I like to have one of these settling activities on the board as the students come into the classroom. It's part of their routine that they start on the settling activity as soon as they've sat down and copied the date and title. I find that it makes a calm start to the lesson and in addition it's an excellent opportunity to cover vocab or a grammar point that students haven't seen for some time. These are aimed at Y7 in their first term of French so the main aim is to improve their cultural knowledge. It's important that students should be able to complete the activities independently (whilst I do the register, etc) so the activities require little knowledge of French language. Any comprehension activities rely mainly on cognates.

A selection of 17 settling activities based on authentic resources. An easy method of injecting a little humour into lessons whilst still ensuring a calm start to the lesson. I find that a settling activity on the board as students enter the classroom is helpful in challenging them from the first minute. All of the cartoon-based settling activities are intended to be used as comprehension exercises.

An excellent way to get students giving spontaneous spoken phrases at the end of a lesson. To uncover a cell (to find out if there's a battleship hiding) students have to give a phrase that includes a phrase from the top of the screen and one from the left of the screen. When they've said the phrase you click on the blue rectangle to show whether there's a battleship beneath it or not. I've found this works particularly well with boys' classes. This resource is made using Active Inspire software, compatible with Promethean Interactive Whiteboards.

A useful resource to get students practising saying the phrases they've learned in their first term of French. Contains days, months, numbers, greetings and phrases students should use in class to ask permission to do something. Useful for vocab recap too. Give one domino to each student (if there are more dominoes than students give more able students two dominoes). The students with the domino that starts with 'Début' begins by saying the French phrase. The student with the matching phrase in English says it and then the French phrase that forms the other side of their domino. Keep going until the class reaches the final domino. To introduce a competitive element challenge students to get through the whole domino set in less than 2 minutes. The dominoes last longer if laminated before being used!

A useful resource for getting students to speak spontaneously. In small groups (4 players) students roll a dice and move their counters to the relevant spot on the board. They have to say the phrase in French shown on the square they've landed on. If they can't say it they go back to their original square. In my experience students really enjoy this opportunity to use spoken French in a small group, rather than in front of the class. As the teacher I can move around the groups checking what the students are saying. To help them last longer we laminate the boards. Counters and dice are required too, but can be bought very cheaply.

A useful resource for getting students to speak spontaneously. In small groups (4 players) students roll a dice and move their counters to the relevant spot on the board. They have to say the phrase in French shown on the square they've landed on. If they can't say it they go back to their original square. In my experience students really enjoy this opportunity to use spoken French in a small group, rather than in front of the class. As the teacher I can move around the groups checking what the students are saying. To help them last longer we laminate the boards. Counters and dice are required too, but can be bought very cheaply.

A useful resource for getting students to speak spontaneously. In small groups (4 players) students roll a dice and move their counters to the relevant spot on the board. They have to say the phrase in French shown on the square they've landed on. If they can't say it they go back to their original square. In my experience students really enjoy this opportunity to use spoken French in a small group, rather than in front of the class. As the teacher I can move around the groups checking what the students are saying. To help them last longer we laminate the boards. Counters and dice are required too, but can be bought very cheaply.

A selection of 'Challenge Tasks' on the topic of food. These are based on authentic French resources (mainly infographs found on Pinterest) with comprehension questions added. I put these up on my 'Challenge Wall' in the classroom for the term and direct any students to them who finish their work early. To save photocopying costs I encourage students not to write on the sheets and to put them back on the wall when they're finished. I find that students get a huge sense of achievement from knowing that they are reading and understanding real French literature! As an extra incentive to try more difficult work I offer 'challenge stars' in return for tackling these tricky tasks. These are converted periodically into merits.

Challenge tasks or extension work on the topic of clothes. These are all based on authentic French resources (mainly infographs found on Pinterest) with comprehension questions added. I put these up on my 'Challenge Wall' in the classroom for the term and direct any students to them who finish their work early. To save photocopying costs I encourage students not to write on the sheets and to put them back on the wall when they're finished. I find that students get a huge sense of achievement from knowing that they are reading and understanding real French literature! As an extra incentive to try more difficult work I offer 'challenge stars' in return for tackling these tricky tasks. These are converted periodically into merits.

Three 'Challenge Tasks' on the topic of music. These are all based on authentic French resources (mainly infographs found on Pinterest) with comprehension questions added. I put these up on my 'Challenge Wall' in the classroom for the term and direct any students to them who finish their work early. To save photocopying costs I encourage students not to write on the sheets and to put them back on the wall when they're finished. I find that students get a huge sense of achievement from knowing that they are reading and understanding real French literature! As an extra incentive to try more difficult work I offer 'challenge stars' in return for tackling these tricky tasks. These are converted periodically into merits.

A selection of 30 worksheets and more than 10 online resources to help your students to revise and practice the topic of family and pets. If, like many teachers, you are spending term 6 in consolidating this year’s topics with your classes, these resources should prove very useful. Worksheets and online resources cover: family vocab animals vocab physical descriptions vocab personality vocab gender of nouns adjectival endings making links with English words skill

A selection of 44 worksheets to revise or consolidate the topics of sports, hobbies and weather along with links to 24 online resources which have been played and ‘liked’ by many other teachers. If, like many other teachers, you are spending term 6 in consolidating this year’s work as part of your Covid Curriculum Recover these resources will be invaluable in enabling students of all abilities to revise the topic. In addition to the vocabulary and sentence games there are speaking stimuli and resources for practising regular present tense verbs as well as the verbs jugar and hacer.

Eye-catching posters which can be printed up to A3 size to aid your students with their Spanish common irregular verbs. Verbs included: Hacer Tener Ir Ser Estar

A collection of 40 resources, including worksheets and online resources to help your students to revise the topic ‘All About Me’ from their first term of Spanish. If, like many teachers across the country, you are spending term 6 revising this year’s topics, these resources should make planning quick and easy. Vocabulary covers the topics of: Greetings Numbers Months Dates / Birthdays Classroom objects Colours Classroom phrases There are also grammar resources looking at the gender of nouns and adjectival endings. Finally there is a resource which helps students to practise the reading skills of using cognates, context and keywords.

An eye-catching poster to aid your students with their days of the week in Spanish.

Eye-catching posters to be used as a visual aid for your students when conjugating in the present tense, plus a poster for the near future. The PDFs can be printed up to size A3 or larger, if you have the specialist printing equipment.

An eye-catching poster to aid your students in using the days of the week. Can be printed A4 or A3 (or bigger, if you have the printing equipment).

An eye-catching set of posters to aid your students in using the four most common irregular verbs in French: aller, avoir, être and faire. Can be printed on A4 or A3 (or bigger, if you have the printing facilities).