I’ve tried these with a few of my classes, not always a winner – one class just completely refused to even try and looked at me like I was insane for trying to make them red them out. However one class begs for more every lesson and even look up their own online – guess which class has best pronunciation?

Sing this to the tune of Addams family and click you fingers – voilà!

I’m not sure where I got this original idea from, so thank you if it was someone reading this! All you need is a deck of jumbo cards £3 from Flying Tiger. The kids are on two teams and have to answer a question about what they’ve been learning to pick a card (with all sorts of Paul Daniels theatrics of course.) The points are as shown on the slide. Dunno why they love it so much, but it’s a great one for all ages.

Here’s a cheeky pic Nathalie Paris took of me presenting at UK Lingua last month – didn’t even know was taken! Will put all my previous conference and seminar PowerPoints up on here at some point – this one was about poetry.

This is nothing revolutionary, but has totally changed the way I teach lower ability KS3. Basically all the kiddos have a Knowledge Organiser with a years worth of vocab in their planner, I then copy, paste and print little grids with that lessons vocab for them to fill in, glue in books and the challenge task is to use the vocab to translate sentences.

Found this on Twitter to help Year 9 and 10 with the P/N questions

So I showed this old picture of my daughter to my Year 11 for some motivation to speak and I was so impressed with what they came out with! Everyone suddenly wanted to talk in French – they love personal and/or funny pictures. Until one boy said “comment dit-on <<her face is blown off>> Madame?” By the way it was blueberries!

This one goes down even better if you pronounce his name like Elton John at the Brits circa 2017…

Sung to the tune of “Shape of You”

Dans ma ville il y a un musée

Un bowling et un ciné

Mais je déteste la piscine

Ay ah ay ah ! Je déteste la piscine

Il y a une patinoire

Et plein de choses à voir

Mais je déteste la piscine

Etc

Then you can sing the sort of middle eight funky bit like this:

Venez à ma ville (Come on be ma baybee)

Venez à ma ville …

Je vais aller en vacances

Dans le nord de la France

Je vais aller en Espagne

Et je vais aller à la montagne

Je vais en Italie

Et je vais aller avec mes amis!

Simply stick this on the board as they walk in and give each pupil a post it note and tell them

They have to make a “je vais aller” sentence with a where they are going to go. Extra points if they work out where their Friends are going too… Leads on to a nice explanation of en / au/ au.