Straightforward resource for presenting and practising key vocabulary. -Recap of some places in town (crossword). -muy/bastante/cerca/lejos -kilometros/minutos -andando/en coche etc. Aimed at low ability KS3.

Messaging dialogue making arrangements to go out. Find the French activity and comprehension questions.

Multiple choice questionnaire about healthy living, with magazine style results section on powerpoint (add up score for each answer and read a short paragraph about what this means). Used as starting point for writing a paragraph about how healthy you are, but could also swap with someone else and write in 3rd person about their lifestyle.

To revise for a reading assessment towards the end of Expo 2 Module 3 (Les sorties), testing knowledge from Modules 1, 2 and 3. Includes free time activities, perfect tense, modal verbs. Print p.1 on plain paper and give a sheet to each group to highlight key words, etc. Print p.2 on different colours of card and cut into strips (each question on a different strip). Give each group Q1 - when they have written their answer on the strip of card, they bring it to you and you give them Q2. It's a race to finish first (or get the most questions answered within the time limit). My pupils loved this and asked if we could do it again soon.

Foundation level reading activity. Account of a weekend. Perfect tense. Leisure activities, cinema.

Match-up sheet for computer room lesson: -Match-up phrases to recap 3rd person. -Research a sports personality and fill in profile (basic answers, not full sentences) then type up in neat, produce a poster. Reading activity as preparation for writing a profile of a famous sports person as part of end of module assessment.

Powerpoint resources for the 1st 5 lessons on this topic with a pretty good bottom set who will be taking French to GCSE. Focus on revising/consolidating vocabulary from previous years (introducing yourself, physical description) but also using the imperfect tense just in the 'je' form. Aimed at a largely 'Vert' class but some crossover with 'Rouge' due to inclusion of imperfect.

Lesson to introduce personality adjectives with Y7 (they've already done loads of work on agreements for colours and physical description, so not that much time spent on it here). Goes with Expo 1 and does refer to reading and listening activities from it, but hopefully some of the slides will be useful even if you don&'t use this textbook.

For a beginners Spanish Y9 class. Introduces animals vocab (pets) and includes a sheet for pupils to match up and record vocab. Speaking and writing including adjectives.

Assorted starters and plenaries for food and drink topic, with pictures. Includes: -noughts and crosses -beat the teacher -settling starters (match-up/gapfill/multiple choice) for pupils to do in their books -give/keep points translation game -spot the mistakes -past present or future -guessing game

Simple true or false quiz on topic of the Occupation. Used as extension work for a few pupils in a Y9 class watching Au revoir les enfants but equally could be used as starter/plenary.

3 different tasks so includes extension work for more able. Texts about what people eat for lunch and why, focusing on reasons for eating at canteen/sandwiches/home - can link in with cultural aspects about school meals in France. Task 1 - very basic, vocab recognition. Task 2 - comprehension. Task 3 - identifying reasons/arguments for and against.

A reading task I made for a Y9 bottom set beginners Spanish group who have been learning Spanish for about 10 weeks so far. The main aim is to recognise the difference between 'soy de' and 'vivo en' with place names, but there's plenty of added detail to make it a bit more challenging. I&'ve made the font size big so it can be copied 2:1, giving A5 sheets.

Present tense lesson for Year 8: -match-up starter with grammar extension for more able -tutorial and drilling on present tense formation -writing task -'donner ou garder les points' plenary game - pupils translate sentence, then decide whether to keep the points or give to the other team BEFORE the points are revealed.

Exercises to practise correct use of negatives with verbs in the perfect tense.

Year 7 reading activity with three short texts including opinions and reasons. Could be suitable for cover work. Part 1 - match pictures to the texts. Part 2 - true or false.

Card sort and grid for recording information. Pupils each have a grid, and have a set of cards in groups of 2-3. They match the reasons (bullet-pointed cards) and frequency with which the food should be eaten to the foods in the grid and record the information. Links in with knowledge of food groups/healthy living from science or food tech.

Starter worksheet to recap job titles

Reading tasks with grid to complete - the one in 2 tenses was aimed at a bottom set Y9 class and the one in 3 tenses was aimed at a middle/high set. But I'm planning to use the 2 tense one with Year 8s too. More or less the same task, so could be given out in the same class for differentiation.

Resources to accompany the film "Tomboy" (2011) for able Y9 pupils. Main focus is describing characters in 3rd person but some general reading comprehension (true or false about the story) and work on how characters feel, plus predictions for what will/should happen next. Lots of opportunities for discussion in English - SMSC. 19/04/15 - Added final 2 lessons (1 matching quotations to characters, watching and discussing ending, 1 writing a comparison of 2 main characters).