Descriptive text about a jouney in the North of Norway. The text provides a stimulus for structured poetry writing. Students have to list all the descriptive elements of the text and then re-arrange them until they have a poem. Classroom-tested!
Presentation for departmental CPD. Summary of key points from OfSTED findings relating to MFL lessons observed between 2007 and 2010. OfSTED comments relate to lessons observed in French, German, Spanish ... etc!
Nativity dialogue based on words and phrases from the french Christmas carol 'Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris'. Also includes a little bit of practice of the date.
List of the months in German followed by images designed to provoke students into guessing the month from the weather / events they are looking at. Lots of possible correct answers = lots of guesses. If you've taught the weather you could invite students to justify their guesses.
A number of short blogs on the topic of marriage, followed by
(i) reading comprehension questions in English
(ii) a 'Find the phrase' exercise
(iii) manipulation of sentences in the blogs to create (slightly) new language.
This interactive activity will randomly select 10 jobs from an embedded list of fifty and create a match-up exercise to be completed against the clock. You can use it repeatedly and it will never quite be the same activity twice.