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 grid with questions to fill in and a set of cards.

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

Three resources I have used with my year 8 (mixed ability) to drill in -ARSE reflexive verbs across all persons. Lots of recycling, tons of activities, enough for one lesson. A logical follow-up to the resources I posted last week (see below)

3 GCSE revision quickies on holidays, all chunk-based

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.

A vocab builder on the topic of Internet/Mobile phones with a range of useful sentences

A set of narrow reading texts with activities in the imperfect tense on the topic the Area I live in

A very comprehensive sentence builders which includes -a wide range expressions to convey what one is looking for in a job - adjectives - jobs All of the above is translated in English in brackets Three vocabulary builders to consolidate all of the above WITH SOLUTION

For higher ability classes.

Vocabulary reinforcement worksheet based on Listos 3 unit 6, en casa y en el trabajo. First part.

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