Interactive drag and drop exercise in which students must match 10 olympic sports to clues in French. Will work on IW or PC.

Simple table featuring regular -er, -ir and -re verbs in the first person singular in three tenses. Designed to help weaker students analyse and annotate the patterns. Can be blown up as a poster and / or printed as a hand-out. I've also put the display on a ppt.

4 reflexive verbs relating to ma routine journalière, set out as a table so that students can analyse and infer the pattern. Could be given out as a hand-out of blown up for display.

Powerpoint story in which Bella from the 'Twighlight' series describes a typical day. The text appears slowly, giving students time to read and work out the meanings. As a follow up you could ask the class for ideas, such as likes and dislikes, to augment the text on each slide and make the story their own.

Relatively simple (?) Jungle Book style playscript for practising the language of the breakfast table. Cliffhanger ending.

Foundation Level text about the Paralympics, with on-page vocab support. Text is followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' task focussing on time phrases, a manipulation exercise, and a writing task.

Foundation Level text about the Olympic Torch, with questions in English, a 'find the phrase' exercise, a manipulation exercise, and a writing task.

Simple playscript in which Dracula repeatedly wakes up too soon, asks Igor the time and has to go back to sleep again, until finally it is midnight. Perform it with a colleague or the FLA to your class, or play both parts yourself, then get them to practise it in pairs, and finally ask them to develop the dialogue using the extra vocab and phrases supplied.

5 verbs in the Conditional, set out in a table, so that students can analyse and infer the pattern. Could be printed as hand-out or blown up as a poster.

5 verbs in the Imperfect tense, set out as a table so that students can analyse and infer the pattern. Could be given out as a hand-out of blown up for display.

Activity featuring the 12 Olympics posters commisionned from artists such as Tracey Emin and Rachel Whitread. The Powerpoint aims to stimulate speculation, discussion, interpretation, a bit of guesswork, and suggestions for titles for the artworks. Lots of questions in French to structure discussion and (hopefully) get the pupils thinking More…. The title of each piece can be revealed with a click of the mouse once suggestions have been made. Typo now removed!

Activity featuring the 12 Olympics posters commisionned from artists such as Tracey Emin and Rachel Whitread. The Powerpoint aims to stimulate speculation, discussion, interpretation, a bit of guesswork, and suggestions for titles. Lots of questions in German to structure discussion and (hopefully) get the pupils thinking. The title of each piece can be revealed with a mouse-click once suggestions have been made.

Batman describes his holiday in France with Catwoman, simultaneously modelling the use of the Perfect Tense with haben and sein. The stimulus text is followed by (i) a richtig / falsch / nicht im Text exercise, (ii) a 'find the phrase' exercise, (iii) pupil reflection on the choice of haben or sein, (iv) an explanation of the use of haben or sein, (v) a manipulation exericise focussing on the Perfect, and (vi) three writing tasks.

(i) Extended text about the surface to air missiles deployed in East London for the Olympics, followed by comprehension questions in German, and (ii) a selection of opinions about the security measures, based on internet blogs, followed by a comprehension task, a speaking task, and two writing tasks, one pitched at AS level and one pitched at A2 level. (Typos spotted and now fixed.)

Interactive drag and drop exercise focussing on 10 key statistical facts about London 2012. Will work on PC or IW. Presented in Usain Bolt's colours!

Interactive drag and drop practice of German question words. Will work on PC or IW.

Interactive vocab practice of school subjects, using drop-down lists. Will work on PC or IW.

HIGHER level reading text about the Olympic Torch, a factory in Coventry, Didier Drogba's surprise role in the relay, plus a bit of symbolism. The text is followed by questions in English, a 'find the phrase' exercise picking out the different tenses in the text, an 'adapt the phrase' exercise and a writing task. NB The opening statement about the torch having arrived in England won't be true until the 17th of May. Edit the text if you use it before.

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.

Extended reading text about the London Olympics followed by questions in English.