Say an item in the bedroom at random in the target language and pupils raise their left hands if there’s a blue ‘L’ underneath the picture, their right hands if there’s a green ‘R’ underneath the picture and both hands if there’s a red ‘L&R’ underneath the picture.

Use this resource to practise talking about TV. Using the grid at the top of the page, pupils change certain details in the conversation, depending on what number is rolled on their dice.

For pairwork activities. Full instructions are on the document, but the basic idea is that pupils try to guess each element of a phrase or short paragraph in a limited amount of attempts.

I’ve used this for A level French, as a starter, discussing the different viewpoints of de Gaulle and Pétain during the occupation of France in WW2. It’s the ideal way to get pupils moving and to wake them up! In the above example, I had a picture of de Gaulle for the left hand and Pétain for the right. Students had to then read the clue and decide who it referred to.

Pupils get a copy of page 1. The second page has both the teacher's notes and the weather symbols to cut out and give to pupils for the activity. Read out the weather for certain areas of Germany and pupils put the weather symbols onto the correct place on the map.

This is a short PPT to introduce pupils to how to greet others in France, including what to say at what time of day and the culture of kissing.

There are reminders on this PPT of how to form the perfect tense and the future tense, designed for a ‘quick-look’reminder’ display.

This PPT explains on a simple level how to use two verbs together in French.

Use this PPT to introduce personality words in German. After being introduced, the image will fly past quickly and pupils have to give the relevant German word.

Pupils use the clues (Christmas, etc) to write the correct month in French on the sheet.

This is a brief explanation of regular -er verbs in French.

Give these as printed sheets to students. They then start from the inner circle to begin to write their own paragraph, based on this guidance. The topic here is saying what you did last weekend and what you bought, then saying what you’re going to do next weekend and what you’re going to wear. Different tenses used.

Introduce pupils to the question 'Tu portes…?' Using pictures of 3 celebrities in different outfits, this PPT talks about describing what you’re wearing and giving your opinion of ‘le look’.

On the first slide, pupils must decide whether the opinion word is positive or negative. Pupils then give a sentence, giving their opinion, to play Battleships. For example, “Ich finde das Hemd altmodisch.” Use that grid reference to reveal a square by clicking on it. If there’s an exploded battleship underneath, that team gets the point. If not, move over to the other team. There are 5 to find.

Which 8 were invented/discovered by French people? Pupils choose the 8 inventions/discoveries they think are correct and click on them. Either a tick or a cross will appear. An example is ‘Battery 1800’.

Pupils fill in the gaps in the worksheet as they listen to the traditional French carol. There is a link to the song on YouTube on the sheet as well.

Pupils have cards in pairs and pick up a TV show card, an opinion card and ‘je les trouve’ card, followed by ‘Par contre’ to make sentences. Example: J’adore les dessins animés. Je les trouve très amusants. Par contre, je n’aime pas les documentaires. Je les trouves ennuyeux.

This PPT introduces the rules of how to say ‘in’ or ‘to’ different places (e.g. feminine, masculine or plural countries, etc).

This is a presentation for an alternative curriculum day. Any age group can do it, but you would need to adjust the end task to make it harder for older pupils. I used this with pupils from high-ability Year 7 up to Year 9. Pupils are introduced to the vocab needed for the display (switch off lights, put rubbish in the bin, etc).

Add your own verb and its paradigm to this slide, allowing pupils to practise conjugating the given verb in pairs, using a dice.