A list of random questions on all sorts of topics to stimulate conversation

A number of questions and suggested answers on a range of AS topics - suits a variety of examination boards. This resource has been checked by a French native speaker for accuracy. It can be adapted as suits.

A simple worksheet that can make you save time. It contains a variety of exercises where you adapt the endings and choose from a multiple choice option.

A compilation of reviews and pre-play announcements taken from social media. The aim is to stimulate conversation. How do students imagine a contemporary version of the play? Characters can be cut out and students can have a go at guessing who it is. They can also have a go at writing short tweets in a similar vein about the characters. A good way to enhance their vocab in terms of adjectives. The end slide shows that the situation for some women in various parts of the world has not improved at all.

The interest of those little texts is a) to save you some time and b) to be able to give one each to a class (there are 22 of them) and get the class to practise questions leading to such tasks such as “find a person who has one brother” etc… Various lengths to differentiate around your class.

Mostly images and names. Students can look for the ingredients, can be a cross-curricular experience.

The idea is to tell students they now work for the Ministry of Immigration/ Foreign Affairs/ the Home office. They are given a fake country name and they have to decide what will be/ won’t be allowed immigration wise, what laws or rules will be in place. A list of 14 questions they have to decide upon. Designed for pair or group work then further discussion.

This worksheet shows students a step by step approach to extend their sentences and add more details.

This is an ideal CLIL lesson. Students love volcanoes. Geology has lots of cognates. You can use this PowerPoint as a simple exposure to culture and French geographical features (the volcanoes of the Puy de Dome), you can also use it when you want students to talk about a visit in the past or the future. The end slides allow you to tackle prices, ask for tickets, choose what you are going to eat etc…

A basic practice activity to check students have understood the endings of the present tense in Spanish

Gap-fill activity based on the song “¡Qué difícil es hablar el español!”. Lots of idioms and vocabulary from different Spanish-speaking countries. Shows the wealth of cultures and identities.

This worksheet, as well as simply including the endings, also shows what happens to radical changing verbs and gives examples of set phrases you can include anywhere in the subjunctive.

An easy -due to use of cognates- worksheet about the hymn El violador en tu camino, a movement that started in Chile last year (2019). Can lead to various discussions. Lyrics of the LasTesis hymn are also included.

Part of a cross-curricular revision unit on the 1st world war with dates of birth and deaths of those fallen for France. Can be used primarily to revise days of the week and months of the year in French, also to show how 11th November is commemorated in Poitiers and show the multiculturalism of the fallen (some have got German-sounding names, Jewish-sounding names, Arabic-sounding names, Basque and Spanish-sounding names), a couple are women.

This is a presentation going through various steps that will make someone a good linguist, based on the 6Rs . Motivation in Spanish and French.

Throughout the UK, it is a struggle to get students to continue with languages… Many reasons for this, most of them cultural, not enough space here to go into details. This is an example of a booklet that KS3 students would keep with them relying on a system of stickers awarded (stickers could be replaced by comments) and test results. The idea is that by the time it’s options evening/ options choice time in Year 9, students would have a record of what they have achieved and how well they did. It is also good PR with parents, management etc… to show positive tracking. The document can clearly be adapted to suit any school.

A worksheet with explanations and ideas of useful set subjunctive phrases in context.

Do you have Year 9 students who sadly have not chosen GCSE Spanish as an option? Is it hard to keep them going? Are they losing interest? After giving them examples of where and when they can use Spanish, you could give them these worksheets to use on every occasion and show how friendly they can be. Ranging from a simple “Hola” to “¿Qué puedo hacer para ayudarle?” Can obviously be adapted. Many subsequent exercises to keep students practising for a good three lessons.

A list of common irregular verbs and radical changing verbs, plus 18 phrases that can be included in ANY context in written and oral work.

For those English-speaking students who do not get the concept of conjugation, a step by step approach to explaining verb endings with some tasks to identify learning.