TOOLKIT to help pupils make statements about where they live, have lived and would like to live.

Interactive practice of key verbs of travel

Powerpoint with questions and images to promote discussion about health and fitness. The clock in the corner of each slide is to encourage the students to keep talking for 60 seconds if they can. The questions could also be used to help structure written work. PS Typo fixed

Presentation for departmental CPD. Summary of key points from OfSTED findings relating to MFL lessons observed between 2007 and 2010. OfSTED comments relate to lessons observed in French, German, Spanish ... etc!

Interactive drag and drop exercise in which students must match 10 olympic sports to clues in French. Will work on IW or PC.

Slide 1 of the Powerpoint acts as a homepage for the other slides. Ask pupils to select a letter, then click the corresponding image and it will hyperlink to a slide with a phoneme to practice. Click on the 'back' button to go back to the homepage.

Exercise in which students must re-arrange scenes from the film into the correct order.

Lots of pictures from which the time might be guessed at but not known for sure. Generates high participation levels as there are so many different possible answers for each picture.

Interactive drag and drop activity featuring modal verbs plus werden. There are twenty one items embedded in the game, but it will select ten at random each time it is opened, and will arrange them in random order. Will work in a computer suite, or on the IW.

Three activities relating to jobs and professions, pitched at Foundation Level students. 1 Students match jobs to short clues about those jobs. 2 Students identify key chunks of language from the first eexrcise. 3 Students usea toolkit to generate short descriptions of other jobs.

A bit of old-fashioned grammar. The sheet presents the Present Tense paradigms of lieben, hassen and mögen, gives guidance about 'don't like' and 'don't like any' and then provides twenty sentences in English to translate into German. All the sentences relate to the topic of TV.

Batman describes a trip to Paris, using both the Imperfect and Perfect Tenses. Text is followed by True / False comprehension questions in French, explanation and exemplification of the use of the two tenses, plus three writing tasks for pupils to choose from. (I've now uploaded a second version of this with a small typo corrected.)

Interactive drag and drop game focussing on adverbs of time. The game contains thirty adverbs / adverbial phrases but will randomly select ten each time it is opened and arrange them in random order. Should never quite be the same exercise twice. Will work on IW or PC.

A set of images from The Hunger Games which act as a visual stimulus for students to describe and compare the two very different locations in the story.

Year 12 / AS level text about internet use plus comprehension, discussion and summary exercises

Higher level text about the prevalence of drugs in German schools, with comprehension questions in English.

Simple playscript in which Dracula repeatedly wakes up too soon, asks Igor the time and has to go back to sleep again, until finally it is midnight. Perform it with a colleague or the FLA to your class, or play both parts yourself, then get them to practise it in pairs, and finally ask them to develop the dialogue using the extra vocab and phrases supplied.

Fictitious text about a boy who has improbable pets. Followed by questions in English.

Three short texts on relationships, followed by two comprehension exercises.

Powerpoint used for departmental CPD to invite reflection on the relative demands of typical MFL activities, using Bloom's and / or Winebrenner's Taxonomy as a framework.