For lower ability pupils, to help them to prepare their conversation questions on a basic level.

A starter or consolidation exercise. Cut them up and see if they can reassemble the square by putting the pieces together correctly.

A set of 11 display cards showing the colors. Could also be used as flashcards.

This is a collection of facts that I put together for the visit of Baroness Coussins to the Links into Languages NE conference in January 2011. Useful for making the case for languages to 8th grade !

Looking for a song about animals, with some fun animal noises ? Here you are - the French version of Old MacDonald. The website has more than 24 more songs.

A fun quiz for students to help them to find out more about Spain, Spanish and Spaniards.

Lots of core vocabulary, including prepostions and question words. All you have to do is cut out the ones you want and mount them.

A PowerPoint presentation where a new French family is introduced to Springfield. Students are invited to act as interpreters for the non-French speaking Simpson family. You could put the presentation on a timer, show it to the students, and then give them a copy of the French slides so that they can work on the translation. They could then either dub or subtitle the presentation.

A display key for a marking code designed to help students to correct their own written work. The idea is that you underline a word that has a mistake and write the appropriate code above it.

Match up the vocabulary for the items that Santa’s elves sell in their shop and then work out the role plays using the Edexcel role play icons.

Four different quiz sheets that can be completed in pairs or groups. Give all the groups sheet A, give them a limited time (10 minutes perhaps) to complete it, then collect it in and while they are completing sheet B, grade sheet A and put the grades on the board. And so on.

A short PowerPoint presentation which shows how to conjugate regular -ER verbs in the present tense. Can be used for whole class or for independent study or reviewing.

<p>A PowerPoint to introduce students to some Halloween vocabulary, to practice quantities and to enable them to write their own magic potion recipes. Give students a copy of the first slide and spell out the vocabulary. Use the subsequent slides to check if they’re correct. Then dictate some quantities on the next slide for students to write down. Finally, there is some vocabulary to enable students to write their own.</p>

A good way to consolidate the formation of the Passé Composé in French. Just write 4 past participles of your choice (I usually do one -ER, one -IR, one -RE and one irregular) in the boxes down the side, and away you go! Excellent pair game. Each player has a sheet and uses the first grid to record their own ships (we usually have 8) and the second grid to record their hits and misses. Can be adapted for lots of other grammatical points as well.

A set of 11 A5 display cards showing the colours. Could also be used as flashcards.

<p>All the adverbs your classes will ever need to enrich and enhance their written work ! Cut them out and then mount them however you like.</p>

A series of PowerPoint presentations to help pupils to answer their questions on a basic level. More able pupils will want (and need !) to embellish these answers. The presentations are designed either for pupils to use by themselves or for the teacher to use with a whole class.

YouTube link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hrUGFhsXo - to an amusing skit song in French from a TV show called Flight of the Conchords; we liked it and the challenge, once we tracked down the lyrics, has been to use it in the classroom. Students fill in the missing words or phrases in the lyrics without knowing what it’s all about - it looks like just a random list of French. Then play them the song to see if they’re right. The other resource is a copy of the complete lyrics, including the chorus and repetitive bits, and with some of the glaring errors corrected. </p>