Fun starter/filler activity where students try to guess who the famous people are by looking up French/English words in the dictionary. The presentation contains 7 slides, each with 4 famous people. Answers in the notes section.

Mario Minefield is a fun revision game/quiz that can be used in any subject. Included: the Mario Minefield PowerPoint presentation and a set of instructions.

A fully customisable template for Pyramid Translation. Great for structured oral production. Includes: instructions, L1 & L2 templates and an easy way to reveal the sentences one by one. Slides can easily be shared with students so that they can make their own versions. Source: Smith, S., & Conti, G. (2019). Breaking the sound barrier: Teaching language learners how to listen.

Memory: active recall starter activity. Based on ‘Beat the clock’ from The Language Teacher Toolkit (Smith, Conti). Description: This can be used as a starter, filler or plenary and is extremely simple and effective for beginners. Write on the board or display a selection of words or phrases you wish students to revise. Tell them they have two minutes to look carefully at the words. Once the two minutes are up, cover the words or phrases and set a timer. Give the students as long as you see fit to write down as many of the words as possible from memory. Students score two points for each correctly spelled word or phrase, one for any incorrectly spelled. With some classes you may only accept completely accurate spellings. An alternative to this activity is to read out a list of words instead of displaying them. Read the words slowly two or three times. ***Source: Smith, S., & Conti, G. (2016). The language teacher toolkit. ***

A fully customisable template for Delayed Copying and Delayed Translation activities. The speed at which the sentence disappears can be changed here: Animation Pane > Duration The amount of time that passes before the students write the sentence can be changed here: Animation Pane > Delay Ghost icon https://icons8.com/icon/96701/ghost