This is a presentation designed to encourage GCSE pupils to use a variety of complex structures in their written and spoken controlled assessments. The worksheet asks them to build up lists of different kinds of grammatical structures (there is a honeycomb of different examples to start with) before embarking on their own creations. I asked mine to work with their AQA word lists. Apologies to Heston Blumenthal. All feedback gratefully received.

This is a list of all AQA stimulus cards grouped together by topic. It includes all papers up to June 2012.

This is a lesson I produced for my Lower Sixth to introduce the subjunctive. There is a worksheet to accompany the presentation with a fairly comprehensive list of structures.

Print out the cards and laminate them. Pupils work in pairs or small groups and race against each other to form the perfect tense with the cards after reading the infinitive and the subject from the PowerPoint. Good element of competition and really highlights how much (or little!) they actually know. Includes avoir and être verbs and agreement. Can be easily adapted to suit your requirements too.

This is a comprehensive revision pack to accompany module 2 of Mira 2. It includes leisure activities, invitations and excuses and covers the near future, modal verbs, tener, stem changing verbs and time expressions.

Introduction to the regular present tense. A short starter activity matching subject pronouns, followed by the presentation of the three main groups of regular verbs and their endings. There is a short conjugation exercise for each group of verbs and printable blank verb flowers too.

Introducing adjectives of description and adjective agreement. Made to accompany Studio 1.

Reading and Listening practice for GCSE Higher pupils and A2 introduction to environment. Reading comprehension acitivities with link to short video clip with speaking / listening activity at the end. After watching the video a few times, pupils can try to piece together the short (but fast) dialogue by speed dating around the room (and thereby practising it many times with different people)

I have these printed A3 size and laminated and the students can refer to them when speaking in spontaneous debates in class. They have been very positive about them and far from slowing the pace, it enables them to keep talking!

Lesson on comparatives including speaking, reading and writing. Based on Studio 2 vert module 4

Game for revision of AQA GCSE topics - I have uploaded boards for other topics too. I print these in colour on A3 and have them laminated. All you need are counters and dice. There are suggestions on how to use the game too. Very good for independent learning, encouraging spontaneous speaking (group talk) and GCSE revision. Do let me know if anything needs changing.

This is adapted from an excellent handbook for Spanish AS students I found on the TES. I have used checklists and reference materials from other sources as well as my own work.

This is adapted from an excellent handbook for Spanish I found on the TES. It contains advice on how to organize notes, essay planning, essay questions and specific notes on how to revise for each section of the paper.

Present and perfect tense of reflexive verbs. Two worksheets with gaps to fill in the correct part of the verb. One refers to normal routine and the other refers to a specific day in the past.

I use these to teach regular present tense verb patterns to beginners, but the flowers can be used for any tense that is made of a stem and ending. I have displays of flowers in all of the language classrooms. You can reduce the size of the flowers and print multiple copies on a page. Pupils can then make a collage to represent all of the verb groups or tenses they know.

This is a text from les clés junior with vocabulary exercise, comprehension questions in English, true/false exercise and two grammar exercises. Please let me know if you find any mistakes.

Either for GCSE revision or as introduction for Y8/9, this introduces household chores vocabulary in present and perfect tenses and with je dois....

To accompany Studio 2 vert Module 5 unite 5 - unit is based on a talent show. To encourage using a variety of structures (verb + infinitive). Ppt and worksheets. Requires knowledge of devoir, aller, pouvoir, vouloir (half paradigm only). Includes blockbusters games as consolidation at the end.

This is basically a 'all you ever wanted to know' guide on how to form the perfect tense.

More on Les Ecogestes. Some reading comprehension on how to help the environment in the home. There is a link to a website with an light-hearted sketch on saving water though imaginary showering. Not to everybody's taste, so I have put the English transcript on a different worksheet. please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements.