I like to have one of these settling activities on the board as the students come into the classroom. It's part of their routine that they start on the settling activity as soon as they've sat down and copied the date and title. I find that it makes a calm start to the lesson and in addition it's an excellent opportunity to cover vocab or a grammar point that students haven't seen for some time.

I like to have one of these settling activities on the board as the students come into the classroom. It's part of their routine that they start on the settling activity as soon as they've sat down and copied the date and title. I find that it makes a calm start to the lesson and in addition it's an excellent opportunity to cover vocab or a grammar point that students haven't seen for some time.

I like to have one of these settling activities on the board as the students come into the classroom. It's part of their routine that they start on the settling activity as soon as they've sat down and copied the date and title. I find that it makes a calm start to the lesson and in addition it's an excellent opportunity to cover vocab or a grammar point that students haven't seen for some time. They may also contain words or phrases in other languages in order to show students how learning one language can help them to understand others.

I like to have one of these settling activities on the board as the students come into the classroom. It's part of their routine that they start on the settling activity as soon as they've sat down and copied the date and title. I find that it makes a calm start to the lesson and in addition it's an excellent opportunity to cover vocab or a grammar point that students haven't seen for some time.

A useful resource to get students practising saying the phrases they've learned in their first term of French. Contains days, months, numbers, greetings and phrases students should use in class to ask permission to do something. Useful for vocab recap too. Give one domino to each student (if there are more dominoes than students give more able students two dominoes). The students with the domino that starts with 'Début' begins by saying the French phrase. The student with the matching phrase in English says it and then the French phrase that forms the other side of their domino. Keep going until the class reaches the final domino. To introduce a competitive element challenge students to get through the whole domino set in less than 2 minutes. The dominoes last longer if laminated before being used!

A useful resource for getting students to speak spontaneously. In small groups (4 players) students roll a dice and move their counters to the relevant spot on the board. They have to say the phrase in French shown on the square they've landed on. If they can't say it they go back to their original square. In my experience students really enjoy this opportunity to use spoken French in a small group, rather than in front of the class. As the teacher I can move around the groups checking what the students are saying. To help them last longer we laminate the boards. Counters and dice are required too, but can be bought very cheaply.

A useful resource for getting students to speak spontaneously. In small groups (4 players) students roll a dice and move their counters to the relevant spot on the board. They have to say the phrase in French shown on the square they've landed on. If they can't say it they go back to their original square. In my experience students really enjoy this opportunity to use spoken French in a small group, rather than in front of the class. As the teacher I can move around the groups checking what the students are saying. To help them last longer we laminate the boards. Counters and dice are required too, but can be bought very cheaply.

A selection of 'Challenge Tasks' on the topic of food. These are based on authentic French resources (mainly infographs found on Pinterest) with comprehension questions added. I put these up on my 'Challenge Wall' in the classroom for the term and direct any students to them who finish their work early. To save photocopying costs I encourage students not to write on the sheets and to put them back on the wall when they're finished. I find that students get a huge sense of achievement from knowing that they are reading and understanding real French literature! As an extra incentive to try more difficult work I offer 'challenge stars' in return for tackling these tricky tasks. These are converted periodically into merits.

I like to have one of these settling activities on the board as the students come into the classroom. It's part of their routine that they start on the settling activity as soon as they've sat down and copied the date and title. I find that it makes a calm start to the lesson and in addition it's an excellent opportunity to cover vocab or a grammar point that students haven't seen for some time.

A set of worksheets to enable students to practise the instructions they come across in the exams; a vital but often forgotten skill for success at GCSE. This resource comes with an answer sheet, making an easy cover lesson for KS4 students.

A useful resource to get students practising saying the phrases they've learned in their first term of French. Contains phrases about describing their house and where they live plus phrases about daily routine and school. The avoir être set allows students to practise a variety of phrases using these verbs in the present tense. Useful for vocab recap too. Give one domino to each student (if there are more dominoes than students give more able students two dominoes). The students with the domino that starts with 'Début' begins by saying the French phrase. The student with the matching phrase in English says it and then the French phrase that forms the other side of their domino. Keep going until the class reaches the final domino. To introduce a competitive element challenge students to get through the whole domino set in less than 2 minutes. The dominoes last longer if laminated before being used!

27 settling activities that I use with Year 8 more able students. I find that a settling activity on the board is really useful in ensuring a calm start to the lesson, whilst offering challenge from the first minute. These offer an easy means of revising vocab and grammar points that are not frequently covered and therefore easily forgotten!

A selection of 17 settling activities based on authentic resources. An easy method of injecting a little humour into lessons whilst still ensuring a calm start to the lesson. I find that a settling activity on the board as students enter the classroom is helpful in challenging them from the first minute. All of the cartoon-based settling activities are intended to be used as comprehension exercises.

I like to have one of these settling activities on the board as the students come into the classroom. It's part of their routine that they start on the settling activity as soon as they've sat down and copied the date and title. I find that it makes a calm start to the lesson and in addition it's an excellent opportunity to cover vocab or a grammar point that students haven't seen for some time. These are aimed at Y7 in their first term of French so the main aim is to improve their cultural knowledge. It's important that students should be able to complete the activities independently (whilst I do the register, etc) so the activities require little knowledge of French language. Any comprehension activities rely mainly on cognates.

Included is a pronunciation table which can be glued into students' exercise books. I (or a student) select a section of the table at the beginning of the lesson and everyone has to answer the register with a word from that section. The repetition of a particular sound is helpful in reinforcing correct pronunciation and classes have confirmed that this has helped them greatly with their pronunciation. There is also a powerpoint which gives students tasks to complete based on the pronunciation table and a worksheet which can be set as homework. Finally I have included a set of spelling tests which are based on specific phonemes, rather than the traditional topics. These are also helpful when set occasionally, in helping students to focus on the link between sound and spelling. In terms of neuro-plasticity it is also helpful to give students something slightly different!

A collection of resources to be used at the beginning of KS3 to help students to understand classroom instructions. There is a list which we use as a department to ensure that we are all using the same phrases, plus a student worksheet, a help sheet for students who are 'on red' (traffic lights) and an extension task on powerpoint for the more able.

A selection of 44 worksheets to revise or consolidate the topics of sports, hobbies and weather along with links to 24 online resources which have been played and ‘liked’ by many other teachers. If, like many other teachers, you are spending term 6 in consolidating this year’s work as part of your Covid Curriculum Recover these resources will be invaluable in enabling students of all abilities to revise the topic. In addition to the vocabulary and sentence games there are speaking stimuli and resources for practising regular present tense verbs as well as the verbs jugar and hacer.