Today I would like to share a little tip with you that could potentially save you hours, money and headaches. If you need your students to type in either French or Spanish, you will soon realise that learning the ALT codes is really cumbersome, slowing them down, and not ideal for the classroom. There is an alternative on PC, which is to change the keyboard language to either French or Spanish, and place a few stickers on some keys to have a fully-working(*) foreign keyboard at no cost.

This package will help your students practise for the AQA French GCSE Conversation. I found that my students’ first hindrance when it comes to speaking was actually understanding the questions that I was asking them, so I prepared this package. This is how it works: Students have access to 254 .mp3 recordings of possible conversation questions, taken from my pack of 120 Photocards available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/120-high-quality-french-gcse-photocards-for-aqa-photo-cards-11994167 They can copy these recordings onto their computer, Mac or PC, or on their Android phone. These files are also compatible with IOS devices (installed through iTunes) even though I am not able to offer any support regarding this. Using their favourite media player (I suggest using VLC Media Player for simplicity), the student can practice the area of their choice, by either using recordings related to a sub-topic or a whole theme. These can be played in order, or randomly. I recorded these questions speaking slowly and clearly; please feel free to have a look at the video preview to see for yourself: https://youtu.be/ZxrV2WMqF3Y These questions double as the possible unknown questions for the photo cards, which provide a solid and comprehensive base for the Conversation.

After the Great Success! of The Unicorn Talking Mat, I would like to share with you today The Amazing Grammar Snake. It is a one-page PDF document with interactive links that you can share with your students. The blue links point to online grammar notes. The green links point to easy online application exercises (from languagesonline.co.uk and a couple of BBC Bitesize) The gold links point to more complex exercises from colanguage.com That covers all the grammar points to GCSE, and can be used from Year 7 to Year 11, possibly beyond.