A quick activity: 10 countries in French as anagrams. Easy to photocopy with 4 on a sheet of A4. Answers provided on second page. Could be a starter or a little worksheet, good way to revise countries if you haven't seen them in a while.

A set of sentences for pupils to build up in the perfect tense with the first person only. Pupils choose appropriate vocab to match each past participle. Easy to make more challenging by asking pupils to add more details/opinions/change the person, or even rewrite into a story. Useful as a starter for pupils who are encountering the perfect tense for the first time.

A simple information-gap task for pupils to complete the endings for avoir, être, aller and faire in the present tense. Ask them to write the English too if you like. Easy to extend by insisting on full sentences. Answers provided on second page of document.

A simple poster showing the first most basic word order rules for German. Could be used as a display or added to a mat or stuck into books.

A straight forward vocab list, handy for a lesson starter: translation task, pronunciation practice, quick-fire pairwork quiz, or ask pupils to extend the sentences with more details or turn the sentences into different tenses.

A simple phonetic guide to the French alphabet, ready to print out for your wall.

A simple phonetic guide to the German alphabet, ready to print out for your wall.

A list of phrases containing French sports: pupils must complete the spellings of the sports correctly. Easy to photocopy 4 lists on a page of A4.

A quick checklist for a piece of French writing, suitable for KS3.

A set of spellings are shown for lire, sortir, aller and faire in the present tense: pupils can give the correct subject for each conjugation and spot the deliberate mistakes. Easy to extend by insisting on full sentences.

A quick starter activity where pupils have to spot the difference between the present and perfect tenses. Each line has 3 options, the odd one out could be either tense. Could be extended by asking for more verbs which follow the same pattern, or by asking for complete sentences using each verb.

This provides pupils with an example of a brochure about a health farm. It was made to support lower ability pupils - they had to adapt my document by swapping in their own vocab, I set each pupil a target of how many words of their own they had to put in.

Use this for display, revision, a lesson starter or homework task. It’s a list of time markers and past participles (split into 2 lists: haben/sein), each with the English next to it. You could ask pupils to make up sentences or a paragraph using these; they could test their partners on the German/English for each.

A French starter activity with suggestions of what life will be like in the future, using ‘on va/on ne va pas’, could easily be adapted to use whole aller paradigm. Pupils can construct complete sentences and match to pictures, could extend this by adding more detail or substituting the vocab.

I made up this fairly naff song to the tune of Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer, using past tense vocab we had learnt. Pupils had to translate into English and also make up their own verse to go next. The brave ones performed for everyone!

A set of 15 sentences in French with a word missing in each. Pupils choose the correct word from the list below to fill each gap. Sentences describe hotel accommodation in the imperfect tense. Could then be used as a translation exercise into English, or pupils could adapt or extend the sentences. Two copies fit on a side of A4, making it cheaper to photocopy. Answers provided on page 2 of the document.

A detailed text in French about a student's ideal school uniform. Information is given about current uniform in the present tense, then ideal uniform is described in the future conditional. Could be used as a translation text (may need cutting into shorter chunks), good revision material, or a lesson starter with comprehension questions made up by the pupils.

A list of 20 countries, mainly European, written in French. Pupils guess then check (with a dictionary/online) what the countries are in English, then match to their capital cities. Makes a good homework or team quiz, as time is needed for pupils to research - unless they have faultless knowledge of capital cities! Answers included on page 2 of document. Could be extended by asking pupils to suggest more countries & cities, or to name rivers/mountains/other cities, or nationalities.

A grid for pupils to complete with countries listed in French and some nationalities provided. Pupils write the countries in English and then complete the masculine and feminine spellings of the corresponding nationalities, then the English words for the nationalities. Makes a good homework. Could be extended by asking pupils to add more countries and nationalities of their own choice, or to build short sentences using the vocab.

A French text with detailed descriptions of meals, almost all in the present tense. Reading comprehension task and 'find the French for...' task beneath. Fits on a sheet of A4. Varied sentence structure and many different foods and drinks included.