1. A vocab builder 2. Cloze task : a set of key questions on new technologies (below) and a range of model answers which have been gapped. ¿Crees que las nuevas tecnologías han cambiado el mundo laboral? ¿Cómo ha cambiado la forma de la que comunicas con tus amigos en los últimos años? ¿Cuál es tu modo de comunicación preferido? ¿Crees que pasas demasiado tiempo con el móvil? ¿Podrías vivir sin tu móvil? ¿Cuáles son las ventajas principales de Internet? ¿Cuáles son las desventajas principales de Internet?

A sentence builder and a vocabulary builder on healthy and unhealthy lifestyle A vocabulary builder reinforcing the same chunks in the sentence builder A set of narrow reading texts

These are the scaffolds I use every day at the beginning of every lesson and at the end to recycle for 5 minutes (students talking in pairs) daily activities + the two tenses.

A text in the present tense which includes vocabulary on daily routine and hobbies and four reading comprehension activities, one chunk-based.

- A text reconstruction task: English text given; French translation of text is all broken up in randomly arranged chunks. Students to re-arrange them in the correct order. - A pre-puzzle warm-up to prepare the students for the puzzle through consolidation of its language content

(1) A sentence builder to practice the pattern: I am from ___________but I have been living in _______________ since /for __________________ (2) A find someone who with cards with four grids so you can play four rounds of the game (3) A set of narrow reading tasks (4) A set of gap-fills based on the narrow reading tasks (5) An oral translation board game (6) A verb and adjectivel endings manipulation writing task (7) Gap-fill madness - 'Gap-fill madness' is a very easy-to-prepare game I stage to automatise verb production and decoding skills at the same time. Students, working in groups of three, are given a list of twelve simple sentences (see below) in which the target verb is gapped. They then compete with each other at filling the gap in the shortest time possible. The person who does it faster and with 'decent' pronunciation wins. I usually stage three rounds per player, the shortest time overall winning. Whilst one player speaks the others time them and monitor their accuracy and pronunciation. Pairing students by ability a must!

A sentence builder, communicative drills, pre-communicative drills and narrow reading texts

Vocab reinforcement and oral drills

- 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

- A sentence builder with translation task covering all present verb forms of jugar, ir and hacer - An oral translation board game (no snakes no ladders)

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.

8 revision quickies on health and holidays for GCSE students of middle to high proficiency

Two sheets of activities practising the use of relatives, apres + past infinitive + imperfect vs perfect tense, irregular adjectives and other structures in the context of holidays. The first in a series of worksheets aiming to recycle key structures over and over again across a wide range of topics and linguistic contexts

7 narrow reading texts recycling to death talking about oneself . Used it with year 5s and worked very well

3 GCSE revision quickies on holidays, all chunk-based

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

A comprehensive sentence builder with vocab builder to practice vocabulary included A set of narrow reading (bad translation tasks) A set of writing mats An oral translation board game with answer key

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