The film undoubtedly explores and challenges pre-conceived ideas. This questionnaire could be given to students before they watch the film and then again after to check whether their attitude has changed.

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 requiring students to put items of a sentence in the correct order, to translate from French to English, to notice gender and number agreements and to translate into French. Relates to the topic of leisure activities.

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

There are three documents: 1 is a vocabulary gathering exercise to make students think of what they could include, for example biographical details using the perfect tense, 2 is an actual CV where British qualifications have been explained for a French audience, 3 is an example of an application letter for a summer job. This more suitable at KS4 and 5 but could be adapted for a younger age group. It could also be set as an exercise to do someone else’s CV e.g a famous person, a historical character, a character from a film or a novel etc…