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Year 7 end of unit assessment...chez moi becomes a calligramme instead of a boring assessment! (Priory Academy)

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Fanny's creative box slides with video content

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Reading comprehension of authentic texts - a creative approach to instil a love of reading in target language

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Chansons sur l'environnement - exercises de grammaire A2

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Year 10 le parcours d'un jean (Video de C'est pas Sorcier)

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If like me you like to treat your pupils to something a little different... Here are some colourful, out-of-the-textbook Spanish activities, designed to develop language skills through culture, creativity and discovery. These are pages 1 and 3 of a 4 pages pack. (rommynon1 on TES)

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Need an end of year project for Spanish? Here is the first page of my Spanglish Spanish film study workbook.
The full resource includes 3 beautifully designed worksheets (the movie is split into 3 parts as mentioned on the top right) plus a teacher answer booklet. (rommynon1 on TES)

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Here are the second and last pages of my La vie en rose GCSE French film study workbook.
The full resource includes 4 beautifully designed worksheets plus a teacher answer booklet. (rommynon1 on TES)

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Here is the first and third pages of my La Famille Bélier GCSE French film study workbook. The full resource includes 4 beautifully designed worksheets plus a teacher answer booklet. (rommynon1 on TES)

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Like to step out of the textbook like me to engage your pupils with their learning? Here are two worksheets from my new KS3 French cultural unit on La Francophonie. These activities help pupils discover that French is a global language, spoken across Europe, Africa, North America and beyond. The unit develops cultural awareness alongside reading, translation and writing skills in a fun, colourful way! Perfect for cover or end of term, out of the book project. Please visit my shop for the full 4 lessons (rommynon1 on TES)

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Integrating reading in target language at Key Stage 3 - ideas from Fanny Hory - College George Mandel - Paris

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Check out this Presentation designed by ENGLISHATMANDEL.

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L'Afrique francophone en musique year 9 lesson by Irene Abodji

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A staple in our classroom, the starter! I adapt it to any language I teach. I greet pupils at the door with a small starter printed and hand it to all of them. A staple in our routine.

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Y7 Song ''j'habite à Londres" to learn the verb 'habiter' and the present tense. After one singing session, it was stuck in their head. Next session? Expert on the present tense. A successful and fun activity!

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A lovely activity enjoyed by my Year 7 students while studying 'Chez Moi', a fun and creative way to help them remember the names of rooms in a house in French. I designed the house template for students to colour and label with the French names of each room. It was a really successful and engaging activity.

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Ideas for Eurovision

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La musique francophone africaine KS3 from Irene Agbodji

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Conversatiin starters by Steve Smith to recycle prior learning

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Have some fun with your Y13s or fast Y12s with these 25 conversation starters. This resource was sparked by a conversation I had with a love…

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Creative Calligrams ideasby Faris Sanhaji, languages teacher and Lecturer in Education, Goldsmiths University of London.

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13 May 2026: A creative writing activity about... Creativity - The Languages Gateway

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Primary poem sans toi - St yves Primary School

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Year 7 writing in books become writing about an imaginary pet recycling prior learning (Priory Academy)

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Year 7 end of unit assessment...chez moi becomes a calligramme instead of a boring assessment! (Priory Academy)

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year 10 poem (Plashet School)

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Year 10 Pop Culture project in French - students create biographies and magazine pages (Gumley House School)

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French yr11 celebrity culture posters - OneDrive

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Turning boring assessments on aches and pains into story board ( Grey Coat School)

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9CFR1 French work on illnesses and accidents

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Le Petit Prince chap 8 reading and phonics

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Year 8 lesson on the film Kirikou by Manon Tournier

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Year 8 lesson on learning about the Petit Prince by Manon Tournier

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Ma famille | Year 8 French | Narrative-driven worksheet

This worksheet accompanies Season 2 Episode 1 of Leo & Marie series - a bilingual song introducing Leo and his blended family in Paris.

What makes it different: Students encounter familiar vocabulary (family members, -er verbs, possessive adjectives) through Leo's story, with only 4 new terms (beau-père, belle-mère, demi-frère, demi-sœur) embedded in context. The bilingual format reduces cognitive overload while maintaining engagement.

