I saw this idea on Pinterest and had to take it to my lessons. We studied the daily routine in German and then students completed this circle with all of the hours of the day. You can adapt it to different levels by asking them to just write words or to extend it a bit more and write sentences. Hope you like it or find it useful :)

A version of Spot it! for language learners. It can be used in any language as long as you have learned food and sports! You play just like the game “Spot it!”. All you need to do is print and cut the cards and you will have your own set! It has 31 cards so depending on your class size you can print more sets. Hope you like it!

Snakes and ladders template for free

I created a GCSE survival kit for my Yr11 German students and for my Yr11 tutees. I have uploaded the German and the English version in case you want to use it :) Hope you find it useful or it inspires you to do something similar.

A sentence builder that I created to use as an extension to the topic “Wir gehen aus” from Echo Express 2. It’s in both PDF and Word document format, so you can adapt it as you want :)

I saw this text in Spanish long ago and I thought it was really good. I translated it into English to work with it in PSHE with my yr11s. It is a text talking about the industry of tobacco without telling you that they are talking about that, I gave it to my students and asked them to tell me when they realised what it was about. I think it has so many possibilities, I used it to get to know my students better and see their views on smoking.

A German bundle with three resources that you can adapt to any level to work with on International Women’s Day. Students will practice grammar and vocabulary, reading comprehension (could also be done as a speaking discussion) and writing. For the writing task some of my students choose to describe someone in their family instead of a “famous” woman, which I think it’s great! I hope you like it!

A resource that you can adapt to any language and level to work with on International Women’s Day. A wordsearch with adjectives, some research about past and present women and a writing task. I chose these 8 women but you could choose any or ask the students to choose some themselves! For the writing task some of my students choose to describe someone in their family instead of a “famous” woman, which I think it’s great! Feel free to adapt the activity however you like, translate it to the language you teach, add or delete things… anything you want, but please celebrate International Women’s Day!

This is a revision carousel for the topic of HEALTH where you can do a learning by stations. You divide the class in 4 groups and each one spend 10 minutes on each activity (or more, depending on how long is your lesson). Each activity is explained for you and students to understand how all of them work. Answers are also provided when necessary. I make it more exciting by giving students points for each activity they finish and giving prizes at the end depending on how many points they have!

Some templates to play “Guess who?” with different topics: Hair and eyes description, family (brothers and sisters) and animals. I created a first version of this in 2018 during my PGCE and have been using and updating it ever since and my students absolutely love when I bring it to class. This resource includes: Instructions on different ways to play Four different pages to play with different Disney/film characters and with different things (just characters for physical descriptions, characters +siblings, characters + siblings and animals). The siblings are the ones that those characters have, the animals are made up :) Hope you like it!

A worksheet for students to do on the first day after the Christmas holidays. It can be used for different year groups depending on what you ask them to write (eg. lower levels could draw and write just words, higher level whole sentences or paragraphs in their books) Hope you like it!

A worksheet to write about Christmas holidays on the first lesson back. It can be adapted to different levels (eg.lower levels you can ask them to draw and write single words and for higher levels you can ask them to write full sentences) Hope you like it!

A worksheet for students to do on the first day after the holidays, it could be after Christmas or after summer holidays. It can be used for different year groups depending on what you ask them to write (eg. lower levels just words, higher level whole sentences or paragraphs in their books) Hope you like it!

This is a powerpoint I created some years ago and I update every year with up-to-date videos and information. It can be for a whole lesson or even two, and it’s a guide to different things and traditions celebrated in Spain before and during Christmas. It includes a questionaire for the students to do at the beginning to check their previous knowledge (they usually only are able to answer a couple of questions) and they can complete it throughout the lesson. The lesson includes information and videos about: Christmas tradition in Cataluña- tio de nadal Spanish lottery Christmas’ Eve and New Year’s Eve Christmas Day and New Year Spanish equivalent to April Fools Three Wise Men night and Day Present tense grammar and some future grammar Vocabulary about Christmas On the second slide there are instructions for the teacher and the last slide has the answer to the questionaires. Almost every slide has videos or links, if you hover above the pictures you will be able to see them. On each slide if you click on the blue title you will go back to the calendar. I use it from yr7 to yr11 varying the activities, it’s a powerpoint so you can adapt it to the level of your group. Hope you enjoy it! PS. It’s important that you open it with POWERPOINT and NOT with Google slides so all the animations work well.

A fun lesson where students will have to find out who from all of the guests to a party made the Secret Santa presents disappear! Students will work through five clue worksheets to eliminate suspects from the list of guests until they find out who is “guilty”. The clues include vocabulary related to rooms in the house, German foods (including Christmas typical snacks), Christmas vocabulary, a cultural text in English about Christmas in Germany and the present tense. This mistery is based on the amazing Halloween resource by @BaysideTeachingResources that I bought to do with my students, so you will notice that the powerpoint starts mentioning it. The list of the guests is the same so if you have her resource you could do this one as a follow up. If you don’t know it, you should definitely check it for next Halloween! And just skip the part where it says “Ollie felt bad about what happened in Halloween”. This resource includes a ppt presentation to show the class, the student pack and a teacher guide with the answers. I use it with yr 7,8,9 and 10 (with year 10s I only allow them to be individually/pairs, and with the other groups they are allowed to work in groups) Hope you enjoy it!

This is a game that you can use to study/ revise Christmas vocabulary. It’s a version of the game “Cluedo” where students have to find out who has killed the Ginger man. On the second slide you have the vocabulary that maybe students don’t know so you can leave it up during the game. Instructions are included, you would just need to print out the cards so you can randomly choose one of each + a place and give it to the teacher. Alternatively you can just choose one from each without telling the students and they need to find out. If you want to make it more personalised, you can put your picture on top of “Frau Rodríguez” picture and you can be one of the suspects. Hope you like it!