Ten of my best ‘go to’ starter activities for the MFL classroom. I can’t take credit for all the ideas, many have been inspired by ideas seen on twitter.

Exemplar general conversation questions and answers for the topic of home and local area.

I use these verb tables to test my students on their tense endings on a weekly basis. Delete the endings from several boxes and ask them to fill in the gaps, start by deleting just a small number and gradually increase the number of endings that you delete until students can eventually complete a whole blank table. I also get them to complete one key irregular verb each week.

A sample page from our Viva revision packs. Each pack includes: word search and gap fill translation photo card activity correct the mistakes writing practice

Taken from the Edexcel sample Assesment material a list of possible tasks and indicative content. Students can complete the final column with their key ideas in Spanish.

Avocados planning grid, can be used to plan out a writing piece or evaluate once completed.

A collection of vocbulary tests covering all units. Vocabulary taken from the new specification. Pupils will be tested in both Spanish and English.

List of useful sites for MFL teaching resources and revision material

A series of resources to help teach Ocho Apellidos Vascos. Includes: 3 X Translations Vocab sort Scenes Quotations

A handy one page reference guide covering all tenses in Spanish. Perfect for A Level and GCSE students,

3 handy one page guides to the Present, Past and Future Tenses in Spanish. Designed to be printed back to back and laminated or placed inside pupils folders/books.

Ensure your students are fully confident with the Present Tense! This pack contains a collection of handouts and worksheets covering regular, irregular and stem-changing verbs. Activities include: - Conjugations - Matchups - Multiple choice - Gap fills - Translations - Crosswords All documents are Word Documents so can be adapted to your own needs.

A handout and worksheet to practice irregular verbs in the preterite tense.

This pack includes a one-page reference guide on Regular Verbs in the Preterite Tense. In addition there are 3 worksheets to practice the regular forms and a game of Connect 4 for pupils.

A collection of 11 different worksheets covering the topic of 'Holidays'. Worksheets include vocabulary, reading exercises, gap fills, translations and writing tasks. Past, present and future tenses covered.

A small worksheet covering how to form the present continous tense.

8 translation worksheets covering each of the modules in the Viva GCSE texbook.

A series of structured translation activities covering the Un Mundo Mejor unit in the Viva textbook. All modules available as a bundle at my TES shop.

A series of structured translation activities covering the Ciudades unit in the Viva textbook. All modules available as a bundle at my TES shop.