Toolkit to support pupils in formulating complex sentences relating to the environment. Practice of um ... zu ... , verb ...

Revision and practice of the Immediate Future in French. Pupils have to predict which member of the class will have one of fifteen possible futures. They then have to write a paragraph about the possible futures of their classmates with the support of a TOOLKIT and a short vocab list.

This is an expanded version of the text "Kein Handy = Kein Leben?" that I uploaded some time ago. This version features additional comprehension and manipulation exercises.

Four short texts in which various movie characters describe where they live and where they have lived. Text is followed by richtig / falsch / nicht im Text questions in German.

Interactive drag and drop exercise, in which pupils must match up the German and English titles of the Harry Potter films. Will work on PC or IW. Two of the German titles are not quite exact translations. You might want to challenge the pupils to find out which two are not quite the same.

Revision of the paradigms of essen and trinken, followed by an exercise in which students must generate questions which they will use to interview a partner. They then conduct the interview, record the answers, and finally write up their results in the third person.

Interactive drag and drop match-up activity practising the definitions of several French negatives. Will work on PC or IW.

Text in which Shrek describes what he does in his free time. The text is followed by comprehension questions in English and a short writing task.

A PPT in which students must choose from two options (eg petit / petite) in order to describe a number of celebs or film characters. The first slide acts as a home page, hyperlinking to students to unseen photos of characters.

Text in which Homer compares Springfield and Shelbyville briefly, before enthusing about what there is, and there is not, in Springfield. The text is followed by a Richtig / Falsch exercise, a find-the-phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise and a writing task.

4 Easter-related GCSE-style questions for revisophobic Year 11s.

Lara Croft describes a convoluted journey to Germany. Text followed by questions in German and a writing task.

Text in which a number of young Germans express their views about environmental issues. The text is followed by (i) an exercise in which students must make notes from the text on the causes of environmental problems, the problems themselves and the possible solutions and (ii) a scaffolded discussion.

Interactive resource. Some simple (?) arithmetic to practise basic numbers in French.

Interactive activity for practising 10 key vocab items relating to MEINE STADT

Text in which Justin Bieber recounts a strange dream, featuring Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and things made of chocolate. The text is followed by questions in German.

Presentation designed to give students the necessary language to analyze and describe the specifically cinematographic elements of the film (codes) such as lighting, camera angles, editing, use of subjective camera etc.

Dialogue in which a frustrated tourist attempts to retrieve an umbrella from a fairly useless employee at a lost property office. Pupils practise the dialogue and then adapt the script by introducing different items. Just add props!

Powerpoint which (i) explores what the key attributes of a uniform are (ii) provides images of interesting dress codes with on-screen language support to stimulate discussion about whether certain combinations of clothing constitute a uniform, and (iii) provides images of school uniforms from around the world with on-screen language support to provoke comments. Worked OK with my Year 10 Foundation class.

Write-up of the Gordano School Project "TALK so that students listen, and listen so that students TALK" which won a European Award for Languages and was awarded the Mary Glasgow Prize.