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Based on a resource in the textbook Voilà 2. this PowerPoint offers further practice on manipulating the perfect tense in French. It will need updating in terms of players to modernise it over the years, but the French Perfect tense will stay the French Perfect tense.

A basic practice activity to check students have understood the endings of the present tense in Spanish

A list of common irregular verbs and radical changing verbs, plus 18 phrases that can be included in ANY context in written and oral work.

Gap-fill activity based on the song “¡Qué difícil es hablar el español!”. Lots of idioms and vocabulary from different Spanish-speaking countries. Shows the wealth of cultures and identities.

The film undoubtedly explores and challenges pre-conceived ideas. This questionnaire could be given to students before they watch the film and then again after to check whether their attitude has changed.

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.

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.

Ideally this PowerPoint would be used with the extract of the 2011 film Intouchables by Olivier Nakache and Éric Tolédano with François Cluzet and Omar Sy. Very early on in the film there is a job interview scene where Driss and other candidates come for a job interview at Philippe’s home. The PowerPoint looks at the vocabulary used to talk about one’s qualifications and relevant hobbies. It can be used without watching the film too. Part of it deals with gender agreement and the pronunciation of the sound r in French.

This PowerPoint walks students through the meaning of some adjectives and attracts their attention to gender agreement. It then explains how to form the comparative both in English and Spanish. Using a number of English idioms, it then leads students to learn a few Spanish idioms using “más… que” eg más alto que un pino.

This worksheet could be either used as a cover work sheet or a take home sheet to prepare for the speaking and writing exams mostly. Can be used as a practise-out-loud task or composing conversations or writing transactional formulae e.g. in a shop, at a tourist office etc… This is also a good list as to what to cover as a minimum by the time students get to Year 9.

A task on the song Tout le monde by Corneille. Practice of phrases with “on”/ “je” present tense Deals with children’s work in Congo… leads to discussion on how we react or not or use social media faced with tragedies.

A worksheet with phrases and tasks about situations when we are likely to meet others (e.g. in a queue, asking if the seat is free etc…). Can be set as cover work, as group work or as class work for revision. It helps to revise opinions and formulating questions. Can be used for speaking practice too. It has been checked by a French native speaker.

A range of activities to practise sentences you can include anywhere e.g. acabo de ver, examples of sentences you can include a number of tenses in. Very good for GCSE writing and speaking.

Topic of housework/ what you do to help out at home. Includes opinions and phrases of frequency. Mostly present tense.

This PowerPoint focuses on the armistice, briefly goes through countries involved in WW1, some photos of that time and some useful vocabulary.

A worksheet explaining some features of Italian pronunciation A worksheet on cognates or near cognates between English and Italian A template to cut off to put a text back in order

The principle is quite simple: talk to people you don’t often talk to or you don’t talk to at all with the hope to either use your social skills or learn new ones and practise your English if English is not your native language. The worksheet could be adapted to other languages too. Put your phones away and actually appreciate the spontaneity of the moment!