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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 PowerPoint to introduce pupils to some Halloween vocabulary, to practise quantities and to enable them to write their own magic potion recipes. Give pupils a copy of the first slide and spell out the vocabulary. Use the subsequent slides to check if they’re correct. Then dictate some quantities on the next slide for pupils to write down. Finally, there is some vocabulary to enable pupils to write their own.

This is a timed PowerPoint presentation featuring basic geographical information about France. It’s best suited as a starter activity that can be used with KS2 or KS3 (mainly Y7), either to introduce the basic geography of France or to revise a previous session. I have used it with Y6 and Y7 following a lesson where they had labelled their own map of France (the same map as is used in the presentation) as I wanted to see how much of the information they had retained. The pupils number 1-14 and write down vrai or faux for each slide as they watch the presentation. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. Negative comments such as too simple and very boring are hurtful when someone has taken the trouble to upload something that they have taken the time to create and are making it available for free. Especially when they have tried and tested it with several classes and so know it is useful and that it works. Surely a more constructive response would be to create your own resource, post it on the Resource Bank and give us all the link so that we can see how it should be done.

Lots of core Vocabulary, including Question Words. For Display or as Flashcards.

This is an example of a unit of a KS4 French Scheme of Work. It is designed for the AQA Linear GCSE, but the format can be easily adapted for other qualifications and other boards.

Lots of practice of the Simple Future tense and the Future tense, ideal for leaving for a cover lesson.

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.

Find the names of the sports, minus the articles.

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.

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

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 !

This is the vocabulary which is given by Edexcel at the back of the specification. I've broken it down into smaller topic areas for ease of use, and added the genders and the English.

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.

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.