A set of six narrow reading texts and relative tasks on the theme of pollution. This resource would be used at the beginning of an instructional sequence on talking about issues in one’s town/region. Lots of recycling of the same key patterns. Ideal for homework, cover work but can also be used for consolidation, as a pre-listening activity or before engaging the students in a basic writing task

Old school drills on reflexive verbs with verb lists, all contextualised in the topic of daily/school routine A sentence builder on school routine with activities to drill the language in Writing mats with translation for making more complex sentences with subordinate clauses A series of old school drills to practise key verbs in the context of school An oral translation board game to practise high frequency chunks on daily routine/school life

4 word documents packed with vocab building activities teaching useful language chunks through deep semantic processing tasks

TOPICS; daily routine, school, health and lifestyle, family relationships and my 'universals' Research shows clearly that teaching vocabulary through patterns and collocations is a much more effective way than teaching single words. Although I have always endeavoured to teach words in context and phrases, this collection of quickies is more au fait with current vocab research. As a result, here is a new set of GCSE revision quickies that are chunk-based and focus on collocation and lexical priming. These new quickies complement the ones I have previously created beautifully in my opinion. Why you should use them: they reflect the way humans learn languages - through chunks and lexical patterns rather than single words. So the focus here is on developing a repertoire of ready-to-use phrases recycled over and over again.

- A sentence builder - A set of narrow reading texts + activities - Three gapped texts with options - An Oral Ping-Pong translation - Oral pairwork communicative drills - An oral translation boardgame with answer key - A consolidation activity

Vocabulary builder to practise places in town and consolidate the verbs ALLEr and ETRE

Speaking activity for absolute beginners to practise places in town and the expression 'il y a&'. Students are given the cards on the first sheet and must go around in an attempt to find someone who lives near the places listed. The first three students to complete the list get a reward/merit.

Vocabulary consolidation on reading - fairly challenging

Revsion worksheet including high frequency words from all topics

12 pages of wordbuilders focusing on the description of physical appearance, personality, irregular adjectives, emotional and physical states, the present of ETRE and AVOIR as well as idioms with AVOIR.

Speaking, Writing, Vocab building and other activities on the topic

Consolidation sheet on French negatives

Consolidation sheet on reflexive verbs in present tense

A sentence builder illustrating how the subjunctive works and a set of activities practising it

Three files: a. Revision worksheet b. Solution c. Vocab list to use as scaffold

GCSE Spanish revision quickie

Writing mats covering all key vocabulary and a consolidation sheet

Covers main connectives and some adverbs of place and time

Revision sheets with key vocab covering key terms and imparting model sentences