mount them however you like.

Find the names of the sports, minus the articles.

A starter or consolidation exercise for KS2 or KS3. Cut them up and see if they can reassemble the square by putting the pieces together correctly. If you want to make it easier, tippex out the words around the edge, as they’re red herrings.

All the adverbs your classes will ever need to enrich and enhance their written work ! Cut them out and then mount them however you like.

Children need to fill in the speech bubbles correctly, using the example given and the writing frame to help them. There is also a space for them to write about the sports they love. Could be a good introduction to the Olympics, and to some dictionary work, as children look for the names of new sports.

A good way to consolidate the formation of the Passé Composé in French. Just write 4 past participles of your choice (I usually do one -ER, one -IR, one -RE and one irregular) in the boxes down the side, and away you go ! Excellent pair game. Each player has a sheet and uses the first grid to record their own ships (we usually have 8) and the second grid to record their hits and misses. Can be adapted for lots of other grammatical points as well.