Sometimes I like to take live pictures of what my kids are doing in lessons – I find it really motivates them and they love praising each other and finding fault! I didn’t plan to do it today but snapped quick pic to model good work. Then he got up and corrected his own in real time and I snapped a second picture of his improvements which we looked at. All you need is a phone or iPad and then you simply email yourself the pic on messager and open it up -and project it on your whiteboard – voila!

I made this first WOW words slide in about 2 minutes and stuck it on the board when Year 10 came in. I then asked them to write a sentence or two to answer the bulletpoint “ce que tu aimes faire le weekend”

They were then told to add as many words and phrases from the wow words as possible and that they “earn” the money by using that word in their work. Person with most money wins!

Even Better If – you use monopoly or play money as a token

You use mini whiteboards for instant feedback

This is a good activity for engagement – simply download the PowerPoint and edit the pages to suit your language/topic/level. You show the pupils the PowerPoint with all the sentences flashing quickly and they shout stop and your press S on your keyboard or freeze the board. They then unjumble the sentences on whiteboards for points or their team. Will insert full PowerPoint for free download here later.

I love this meme and use it in tutor times as well as MFL lessons as a talking point. It’s also good for adapting to make a little creative poem practising nationalities and this one also practises tenses too.