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Getting dictatorial about dictation My year 10 Germanists have their listening mock exam tomorrow, so they wanted to ‘do listening’ today. Poor sods not knowing this is my abso...

I wrote about dictation again, based on my year 10 Germanists in the classroom today. I hope it is useful to some - and it's not just relevant to those teaching or learning German! learninglisteninglanguages.blogspot.com/2025/07/gett...

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My favourite activity at the moment: children can see the 10 words we are working on. I say 9 of them randomly, then they have to tell me which one I didn't say. Always goes well and they get to hear the vocab lots of times. Helps to prepare in advance 👍. #mflbluesky

How I embed phonics in my teaching Phonics needs to be taught explicitly. This is particularly true when we have very little teaching time per fortnight, and especially for le...

'Phonics needs to be scaffolded and deliberately practiced, not only by actually saying the target sounds, but by listening too.'

Read more on the blog! bethlingual.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-...

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How I embed phonics in my teaching Phonics needs to be taught explicitly. This is particularly true when we have very little teaching time per fortnight, and especially for le...

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Looking for clear teacher scripts for the new GCSE speaking exams? With all the timings and what to say? Here you go... www.tes.com/teaching-res...

Link has mark schemes too - F&H tier, in French, Spanish, & German, AQA

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Looks great, I was hoping to get stuck in for next year but my school have decided numbers aren't high enough for A level to run 😢 hopefully in the future

Just added on my TES shop: www.tes.com/teaching-res... revision worksheet on the topic of future plans 🇪🇸 #MFLBluesky

A great option for cover work while you're doing speaking exams, or just for general consolidation and practice: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

The 2 mins speaking questions challenge continues to work really well with engaging our students to speak spontaneously: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/09/2-mi... #MFLBluesky

Reflections on reading aloud Reading aloud in MFL has always been important, but with the changes to the new GCSE it has become even more so. I have been thinking about ...

Getting students to read aloud: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/refl... #MFLBluesky

Free dice game to practice speaking and writing (responding to unseen questions/bullet points) on my TES shop: www.tes.com/teaching-res... my most popular resource so far 🇫🇷 #mflbluesky

Lingthusiasm - 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics lingthusiasm: 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics In honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguisti...

Lingthusiasm have also recently released a list of lots of places to learn more: lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520... 😊

Reflections on reading aloud Reading aloud in MFL has always been important, but with the changes to the new GCSE it has become even more so. I have been thinking about ...

Practicing reading aloud? Some things to think about: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/refl... #MFLBluesky

Been so impressed this week with how much students can remember after Christmas! Some great answers in the 2 minute speaking questions challenge 💙 #MFLBluesky

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The end of another term means another chance to reward the class who can answer the most questions in TL in 2 mins!

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if you're looking for a quick speaking task to build confidence and automaticity in the new year, this works 💪 #MFLBluesky

Need a French Christmas quiz?

Why not try this: www.tes.com/teaching-res... (lots of culture questions, plus festive themed listening and reading)

Or this: www.tes.com/teaching-res... (quiz about 'false friends' tricky vocab)

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A worksheet with a series of frames that have reflection questions in, my favourite memory was, I learned about, I was proud of myself for, I improved at, people who supported me were, my favourite book I read was, and next year I will spend more time on.

Just added a free '2024 reflections' resource to guide students to think about the past year in review. Hopefully, a lovely tutor time activity amidst the chaos of the last week before Christmas: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky #Edusky

Thank you! I'm looking forward to it

I've got some exciting news to share... from January I'm going to be the Head of Year 8 at my school! 🎉

And the FREE planning resource mentioned in the post www.tes.com/teaching-res... great for trainees, ECTs, and anyone who wants to speed up their planning a little bit! #MFLBluesky

Haven't made a blog post for a little while, so here's an early Christmas present: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-... #MFLBluesky

That's great! Glad to hear it worked for you 😊

If you aren't allowed to do Christmas lessons, why not try a fun 'Call my bluff' quiz? 🇫🇷 Tests false friends that often come up at GCSE, so it's ideal for around mocks too! www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

French Christmas Quiz! 🇫🇷🎄 Culture questions, listening skills, and vocab tasks: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

Low prep, high impact: building speaking skills I do lots of work with my students to practice and build confidence with speaking, and I have tried lots of activities to support them witho...

Need some low prep, high impact ideas for the last few weeks? 💡 bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/low-... #MFLBluesky

Some lessons for before or after the French writing mock exams: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

This looks great, thanks! I've recommended memorizer.me before but I like that this one has many more activities to practice the texts #MFLBluesky

MFL GCSE: Say what you know how to say! I'm sure everyone who has taught a language GCSE has experienced the frustration of students trying to say something they aren't sure about ...

I hope it's not just me who sometimes struggles to get GCSE students to say (and show off) what they already know how to say!

Here's what I've been trying to tackle this: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/mfl-...

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