21+ new resources today

 Today I've uploaded 21 PowerPoints and worksheets for Primary Spanish, both linear and mixed age schemes.  There are also a number of new Flippity Randomisers and Wheel of Names wheels to use in class.

If you haven't seen them already, there are now 48 World Cup 2026 resources available free on the website.  There are resources for English, French, Spanish, German and Italian, and there will be something to suit most age groups.

If you like these resources, please consider buying me a coffee.  All donations are welcome, to keep the website free.  

New World Cup 2026 resources added today

 

Today I have uploaded 19 new World Cup 2026 resources.  This means that there is now a total of 48 resources for English, French, Spanish, German and Italian.  They are all free to download.

If you like these resources, please consider buying me a coffee.  All donations are welcome, to keep the website free.  

Christmas resources

 

December is almost here, and along with it, the run-up to the end of term.

What Christmas resources can Light Bulb Languages offer you for this time of year?

French Christmas resources: lots of different activities for lots of different levels

Spanish Christmas activities: lots of different activities for lots of different levels

German Christmas activities

The Elf Advent calendar: Photos that can be used for any language to stimulate writing or speaking work.

Concertina Christmas card

Rotating Christmas cards

Christmas tree and Christmas bell cards (scroll down to the bottom of the post)

Christmas Balls: craft activity

Paper chains with a twist

Advent colouring books for French and Spanish

Christmas lesson starters for French and Spanish

Christmas Challenge Cards for French and Spanish

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26 new resources today

 I have just uploaded the first 26 new resources for this school year, all of them for KS1 and KS2 Spanish.  They include the first workbooks for the Mixed Age KS2 scheme of work.  So far I have completed LKS2 Cycle A and UKS2 Cycle C, which are the ones I am teaching this year.  They are available on the website as PDFs, but can be purchased as editable PowerPoint documents in my Sellfy shop.

I have also uploaded the Google Gemini Storybook AI stories that I made over the summer, for example the one for this unit.  Thanks to Joe Dale for telling me about this tool!

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28 new resources today

 I've just finished uploading 28 new resources to the website.

They are mostly French audio files for the LiPS Listening Project, which I created using ttsmaker.com, an AI text-to-speech generator.  Text-to-speech has certainly come on a long way since I first used it, and careful use of TTSMaker generates some realistic and useful results.

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28 new resources today

 I've just finished uploading the first 28 new resources of 2025, all for primary Spanish, many for my new mixed-age primary Spanish scheme, which I am teaching in both my schools.  

There are also some new Spanish Christmas resources, which I made for Key Stage 1 last term.  (Thank you to Jane Birtwistle for the inspiration!)

Don't forget that the deadline for the next issues of Write Away! magazine is 27th March for both Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3.  Secondary teachers - don't miss out!

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32 new resources today

 I've just finished uploading 32 new resources to the website.

7 of them are for primary French - use today's date 22.11.24 to find the new ones.

The rest are for primary Spanish, mostly for Cycle B of the mixed-aged scheme, which I am teaching in KS1 and KS2 this year.  As some of the units are duplicated from the original scheme, some of the resources appear there too.  Again, use today's date 22.11.24 to find the new resources.

A lot of the primary resources, especially those for UKS2, will also suit lower KS3.

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97 new resources today

 I've just finished uploading 97 new resources to the website.

They are mostly for the new KS2 Spanish mixed age scheme: the scheme of work documents and the knowledge organisers are now complete, and there are the first resources for the new units (A1 and B2).

There are also some for: 

• Primary French
• KS3 French Grammar
• KS3 French worksheets
• KS4 French worksheets
• KS3 Spanish grammar

And a few others dotted around.  As always, if you want to find the new ones, do CTRL+F on your keyboard and type in today's date - 08.08.24 - to find them.  Alternatively on your handheld device do "Find in page" and enter the date.

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Spanish Mixed Age scheme for KS2

If you're a regular user of Light Bulb Languages, you'll notice a few changes to the Primary pages, mainly because of the arrival of the Spanish Mixed Age scheme for Key Stage 2.

Most of it is usable, but you will notice that the documentation not there yet, as well as the knowledge organisers and resources for the only two new units (LKS2 A1 and B2). I will be writing and adding those over the course of the summer holiday so that it will be all systems go for September.

If you like Light Bulb Languages, please consider buying me a coffee.  My web-hosting fees have shot up this year.  All donations are welcome, to keep the website free.  

28 new resources today

 I've just finished uploading 28 new resources to the website.  They are mostly for KS1 French and Spanish, for the Pirates unit that I have been creating this term for my mixed Y1/2 class.

• Key Stage 1 Spanish pirate resources 
• Key Stage 1 French pirate resources 

These include some Listening Chest listening activities, and I have also uploaded some Spanish grids for Sentence Builder Bingo.

If you like these resources, please consider buying me a coffee.  My web-hosting fees have shot up this year.  All donations are welcome, to keep the website free.  

75 new resources today!

 I have just finished uploading 75 new resources to the website:

• Some resources for the 2023 Rugby World Cup (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian)
  
  
• A number of primary French resources, including some, for opinions of fruits and weather, which are the first for which I have used ChatGPT to try to speed up the process.  Read more about my experiments with ChatGPT here.
  
  
• Some more primary Spanish resources, including the first for my forthcoming 2-year rolling scheme for Key Stage 1.  I am going to be starting with Pirates to teach greetings, numbers and colours.  These resources are also available in French.
  
  
• Some KS4 Spanish high-frequency verb revision resources

You'll know which are the new resources as they will have today's date - 19.08.23.

