Presentation revisiting the OFSTED report on MFL from 2011 and looking at the 'Outstanding' criteria for MFL subject inspections from the OfSTED guidance for subject inspections in MFL from January 2012. May also be useful for MFL departments preparing for whole-school inspections.

Short animated presentation for CPD on Think-Pair-Share. This version will advance automatically through the slides and will loop back to the beginning after the last slide. Change the settings if you want to control the slides with a mouse-click.

Scaffold for describing a typical Monday.

Relatively simple text about a boy who is werewolf and why this makes it hard for him to go out with his best friend's sister. Followed by questions in English.

Toolkit to enable students to generate hundreds of sentences about their possible careers and reasons for their choices.

Playscript practising transactional language relating to the changing of foreign curency. In this unlikely scenario Darth Vader changes some money in a bank, then returns later to rob it, but is foiled by the quick thinking of Austin Powers ...

Two texts in which Wallace & Gromit and Bruce Wayne é Selina Kyle describe their plans for a trip around the world. The texts are followed by a true/false exercise in German and a writing task.

Playscript based 90% on lyrics from the song 'GutenTag, ich bin der Nikolaus'. What might Santa be tempted to do if he forgot his own boots?

Five authentic blogs about pets written by relatively young native-speakers.( I've changed the names of the writers and the pets.) The texts are followed by comprehension and manipulation exercises and a little bit of grammar.

Simple Powerpoint activity for practising key verbs related to the topic of the environment.

Structured dialogue about what job you might like to do and why. The questions are fixed but the answers have to be generated from mini-toolkits.

Four texts in which teenagers describe their work experience in fairly brief terms. The texts are followed by a comprehension exercise, a find the phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise and a writing task.

Slightly edited authentic text in which a German popstar explains why she smoked cannabis and why she gave up. Followed by questions in English.

A text containing a fairly detailed plot of the film with an inbuilt multi choice activity focussing on which charcter did what.

Text about awful holiday souvenirs, why we buy them, and what reaction they get. The text is followed by questions in German, a speaking activity and a writing task.

Practice of 'Main verb 2nd idea'. Model sentence patterns followed by an exercise.

This is an extended version of a ppt I uploaded previously. It consists of a number of pictures of people, celebs and otherwise, and the pupils simply have to speculate as to how old they are.

Text about a German girl who did work experience at the Times in London, followed by questions in English.

The text is a simplified version of the Sixth Form text I've already uploaded. This version is followed by questions in English, a translation exercise and a writing task.

Text in which four people talk about what they do to keep fit and healthy. Text is followed by a 'Which person said what?' exercise.