Speaking Ladders Game designed to practise students’ speaking skills within the pretext of learning the Conditional tense in French . It is a great plenary revision game to revise regular verbs (-ER, -IR and -RE) and irregular verbs. The full paradigm is used and students will play in pairs. Two worksheets: Student A (Questions and Answers) and Student B (Questions and Answers).

Sentence Builders table to practise topic of ‘Las Asignaturas’. Great resource to encourage students to build and use sentences with opinions and reasons.

Speaking Ladders Game designed to practise students’ speaking skills within the pretext of learning the Conditional tense in Spanish . It is a great plenary revision game to revise regular verbs (-AR, -ER, -IR) and irregular verbs (decir, hacer, poder, poner, querer, saber, salir, tener, venir, haber). The full paradigm is used and students will play in pairs. Two worksheets: Student A (Questions and Answers) and Student B (Questions and Answers).

Tarsia Puzzle to practise the names of school subjects in Spanish (30 subjects in total) . Solution and printable worksheets included in a pdf file.

Tarsia Puzzle to practise health-related vocabulary (GCSE French Social Issues -> Healthy and Unhealthy Living, Ilnesses, Diet) . Solution and printable worksheets included in a pdf file.

Past perfect tense test (le passé composé) and mark scheme. Including 'avoir ’ auxiliary and ‘être’ auxiliary (using MRS VAN DE TRAMP mneumonic). Both uploaded as Word documents.

Tarsia Puzzles to practise the names of sports in Spanish . Solution and printable worksheets included in a pdf file. Two versions available: standard (18 sports - triangle shape) and challenge (30 sports - hexagon shape).

Tarsia Puzzle to practise Family members and relatives in Spanish. 30 terms in total that make up a hexagonal tarsia puzzle. Worksheets and answers included in pdf document.

Trapdoor Game designed to practise speaking skills within the context of ‘Los Programas de Television. Designed for KS3 students but also useful for GCSE revision. It’s a great game to play in plenary as it encourages speaking and listening skills. Instructions: The objective of the game is to reach the end (complete all sentences) without falling through any trapdoors. If it’s the first time you play, I recommend that you model the game with a student. You secretly choose one option for each colour and the student has to guess your option for each colour/sentence (e.g. 1A, 2B, 3A, 4C, 5C, 6A). If they guess the correct option they move onto the next colour; if they guess incorrectly, they “fall through the trapdoor” and another student starts from the beginning. The students will have to listen to one another to make sure they do not make the same mistakes (trapdoors) as their classmates.

Jackpot Game designed to practise students’ speaking skills within the topic of ‘Las Asignaturas’ . It is a great plenary revision of school subjects in Spanish.

Jackpot Game designed to practise students’ speaking skills within the topic of ‘Les Matieres’ . It is a great plenary revision of school subjects in French.

Spanish mnemonic of ‘Avocado’ to help students improve their writing skills by using more complex structures and more varied vocabulary . Designed for GCSE students, but it can also be useful for KS3 and A-Level. Each letter of AVOCADO has several examples. I use this as a classroom display, but the students also have an individual copy as a visual aid.

Trapdoor Game designed to practise speaking skills within the context of ‘Los Deportes’. Designed for GCSE students but also useful for KS3. It’s a great game to play in plenary as it encourages speaking and listening skills. Instructions: The objective of the game is to reach the end (complete all sentences) without falling through any trapdoors. If it’s the first time you play, I recommend that you model the game with a student. You secretly choose one option for each colour and the student has to guess your option for each colour/sentence (e.g. 1A, 2B, 3A, 4C, 5C, 6A). If they guess the correct option they move onto the next colour; if they guess incorrectly, they “fall through the trapdoor” and another student starts from the beginning. The students will have to listen to one another to make sure they do not make the same mistakes (trapdoors) as their classmates.

Jackpot Game designed to practise students’ speaking skills within the topic of ‘Los Deportes’ . It is a great plenary revision of the present tense of verbs used with sports in Spanish (mainly ‘jugar’ and ‘hacer’, but also including ‘ir’ and ‘bailar’). The full paradigm is used with both positive and negative sentences.