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A PowerPoint to get students to learn and practise phrases for asking for food through an initial knowledge organiser and then related activities (je voudrais, il me faut etc…), quantities and containers (e.g. un litre de or une bouteille de etc… + food. It also explores verbs of opinions about food. With a lower ability group, this could be used over several lessons.

Some exercises to review question forms (especially ¿hay que…?), options to travel (with verbs of opinions), verbs salir and llegar, the time, and transport issues (discomfort, lateness, seasickness etc…)

Want to encourage students…? Find some scratch card ideas attached. As well as those, you would need to buy some scratch card stickers, that are widely available in various outlets. Students absolutely love them if given for exceptional work.

This worksheet especially applies to the photo description where the last/ last two questions go beyond the picture and put(s) students on the spot, the type of question that asks: What did you do last week/month/year in order to (choose your option: be healthy, protect the environment, be helpful to your family etc). This type of question is always tricky. The same applies to the future ones: what will you do… in order to…? The worksheet gives a range of options that students can decide upon and then try and regurgitate on the day.

A series of exemplar sentence to practise! You should hear no more "n"s or "m"s!

Activities to teach ways of asking questions in French. Often there are several ways to ask the same question e.g. Tu vas au lycée? Vast-tu au lycée? Est-ce que tu vas au lycée? Je vais au lycée. Et toi? And then same ways but with a question word before… e.g. pourquoi est-ce que tu vas au lycée?etc At KS3 students need to be confident with one way of asking questions and then recognise other ways when listening. These activities allow teachers to get students to visit those areas.

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!

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

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

This presentation goes through the Puy-de-Dôme site of Vulcania. It provides reading exercises, working out how much you would pay to get in according to your personal circumstances etc… Can be used as part of the leisure activities topic or possibly before a school trip.

A template guiding KS3/ weaker KS4 students to speak about someone, giving reasons and justifications through the use of a) sequencers: d’abord, ensuite, puis etc…b) intensifiers (très, assez, extrêmement, légèrement etc) and c) adjectives. Could be used as a battleship worksheet.

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 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.

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

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.

You’ve been teaching and teaching all those really useful transactional verbs (tiene, hay, voy, quiero, me gustaría, tengo que etc…) and the learners are still muddling them all up? Here’s a quiz for revision practice. This can be set as cover work, done in class as an in-between task for finishers or a “do now” task or set as homework.

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.

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.

A PowerPoint in which we consider what FOMO means, specifically we look at phrasal verbs. What does the word “out” add to the verb “miss”? Students are asked to identify how they feel when they miss out on something? We then look at the possible causes of FOMO in modern society and the consequences of feeling this. We watch a video on embracing JOMO (Joy of missing out) and finally we look at an article from the Guardian on the topic with a variety of exercises on it. Suitable for B1 level onwards for learners of English as a Foreign Language.