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What a wonderful show and tell workshop! Amazing presentations, fabulous engagement from the lovely audience and so many incredible ideas for you to take away and use in your own teaching immediately! If you didn’t manage to drag yourself out of bed to watch the workshop on a cold, frosty Saturday morning, fear not,…
Joyeux Noël, frohe Weihnachten and feliz Navidad Every day for the month of December, find a Christmas-related freebie behind each door! Simply click on the picture to automatically download that day’s freebie! NB All vocab can be found in my other free Christmas resources here. If you are enjoying my free…
In a recent online evening class with my German GCSE/A level group, we looked at the way that the German language is changing and developing to reflect the modern world. I put together a PowerPoint with some vocabulary on the topics of technology and diversity, equity and inclusion. I started with the…
Do you have no idea where to begin with planning outstanding MFL lessons? Are you struggling to plan your lessons efficiently? Are you looking for new ideas to revitalise your tired old routines and lesson plans? If so, my pre-recorded Lesson Planning 101 course is the perfect CPD course for you! Due to…
What a brilliant CPD session! I’m still buzzing after this Show and Tell CPD in which some absolutely amazing teachers presented their favourite MFL games for us and I want to thank them again for getting up early on a Saturday morning to do so! Games included win the ads (aka You win some you lose…
I’ve collated all of my FREE Christmas resources here for you… PLUS some brand new Mastering the Basics-style Christmas booklets in French, German and Spanish! OG Kate Languages Christmas resources with GCSE-style reading, writing, translation and speaking activities I wrote these resources a few years ago and they have proved extremely popular every year!…
If you’re looking for a quick, simple booklet to help your students learn some key Halloween vocabulary, look no further than these FREE Mastering the Basics resources in French, German and Spanish! Based on my popular ‘Mastering the Basics‘ series of resources for beginners, these booklets contain a vocab list (with a sound file to…
‘Phonics’ seems to be one of those buzzwords that is around a lot at the moment and, as we start to prepare for the new GCSE (first teaching September 2024), isn’t going anywhere soon! I have been starting my beginners’ lessons with a focus on phonics for a while now, and am finding it invaluable…
On my most recent podcast episode, I talked about designing an MFL curriculum, with a specific focus on KS3. I have presented a webinar and workshop on this topic in recent months and both times used a version of the PowerPoint below. Just click on the photo to download it for free! Hopefully it…
I just wanted to quickly share 3 zero prep activities I have done in lessons recently that worked well. I can’t take credit for these ideas… I saw them first on social media but I’m really sorry to say I can’t remember/don’t know who shared them first, so I don’t know who to credit! Apologies!…