A main PowerPoint walking the students through personal opinions on colours to their symbolism, their use in advertising, their meaning and idioms using colours such as “to be caught RED-handed”. A worksheet to try and use idioms. And just for fun song titles including colours. Designed for students with a B level of English as a Foreign Language or for native speakers to reflect on the use of colour. Highly adaptable resources.

It is almost a guarantee (definitely an expectation) that in a translation in an A Level Spanish paper, students will be asked to translate a phrase with se… But often they don’t think of it as they just transfer erroneously the English phrase into Spanish e.g. the literal translation of “Spanish is spoken in Uruguay”. This PowerPoint attempts to get students’ attention to the use of se, with some translation exercises and some useful expressions containg “se”.

A game of dominoes to practise speaking test or writing test types of questions.

This resource especially benefits students whose teachers use Studio 1. Vocabulary wise, it contains classroom equipment and order of priority. It also tackles adjective of colours and their agreement. Finally it has some daily routine phrases in the present tense, 1st person singular.

A PowerPoint aimed at weaker groups to recap gender with indefinite articles. It asks students to work out short sentences, and also their opinion on what is essential, necessary etc… Based on the Mon kit de survie unit in Studio 1.

This is an #assessment resource based on Accés Studio and Studio 1 materials in terms of vocabulary and grammar assessed but can be adapted to most Year 7 French coursebooks. Each vocabulary assessment is linked to a quizlet quiz. It promotes self-assessment and revision techniques. There is also revision advice as part of the package. Topics covered are suitable for beginners and include: Greetings, numbers, days of the week, months, dates, school bag and classroom content, likes and dislikes, colours, animals, family, basic food, where you live, nationalities, weather. Grammar points are also for beginners.

A resource to stimulate discussion on the occasion of Day of the Dead. All pictures taken in Mexico City by an ex-student who spent her year abroad there. References are made to the symbolism of La Catrina, what an altar is composed of. References to history and art are included. The PowerPoint and film whose link is in the PowerPoint can be followed by a Kahoot quiz: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/3604b512-38d4-4018-b119-52e5034bd2d0

Suitable for good AS students and all A2 students. Also suitable for some G.C.S.E. topics. Best to cut them into a pile to pick from to trigger speaking activity.