This is an ideal CLIL lesson. Students love volcanoes. Geology has lots of cognates. You can use this PowerPoint as a simple exposure to culture and French geographical features (the volcanoes of the Puy de Dome), you can also use it when you want students to talk about a visit in the past or the future. The end slides allow you to tackle prices, ask for tickets, choose what you are going to eat etc…

This package offers a number of resources that will enable you to teach adjectives and intensifiers in a meaningful context. Students will be expected to work towards a presentation on someone they find a good role model. GCSE preparation for giving opinions and reasons. Also teaches negative sentences.

Are you setting up a KS3 email/ video exchange with a school in France? This is a template to help you guide your students to do so. It has been checked by a native speaker. Feel free to adapt.

This is a list of 26 ideas that students can look at and put into practice every week until they start their AS course. These ideas can also continue AFTER they have started the Yr 12 course. Some make reference to various websites and others make reference to practical ideas that only require some thinking and a pen.

Three different approaches to tackle that topic in essay form

A step by step approach to give this question the best possible answer. Mostly refers to food and refers to equivalent chapter in the Edexcel Spanish textbook. Applies to all exam boards, though.

This worksheet shows students a step by step approach to extend their sentences and add more details.

A bunch of resources to teach the topic of the Second World War/ The occupation at A Level French. Makes references to the series Un Village français set in the 2nd World War. Has vocabulary activities. This resource has been checked by a native French speaker for accuracy.

A PowerPoint with guidance to students as to how to tackle the stimulus card. Has references to AQA examples.

The idea is to tell students they now work for the Ministry of Immigration/ Foreign Affairs/ the Home office. They are given a fake country name and they have to decide what will be/ won’t be allowed immigration wise, what laws or rules will be in place. A list of 14 questions they have to decide upon. Designed for pair or group work then further discussion.

These various prompts can be used as starters or whilst covering certain topics. Ideal at AS/ A Level but also appropriate for GCSE.

The interest of those little texts is a) to save you some time and b) to be able to give one each to a class (there are 22 of them) and get the class to practise questions leading to such tasks such as “find a person who has one brother” etc… Various lengths to differentiate around your class.

Mostly images and names. Students can look for the ingredients, can be a cross-curricular experience.

A revision lesson after doing object pronouns/ indirect object pronouns and the passive. Numerous examples provided.

Study of two characters- What they say about others, what others say about them. Quotes included.

A study of quotes from both characters and what others say about them

A gap filling exercise taken from the famous video ¡Qué difícil es hablar el español! The aim is to raise students’ awareness that there can be confusions. Further aim: to bring their attention to the wealth of Spanish-speaking cultures

Two no fuss time saving worksheets with exercises in both tenses and then an exercise where students are supposed to choose which of the two tenses they should use. There are references to La Casa de Bernarda Alba and Ocho Apellidos Vascos.

A compilation of reviews and pre-play announcements taken from social media. The aim is to stimulate conversation. How do students imagine a contemporary version of the play? Characters can be cut out and students can have a go at guessing who it is. They can also have a go at writing short tweets in a similar vein about the characters. A good way to enhance their vocab in terms of adjectives. The end slide shows that the situation for some women in various parts of the world has not improved at all.

An easy -due to use of cognates- worksheet about the hymn El violador en tu camino, a movement that started in Chile last year (2019). Can lead to various discussions. Lyrics of the LasTesis hymn are also included.