You may remember from the last blogpost that the site had 7929 resources, meaning I needed another 71 to get to 8000.  Well these 75 mean that I can legitimately say that the site now has over 8000 resources - 8004 to be precise!

If you like these resources, please consider buying me a coffee.  In addition, my web-hosting fees, which I have just paid, have shot up this year.  All donations are welcome, to keep the website free.  

53 new resources today!

I've just finished uploading 53 new resources, things that I had been saving up over the last couple of terms.  It's mostly for Primary French, with a bit also of Primary Spanish, French Display and Spanish Display.

If you want to locate new resources on a certain page easily, try CTRL+F on your computer and enter the date 08.08.23.  You can also use "Find in page" on your mobile device using the same date.

Light Bulb Languages now has a total of 7929 resources - nearly 8000!

If you like these resources, please consider buying me a coffee. 

Don't forget also to have a look at the Etsy shop - plenty of goodies there for the language lover!

71 new resources today

 I've just uploaded 71 new resources, almost all for Primary French and Primary Spanish.

Amongst them are a set of Spicy Starters for Spanish and some numbers 1 to 10 practice for KS1 (also available in Spanish).

All the new resources will have "added 02.02.23" underneath them.  If you're on your computer you can use CTRL+F and type in that date to find the new resources.  You can also "Find in page" on your Android device. (Sorry I am not fruit-based - there may be a similar facility there.)

If you like these resources, please consider buying me a coffee. 

30 new resources today

 I've just uploaded 30 new resources to the site.  

• A few World Cup 2022 resources for English, French, Spanish, German and Italian
• Some KS4 French grammar revision resources
• Some more primary Spanish resources, for example some Listen, Read, Write resources like this one
• Some more primary French resources

All the new resources will have "added 27.11.22" underneath them.  If you're on your computer you can use CTRL+F and type in that date to find the new resources.  You can also "Find in page" on your Android device. (Sorry I am not fruit-based - there may be a similar facility there.)

If you like these resources, please consider buying me a coffee. 

Why not have a look at my Etsy store, which has plenty of French, Spanish, German and multilingual goodies?  There is 20% off everything until 1st December.

53 new resources today

 You may have seen on the Light Bulb Languages Twitter and Facebook pages that over the summer holidays I set myself the challenge of making 47 resources for my 47 days of holiday.  Well yesterday I made the 48th, and that's not including the new scheme of work for primary French, which I published a couple of weeks ago.

You'll find new resources for:

• Primary French, especially units 2 and 7
• Primary Spanish
• The LiPS Listening project, French and Spanish
• Studio 3 Rouge - more sentence builders

All the new resources will have "added 01.09.22" underneath them.  If you're on your computer you can use CTRL+F and type in that date to find the new resources.  You can also "Find in page" on your Android device. (Sorry I am not fruit-based - there may be a similar facility there.)

If you like these resources, please consider buying me a coffee. 
I won't be using the KS3 ones myself - they are just for you.

Why not have a look at my Etsy store, which has plenty of French, Spanish, German and multilingual goodies? 

38 new resources today

 I've just uploaded 38 new resources, including the first for the Women's Euro 2022 tournament (French, German and Spanish).  Please let me know if there are other Women's Euro resources that would be useful.

There are also a lot of new resources for KS1 and KS2 Spanish.

Why not have a look at my Etsy store, which has plenty of French, Spanish and multilingual goodies? (German all sold out!)

If you like these resources, consider buying me a coffee.  

47 new resources today

I have just uploaded 47 new resources to the website.

There are also a number of new resources for Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 Spanish. To find out which ones they are, search for today's date "01.02.22".  (My favourite way to do this on a computer is CTRL+F and typing in today's date in the above format.)

I have also added 9 Flippity randomisers for primary French and Spanish topics, which could also be used for lower Key Stage 3.

The Studio 2 Rouge sentence builders are now complete.  

If you like these resources, consider buying me a coffee.  

15 new resources today

 I've just uploaded 15 new resources, the ones I had hanging around from the end of last term.

They are mostly for Primary Spanish, some more #LanguageLinks, and some for the Listening Project.

To find resources that are new, either put today's date (25.01.22) in the site's search, or on a certain page press CTRL+F and type in today's date (25.01.22).

Unfortunately for me, but fortunately for you, I am currently at home in isolation, and am planning to make some more new resources to keep me busy.  Watch this space!

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31 new resources today

 I've just uploaded the first 31 new resources of this academic year.  I hope it's been a good one for you so far.

• The Viva 1 sentence builders are finished.
• There are some new bits and pieces for primary French, including some more knowledge organisers
• Some more resources for primary Spanish, including for greetings and the animal park

If you like these resources, consider buying me a coffee.  

70 new resources today!

 At the beginning of the holidays I set myself the target of making 52 new resources, one for each day of my holiday.  Well I've surpassed that, and here are 70 new resources!  You'll see all the ones we've featured on social media recently and more.

• 46 resources for KS2 French:
  - Animals and pets
  - Colours
  - Family
  - Food
  - Gender
  - In town
  - Miscellaneous
  - Months, days and dates
  - Numbers
  - Personal description
  - Planets
  - Sports and pastimes
  - Verbs
  - Weather
  
  
• 11 resources for KS2 Spanish:
  - Pets
  - Animal Park
  - Food and opinions
  - Weather
  - In town
  - Roadmap of the scheme of work
  
  
• 7 resources for KS3 Spanish:
  - Grammar
  - School subjects
  - Free time
  - Pets
  - Viva 1 sentence builders
  
  
• and 6 resources for KS3 French:
  - Grammar
  - Free time and sports
  - Family and pets
  - Holidays

As always, if there is anything in particular that you would like, you only have to ask.

If you like these resources, consider buying me a coffee.