LO: Can I say where my house is in relation to other things? Powerpoint to teach vocabulary to give a more precise location, following on from house and area. La banque La poste La gare L’église L’arrêt de bus Le supermarché Le collège Les magasins près de / loin de /à côté de / en face de du / de la / de l' /des Matching activity, Splat, O&X games, translation activity.

Lesson to bring together learning on film topic and write about films using 3 tenses. Activities include Odd-one-out, Quiz-quiz-trade, translation, Multiple choice reading quiz, guess the sentence from the first letter and a couple of truly terrible jokes (sorry!). Also includes writing frame and word mat.

Powerpoint presentation to enable pupils to be able to say where they are going and what they are going to do. Includes places in town, & a comparison with near future tense, translation exercises, sentence builder, extended reading.

A lesson to encourage pupils to identify and use key structures in their writing - adjectives, verbs, opinions, connectives, adverbs, details and originality. Includes a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like), text adaptation, and a writing scaffold. I have used this with Year 8 at the end of Viva 2 Module 4, to get pupils to create a piece of writing

A slideshow to review four simple responses to the question 'Ca va?' Also, 5 new expressions using the verb avoir - j'ai faim, j'ai peur, j'ai soif, j'ai chaud, j'ai froid. The last slide could be used to consolidate by playing a variety of games - noughts and crosses, telepathy, slap the board, corners - all the usual repertoire.

Understanding a story in French. Adapted from a couple of resources downloaded from TES authors qjess and Kate Gerrard, this powerpoint file allows the teacher to introduce key French vocabulary from the story by playing games such as 'Telepathy', 'Fly Swat' and 'Chinese Whipers'. Pupils will then be familiar with some of the key language they encounter when they read the story - the characters (la mere, Petit Chaperon Rouge, la gran-mere, le loup, le forestier) and other nouns such as parts of the face, le panier, le lit, la maison, la foret and les fleurs.

En la ciudad - Spanish lesson to review places in town, then beginning to ask where places are. Used with Year 8 at the start of Viva 2, Module 5. Including: Select the correct option from 2 possible phrases to match pictures, phonics review to help with pronunciation, matching pictures to phrases, noughts and crosses to practise places (gradually removing written support), delayed copying exercise and highlighter splat.

Mes projets worksheet on future holiday plans. Perfect for cover or consolidation, this worksheet builds difficulty gradually, and contains a grid at the top with all the essential vocabulary. Activities include match up, missing letters, correct the order of the words, translation to English, translation to French and writing.

Future holiday plans worksheet. Perfect for cover, consolidation or homework. Activities include match up, missing letters, put the words in the correct order, translation into English, translation into Spanish and writing.

An inverted pyramid to display adverbs of frequency. Pupils can refer to it in class to say how often they do things - rarely, never, often etc.

Using near future to say what you are going to do tomorrow / at the weekend / in the holidays, extending sentences by saying where, with whom and expressing opinions. Ir + infinitive - voy a , vas a, va a , vamos a , vais a, van a Future time expressions - mañana, la semana que viene, este fin de semana, en las vacaciones ir de compras / al estadio / al cine / al polideportivo / al centro commercial / al parque jugar al fútbol / tenis / rugby / voleibol / con el ordenador hacer natación / ciclismo / patinaje / esquí / senderismo en el parque / en casa / en el polideportivo / en la playa / en el campo / en las montañas con mi madre / padre / hermano / hermana/ amigo / amiga / familia con mis amigos / padres / abuelos / hermanos / hermanas en mi opinión / creo que / pienso que... va a ser... aburrido / divertido / interesante / fenomenal / estupendo / horrible / fácil /difícil

A word mat with LOTS of Spanish time phrases, connectives (grouped by function), intensifiers and adjectives. Also, useful questions for tackling ANY reading task, and some questions to help pupils to prepare to complete a writing task in Spanish. Best to print and laminate for pupils to use regularly, or alternatively put in the front of pupils' books folders for regular use.

French interrogatives display with visual cues. It is really important that pupils understand the question words for the new GCSE, so display these in a prominent place in your classroom where pupils of all ages will see them regularly. If you refer to them and practise using them with the questions you ask in class they will soon catch on. They could equally be used as flashcards.

Spanish numbers 1-101 for classroom wall display. The thick black text is cheap to print, easy to see. Always a good idea to have basics such as numbers visible on display in classroom so that pupils can refer to them.

Pupils can use a greater variety of adjectives by using this Adjective Alphabet - find a Spanish adjective for any letter of the alphabet. If you have pupils who repeats adjectives when justifying opinions, give them this and tell them to find something more interesting. Can also be used for revision.

Display high frequency, important vocabulary on your classroom wall. Fill your wall with words for a literacy-rich classroom display. Comprised of lists of French time phrases, connectives, intensifiers, opinion phrases and some common adjectives. Pupils love to stretch themselves by including words or phrases from the wall to improve their work. Challenge them to include particular ones for effective differentiation.

Spanish interrogatives display with visual cues. It is really important that pupils understand the question words for the new GCSE, so display these in a prominent place in your classroom where pupils of all ages will see them regularly. If you refer to them and practise using them with the questions you ask in class they will soon catch on. They could equally be used as flashcards. Includes: ¿Cuàndo? ¿Cuàl? ¿Dónde? ¿Cómo? ¿Quién? ¿Por qué? ¿Qué? ¿Cuánto? ¿Cuántos?

Vocab recap - students fill in table and knowledge gaps filled with help of teacher Present the reflexive verbs and give students some verbs from their list to conjugate on mini whiteboards Extended reading task with multiple choice answers for whole class response using decision discs. Could also be used as a translation task. Writing frame to allow pupils to create their own written work from the model provided.

A French resource for pupils to describe a residential trip to Wales using past tense, opinions and intensifiers. Our Year 7s went in two groups, so I used this lesson with the pupils who were in school the second half of the week to describe the trip.