This is a 13 page pdf file containing 5 separate activities suitable for KS3 or upper KS2 English. The unit begins with a 500 word comprehension about the origin of Christmas crackers. The comprehension contains 15 questions, with available marks indicated. A mark scheme is supplied. It is followed by differentiated dictation: 3 versions of the same 100 word text based on the reading passage. Teacher notes are supplied. The third activity is a speed dictation (Dictagloss). Another 100 word text is read at speed and pupils are tasked with re-assembling it collaboratively. This activity should generate a lot of talk. Full teacher notes accompany the text. After that there is a worksheet on root words and word families, with teacher notes. Finally, the writing activity is an acrostic poem entitled CRACKERS. 2 examples of teacher-generated acrostic poems are included in the teaching notes.

There are two pelmanism-style matching games in this PowerPoint - one with animal vocabulary, and the other family vocabulary. The games can be used in two ways. By clicking the show/hide buttons, all the pairs of French and English words are displayed This screen can then be used as a classroom matching exercise when pupils are first learning the vocabulary. Once they are sure of the words and their meaning, they can play the memory game. The numbers on the front reveal French and English words when clicked. If matching pairs are discovered, they are left showing. If not, clicking the words brings back the numbers. A fun starter or plenary activity for KS2/3.

The use of French articles is often different from English, and it is an area where even experienced students make mistakes. This set of resources addresses that, covering the definite, indefinite and partitive articles. There is a support sheet and two worksheets for each. The accompanying answers have explanatory notes referring students to the rules covered in the support sheet. Each worksheet has 8 short questions to be translated from English to French. One mark is awarded for getting the article right, and a second mark for the correctness of the whole response. Each of the sets would provide ideal independent work to follow on from an online lesson.

This is an interactive (Hotpot) Activity to improve pupils’ recognition of French nasal sounds. A multiple choice game played against the clock requiring player to identify rhyming words. It could be played on an interactive board as part of a whole class teaching activity, or set for homework for students to practise on home computers. eg The given word is ‘foncent’ - does it rhyme with pense, ronce or lancent? (Answer is ronce)

Five sentence maps to enable Y6 - Y8 pupils to construct sentences for oral or written work.

Five sentence maps to help pupils construct sentences for either oral or written work. Language content includes adjectival agreement, parts of the verbs 'avoir' and 'être', negative word order. Suitable for Y 6-8.

For complete beginners who are learning to read French. A two slide presentation where pupils have to spot words with silent 'e' endings and write them down. Good for a quick starter.

Many students are not aware of the difference that acute and grave accents make to pronunciation. This resource was created to help remedy that. It consists of a timed Hotpot activity where players have to identify long and short ‘e’. A link at the top of the page takes them to a website where rules of pronunciation are explained.

3 sets of French 'follow-me' cards for use as a starter or plenary in the primary classroom.

For beginners in the language, or anyone who is unsure of the rules of French pronunciation. A zip file contained three folders and one html file. Click on the html file to bring up a web page with links to sound files and Hot Potatoes games.

PowerPoint with link to online activities for learning vocabulary and pronunciation.

PowerPoint with link to online activities for learning French Numbers.

PowerPoint with link to online activities for learning vocabulary and pronunciation.

PowerPoint with link to online activities for learning vocabulary and pronunciation.

PowerPoint with link to online learning activities.

PowerPoint linking to online vocabulary and pronunciation activities.

PowerPoint with link to online activities for learning vocabulary and pronunciation.

Five folders each containing 3 worksheets to support teaching of German greetings. The sixth item is a presentation linking to the online resources on which the worksheets are based (this file is available separately as a free resource, but is included here for convenience).

Five folders each containing 3 worksheets to support teaching of Spanish family topic. The sixth item is a presentation linking to the online resources on which the worksheets are based (this file is available separately as a free resource, but is included here for convenience).

PowerPoint with link to online activities for learning vocabulary and pronunciation.