Structured reading & writing activity for relative beginners. Students have to read the text and then come up with ideas to fill the gaps. Accept any ideas that make sense.

A simpl,e unstructured writing task for beginners. Relies on the appeal of the pictures to get a response. Change the images to whoever your pupils like to write about.

Simple writing frame for beginners in German. They are gradually weaned off the support structures as they progress through the four individual tasks.

Relatively simple playscript for beginners who have done SEIN, a few adjectives of personality, and a few basic phrases. There is no real denouement to this dialogue but the pupils generally like it because I have a puppet just like the cat in the script ... Adapt the script to suit whichever props you have to hand. Once the students have practised the script as it stands, they could improvise changes to the words in bold type.

Two relatively straightforward,interactive drag and drop revision activities, one for definite and one for indefinite articles. Will work on PC or IW.

Text in German about Usain Bolt followed by comprehension questions in English and a writing task.

Interactive, self-marking gap-fill exercise based on a relatively accessible portrait of Usain Bolt. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive drag and drop exercise featuring all the Olympic disciplines for London 2012. The file will select ten sports at random from the full list, to make a new quiz each time it is opened. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive, self-marking cloze exercise about the London Olympics. Will work on PC or IW.

Sequence of slides showing things that are valued highly in monetary terms. Ask students to speculate as to the value of each object, before clicking to reveal the value. Finally, ask them to tell you what they value that doesn't cost anything. Did this with Year 7 and Year 8, but I suspect it would work OK with any year group.

Text about the world's first wind-powered car, with comprehension questions in German, and discussion questions which could also be answered in written form or used as a scaffold for oral work.

Plenary tool to help students reflect on the level of thinking that has been required of them in the lesson. The first slide acts as a homepage for the plenary. Ask students to choose a number. Click on one of the numbers and it will hyperlink you to a plenary question. Click on the 'back' button to return to the homepage.

Presentation delivered to Year 12 on memory, memory techniques and revision skills.

Handout from a workshop I ran on Boys and MFL. The research and the suggestions are, however, pretty generic.

Step by step instructions on how to produce a word cloud from pupils' work, minutes of meetings, any set of words in electronic format. The word cloud gives greatest emphasis to the words which appear most frequently.

Designed as an MFL assembly, but has a more universal point, and could be delivered by any teacher who can pronounce the Polish for 'Hello'. If you can't, it's not that hard to find someone who can teach you. I have added a mini-script to the Powerpoint.

Powerpoint I created for a whole-school workshop on Questioning, plus the handout with 11 Top Tips.

Resources from a North Somerset workshop on MFL I ran with Karen Canham. The Powerpoint could easily be adapted for Departmental CPD. The first Word doc contains questions for the card sort on the Powerpoint, but could be done as a diamond nine. The second Word doc contains some work to mark. (!)

Interactive, multiple choice exercise practising a range of regular and irregular past participles. There are 65 verbs embedded in the file and the file will create a new quiz of 20 verbs selected at random each time the exercise is opened.

Potted history of Germany in ten dates. In this interactive exercise students must match the events to the dates. Will work on PC or IW.