The text is from les clés de l'actualité junior. It can be used as an extension reading activity and then as a document for discussion.

This is a list of all AQA stimulus cards grouped together by topic. It includes all papers up to June 2012.

I have these printed A3 size and laminated and the students can refer to them when speaking in spontaneous debates in class. They have been very positive about them and far from slowing the pace, it enables them to keep talking!

Handout where students have to unscramble ten sentences on the topic of TV to reveal another sentence.

Article from Figaro talking about the future of television with vocabulary exercise, comprehension questions and cloze exercises.

This is a paired speaking activity which I give to pupils once we have covered er verbs and negative sentences from Expo 1. All you need is some post it notes and there is a speaking frame which may be taken away from more able pupils.

These excellent resources come from 1jour1actu.com and are aimed at French pupils from CM1 and CM2. Ideally suited for use with A2 students, they cover the topics of poverty, education (the school day), politics, the freedom of speech and equal rights for girls and boys.

A Christmas worksheet, fill in missing verbs.Pupils can be given the infinitives and told to work out what tenses they have to use. Alternatively, you could decide to give them no help at all and let them get inventive. You could of course give out the answers and get them to match the captions to the blank pictures. Apologies in advance for my frightful sense of humour. Blank version and suggested answers included.

This is a grid containing the 3 digit codes to enter foreign language accents. I have near our work stations and still use it now!

This is a short consolidation activity with a few simple exercises

Simple speaking activity where pupils choose their own infinitive phrases (their task planning sheets only allow infinitives) and are asked to conjugate them correctly depending on the time expressions. Requires dice.

This is a bingo game that can be used during speaking sessions with senior year students. The idea is to cross off as many boxes as possible by using the phrases/tenses/specific vocabulary correctly. It encourages students to think about their range of language whilst they debate. It can be adapted for all ranges and to suit all topics.

Just a series of slides with gap fill exercises. For use to consolidate understanding of imperfect. I suppose I am showing my age!

This is just a little board game to encourage independent learning and speaking in pairs. It is based on the 2nd module in the Mira 3 Rojo book which covers school and education. Pupils will need a dice and counters. I float round the classroom whilst they play and they use me as a referee in case of a challenge. More able pupils can also play the role of ref once they feel comfortable with the vocabulary. Get a question wrong go back 3 spaces.

Game board enabling pupils to revise key vocabulary for the topic of Lifestyle. All you need is a die and some counters. I print the boards out in colour A3 size and laminate them. Can be used for any language. I have uploaded four other boards for the other topics too. Very good for independent learning, encouraging spontaneous speaking (group talk) and GCSE revision. Do let me know if you think it needs altering in any way.

Introducing the near future in Spanish. There are short exercises at the end of the presentation. Do leave reviews if this is useful.

This is just a list of idiomatic expressions with coup where students have to find their English translations

A2 French AQA stimulus cards from June 2011-2013 grouped together by topic. Good for revision or just for reference. I have copied the examiner's notes too.

I use these to teach regular present tense verb patterns to beginners, but the flowers can be used for any tense that is made of a stem and ending. I have displays of flowers in all of the language classrooms. You can reduce the size of the flowers and print multiple copies on a page. Pupils can then make a collage to represent all of the verb groups or tenses they know.

This is a presentation designed to encourage GCSE pupils to use a variety of complex structures in their written and spoken controlled assessments. The worksheet asks them to build up lists of different kinds of grammatical structures (there is a honeycomb of different examples to start with) before embarking on their own creations. I asked mine to work with their AQA word lists. Apologies to Heston Blumenthal. All feedback gratefully received.