Print this off on card and fold in half to make a book mark which has lots of the grammar needed at Sixth Form Level. A useful Gedächtnisstütze for all!

No snakes no ladders game to revise German hobbies, adverbs of time, verb second and irregular verbs in the style. Based on Stimmt 1 Kapitel 3

The new GCSE says that pupils need to use idioms in their speaking and writing in order to score a 9. Here is my attempt to shoehorn some common and easy to learn idioms.

Conti Style No Snakes No Ladders on the topic of Yr 7 French hobbies. Pupils play in groups of three. One person has the referee’s answer sheet and has to judge the quality of the players’ translations. If it is wrong the referee says what it should be so that they know for next time and sends them back to the beginning. Written around Studio 1 Module 3

Multi skill lesson using a higher tier text as the starting point. The topic is internet and social media.

A happy families style card game. Adverbs, auxiliaries, participles and infinitives are colour coded to help. All cards are placed face down and pupils take in turns to flip four cards to make correct sentences.

A simple worksheet for pupils to stick in their exercise books. It lists the regular patterns for 'er', 'ir' and 're' verbs.

As exciting as the description suggests. A table clearly laying out the three time frames. At the bottom there is a neat explanation about using the 'wir' form. My year 9 have this in the grammar section of their books and no doubt on their bedroom walls.

A handful of opinion phrases shown in a range of tenses suitable for classroom display.

If you need a nice quiet lesson then let your Yr 11s work their merry way through this double sided bank of environmental phrases. Side one : cut up the chain over letters to provide a translation of the given English Side two : rearrange the order of the French words to give a translation of the English Takes a good class around 30mins

24 sentences to translate to round off the media topic.

A short video and a Powerpoint for display at Yr 11 Parents’ evening. Relates to AQA spec.

Practice of clothes and adjective to accompany the above unit. Print off p1-2 Answers are on p3

Mildly amusing Blankety Blank Style game. Pupils hold up answers on whiteboard from a given selection. Buyers can easily substitute in known names and places. Click on the actual circle to reveal hidden word.

Simple worksheet suitable for revision or for a cover lesson. Pupils have ten sentences which they have to unjumble.

Short simple explanation of the Future and Perfect Tense Colour coded to help pupils see the make up of the sentences. Only common verbs used.

A blankety blank style guessing game. Pupils make guesses at the obscured word. Click on the obscuring box to reveal the word. Easy to adapt and personalise.

Practises postition and form of adjectives used to describe houses. Includes follow up worksheet with differentiated activities.

I like to start of by drilling these 8 expressions based on the verb ‘dire’. They help develop pupils fluency and authenticity as well as addressing many of the examination board requirements.