This is my petite fille Serena who features in a lot of Year 9 and 10 PowerPoints. Here is an idea for a Year 9 starter – show them a photo of you and/ or your kids and get them to write PALMS sentences about them. For some reason it being me or my children or my house makes it engaging, who knew?

P Sur la p………. il y a une ………… . Il y a un ord…………….. et une té………….. .

A Je p………. qu’elle tél…………….. .

L C’e……

M Elle s…….. c………….

Just found this photograph on Twitter and wondering how to adapt this resource. I’ve had an idea – make a new version of it one with French and one with just English.

CONNECT 4

The French one is the reference for revision – they race against each other to fill in the English. Then they look at the English one – in pairs they take turns to fill in a box and colour it in their colour with a highlighter playing connect 4 – start from bottom, first one to get 4 in a row wins.

Will play it with Year 10 next week and let you know how it goes…

Not as naughty as it sounds, just a fun lively variant on the usual mfl teacher standby of Lotto.

1) Give each pupil a piece of A4 plain paper

2) Fold in half lengthwise and rip in half to give two strips. You now have enough for two games of strip bingo!

3) Now Fold the paper so you have eight little boxes

4) Give the kiddos some vocab in English – say places in town and they choose 8 and write one in each box.

5) Bingo starts – call out the words in French / German / language

6) when pupils have the word at either the top or bottom of their strip they can rip it off the bottom. If it’s the middle – can’t be ripped it’s stuck there.

7) winner is first one to be left with a single word.

Why it works – kids love the fact it’s called strip bingo and it’s fun to rip things.

You get the say each word more than once (as you would in traditional bingo) so they are more exposed to the language.

Make sure your GCSE candidates know all the main synonyms and related words for listening and reading…This is an example of the kind of starter I like to do as revision

Good starter to get them thinking…

I am very excited to be taking 32 of my Year 8 to Newcastle Uni next month to visit the Lingua Cuisine Digital Kitchen where we are going to use the interactive kitchen and app to learn how to make crepes in French . You can learn using all of your senses, hopefully this will be a very memorable experience!