A sentence builder on expressing opinions about places in town and some consolidation activities recycling the same language

A sentence builder on morning routine. You can also find this resources in my collection of sentence builders entitled ‘Massive collection of 50+ sentence builders’

Two documents: student and teacher versions

A pool of resources a la Conti covering a range of skills (e.g. sentence builder, narrow readings, no snake no ladders, find someone who, vocab builders)

A wide range of vocabulary, reading and grammar-drilling resources on school

- Two pages of verb drills on five key irregular verbs in the present tense - Oral translation boardgame on the same verbs

A range of narrow reading tasks + a pre-reading vocab building task

TOPICS; daily routine, school, health and lifestyle, family relationships and my 'universals' Research shows clearly that teaching vocabulary through patterns and collocations is a much more effective way than teaching single words. Although I have always endeavoured to teach words in context and phrases, this collection of quickies is more au fait with current vocab research. As a result, here is a new set of GCSE revision quickies that are chunk-based and focus on collocation and lexical priming. These new quickies complement the ones I have previously created beautifully in my opinion. Why you should use them: they reflect the way humans learn languages - through chunks and lexical patterns rather than single words. So the focus here is on developing a repertoire of ready-to-use phrases recycled over and over again.

For higher ability classes.

Two pages of vocab building activities on the topic of drugs. Part of a booklet I am in the process of writing on the topic.

Students are divided into teams; the teacher and/or one or more students will be the judge(s). The challenge consists in paraphrasing, explaining and providing supporting examples for the proverbs in the table (either projected on the screen or blown up on an A3). Fluency and intelligibility of student output are more important than grammatical accuracy.

Another sheet in the GCSE revision quickie

Reading comprehension/vocab builder based on an article on love amongst adolescents from: http://l-amour-et-les-sentiments.jimdo.com/chez-les-jeunes/

Translation practice on the imperfect. Context: the way one used to be. Particularly suitable for the users of Expo 3 (reference to module 3)

Vocabulary consolidation sheet meant for a top set yr 11 class. Suitable for AS, too, possibly.