Get your pupils to enjoy the French festive season in just a fifty-minute lesson! Various games/activities/information. You will need to print a couple of things off and ideally have some prizes up your sleeve.

Get your pupils to experience the joys of the German festive season within a fifty-minute lesson! Several activities/games/bits of information. You will need to print a few things and perhaps sort some prizes in advance. There is, of course, a link to Dinner for One.

From a quick look on the Edexcel website this morning. Thanks to Redpens and Ferrolana for original/earlier versions of this.

Get your pupils to experience the Spanish festive season in a fifty-minute lesson! A sequence of activities and games. You will need to print off a couple of things in advance and possibly have a prize or two up your sleeve. Many thanks to a former colleague for the background on a Spanish Christmas. You will also need to check that you are happy with and can access any external links, of course.

Ideal as a series of motivational starters - either to pique pupils’ interest in languages in general, in German in particular, or show extrinsic benefits of learning German. Many thanks to anybody whose resources I’ve used/adapted - I have tried to acknowledge you in the PowerPoint notes; my apologies if I have omitted to do so. Some video clips, statistics, discussion points etc

Ideal as a series of motivational starters - either to pique pupils’ interest in languages in general, in French in particular, or show extrinsic benefits of learning French. Many thanks to anybody whose resources I’ve used/adapted - I have tried to acknowledge you in the PowerPoint notes; my apologies if I have omitted to do so. Some video clips, statistics, discussion points etc

A 10-question quiz for the European Day of Languages including some lead-in information that will need to be adapted for your school. Pupils listen to the 10 short embedded audio files and match up to the 10 European languages.

For pupils to use throughout Y10-Y11 studying AQA GCSE French. It contains a brief overview of the GCSE course. It also contains all the questions which come up in the text book, both in the chapters and in the list of questions at the end of the GCSE text book. Also contains guidance on French language rubrics and describing a picture.

For pupils to use throughout Y10-Y11 studying AQA GCSE German. It contains a brief overview of the GCSE course. It also contains all the questions which come up in the text book, both in the chapters and in the list of questions at the end of the GCSE text book. Also contains guidance on German language rubrics and describing a picture.

A standby computer room lesson or cultural homework: webquest in which pupils research the answers to questions about sporting events in the French-speaking world. Five questions each on Roland Garros, the Monaco Grand Prix, 24h du Mans, le Marathon des Sables, le Tour de France, and a further five questions on other random French sporting stuff. You could of course make a competition of it, or just get pupils to answer a selection of questions. The document is last year’s so is out of date. Here is a 2022 version as a Microsoft Forms quiz.

Pupils match a well-known character to where they live and then to a description of that place.

Jacques Dutronc’s song “Paris s’éveille” with work to do with daily routine in particular. Activites are find the phrases in the lyrics, adapt the phrases in the lyrics, parallel translation. Link to audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7whXkifG_ms