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The MFL Teacher is the ‘one-stop shop’ for teachers of Modern Foreign Languages. Whether you are looking for advice, a quick idea or quality ready-to-use resources, you will find it with The MFL Teacher. Please visit our website for more information, including our blog and our Bright Ideas!
French - Simple future & conditional tenses
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French - Simple future & conditional tenses

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Use this PPT to introduce pupils to both the simple future and the conditional in French. As they are quite similar, it seems sensible to introduce them both together. This is really better suited to higher ability pupils.
Snakes & Ladders template
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Snakes & Ladders template

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Pupils work in pairs. They test each other on a set list of vocabulary, shuffled up (maybe on cards). One pupil throws a dice and moves that many spaces. Whichever number they land on, their partner asks that question. Works in the same way as ‘Snakes & Ladders’!
German directions
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German directions

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Introduce the directions in German and give pupils the handouts for note-taking. There is also a completed handout for weaker pupils, so they can concentrate on the presentation. Then pupils complete the worksheet and finish the lesson with noughts and crosses. There is also a hangman starter for the following lesson!
The time in German
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The time in German

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Introducing the time in German. Starts with a reminder of the time in English, then introduces it in German and ends with mini whiteboard practice.
French - Advantages & disadvantages of social media
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French - Advantages & disadvantages of social media

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On the first slide, in line with the GCSE speaking photo card, pupils give sentences about the picture. This is an introduction to the topic of the advantages and disadvantages of social media. On the following slide, phrases have been taken from a text about social media. Students decide whether the statements are advantages or disadvantages. Students then use mini whiteboards to recap the vocab. To finish, students challenge each other for the next lesson. They all write a phrase from this lesson on a Post-It and stick it to the back wall. These are then randomly given out to the students as a starter in the following lesson to be translated.
French - The simple future tense
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French - The simple future tense

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This PPT introduces the simple future to students, including of course verb endings, but also the most common irregular simple future verbs. It finished with a mini whiteboard activity. Pupils write the correct translation of the phrases on their boards.
Have I Got News For You template
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Have I Got News For You template

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Use the template to get pupils to guess the blanked out word in the headline. You could also use this HIGNFY template to do ‘reading images’. Pupils discuss what’s in the picture and give it a headline. Simply insert a photo of your choice in the top of the slide! You could use it to give pupils options of headlines or give them a headline and they have to choose the appropriate image.
French - Weather introduction
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French - Weather introduction

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Use this PPT to introduce the weather in French. To start, the weather is shown on a map of France. It is worth looking at the patterns of language used here (il y a / il). The patterns are colour-coded. Then the vocab is formally introduced. Following this, pupils must identify the weather in French as it whizzes past.
French - Telling the time
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French - Telling the time

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Use this PPT to teach pupils how to tell the time in French. There is an accompanying worksheet they can complete while doing this. The first few slides recaps on telling the time in English, as some pupils struggle with using an analogue clock to tell the time. After introducing the time in French, practise what they have learned by asking pupils to either shout out the time in French or write the time in words on mini whiteboards.
Battleships template - Class version
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Battleships template - Class version

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This is an easy PPT template for you to adapt as you like. Change the side and top title bars, depending on the topic you’re doing. Click on the blue boxes to make them disappear to reveal (or not!) an explosion underneath. For variation, simply move the explosions to different squares.
Storyboard template
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Storyboard template

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Very simply, a template for pupils to use to write about a week. They write the text in the lower box and draw a picture in the bigger box.
German - Cases tables
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German - Cases tables

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Get pupils to stick these tables into their books for reference. Definite and indefinite pronouns and their cases (masculine, feminine, neuter and plural + nominative, accusative, genitive and dative).
German numbers curtains!
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German numbers curtains!

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Pupils are shown a set of numbers for ten seconds at a time, before the curtains automatically close. No writing allowed! They then must say the numbers they remember in German. Write them on the board so they can be checked.