Progression: Watch/listen → gap-fill → comprehension → grammar noticing → creative writing, following a Recognition → Noticing → Naming → Production sequence.

Ideal for Year 8 consolidation or confident Year 7s. The song is on YouTube (link in worksheet). Students love the Ping-Pong Challenge verb game!

Feedback welcome - particularly on the balance between revision and new content, or how the narrative context affects retention compared to traditional family vocab lessons.

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L'IA comme Partenaire de Parole - Léo le Bot

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Multilingual Poetry Slam (KS3-5): 9.30am-3pm on 27th March 2026 at Newcastle Civic Centre

Join Michaël Vidon and his team of Spoken Word Artists to experience a day of multilingual poetry.

Designed for learners at KS3-5 (11-18 years old), pupils will create and perform group poems in multiple languages.

Pupils will learn how to collaborate with peers to write performance poems to be shared in a live Poetry Slam!

Register for 27th March 2026 – Newcastle  https://expressyourselfne.com/multilingual-poetry-slam/

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Michaël Video for a Multilingual Poetry Slam: video available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grawg6BOuLI&ab_channel=FrenchInstituteUK

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Join Michaël Vidon for French creative lessons for World Cup 2026: 6 lessons and resources - available now?

Register for the resources – Football/Rap (KS2-3) https://expressyourselfne.com/world-cup-french/

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Join Michaël Vidon for a stimulating, interactive bilingual poetry session in French and English. Designed for learners at KS4-5 (14-18 years old), pupils will be inspired by linguistic creativity.

Pupils will learn simple and fun ways to write a poem in French and English!

Register for Bilingual Webinar (online-Recorded): https://expressyourselfne.com/bilingual-poetry/

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Student perceptions on the motivational pull of TeachingProﬁciency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS): a self-determination theory perspective

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Student perceptions on the motivational pull of Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling  TPRS   a self-determination theory perspective

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you’re into with the people who get you.

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Introducing Léo the Bot: AI in my French class | Saloua Belkaidi posted on the topic | LinkedIn

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🎙️ This week in my French class, I brought a very special assistant to life:
Léo the Bot! 🤖🇫🇷
Created with the help of ChatGPT, this friendly little bot interacts with my students by asking oral questions, listening to their answers, gently correcting them, and encouraging progress. 💬🗣️✨
The goal? To show them that AI can be a real learning companion,not a shortcut or a cheat sheet, but a way to practice, build confidence, and improve over time. 🎯📚
It was also a great opportunity to demystify AI in the classroom, and prove that when used wisely, it can enrich our teaching and empower students rather than replace anyone.
A meaningful and exciting step into the future of language learning! 🚀
#FrenchTeacher #AIinEducation #EdTech #ChatGPTinClass #OralPractice #InnovativeTeaching #LanguageLearning #MYPFrench #LéoLeBot #TeachWithTech #EmpowerStudents #CreativeClassroom #MYP #StudentStories #CelebrateSuccess #InnovativeLearning #CreativeClassroom #FrenchFun #MYP #DigitalEducation #DigitalLearning #FrenchMYP #StudentPride #StudentStories #CelebrateSuccess #StudentVoices #DIAbarsha #innoventureseducation

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A creative book review by year 9 student about Gangsta Granny by David Williams.

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Student Creativity Competition – FAQs for Teachers

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Permission to Speak: Amplifying Marginalised Voices

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As part of our work to shine a light on the complete and often complicated history behind the growth of languages, we’ve partnered with leading language educators and leaders through the Association for Language Learning Decolonise Secondary MFL Special Interest Group to address ‘diversifying the MFL curriculum’ and to create a new series that aims to illuminate the hidden stories of marginalised people and cultures. We’ve created a resource for each area of focus that includes background information into the topic, key discussion questions, and an activity for students to complete.

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World of Languages, Languages of the World

https://theworldoflanguages.co.uk/

WoLLoW is a fully developed languages curriculum for pupils in pupils aged between 7 and 15. Created by experienced language teachers, and available free to all schools, the project aims to bind together all elements of a pupils’ experience in school and beyond and to prepare pupils not only for future study, but future life.

