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.

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.

An opportunity for students to assess/ reflect on their/ others’ contribution to pair/group work and their review of it.

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.

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…

Ideally this PowerPoint would be used with the extract of the 2011 film Intouchables by Olivier Nakache and Éric Tolédano with François Cluzet and Omar Sy. Very early on in the film there is a job interview scene where Driss and other candidates come for a job interview at Philippe’s home. The PowerPoint looks at the vocabulary used to talk about one’s qualifications and relevant hobbies. It can be used without watching the film too. Part of it deals with gender agreement and the pronunciation of the sound r in French.

A PowerPoint in which we consider what FOMO means, specifically we look at phrasal verbs. What does the word “out” add to the verb “miss”? Students are asked to identify how they feel when they miss out on something? We then look at the possible causes of FOMO in modern society and the consequences of feeling this. We watch a video on embracing JOMO (Joy of missing out) and finally we look at an article from the Guardian on the topic with a variety of exercises on it. Suitable for B1 level onwards for learners of English as a Foreign Language.

A 10 page list of conversation starters on frustrations, fears, regret, discomfort, dreams, future plans, positive feelings, changes and moral compass issues. This should be a good prompt in knowing our students better, also a good ice-breaker.