Don't we often underestimate how difficult they find it to use a dictionary and isn&'t it always annoying when they say they can&';t find the word and they are in the wrong half of the dictionary.\nWe use Petit Nicolas in Y7 so this is why he appears in this ppt but also we always do teach classroom objects. So to have fun and teach how to look up nouns the task requires them to look up words like conker and marbles because that is just what Nicolas would have in his bag apart from his ruler and so on. I then thought they could look up what teenage Nicolas would have.

I created a whole SOW around the idea that Y9 were making a low budget latin american version of LOST-see KS$ GCSE textbook for Edexcel for original idea.\nSo when we do sports we do water sports and introduce them via likes and dislikes before introducing more conventional sports

This goes with article about legal age of consent and problems facing young people.\nI think they will respond to the A level style theme. Much more fun than doing what is your daily diet and do you get enough exercise.

Not the most inspiring of topics. The grammar summary is aimed at my class in particular but you might find it useful and it is easy to adapt to a different context that might be more relevant. The quien manda is a reading but I need to re-add questions/tasks so will you. Cinderella brings together talking about relationships with imperfect and present tense and helping around the house.

A series of tasks I have put together for my Y10 Spanish group on topic of food and diet in order to make the start of Y11 less hectic because I never quite cover as much of curriculum as I would like to in Y10. It includes key vocabulary for listening and reading on food topic, some verb tense revision but actually key sentences for how to talk about diet, then a writing task. They will be doing CA on health in autumn.

Quite a challenging reading task for Y9, but do insist they don't mindlessly tick boxes but have to make a note of new language. I get them to use the language in order to then write a lengthy paragraph about cinema going habits and preferences. I have got them to ask and answer the questions in pairs as well.

F/H or higher reading tasks on smoking and alcohol\n\nNon verbal response

Previously I just posted an explanation of the activity and how to use it. I have now added the instructions/prompt sheet I give to my students and a vocabulary task sheet on music which is based on Edexcel AS past papers

I have just put together display for sprucing up classroom at start of term- have had them laminated A3- For years I have been putting up classroom language signs and then failing to sustain insistence that they use the phrases so I have distilled it down to absolute minimum on one poster and have decided to challenge them to keep it going all year.\nMeetings and greetings- not all that clever really but again just to see if I can get them to say hi in Spanish spontaneously if the constant reminder is on display

A way to get disaffected Y9 students through the last few weeks of term.\n\nDoes not have to be done at the end of the year. You may well want to change bits to fit what you have done with your classes. Also the bit about Viva Argentina relates to current world cup and so will be out of date soon and is my wind up of the boys in one of my Y9 classes.\n\nCould be all in Spanish to make it more challenging and be used in KS4 or indeed KS5.

Knicked the idea from GCSE text book and then created a whole series of resources around a group of Spanish speaking characters marooned on an island. You can then do daily routine of the survivors, water sports rather than conventional sports/Who caused the plane to crash and why/ who is having an affair with who and so on-relationships. It lends itself to anything you like in the end. Suddenly boring topics become more fun and students have really run with the idea. will add more of my stuff on this soon

New GCSE and 'literature', we are doing education with Y7 so I have created this reading skills focussed ppt using extracts from les excuses de petit Nicolas\n\nUse of white boards and an element of competition stops it from being too teacher led and the great thing about Nicolas is if they like him he can come up again- we are doing les vacances with Y8 so we might add in a petit Nicolas on holiday extract

I created this to help my Y11 prepare for a CA on what they do at weekend. \nAttempt to help them create more extended answers

Higher reading resource taken from French newspaper and then edited\n\nwith questions in English

Can be used with able students in Y9, particularly the questionnaire vas al cine a menudo

Speaks for itself really. He seems to be hugely popular at the moment. This is a challenging reading but because they know something about him already it appeals to boys in particular.\n\nAlternative easier version also included that I use with weaker GCSE students and KS3

How to make comparisons fun for a disaffected Y8 or Y9- well at least I think it's fun. The Wordsearch is meant to encourage choice of interesting adjectives and give you a bit of space. The next thing on that sheet could be used as a card sort if you have the time/energy. I always think getting them to put the sentence together works but I have taken to giving a sentence per pair and then a quick put it back in envelope and pass on. The jumbled version of the same grid is called a sentence machine. They work in teams with a piece of paper. Each time they correctly combine a set of words to make a sentence they send a runner to check and then cross it off in the machine. The more sentences they generate the more points and points mean rewards. The PPT introduces the structure and there are plenty of extra pics if you want to print some off and get them to generate their own example sentences in pairs.

I think I've shared this before but this is a slimmer version for Y8 or Y9 beginners as opposed to GCSE. Aim to make doing routine and working with present tense a bit more fun by describing the day of a Vicky Pollard type character.

Aim is to do invitations and modal verbs but make it more fun by having a scenario where A is keen on B but B does not want to go out on a date and ends up having to be blunt. There are typical excuses with je dois + infinitive but then a dictionary/translation skills exercise that adds in such things as It is a full moon and I am going to turn in to a werewolf. When they write their own dialogues they end up having more fun than the classic text book dialogue that has them saying they cant because they've got to go to visit their gran.

More than one lessons worth for teaching how to describe home/bedroom. Students can then use to write about own house and create Ads to sell their dream home. I also get them to write a description of their dream bedroom because more creative-changing rooms idea. Properties in the sun is a challenge to get them using more interesting vocab. Silly points is someone else's game so thank you to whoever put that on TES- but I have made it in to describing home- Play with it so you can see why it is called silly points. Students absolutely love it and they work really hard on the tasks- You can adapt any way you like and at any level- so you can do things like -10 seconds to give me 10 words for....