A vocab matching exercise followed by a simple toolkit to help students express opinions about school subjects in French, followed by a writing task with vocab support.
Text in which Homer Simpson talks about what there is to do in Springfield and compares it to Shelbyville. The text is followed by a True / False exercise, a find-the-phrase exercise, a manipulation exercise and a writing task.
Practise of key language relating to asking directions, followed by a playscript, in which Britney Spears asks the characters from Scooby Doo for directions. The location of the station remains a mystery.
Interactive practice of subordinating conjunctions. The exercise will load a different selection of 10 conjunctions each time and will shuffle the order. Will work on a PC or the IW.
ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS. Powerpoint to help pupils to deduce the grammar underpinning the question 'Wie komme ich zum / zur / zum ... ?'. Examples of masc. fem. and nt. destinations followed by a grid, which can be completed following discusion of the patterns the pupils have observed.
Simple toolkits to help students go beyond 'er / sie ist + adjective' when describing friends and relatives.
- He / she looks ...
- He / she can be ...
- I think he / she is ...
- I find him / her ...
plus a load of adjectives
I made this for my FL2 class to practise the Perfect Tense with haben and sein in the context of daily routine. The pair work cycles through three times, with the on-screen support reduced each time.
Powerpoint used for departmental CPD to invite reflection on the relative demands of typical MFL activities, using Bloom's and / or Winebrenner's Taxonomy as a framework.
Updated version of an item I've previously uploaded. The worksheet has (i) an example of word order in a simple sentence compare to a normal sentence (ii) a match-up activity (iii) an activity in which students must create both a statement and a question from a given set of words.
Complete GCSE vocab list in German and English. I replaced the usual prosaic topic and sub-topic titles with song and film titles, song lyrics and some obscure quotations in a desperate attempt to make some of my revision-shy pupils look through it.
Interactive multiple-choice revision exercise. The file will display a different selection of 35 words each time it is opened and will also shuffle the multi-choice answers each time it is opened. So, it can be used repeatedly without being quite the same each time you use it. If you have computer room available, each pupil can, in effect, be doing a different exercise.
TOOLKIT for generating complex sentences relating to the topic of family and relationships, and for practising word order in sentences featuring a main clause and a subordinate clause.
Extended text featuring three tenses, in which Shrek talks about his home, the town of Duloc and a visit to Portishead. Having read the text students should enhance the original by adding adverbs, adverbial phrases and conjunctions from a list beneath the text.