Chapter from a book I co-authored. Very successful with KS3 and 4 students

A collection of resources on connectives and other discourse markers and useful phrases suitable for A-level writing revision.Challenging, meant for able A-level students

A whole chapter from an Italian learning book I co-authored on foods and drinks. Plenty of activities. Very student-friendly

Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.

A wide range of fun and challenging activities from a book I co-authored.

A wide range of fun and challenging activities from a book I co-authored.

A wide range of fun and challenging activities from a book I co-authored.

INSTRUCTIONS - The students work in pairs. They have a sheet with the same English sentences to translate into French, but Partner A has the translation of sentences 1 to10, whereas Partner B has the translation of sentences 11 to 20. I call it 'Oral ping-pong translation' because they do it orally, Partner A challenging Partner B with a sentence and showing the correct answer to provide them with feedback and to award points (3 for perfect sentence, 2 for one mistake only, 1 if there are mistakes but at least the verb is correctly formed). I give them a time limit (10 minutes); when the time is up the person with the higher score wins. Best to have people of similar ability in each pair. Here is an example: I made for a very able year 11 of mine. Obviously the activity can be done in writing too. As a follow-up, I get the students to make a note of the most serious mistakes they made in their books so that I have an idea of what their problem areas are. Differentiation opportunities are obvious: different sets of sheets for groups of different ability

Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.

A sentence builder, a map for oral pairwork, a vocab builder and a micro-listening skills set of activities

A wide range of fun and challenging activities from a book I co-authored.

All the GCSE topics covered

New pool of resources on food, twelve to be exact

A wide range of fun and challenging activities from a book I co-authored.

A wide range of activities suitable for KS4 and for able Year 9 groups (although parts of it can be used with less able groups too). For an online version of this go to: www.language-gym.com/work-outs/

A useful sentence builder meant for yr 9 (but a top set year 8 would be able to cope,too) . The document also includes a basic sondage activity and a couple of vocabulary consolidation activities.

New worksheets packed with vocab building activities on a range of topics

A wide range of fun and challenging activities from a book I co-authored.