A sequence of slides featuring photos of celebrities. Pupils have to suggest what the pairs or groups of celebrities on each slide have in common. The final slide features all the photos used so far and pupils then have to suggest what they ALL have in common. To illustrate what they all have in common, show them the youtube video, accessed via the link below, in which every one of them uses a foreign language. There is a mini-script on the ppt.

Interactive drag and drop practice of sports vocab. The file has 40 of the sports for London 2012 embedded and will select ten at random to practise each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW. (PS Typos now fixed following comment below.)

Interactive drag and drop practice of adjectives which could be used for describing the personality of a dog, another kind of pet, and maybe even a sibling. Will work on PC or IW.

Two similar texts about the London Olympics, each with comprehension questions in English. The first is a Higher level text. The second is pitched at Foundation level, and is a simplified version of the first text with slightly fewer questions.

Two parallel texts, pitched at different levels, looking forward to the Paralympic Games 2012. The first text is fairly complex and is followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' exercise with a focus on the Future Tense, revision / presentation of the Future, a manipulation exercise, again with a focus on the Future Tense, and finally a writing task featuring past tenses. The second text, pitched at Foundation level, is virtually verb-free, and is followed by questions in English and no grammar whatsoever.

Interactive cloze exercise based on a text looking forward to the Paralympic Games 2012. The grammar focus is the future. In each case the missing word is a third person plural future tense. Will work on PC or IW.

AS speaking practice materials made in the Edexcel house style. May still be of use if you do a different board.

Playscript in which Shrek, exhausted by fatherhood, can not remember basic information about his life and his family and has to be corrected repeatedly by Fiona. Revision of birthdays, where I live, my house, my family, likes and dislikes and colours.

Interactive cloze exercise about the military security for London 2012. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive drag and drop exercise practising ten short but very high frequency words in French. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive cloze text presenting a potted history of London's involvement with the modern Olympic Games. Reveals who should have hosted the games in 1944. Will work on PC or IW.

This guide has been edited from Edexcel's generic advice on the research-based essay into a guide for those students who will be researching a text, a play or a film.

One of the Judoon (from Dr Who) lambasts Earth television programmes. Text is followed by a writing task which uses the stimulus text as a platform.

Written to match the Edexcel house style, but may still be useful if you do another board.

The sheet models common separable verbs relating to Tagesroutine in 3 tenses and the provides a set of interview questions which require students to use the verbs in different tenses. Could be done as a written exercise before embarking on the pair work.

Graduated practice of the conjugation of a number of common verbs in the Present Tense. You may wish to ask pupils to cover the paradigm when they add the endings.

A synopsis of the film in the Present Tense up to the point where Hardenberg is kidnapped. Students have to read the synopsis and then re-write the text in either the Perfect or the Imperfect Tense, depending on which of the two attached files you use. (I've uploaded this to replace an earlier version which doesn't seem to display the file.)

This table is set out to help pupils begin to understand patterns of conjugation. Could be printed as a hand-out or blown-up as a poster for display.

A school pupil of the future describes his school day. Text is followed by comprehension questions in French.

Two linked resources. The Word doc contains an account of Beyonces summer holidays. The html file is an interactive gap-fill activity, based on the same text. Work through the text, give the students a couple of minutes to re-read the text carefully, then ask them to cover the text up / put it out of sight, before doing the cloze exercise with the class.