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The MFL Teacher is the ‘one-stop shop’ for teachers of Modern Foreign Languages. Whether you are looking for advice, a quick idea or quality ready-to-use resources, you will find it with The MFL Teacher. Please visit our website for more information, including our blog and our Bright Ideas!

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The MFL Teacher is the ‘one-stop shop’ for teachers of Modern Foreign Languages. Whether you are looking for advice, a quick idea or quality ready-to-use resources, you will find it with The MFL Teacher. Please visit our website for more information, including our blog and our Bright Ideas!
Quiz-Quiz-Trade template
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Quiz-Quiz-Trade template

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Template for the popular 'Quiz-Quiz-Trade' activity. Students each have a small piece of paper/card with a phrase in TL and its translation underneath. Students mill around the room, when they ‘bump’ into someone student A will say their phrase in TL and student B has to translate (quiz). The same happens with student B’s card (quiz). If both students translate each other’s card correctly they trade, hence the quiz-quiz-trade. To add an element of competition, ask the students to count the amount of times they exchanged and give a prize / raffle ticket / house point to the winner.
Tarsia puzzle template
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Tarsia puzzle template

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Type in a word/phrase it the TL on one line and then the equivalent in English opposite it (as in the example). Do this within each inner section and then cut it up into cards. Pupils must then form a triangle with the cards by matching the TL to the English. Instructions are in the notes section of the PPT. It's worth Googling 'Tarsia puzzles'!
German directions hangman starter
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German directions hangman starter

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When you click on the red line underneath a letter (if it’s correctly guessed), it will reveal the letter. In this presentation, the German direction phrases are pre-populated, which you will see when you open the presentation. To reveal the whole answer, click on “Reveal”. If the letter is wrong, click on one of the sections of the ‘hangman’ to the left. It will then turn red.
Scrabble tiles & their scores
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Scrabble tiles & their scores

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I use this as a starter activity. Without showing this slide or telling pupils what they will be doing, ask them to write 5 words from the topic they did last lesson. Don’t mention anything about points, etc. After they’ve written the words, show them this slide and tell them to award the points for each letter of each word and then a total for all words. If you want to, tell them (for example) that each accent doubles the value of its letter. It’s a simple and competitive activity.
Plenary brains
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Plenary brains

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Throughout a lesson, pupils could fill in what they are learning into the outline of a brain. Great way to show progression.
Blockbusters template
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Blockbusters template

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Add the first letters of words in a phrase, images or words. In teams (red and blue), pupils aim to make a continuous line of their colour horizontally. When they have chosen a hexagon and have answered correctly, click on that hexagon to change it to the team colour.
Storyboard template
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Storyboard template

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Very simply, a template for pupils to use to write about a week. They write the text in the lower box and draw a picture in the bigger box.
Christmas in Germany
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Christmas in Germany

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This PPT introduces some facts about Christmas traditions in Germany as a multiple choice-style quiz. At the end of the PPT, there is then an advent calendar-style game about the facts and vocab.
French - Possible quantities or not?
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French - Possible quantities or not?

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Not just food and drink, but quantities in general. A simple set of a few phrases, some of which make sense and some of which do not. Then students can make their own phrases for their partner.