Advent Calendar: 24th December

Advent Calendar: 23rd December

What is the elf looking at?
Where is he?
What will he do next?

NB The elf was nearly eaten by a swan while posing for this photo!

Advent Calendar: 22nd December

Where are Santa and the elf?
What is Santa doing?
What is the elf doing?

Advent Calendar: 21st December

What has the elf just done?
Who can you see in the picture?
Where are they?
What will happen next?

Advent Calendar: 20th December

Where are the elf and Santa?
What are they doing?
What will they do next?
What are they saying?

Advent Calendar: 19th December

What can you see in the picture?
What is the elf doing?
What will he do next?
What is he saying?

Advent Calendar: 18th December

What is the elf doing?
Where is he?
What is he saying?

Advent Calendar: 17th December

What are the elf and the boy doing?
What has the elf just done?

Advent Calendar: 16th December

Who is in the picture with Santa?
What are their names?
What do they look like?
What is the elf doing?

Advent Calendar: 15th December

What has the elf just done?
What will he do next?
What is he saying?
What numbers can you see?

Advent Calendar: 14th December

What is the elf doing?
What is he saying?
What colours can you see in the picture?
Which instrument will he play next?

Advent Calendar: 13th December

Where are the elf and Santa?
What are they looking at?
What are they saying?
What will they do next?

Advent Calendar: 12th December

What is the elf doing?
What will he do next?
What is he saying?

Advent Calendar: 11th December

Oh dear, what has happened to Santa?
What is the elf doing?
What is the elf saying?
What is the doctor saying?
What is Santa saying?
What can you see in the picture?

25 new resources today

I've just uploaded 25 new resources:

• Some Primary Spanish sport and sport kit resources and some other bits and pieces for numbers, gender and plurals
• Some Primary French things for plurals and adjectival agreement
• Some random PowerPoint selectors for French, Spanish and German, and a random opinion selector which can be used for any language - you can also add your own images to make sentences

Don't forget our photo Advent calendar.  Days 1-10 can already be viewed on this blog, and the rest will be appearing a day at a time until 24th December.  Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter to find out about everything that's new! 

Advent Calendar: 10th December

What has the elf just done? / Where has he been?
What is in his trolley?
What will he do next? / Where will he go?

Advent Calendar: 9th December

Where is the elf?
What is he doing?
What is he saying?
What has he just done?
What will he do next?

Advent Calendar: 8th December

Where are the elf and Santa?
What is Santa doing / saying?
What is the elf doing / saying?
What can you see in the picture?

Advent Calendar: 7th December

Oh dear, what has the elf done?
What will he do next?
What is he saying?

Advent Calendar: 6th December

Where is the elf?
What has happened?
What is going to happen next?
What are the aliens saying?

Advent Calendar: 5th December

Who can you see in the picture?
Where are they?
What can you see in the picture?
What is the elf doing?
What is Santa doing?
What are they saying?

Advent Calendar: 4th December

What is the elf doing?
What is he saying?
What will he do next?
What colours can you see?

Advent Calendar: 3rd December

What is the elf doing?
Where is he?
What is he saying?
What will he do next?

Advent Calendar: 2nd December

Advent Calendar: 1st December

This is the elf who will appear in all 24 of the photos.

What is his name?
How old is he?
Where does he live?
Who does he live with?
What is his job?
Is he a good elf or a naughty elf?
What is he wearing?
Does he have a family?
Does he have any pets?

Coming soon: Light Bulb Languages Photo Advent Calendar

Starting on Saturday 1st December and finishing on Monday 24th December, one Christmassy photo will appear on this blog at 6am each day.

Hopefully the link to each photo will also post automatically to Twitter to remind you.

To make sure you don't miss any, enter your email address in the "Follow by email" box on the right of the screen.

Use them for starters, put a few together to make a story, use them to practise the photo task.... the choice is yours!

After Christmas all the photos will be uploaded to the website for use at Christmas 2019.

We hope you like them.

51 new resources for the new school year

I've just uploaded 51 new resources that I have been making over this summer holiday:

• For German, a PowerPoint with some pictures of signs and things that I took in Bavaria a couple of weeks ago.
  
• For French, the first Studio 2 Rouge resources.  I've just done the first unit so far.  (in our Twitter and Facebook polls, Rouge easily beat Vert, and I don't have time to do both!)
  
• For Spanish, 24 more resources for Mira 1.
  
• You may have seen the Playmobil pictures on our Twitter feed and Facebook page.  These are now available to download:
  - Spanish opinions
  - Spanish sports, and a matching activity
  - Saying what you have and don't have (Spanish)
  - Ser and Tener sentences
  - Spanish prepositions and a matching activity
  - French sports and a matching activity
  - French saying what you have and don't have
  - French opinions
  - French être sentences, avoir sentences, prepositions sentences and a prepositions matching activity

All of these resources are available to you absolutely free of charge.  I have not been and will not be paid for making them.  Please consider making a donation to the future of the website.

18 new World Cup 2018 resources today

You can find them all here.

Many more have been added since last posting.

47 new resources today

I set myself the challenge of making 2 new resources for each day of the Easter holiday, which here started on Good Friday.  Not including today, then, that makes 14 days and 28 resources.  47 is well over target!  Here's what's new:

• Following a request, GCSE Revision starters for Spanish.  These are translated from the French ones that I made way back in 2006, so please alert me to any translation bloopers.  Also, I haven't been able to find the originals of numbers 16, 17, 19, 23, 24 and 25, so at some point I'll have to make those from scratch.
  
• Lots of stuff on French articles.  More flowcharts, practice sheets and the articles maze that has been widely shared on Twitter!
  
• An articles maze and articles practice sheets for Spanish.
  
• The remainder of the Studio 1 worksheets.  There are now at least 2 worksheets for each double-page spread of Studio 1.  Studio 2 next - Rouge or Vert?  Have your say on our Facebook page or via our Twitter poll.
  
• More worksheets for Mira 1.
  
• Word class colouring for KS2 French and parts of a plant for KS1 French
  
• Word class colouring for KS2 Spanish

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30 new resources

30 new resources today, among them:

• French resources for Studio 1: daily routine and holidays
• être gapfill for KS4 French
• Bingo cards for numbers and colours for French, Spanish, German and Italian
• Sequence of lessons for writing a text describing animals, suitable for UKS2 or LKS3
• Gender and dictionary work for KS2 Spanish
• Text for KS3 French

33 new resources!

I've just uploaded 33 new resources:

• 27 new World Cup 2018 resources for English, French, Spanish, German and Italian
• Some bits and pieces for Primary Spanish, mainly animals
• "Wanted" posters for Primary French

20 new resources for the new year

I've just uploaded the first 20 new resources of 2018.  They are mostly for high-frequency verbs:

• Spanish high-frequency verbs in 4 tenses
• French high-frequency verbs in 4 tenses

In 2017 we uploaded over 310 new resources, so subscribe to this blog by email (look to the right of this post) to make sure you don't miss anything new in 2018!