A starter / plenary. Pupils write the answer on their whiteboards before Speedy Gonzales or Spongebob go into the hole !

Colour in the baubles of the tree. Useful for Early years / KS1 & KS2 languages Baubles have numbers, place the codes on the board, e.g. for French: 1 = rouge 2 = orange 3 = jaune 4 = vert 5 = bleu 6 = blanc 7 = noir 8 = violet 9 = marron

Really wanted a penalty shoot-out quiz that's been updated for 2014 and available in Spanish? Here it is ! Enjoy ! Update of the original by Gavin Hillage on TES. 1. Split your class into two, and fill in the questions for whatever topic you were teaching. 2. For song/video to play: Please download all the files available into the same folder. 3. Slide 3 is a fun starter. Translate the text before the footballs obscure you from reading it. 4. Update/changes log: Thankyou Lisilu for the recommendation, corrections now added.

To make your date, title and objectives PRETTY and attractive for the class to see as they walk in. Quick to focus their attention.

This can be used to help pupils memorise a piece of work and encourages the class to compete to memorise the most. It can be used for any subject. You must enable Macros in Excel for the 'update' button to work.

Family Fortunes game As a whole class activity, use this game to analyse the strengths of a written text in an AFL procedure to help pupils take strong aspects of another person's work to improve their own. OR As a whole class activity, practice new vocabulary by asking pupils to rank the 6 most popular items that you taught. E.g. Rank school subjects by popularity Rank food items by popularity. 1 point for being in the top 6 2 points for being in the correct position in the top 6.

Looking for a fun, fast, way to get your pupils learning new vocabulary and structures? This game is designed to do just that. Pupils have to work in pairs to translate text as it scrolls upwards and before it disappears. One pupils must be looking away from the board and must listen to their partner, who reads out the text as it appears. Their partner must listen attentively and translate the text into the other language.

Use of an authentic material (Van Gogh’s painiting of his bedroom) to teach the bedroom items.

A resource for your pupils to use as revision of all the tenses and irregular verbs. Includes every single tense and mood that your students will need at KS2,3,4,5.

Make translation exciting ! Pupils take it in turns to translate text as it scrolls upwards, Star Wars style. Input 10 lines of text for your pupils to translate, making the translations progressively harder. The challenge is translating them in time before they disappear off the page. One pupil must not be able to see the board and they must listen to their partner as he or she reads out the text as it appears. The partner who cannot see then translates. Then swap! French version available also

A whole lesson. Objective: teach prepositions (year7 or 8 Spanish) Students reinforce this through the humour of a meerkat bouncing around the room. Optional extra: print out a meerkat picture and place it around your classroom for further practice. A variety of games and plenary activity provided for the lesson, as well as writing, reading/ translation, speaking, listening within the plenary.

Document created to comply with upcoming Ofsted inspection, showing how students can see their increased expectations and criteria to progress along the grading scale from year to year.

A series of vivid, colourful, animated role play cards designed to provide your students with the necessary vocabulary needed in a wide range of role plays. The first four cards come complete with worksheets to help prepare students. The last two don’t - they should try to apply the vocabulary from the other cards to the last two independently. The roleplays are far more expanded than what is required in the GCSE paper - intended to give students a real context and interest in real life scenarios (at the airport, in the shop, in the leisure centre, asking for help with a map, at the cinema, etc).

Complete lesson based around saying ‘what hurts’. Learning Objective: To be able to name at least 5 body parts from memory. To be able to say what hurts. Vocabulary covered: la garganta los oidos los ojos el estomago los brazos los pies la rodilla las piernas la mano la espalda la cabeza las muelas el cuerpo Jugué al fútbol/baloncesto – I played football/basketball Hice esquí/natación – I went skiing/swimming Fui a la discoteca /bolera– I went to the disco/bowling alley Caí de mi caballo – I fell off my horse Comí tres hamburguesas/calamares/muchas gambas – I ate three burgers/squid/a lot of prawns Bebí mucha cerveza/mucho vino/ demasiado coca – I drank a lot of beer/ a lot of wine/ too much water ¡Ay! ¡Qué horror! ¡Qué desastre! ¡Qué tonto! – Oh! How awful! What a disaster! How silly!

A lovely plenary game for your class at the end of the class. Split the group into 3 / 4 teams. Give each group a white board. Give the class a sentence (or word) to translate. The first group to show their completed sentence can pick a number on the board. Behind the numbers there might be treasure ! A coin = 1 point. A treasure chest = 3 points.

A useful resource to help your students master opinions: Uses my favourite biscuit acronym “OREO” - Opinion -Reason - Example - Other’s Opinion. (It should read “Oreoo” really! Useful for both writing and speaking exams.

Document created to comply with upcoming Ofsted inspection, showing how students can see their increased expectations and criteria to progress along the grading scale from year to year.

A Spanish introduction is what your students need if they are new starters to your school ! Find included a great interactive lesson where students are introduced to the dictionary and then watch a video about a Spanish girl introducing herself. They then write their own piece, using the dictionary to help them with their likes/dislikes. Authentic video. High level of challenge, but also support in form of (Spanish) subtitles. High pace lesson, plenty of activities to crack on with Complete worksheets, homework, video is integrated into the powerpoint COlourful game at the end Key vocab Me llamo Hablo Soy Soy de Tengo Mi cantante favorito es … Mis amigas son … Mi mascota es …

A variety of worksheets that teach the key colours in French, reinforced by listening to the song Leon le Cameleon Additionally, you can use the book Le loup qui voulait changer de couleur to support your lesson (worksheet included) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHII3ydsL8U - Leon le Cameleon

A fantastic activity for your lesson, start, middle or end of your lesson! All subjects or tutor! All ages! Two race tracks - Mario Kart style track and ‘Under the water’ Spongebob Style. Choose one of the following 5 race options: 5 teams - Mario & Modern Games 5 teams -Spongebob and Classic Cartoons 4 teams - Yoshi & Modern Games 3 teams - Yoshi & Modern Games 2 teams - Yoshi & Modern Games Click on the car to make it move towards the finishing line! A celebratory message for the winner of the race can be played by clicking on the fish / supporters on the track edge!