A powerpoint explaining how to use basic French prepositions, for use with topic on Ma Maison, Ma Chambre etc. Also a worksheet to practice using them.

**Thanks for comments and corrections - now amended and new version here to download. If the old link is not working, this one is good as of Oct 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWzb3Z4PV3Y Video resource for practising recognition of the past tense in French. Third person singular form of verbs, mostly ER with avoir. Match them up to the English meaning then watch the video and number them as you see them happening. Some of the events don’t appear in the video - to practise making negative sentences with ne and pas afterwards!

A worksheet for a Y7 cover lesson to practise recognising and using adjectives to describe personality and appearance. Matches vocabulary from Mira 1 unit 3. Some reading, drawing and a wordsearch.

Worksheet with various 'lonely hearts' style adverts with lots of physical and personality descriptions. Could be used as a reading exercise with specific questions or as a vocabulary activity where they have to categorise the descriptions. I used it as a reading exercise then a stimulus for writing and speaking - they have to reply to each advert playing the part of the ideal match for each person.

Compilation of notes on El coronel, including a critical bibliography. The pack is a 'thinking resource' for A Level / Pre-U / Advanced Higher students. It considers aspects of character development, theme, authorial intention, symbolism, structure, literary technique. Many points come with suggested evidence from the text to support, but most are left open for your students to discuss relevant examples. Throughout the pack are plenty of points for discussion and questions printed in bold. It also includes a list of essay questions from Edexcel and AQA past papers up to June 2015. Please use and edit as required.

Pupils identify the European stereotypes in the pictures and write sentences with Je suis espagnol(e) et j'habite en Espagne. Practice the diffrenece between masculine and feminine adjectives. Then an activity where they must recognise the name of a country and find out what the flag looks like. (I have a poster of Europe with flags in my room, but they might have some in their diary planners or it could be a homework task.)

This is a handy tool for vocabulary revision and aural comprehension. The pupils are divided into two teams and each team will be asked items of vocabulary to translate to English, to the TL or questions they must respond to correctly in TL. If they are correct they can choose 1 or 2 squares on the grid, either by tapping the board or calling a grid reference. Teacher then removes the selected square(s) one at a time. If they are lucky they will find a 'gold coin&' which is banked next to their team number. The team who find the most coins are the winners!

This is a link to a YouTube video I made with a class of S2 pupils. We wrote the song using Scream and Shout by Will.I.Am and Britney, then changed the lyrics to include verbs related to daily routine and finally recorded the audio. It's a shame I can't share the video with the pupils starring; this is just a clipart version with subtitles. Feel free to extract the audio and use it to create your own class movie, to listen to in class for practice or use it to support a gap fill activity with the verbs in question. Enjoy! We had fun making it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IV2xTA5QHU

A worksheet to use as practice recognising and using third person verbs and family members.

Structure for a vocabulary revision game that gets quite heated! Pupils take turns in teams to answer a vocab question and they draw a line on the grid every time they get a right answer, with the aim of connecting enough lines to form a square but trying to prevent the opposite team winning a square. Strategy and language revision! Do this on the interactive board or just a normal whiteboard. Zero prep and good fun as a starter or plenary.

A peer listening and reading task. Pupils split into groups A, B, C, D and read through their information, looking up unknown phrases and filling in the answers to the comprehension questions for their section. When ready, pupils circulate around the room, swapping information with others who need it by reading their text aloud and giving prompts and clues to classmates where necessary to aid understanding. Level is meant to be challenging - top set GCSE - but feel free to modify as needed.

A Spanish directions worksheet, to practise understanding and following written directions. Pupils then have a duplicate map on the back which they can annotate. They write four sets of directions and swap with another person.

Online grocery shopping in French using the website houra.fr Pupils follow the instructions on the document to access the website and then find all the items on the shopping list. They have to type the English meanings of the items and record the price of each item. I used this with an able class in S2, but this could easily be simplified or shortened for a lower level class or a class with a shorter attention span! At the end of the lesson they played the games on Hello Mylo in the food section, linked at the bottom of the document.

This collection of documents make up a unit of work exploring Neruda’s poetry from a sociopolitical perspective. I put this together to teach part of the Cambridge Pre-U specification for Paper 4, Topics and Texts, as part of the topic “Justicia y Opresión en América Latina”. The basis of our unit of work was to explore Neruda’s politics and how this affected his life and works. He is referred to as the “Poet of the People”, and we took this as our starting point. Like Fray Bartolomé, he used his influence to speak on behalf of those with no voice. The poetry explores a huge part of Latin American history, from Incan civilization to the 1960s. Taken as a whole, the collection shows that much still has to be done to improve social justice. The second part of this unit was a study of the film También la lluvia, showing similar themes of exploitation and injustice.

A lesson designed to support the requirements of Scottish CfE offering pupils depth of learning and authentic language experience within the context of Education. Pupils are given the worsksheets, cut up into individual cards. They read them and try to match them up with the English translation. In pairs they write a piece of advice for a few of the texts. They finish by performing a roleplay: one partner acting the part of the victim, the other giving advice.

Using a French dubbed video from MTV's Cribs for inspiration, pupils listen and match vocabulary. Follow up with the reading worksheet about Taylor Swift's house and then write a script for their own Maison de Star video. We used photos and Windows Movie Maker to put them together with music/voiceover from the pupils reading their star scripts, then had a cinema screening in class and an Oscars ceremony for video and speaking skills! Find the French video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvAR7E3fgBw

A worksheet to practise recognising and using verbs in the third person to talk about family members.

Lyrics invented to help learn weather phrases in Spain, to be sung to the tune of Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off”. My beginner class just finished helping me record some audio, so here is our finished project! https://youtu.be/BER0jXTfQec

Pupils learn the verb ALLER in the present tense by singing along to the Pink Panther theme tune and finger snapping. It is fast but once they get the hang of it it really helps to keep it stuck in their heads! Play the music from the soundtrack on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhHwnrlZRus Class snap their fingers and sing: je vais tu vas il va elle va nous allons vous alleeeeeez ils et elles vont

A song by pop singer Boggie highlighting the overexposure to designer brands and photoshopped images experienced by young people. Attached is the lesson plan for the link we made with Health and Wellbeing. Pupils read the lyrics, watched the video and came up with some ideas about the meaning of the song. They came up with a poster in French promoting raising awareness of the damaging effect mass media has on our psychology when they try to convince us we need these products to be perfect. The kids in my class REALLY got involved with this and felt quite strongly about the message.

Collated from old Standard Grade/Intermediate papers by Aberdeenshire Council, published on www.blogs.glowscotland.org.uk Useful vocabulary revision for all listening exams, I plan to use this with my National 4 and National 5 students.