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.

A simple wordsearch for practising the colours in French. Children write the correct word on each splat then find the word in the wordsearch. A teacher guide is provided.

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

A short movie showing French words that we use in English. Show your pupils that they speak more French than they think ! A way of starting the first lesson with Y7, to put the language into a context. It could also start an interesting discussion or fact-finding mission about why these words exist in English.

A simple wordsearch for practising the colours in Spanish. Children write the correct word on each splat then find the word in the wordsearch. A teacher guide is provided.

This is the vocabulary which is given by Edexcel at the back of the specification. I've broken it down into smaller topic areas for ease of use, and added the genders and the English.

A set of Happy Families cards in Spanish to help the children to practise family vocabulary. You could also use them to introduce the notion of gender and adjectival agreement. An MFL Sunderland taster. On MFL Sunderland you will also find the French version.

These are the key phrases from the Edexcel role-plays for French and Spanish (mainly the A role-plays) Print’em out and stick’em up. Who knows, it might just work ! I originally did them in Publisher but have PDFed them to avoid common Publisher problems.

A short PowerPoint containing short texts which give information about the current legislation concerning smoking in France. The second resource is the vocabulary list to go with 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.

I usually get my students to repeat the personal pronouns in English and in French to a rhythm (pat pat clap clap) to get them to remember what they are and the order they are in. However my Y8 this year have no sense of rhythm and it was a disaster. One of them, though, said Miss, you should record it. So blame him ! The lyrics are (unsurprisingly) I you he she we you they, Je tu il elle nous vous ils elles The idea is that they listen and then repeat. This is my first attempt at something like this - hope you like it !

Children need to fill in the speech bubbles correctly, using the example given and the writing frame to help them. There is also a space for them to write about the sports they love. Could be a good introduction to the Olympics, and to some dictionary work, as children look for the names of new sports.

Ready to print out, cards with the names of Francophone countries around the world and their flags. Can be used for display or as part of a lesson.

Children need to fill in the speech bubbles correctly, using the example given and the writing frame to help them. There is also a space for them to write about the sports they love. Could be a good introduction to the Olympics, and to some dictionary work, as children look for the names of new sports.

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

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

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 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.

<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>