I like to start of by drilling these 8 expressions based on the verb ‘dire’. They help develop pupils fluency and authenticity as well as addressing many of the examination board requirements.

I’ve used this many times at open evenings. Lay out the socks on the table. Have a Yr 7 volunteer cut them out first. Have a volunteer to time guests matching up the socks. Starts a conversation about how similar German and English are. Can also be used in class as a sort of quiz quiz trade/find your partner race.

Print these slides two to a sheet and cut up. Have three of the boxes that paper comes in. ( One for French English German) Guests at evening win prizes for pulling out a pair or a trio of matching words. Pictures on cards make it easier for Yr7 volunteer who can run the show.

Insert your own sentences into this template. The sentence will be displayed for 20 seconds, enough time for you to say it a few times and for students to study it, When it disappears automatically, the students have the time it takes the frog to cross the room to write the sentence from memory on whiteboards or in books. More fun than it sounds.

A guide to the assessment requirements for the new GCSE A guide to the new Speaking Test A list of suggested questions for each theme and a chart for them to check progress. I photocopied as a booklet with lined paper at the back for pupils to keep their answers up together.

Spreadsheet that easily lets you keep a record of candidates marks for the AQA GCSE speaking test.

A powerpoint that you can print off and display. It highlights some essential phrases needed to describe any photograph. Useful for the new AQA GCSE, and probably for other boards too.

Some speech bubbles with generic phrases that might be used to talk describe any photo . Suitable for display. Helps prepare students for the photo task in the new GCSE German speaking test.

To display in classrooms. A simple colour coded explanation of German Word order rules.

The 10 specimen role plays from the AQA 2016 specification are presented here as a PowerPoint. Simply click on each speech bubble prompt to reveal a bare minimum response. I've included some notes on the mark scheme as well as a few pointers

25 places in town in French Click on the photo itself to reveal the text or click elsewhere to advance. Some nice photos here, mostly in France.

A reasonably challenging quiz about Germany. My Yr 10 class came up with the questions which we then displayed at Open Evening. The answers are at the end of the presentation.

An A4 Sheet which allows teachers and pupils to add comments and reflect on their work. It includes a list of good learning behaviours for a language learner. Easy to adapt.

A couple of sentence builders, a game of mind reader, and a battleships game. Practise adjectives and different phrases to say which presents you would like hand have received.

A selection of phrases for display. Phrases which have scored highly in the past.

Environment, healthy living and local area advanced GCSE phrases with conditional tense.

Two Powerpoints, One a template, the other an example. Full of hyperlinks to help moving between French and English. To use the template, just replace each item with your own Conti style chunks.