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Creative projects to engage, excite and enthuse your learners.

10. French Pop Video Competition

The French Pop Video Competition is a national competition organised by Francophonie UK at the Institut français for all KS1 to KS5 learners of French in the UK.

Since 2019, the competition has revealed many talented young singers and encouraged students to engage with French in a creative way. From the writing of a song to its singing (or rapping!) They are amazing and so much fun! Adding creativity into the curriculum as taking part in the French pop video your learners get the chance to retrieve, recycle and reuse the French they are learning with you in class in a very different and fun way.

This project allows creativity within the language and of course improves writing skills creates opportunities to enrich vocabulary and grammar through the creation their own lyrics, but learners also practise their speaking (and singing / rapping) skills while recording / choreographing the video creating positive lifelong memories into their French class / club or homework!

To take part you have to register by March 15th 2026.

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French Pop Video Competition - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni

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Give the mic to your students who might become the next French pop star! The French Pop Video Competition is a national competition organised by Francophonie UK for all KS1 to KS5 students of French in the UK Since 2019, the competition has revealed many talented young singers and encouraged students to engage with […]

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9. Poésíæ
Ages 7-18 years old
Autumn
Global Competition

Poésíæ started as an annual French poem recitation competition in a little school to develop oracy and self-confidence.

Now available in 7 languages, with over

250 schools from all over the world involved and the wonderful addition of the very popular Art competition! French, German, Spanish, Italian, English, Welsh and Japanese. Poems are selected, are are available online which you can access.

This has developed into Poésíært and for 2025: Poésíæ motion.

An amazing oracy based project to get involved with or to engage with to support your curriculum!

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Poesiae the first Global Modern Foreign Language poem recitation competition. Spreading the love learning and speaking foreign languages. Opening an eye on other wonderful cultures and communicating with people living in other countries.

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8. Multilingual Me!

Available now until March 31 nationally

Created by WOLLOW world of languages, languages of the world.

Multilingual Me is a lesson aimed at pupils aged 7 to 11. It is designed to be delivered in primary school classrooms, with pre-prepared resources. This is both an exploration of multilingualism and migration and a celebration of languages showing how language learning is interesting, enjoyable and relevant to children’s lives.

The prepared lesson lasts 45-60 minutes with suggested extension activities if you would like to extend the learning.

Resources include a PowerPoint with teacher guidance notes for each slide.

Delivery guidance will be provided for teachers.

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7. 19th World Children’s Haiku Contest

Open now until 28th February 2026

First held in 1990 and bi-annually (every two years since) this beautiful project is supported by Japan Airlines and The Japan Society.

Guidelines as well as application forms (required for each entry) are behind the QR code so please scan it.

One entry per child (either typed or handwritten) on the theme of "Sound".

Applicants must be the age of 15 and under as of 28 February 2026.

The haiku must be accompanied by hand-drawn or hand-crafted artwork on the same page, using A4-sized paper (21cm x 29.7cm) or letter sized paper (8.5in. x 11in.).

Glue the application form on the back of the work.

Please note that The Japan Society can only receive entries from applicants based in the UK. - but you could contact your local Japan Society to see if they can support you in this if you run it outside of the UK.

Composition:

Any form of artwork (except photographs or digital images) can be submitted.

Every entry must be the original and unpublished work of the child themself. Assistance by others (parents, other adults, siblings, or other children) is prohibited.

The haiku must be presented in three short lines.

All rights (for compositions and artwork) will be reserved by JAL Foundation.

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The Japan Society - 19th World Children’s Haiku Contest

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6. JaLaChamp

Open now until 3rd March 2026 (speech)
Open now until 10th March 2026 (video)

Wanted!  Fantastic speeches and videos from primary and secondary schools in Japanese please call from the Japan Foundation, London.

There are two categories - the Speech Category, where students give a speech on a theme of their choice,

And the Video Category where students are asked to create an original video based on a set theme either by individual or part of a group.

