A very detailed list of vocab to describe clothes and tasks to drill them in

A pool on resources on cinema

Four worksheets containing narrow reading texts and tasks on holidays

A reading comp meant for my year 7s but can be used with year 8 too. Loosely based on Expo 2 rouge

Two revision quickies which focus on micro-writing skills

A vocab builder on the topic of Internet/Mobile phones with a range of useful sentences

1. A vocab builder 2. Cloze task : a set of key questions on new technologies (below) and a range of model answers which have been gapped. ¿Crees que las nuevas tecnologías han cambiado el mundo laboral? ¿Cómo ha cambiado la forma de la que comunicas con tus amigos en los últimos años? ¿Cuál es tu modo de comunicación preferido? ¿Crees que pasas demasiado tiempo con el móvil? ¿Podrías vivir sin tu móvil? ¿Cuáles son las ventajas principales de Internet? ¿Cuáles son las desventajas principales de Internet?

A sentence builder and a vocabulary builder on healthy and unhealthy lifestyle A vocabulary builder reinforcing the same chunks in the sentence builder A set of narrow reading texts

These are the scaffolds I use every day at the beginning of every lesson and at the end to recycle for 5 minutes (students talking in pairs) daily activities + the two tenses.

A text in the present tense which includes vocabulary on daily routine and hobbies and four reading comprehension activities, one chunk-based.

- A text reconstruction task: English text given; French translation of text is all broken up in randomly arranged chunks. Students to re-arrange them in the correct order. - A pre-puzzle warm-up to prepare the students for the puzzle through consolidation of its language content

(1) A sentence builder to practice the pattern: I am from ___________but I have been living in _______________ since /for __________________ (2) A find someone who with cards with four grids so you can play four rounds of the game (3) A set of narrow reading tasks (4) A set of gap-fills based on the narrow reading tasks (5) An oral translation board game (6) A verb and adjectivel endings manipulation writing task (7) Gap-fill madness - 'Gap-fill madness' is a very easy-to-prepare game I stage to automatise verb production and decoding skills at the same time. Students, working in groups of three, are given a list of twelve simple sentences (see below) in which the target verb is gapped. They then compete with each other at filling the gap in the shortest time possible. The person who does it faster and with 'decent' pronunciation wins. I usually stage three rounds per player, the shortest time overall winning. Whilst one player speaks the others time them and monitor their accuracy and pronunciation. Pairing students by ability a must!

A sentence builder, communicative drills, pre-communicative drills and narrow reading texts

Vocab reinforcement and oral drills

- A sentence builder - A set of narrow reading texts + activities - Three gapped texts with options - An Oral Ping-Pong translation - Oral pairwork communicative drills - An oral translation boardgame with answer key - A consolidation activity

- A sentence builder with translation task covering all present verb forms of jugar, ir and hacer - An oral translation board game (no snakes no ladders)

TOPICS; daily routine, school, health and lifestyle, family relationships and my 'universals' Research shows clearly that teaching vocabulary through patterns and collocations is a much more effective way than teaching single words. Although I have always endeavoured to teach words in context and phrases, this collection of quickies is more au fait with current vocab research. As a result, here is a new set of GCSE revision quickies that are chunk-based and focus on collocation and lexical priming. These new quickies complement the ones I have previously created beautifully in my opinion. Why you should use them: they reflect the way humans learn languages - through chunks and lexical patterns rather than single words. So the focus here is on developing a repertoire of ready-to-use phrases recycled over and over again.

8 revision quickies on health and holidays for GCSE students of middle to high proficiency