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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.

There are three documents: 1 is a vocabulary gathering exercise to make students think of what they could include, for example biographical details using the perfect tense, 2 is an actual CV where British qualifications have been explained for a French audience, 3 is an example of an application letter for a summer job. This more suitable at KS4 and 5 but could be adapted for a younger age group. It could also be set as an exercise to do someone else’s CV e.g a famous person, a historical character, a character from a film or a novel etc…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!