A passionate MFL and Media teacher for over 30 years, I am also a co-author of Expo 1 & 2 and am still involved in commercial textbook writing. I was an Advanced Skills Teacher for Modern Languages, running successful workshops for teachers.
You will find here a range of resources for French and German teaching, mainly for 11-16 year olds.
Plus some A-Level Media Studies and general learning resources.
Based on over 30 years' classroom experience in the non-selective secondary state sector.
A passionate MFL and Media teacher for over 30 years, I am also a co-author of Expo 1 & 2 and am still involved in commercial textbook writing. I was an Advanced Skills Teacher for Modern Languages, running successful workshops for teachers.
You will find here a range of resources for French and German teaching, mainly for 11-16 year olds.
Plus some A-Level Media Studies and general learning resources.
Based on over 30 years' classroom experience in the non-selective secondary state sector.
8 page mini-book. Ideal for topic revision, keyword and vocabulary lists.
7.5x10.5cm
Careful, crisp folding is needed. Only one small scissor cut is required.
Resource contains two A4 sheets. One is a template with folding instructions for practice.
The other is a blank template.
You can find a Youtube video walkthrough. Just search for: 8 Page Mini Book Made from a Single Sheet of Paper!
A French/English pantomime-style play, based on Little Red Riding Hood
Written by Jon Meier.
THIS IS A 5-PAGE EXTRACT. FREE TASTER
Lots of humour and great fun - especially the Wolf whose favourite song is Shaggy’s Boombastic
Most of the dialogue is in English but there’s plenty of French, repeated and reinforced visually.
Suitable for ages 7-10. Duration around 25 mins.
About 14 in the cast (scope for flexibility, sharing and doubling of roles). This includes some non-speaking roles.
Others can be used for sound, props, poster and programme design etc
Can be worked on in 1 day (with scripts) – intensive work with a scripted performance at the end of the day.
Show in assembly or at a languages celebration event
or just have fun reading it through.
Ideal for primary French + a language/ drama festival competition.
It could fill a few weeks of lunchtime and after school French clubs.
Sixth-formers could help out.
Language is visual and contextualised.
Audience will also understand it as the story is familiar and the French is explained.
The full script contains details of props and sound effects, with links to downloadable sound effects.
Vocabulary lists are also included with the full version showing the vocabulary on each page.
___________________________________________________________________________
Petit Chaperon sound files - links are in the script
_______________________________________________________________________________
You may also be interested in similar texts for older pupils:
my version of Cinderella - Cindy va à Hollywood
and Snow White - ‘Blanche Neige et les Sept Reporters’
A selection of grids on Powerpoint which can be used for learning competitions.
They include
staircase, noughts & crosses board, 4 in a row, shark-infested water, football field, racetrack.
Except for the staircase, which can be used ‘live’ in presentation mode, the grids are best used with Powerpoint in edit (write) mode. This is so that you can write on the background or move shapes around.
A pdf version of this resource is also available if you want to copy backgrounds onto Smartboard pages.
A Powerpoint with 3 slides of hex shapes.
Cut out hexagonal shapes and use them to plan essays, link or sequence ideas.
Excellent for group work, recapping topics, organising ideas.
You can colour-code them to group concepts and plan written answers.
Print & cut them out in different colours.
Pupils can lay them & move them around, ideally, on an A3 sheet.
It has also proved to be a good way of improving handwriting!
A selection of grids which can be used for learning competitions.
They include
staircase, noughts & crosses board, 4 in a row, shark-infested water, football field, racetrack.
You could copy a background onto your Smartboard page.
A Powerpoint version of this resource is also available.