Part of a cross-curricular revision unit on the 1st world war with dates of birth and deaths of those fallen for France. Can be used primarily to revise days of the week and months of the year in French, also to show how 11th November is commemorated in Poitiers and show the multiculturalism of the fallen (some have got German-sounding names, Jewish-sounding names, Arabic-sounding names, Basque and Spanish-sounding names), a couple are women.

An opportunity for students to assess/ reflect on their/ others’ contribution to pair/group work and their review of it.

This is a presentation going through various steps that will make someone a good linguist, based on the 6Rs . Motivation in Spanish and French.

Throughout the UK, it is a struggle to get students to continue with languages… Many reasons for this, most of them cultural, not enough space here to go into details. This is an example of a booklet that KS3 students would keep with them relying on a system of stickers awarded (stickers could be replaced by comments) and test results. The idea is that by the time it’s options evening/ options choice time in Year 9, students would have a record of what they have achieved and how well they did. It is also good PR with parents, management etc… to show positive tracking. The document can clearly be adapted to suit any school.

A worksheet requiring students to put items of a sentence in the correct order, to translate from French to English, to notice gender and number agreements and to translate into French. Relates to the topic of leisure activities.

A worksheet with explanations and ideas of useful set subjunctive phrases in context.

Three texts about the journeys of three different immigrants followed by quiz e.g. find the person who… and find the French for. Good for the revision of the perfect tense in French, verbs to talk about travel, transports and of course feelings/ emotions.

Low ability to begin with and gradually gets more difficult but can be adapted. Visual help to learn some set phrases e.g. usually I eat this/ last week I ate this… it was + adjective/ tomorrow I am going to eat this… it will be + adjective Clues to learn vocabulary/ Learning skills Role-play activity, listening activity and game

For A Level Spanish students El movimiento de los indignados Information and fill the blanks types of exercises.

This is a list that will give students a taster of a) what will be expected skills-wise in Yr 12; b) how to become a more spontaneous speaker; c) how to diversify the activities you may do every day. Whilst some of the activities can be done in class, this is more for independent study.

If your school is lucky enough to have French penfriends and you are looking for a basic template to start students off to write to the French students, this is it… adaptable as in a word document. Just something to get you started on familiar KS3 topics (self, school, hobbies, describing your local area). Can also be used in a less authentic way for writing practice.

A basic bingo game for a class of 24 students. The idea is that you read some English equivalent e.g. At what time? When? the train? Leaves? Is it? Direct? etc… Students cross off the Spanish. The extension work is for them to make up as many questions as possible using one card/ two cards etc… Could be split and used as noughts and crosses. Could be easily adapted to a snake and ladder game etc…

The exercises are based on a text about someone’s use of devices, social networks etc… This document has been checked by a French native speaker.

Some discussion questions re personality. Less boring than the usual "describe yourself"

Two no fuss time saving worksheets with exercises in both tenses and then an exercise where students are supposed to choose which of the two tenses they should use. There are references to La Casa de Bernarda Alba and Ocho Apellidos Vascos.

A bunch of resources to teach the topic of the Second World War/ The occupation at A Level French. Makes references to the series Un Village français set in the 2nd World War. Has vocabulary activities. This resource has been checked by a native French speaker for accuracy.

Three different approaches to tackle that topic in essay form

A Powerpoint starting with a sentence builder, some listening exercises, some fill the gap exercises, supported writing and reading activities (the reading activities use characters from the film Intouchables but it is not necessary to have seen the film to do the tasks) This can also be used for online teaching.

Very easy listening/ reading exercise on places around town in Spanish suitable for Key Stage 3 for lower sets. Can be set as cover work or online work. Some adaptations would make it more challenging. Writing or translation exercises could also easily follow.

This worksheet is to be used after reading a few comic books of the Titeuf Series, The idea is that students spot some common recurrent topics and themes and add to the list.

These resources are about Boule de Suif, Un Duel, La mère Sauvage and Deux Amis. The intention as well as vocabulary building, looking at the style and subtext etc, was to show how some issues in 1870 are still very current. Page numbers refer to the 1982 Harrap edition of Boule de Suif et autres contes de la Guerre. All resources have been checked by a French native speaker for accuracy. All resources can be adapted to suit.