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 to teach prepositions and furniture in room with short writing task and speaking task.

Just a quick guide on how to structure an essay highlighting common pitfalls (taken from examiners' reports)

Game board with 75 spaces for you to use to invent your own questions on any topic. I have them mounted on coloured card and laminated.

Simple speaking activity where pupils choose their own infinitive phrases (their task planning sheets only allow infinitives) and are asked to conjugate them correctly depending on the time expressions. Requires dice.

Introducing the near future in Spanish when talking about the weekend. PowerPoint presentation to compliment Listo 1 module 6.5. There are short exercises at the end of the presentation. Do let me know if you spot any mistakes.

This is just a list of idiomatic expressions with coup where students have to find their English translations

Adapted from an article on Clés Junior d'Actualité. There is a short vocabulary exercise, a true/ false exercise and an AQA style grammar exercise. Please let me know if you spot any mistakes.

A few quotes by famous people (some quite amusing) - students simply have to report what each has said. I get my class to translate each quote into English before moving to the next.

This is a checklist I give to my class when they are writing or preparing passages which may later be used to create drafts for assessments. The box for controlled assessment phrases refers to the lists of useful coursework phrases from mfl Sunderland.

quick recap of modal verbs for lower ability y8 class

This is a simple revision sheet I made at the request of one of my A level class.

Powerpoint presenting description of disastrous holiday for use as preparation for GCSE. Guess the complaint activity followed by longer text gapfill.

Presentation begins with review of 'habiter' and vocabulary for houses and regions. Reviews prepositions used to mean 'in'. Worksheet provides opportunity to write full sentences based on the presentation and there is a small (but difficult) gapfill exercise on prepositions. Also includes introduction to rooms of house.

Talking about school subjects, giving simple opinions and asking questions. Based on Module 2 unit 1 of Studio 1

This is a PowerPoint presentation used to support expo1 module 3 unit 4. It uses the whole verb table. There are some activities on the powerpoint and then a written worksheet which is essentially an attractive looking verb drill. let me know what you think.

The link to a YouTube video and a vocabulary exercise with the lyrics.

Listening activities based on report (on YouTube) about young smokers - for AS French

AS AQA French - shopping and fashion - reading comprehension

Just a simple gap fill to the Cactus song - good fun and very popular with my students