A set of worksheets to enable students to practise the instructions they come across in the exams; a vital but often forgotten skill for success at GCSE. This resource comes with an answer sheet, making an easy cover lesson for KS4 students.

An eye-catching set of posters to aid your students in using the four most common irregular verbs in French: aller, avoir, être and faire. Can be printed on A4 or A3 (or bigger, if you have the printing facilities).

A selection of eye-catching posters to aid your students with their tenses. The posters include -er verbs in the present, perfect, imperfect and conditional tenses. Can be printed on A4 or A3 (or bigger, if you have the printing equipment).

An eye-catching poster to aid your students in using the days of the week. Can be printed A4 or A3 (or bigger, if you have the printing equipment).

Eye-catching posters to be used as a visual aid for your students when conjugating in the present tense, plus a poster for the near future. The PDFs can be printed up to size A3 or larger, if you have the specialist printing equipment.

An eye-catching poster to aid your students with their days of the week in Spanish.

Eye-catching posters which can be printed up to A3 size to aid your students with their Spanish common irregular verbs. Verbs included: Hacer Tener Ir Ser Estar

A selection of 44 worksheets to revise or consolidate the topics of sports, hobbies and weather along with links to 24 online resources which have been played and ‘liked’ by many other teachers. If, like many other teachers, you are spending term 6 in consolidating this year’s work as part of your Covid Curriculum Recover these resources will be invaluable in enabling students of all abilities to revise the topic. In addition to the vocabulary and sentence games there are speaking stimuli and resources for practising regular present tense verbs as well as the verbs jugar and hacer.

A selection of 30 worksheets and more than 10 online resources to help your students to revise and practice the topic of family and pets. If, like many teachers, you are spending term 6 in consolidating this year’s topics with your classes, these resources should prove very useful. Worksheets and online resources cover: family vocab animals vocab physical descriptions vocab personality vocab gender of nouns adjectival endings making links with English words skill

A collection of 40 resources, including worksheets and online resources to help your students to revise the topic ‘All About Me’ from their first term of Spanish. If, like many teachers across the country, you are spending term 6 revising this year’s topics, these resources should make planning quick and easy. Vocabulary covers the topics of: Greetings Numbers Months Dates / Birthdays Classroom objects Colours Classroom phrases There are also grammar resources looking at the gender of nouns and adjectival endings. Finally there is a resource which helps students to practise the reading skills of using cognates, context and keywords.

An extension task which I keep on the wall of my classroom throughout the year. Students can go to the Challenge Wall whenever they have completed a task which the rest of the class are still working on. This task contains a text about the solar system and activities which will help students to break the text into chunks and begin to understand a great deal of it. A good way of getting students to practise their reading skills independently and a good way of extending their vocabulary.

A worksheet which requires students to demonstrate that they understand a wide range of days, months and numbers, plus a few phrases for saying what the day or date is. Students identify the same word or phrase in French and English and colour both boxes in the same colour to show that they have matched them. Students may need to use patterns as a means of showing matched pairs unless they have a huge number of different coloured pencils!

A huge crossword that requires students to revise all of the vocab they have learned in term 1 of year 7, including months, numbers, days and greetings. Students will have to consider their spelling carefully and spell words correctly if all of the words are to fit in. The first tab of the document contains the crossword and clues. The second tab contains a word bank for the students who need the most support whilst the third tab contains a slightly less comprehensive word bank. Obviously the most able students should not be given a word bank. Classes love the challenge of one of my massive crosswords and will happily spend the whole lesson revising in this way!

A collection of resources to be used at the beginning of KS3 to help students to understand classroom instructions. There is a list which we use as a department to ensure that we are all using the same phrases, plus a student worksheet, a help sheet for students who are 'on red' (traffic lights) and an extension task on powerpoint for the more able.

Included is a pronunciation table which can be glued into students' exercise books. I (or a student) select a section of the table at the beginning of the lesson and everyone has to answer the register with a word from that section. The repetition of a particular sound is helpful in reinforcing correct pronunciation and classes have confirmed that this has helped them greatly with their pronunciation. There is also a powerpoint which gives students tasks to complete based on the pronunciation table and a worksheet which can be set as homework. Finally I have included a set of spelling tests which are based on specific phonemes, rather than the traditional topics. These are also helpful when set occasionally, in helping students to focus on the link between sound and spelling. In terms of neuro-plasticity it is also helpful to give students something slightly different!

This resource is used by every teacher in my department and it's all about getting over that motivation barrier in the very first lesson. There's a settling activity which requires them to consider where French is spoken (thereby giving them a reason to learn the language), then a few of slides about the expectations we have of them (these can be taken out if preferred, or amended to suit your needs). The first 'real' task required students to identify the same word in four languages and to group them accordingly. This shows students how similar many languages are and that once they have begun to learn one foreign language, learning another one is easy! It also introduces them to the concept on cognates. Following this there are three pictures with a short phrase in French. Where necessary there are a few items of vocabulary. Students are to translate the meaning of the phrases, using cognates, the vocab given and the context of the picture to help them. I emphasise to them that in their first lesson they are already showing that they can understand whole phrases and practising important reading skills. The next slide shows a sign in Norwegian and asks students to apply the skills they've just learned to translate it, thereby showing students that although they are learning French, the skills they are learning can be applied to any language. The final section of the powerpoint shows a number of amazing places around the world (an attempt to broaden students' horizons beyond the region they live in), interspersed with reasons to learn a foreign language. I ask students to make brief notes of these reasons and then at the end of the ppt to select the 5 reasons which are most important to them. We discuss these reasons briefly at the end of the lesson.