With translation an increasingly important part of the new GCSE, I developed a short translation assessment for my Y9 French class to complete at the end of the unit on Home Town & Region.

A longer text about a past school trip with a parallel gap-fill text to test pupils' comprehension of German text. This can be accessed in a variety of ways and serves as a useful model for Controlled Assessment Speaking and/or Writing preparation.

A self-made speaking mat which includes phonetics and PowerPoint presentation so that pupils of all ability ranges at GCSE can create extended answers to questions about smoking, drugs and alcohol. Suitable for all GCSE speaking and even writing preparation on the topic of Healthy Living/Lifestyle.

Another model essay in response to an A2 essay writing question from the AQA FREN3 June 2013 Q14b. This can be accessed in a variety of ways in order to help pupils make progress with their essay writing.

This is a very thorough resource that will enable pupils to prepare fully for either a GCSE Writing or Speaking assessment on the topic of Healthy Living. This includes wide-ranging reading comprehension tasks, verb manipulation tasks and model texts on following aspects: - Past & current eating habits (Present, Imperfect) - Past & current exercise habits (Present, Imperfect, Perfect) - Comparisons between past & current habits (Connectives & Present, Imperfect) - Advice for leading a healthy lifestyle (Modals in Present and Conditional) - Things which are harmful for your health (Cigarettes, Alcohol, Drugs - Expressing Opinions) - Leading a healthy life in the future (Future & Near Future Tenses) - What you would do for your health if you were rich/lived abroad (Conditional & si clauses) All exercises have supporting colourful & easy-to-understand verb-tense summaries.

A model response to the AQA AS GERM1 Essay Writing Question: "Das Kino ist tot. Ein Kinobesuch ist teuer, die Auswahl der Filme ist schlecht und ich hasse die Werbung vor den Filmen. Ich sitze lieber bequem auf dem Sofa und sehe mir DVDs an. Wie reagieren Sie auf diese Meinung?" This can be utilised in a variety of ways; I usually get pupils to look at this alongside an AS writing marks scheme, extract key ideas, generic essay expressions and to list grammatical structures used. It is also a useful model for pupils to adapt when writing their own!

Bemoaning the lack of new GCSE-style assessment materials to accurately assess our pupils, and using a draft assessment resource from the AQA website as a rough guide, I create my own foundation writing paper on the topic of holidays. This will need to be used in conjunction with the writing marks scheme from the new AQA specification, but at present there are no raw mark - grade conversions. This can nonetheless be devised by teachers using either professional judgement following the assessment or using percentages of old UMS conversion tables (i.e. approx. 80% = A*).

Learning mat on GCSE topic of Leisure which pupils can use to form own ideas for a Controlled Assessment Speaking or Writing task. Areas include: favourite hobby & why, when you were younger VS now, what you did last weekend, future hobby and talking about a friend's hobby.

My response to the A-level essay question Analysez les principaux thèmes ou les principales idées du metteur en scène que vous avez étudié. Comment avez-vous réagi à ces thèmes ou à ces idées ? which is relevant for either the legacy or the new-style A-level courses. This is a great model resource to discuss the importance of structure and to access for vocabulary and essay-writing phrases. We discuss the importance of the PEE model (Point-Evidence-Evaluation) and sometimes get pupils to do group work whereby each group evaluates a paragraph and explains PEE in each to other groups. ***NOW INCLUDES ASSOCIATED EXERCISES FOR PUPILS, INCLUDING PHRASE-FINDER AND TRANSLATION OF EXPRESSIONS WITHIN ESSAY***

I use this comprehensive set of 37 questions with our Y13 pupils who studied Le Silence de la Mer as part of their preparation for the AQA FREN4 A2 speaking exams. In the summer exam series 2015, our centre attained a 100% A - C at A2.

I created this resource for my Year 9 group who are studying die Medien und Freizeit. This is a reading comprehension worksheet with two tasks. The first is an identification task of the auxiliary verb and past participle & the second requires pupils to work back from the past participle to the infinitive whilst identifying the auxiliary verb. The latter exercise can be completed with the support of the summary sheet. Sentences can then be adapted as a written task.

A self-penned AS model essay on the AQA essay question: « Le cinéma traditionnel est en voie de disparition à cause des DVD et le téléchargement en ligne. Grâce à Internet et aux DVD, il est de moins en moins nécessaire d’aller au cinéma pour voir un bon film» Les DVD et les films qu’on peut télécharger sur Internet, vont-ils remplacer le cinéma traditionnel ? Quel est l’avenir du cinéma ? Alongside it's use as a good model, pupils can also access this for key language, ideas, essay writing phrases.

A model text with three reading comprehension tasks about previous and current sporting activities/physical exercise habits with examples of perfect, imperfect, present and future tenses. The exercises include reading comprehension questions, a vocabulary finder and an adaptation task whereby pupils use language in the model text to create new ideas. Pupils can subsequently use the model text as inspiration for their own written piece.

A concise yet comprehensive & colourful resource for French students between KS3 to KS4 which can easily be made into a personalised booklet which summarises all of the key French tenses, including Pluperfect, Perfect, Imperfect, Present (Regular & Irregular), Near Future, Future, Conditional & Conditional Perfect. My pupils find the tense summaries really useful and they have also been enlarged and put onto A3 and laminated by other staff to use as classroom wall display support.

A grammar/reading comprehension resource with five exercises for pupils to tackle, including adaptation, verb-tense identification and a sentence writing task contrasting previous and current eating and exercise habits.

A useful reading comprehension worksheet which includes a GCSE-level paragraph on school uniform and three exercises, including vocabulary finder, reading comprehension questions in English and a grammar identification task. Also serves as a good model for written work.

This is a useful reading comprehension worksheet which includes 3 exercises and also serves as a useful model for written work. It has a comprehension grid to complete in English, as well as an adaptation task and a vocabulary finder task.

My model essay answer to past GERM1 AQA essay question: "Viele Erwachsene beklagen sich, dass Kinder zu lange vor der Glotze hängen. Wie reagieren Sie darauf? Bringt das Fernsehen mehr Vorteile als Nachteile?" This can be used as a vocabulary finding exercise, asking pupils to summarise points of each paragraph inEnglish. It can also be used as a basis to discuss essay structure and of course gives pupils a useful model which they can adapt ideas from. They can also read through it and alongside an AS mark scheme discuss what makes this essay a good piece of work.

A reading comprehension worksheet with a model text and 2 comprehension tasks, including a "richtig, falsch, nicht im Text" task and a vocabulary identification task. The text provides a useful model for pupils preparing a response as part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.

A reading comprehension task sheet with 3 different exercises including a comprehension grid and synonym and vocab finder tasks. The paragraph is a useful model for pupils who are preparing a response as part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.