20 new resources

I've uploaded 20 new resources this evening.  Among them:

• 3 French Christmas activities for KS3/4
• Some new French Christmas interactives
• Following the results of our recent survey, some French translation activities to go with Studio 1.  I have the Studio books and will work through them first as they seem to be the text books that most people use.

Survey results: Resources for KS3 and KS4

Many thanks to everyone who has responded over the last week to our survey about resources that you would like for Key Stages 3 and 4.  There were 51 responses altogether.

Here are the results:

We asked which language(s) the respondent teaches.  Many respondents named more than one language.

French	96%
Spanish	53%
German	31%
Other	10%

Respondents were asked to select the type of resources that they would like to see more of on Light Bulb Languages.

Grammar drills	61%
KS3 Translation activities, English into the new language	80%
KS3 Translation activities, new language into English	77%
KS4 Translation activities, English into the new language	80%
KS4 Translation activities, new language into English	73%
Tarsia puzzles	33%
Crosswords and wordsearches to practise grammar	22%
Crosswords and wordsearches to practise vocabulary	22%
KS3 reading texts	80%
KS4 reading texts	77%
Worksheets based on text book topics	65%
Pair speaking activities such as Trapdoor and 5 in a row	73%
PowerPoints to explain grammar	33%
Other	10%

This tells us that 

1. users are not so interested in Tarsia puzzles, crosswords, wordsearches and PowerPoints
2. users are looking for grammar drills, worksheets based on text book topics, speaking activities and especially translation activities and reading texts.

We also asked which text books people are using.

FRENCH		SPANISH		GERMAN
Studio	24	Mira	13	Stimmt	9
Expo	16	Viva	11	Echo	6
AQA for GCSE	9	AQA for GCSE	5	AQA for GCSE	3
Allez	3	Listos	2	Edexcel for GCSE	1
Metro	2	Amigos	1
Edexcel for GCSE	1	None	1
Equipe	1	Caminos	1
None	1	iGCSE	1
Tricolore total	1

This gives a good indication of where to focus our efforts, so thanks again to everyone.  Watch out for resources coming soon.