Dracula presents his daily routine.

Practice of adjectival agreement in French.

Revision of the future tense, followed by predictions about the European Championships for pupils to agree or disagree with, using the future tense. (This is an updated version, in which I've substituted players who I thought would be playing for ones who actually are!)

Revision of basic verbs relating to watching TV and films in the Perfect, Present and Future Tenses, with some Modals thrown in for good measure.

Text in which two teenagers outline next year's holiday plans, followed by a "GCSE" style comprehension question.

A set of comprehension questions relating to Episode 1 of the Channel 4 German Series 'Extra'. Once answered the questions provide the language to complete a writing task.

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.

TOOLKIT for generating complex sentences relating to the topic of family and relationships, and for practising word order in sentences featuring a main clause and a subordinate clause.

Complete GCSE vocab list in German and English. I replaced the usual prosaic topic and sub-topic titles with song and film titles, song lyrics and some obscure quotations in a desperate attempt to make some of my revision-shy pupils look through it.

Jumbled dialogue between, Santa, who has misplaced his reindeer, and an elf, who finds them in his garden. The dialogue can be reassembled in many different ways. You could model a dialogue first and them ask them to improvise something similar, before asking them to write up a plausible dialogue.

One of the Judoon (from Dr Who) lambasts Earth television programmes. Text is followed by a writing task which uses the stimulus text as a platform.

Bart's first letter to his German penfriend. Students read the text and then capture the key points by completing a Steckbrief.

Two authentic weather reports with comprehension questions in German.

Slide 1 of the Powerpoint acts as a homepage for the other slides. Ask pupils to select a letter, then click the corresponding image and it will hyperlink to a slide with a phoneme to practice. Click on the 'back' button to go back to the homepage.

(i) A link to the ad (ii) As faithful a transcript of the TV ad as I can get onto a sheet of A4, with some stage directions, plus a sequence of activities. (iii) a story board activity (iv) a PPT with stills from the film, to which students should supply their own text and (v) an exploded version of the dialogue for the students to reconstruct. I've added in a couple of additonial speech bubbles to pack it out a bit.

Advice on reviewing vocab for learners of French / German / Spanish or any Modern Foreign Language

Handout to help students (i) understand how to form questions and (ii) to practize forming simple questions relating to free time.

A text for higher level students on homelessness in Frankfurt followed by; (i) reading comprehension questions in English (ii) a grammar focus (iii) a text manipulation excercize.

Presentation for departmental CPD. Summary of key points from OfSTED findings relating to MFL lessons observed between 2007 and 2010. OfSTED comments relate to lessons observed in French, German, Spanish ... etc!

TOOLKIT to help pupils talk about what they have and haven't done during the school year.