GCSE frequent synonyms organised on posters for display.

This is my second lesson on months, the exercises are to slowly reinforce the words and to lead to the kids being able to say the words by themselves. The second part of the presentation introduces the birthday phrase and asks for them to deduct the rules. Can be easily adapted for other languages.

2004 Edexcel Role Play cards, card comes up for 5 to 7 seconds then the answer appears. Could be used in class or uploaded in a shared area that is accessible to students so they can practise on their own.

As the kids love love songs, I went through my sister's and my cd collection and chose 18 songs that I liked and that represent a wide variety of musical styles of the last 20 years. I made worksheets for each song for the students to fill in as they listen. Some work better than others, just see what works for you and your classes. Many possibilites of exploring it further. Am just always astonished how many kids go away and download the music afterwards. Enjoy!

Students work in pairs and get one sheet each. They translate the top ten sentences and their partner checks (they have the translation), then their partner translates the bottom ten sentences. You can adapt to how able your students are if you want to translate French to English or English to French. This was for a lower ability year 8 class.

This should be enough for one lesson: Matching - kids should be able to work out most of them Odd one out (in the powerpoint I put down my answers obviously others are possible) A bit of** choral repetition ** Song Hier ist Halloween - put text in order Wordsearch - apologies I can’t credit the author as it was sent to me by a colleague words from the wordsearch check - half have been covered durint the first exercise, could be used with dictionaries Background of Halloween and religious origins and practices in Germany, possible discussion Hope you like it! (I have made a similar resource for French)