This is to encourage learners to share with us their thoughts and viewpoints, as well as show colleagues at The Japan Foundation their creativity in full and have fun challenging themselves by entering this contest and using their Japanese!

The speech category is aimed at secondary schools learners who learn Japanese as a foreign language.

The video category is aimed at primary & secondary students including those who speak Japanese at home as well as those who learn it in school.

All guidance, promotional posters and submission details including consent form for the video category are available on the QR code so please scan it and have fun

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Express Yourself: Festival of Languages North-East

Calligrams 2025
from Primary classrooms

Volume 2: Ages 9 - 11

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Introduction

These calligrams were created by primary-aged language learners, with the inspiration of their teachers, in Spring of 2025, as a celebration of Primary creativity , organised by volunteers from the Association for Language Learning in the North-East of England.
We thank everyone who took part and interpreted the idea in so many ways! We congratulate you on using your language so imaginatively. We believe that is an important part of what language is for!

Just over a hundred years ago, at the end of the First
World War, the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire published a set of poems called Calligrammes in which he used ink and fonts to draw recognisable shapes using connected words. You can locate examples by searching for 'Calligrammes' online.

This volume highlights the creations of 9-11 year-olds (but some may be even younger!) Volume 1 is for 7-9s.

Examples from Teesside, Pele
Trust, St. Cuthbert's,

For the NE Festival edition of this celebration we have selected examples from each school that participated (including a twin school in Spain) and of all of the languages represented, so some schools may have more than one entry.

Thanks to Clare Seccombe for the inspiration, Sue Cave for advice and Crista Hazell for editorial support!

Steven Fawkes, ALLNE / Festival volunteer

ALL is the Association for Language Learning , an educational membership charity supporting the teaching and learning of languages. New members are welcome!

https://www.all-languages.org.uk/join/become-a-member/

St Peter's Primary School

Newburn Manor Primary School

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Children's language calligrams from the Festival of Languages North-East 2025 | Find thousands of free educational ebooks for classroom use at read.bookcreator.com

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Express Yourself: Festival of Languages North-East Calligrams Vol. 1 2025 (7 to 9)

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5. Language Calligrams Celebration

Just over a hundred years ago, at the end of the First World War, the French poet Guillaume Appollinaire published a set of poems called Calligrammes in which he used ink and fonts to draw recognisable shapes with connected words.

They are now inviting Primary children to make their own calligrams, using words and/or phrases they have learnt in any language other than English.

The words might draw the outline of the image, or fill in the silhouette of the image. The key things are that they should be related to the image, they should be easy to read (neat and not over-elaborate), and they should be spelled correctly. They can be created by hand or with a computer. We value children’s ideas, and so do not encourage AI creations (unless the use of AI gives access which would not be possible otherwise.).

2 categories – 7-9 years old and 9-11 years old and invite teachers to select a theme that fits in with their schemes.

Pupils are introduced to them in Y3 Literacy in England and so it’s a concept with which they may are already be familiar.

Please contact eyfolnecalligrams@gmail.com with any questions.

You could absolutely replicate this in your schools!

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Language Calligrams celebration – Express Yourself

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Children and young people aged 7-11 from schools in the North East are invited to take part in the ALLNE Language Calligrams Celebration.

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4. Multilingual Verses

Open now until 2027

This is a collaborative project the Association for Language Learning and Sheffield, City of Languages thanks to Dr Sabine Little at the University of Sheffield are inviting teachers with bi-/multilingual learners in their classes to collect similar verses / texts in languages representing all of our communities. They can be Counting rhymes, nursery rhymes, cautionary tales, rhymes to support play - all are welcome!

Rules or guidelines are:

·    A title and indication of language

·    A short written version in the original language

·    A version in English to help others understand

·    An audio or video recording (lasting no more than 60-90 seconds) of a recitation of the text, ideally featuring children’s voices

For each text they welcome all, or any, of the above.

The collected resources will be posted on this website, as an anthology for other children, classes and teachers to enjoy and learn from.

Contact Dr Sabine Little via her email address: s.little@sheffield.ac.uk with any questions you might have.

On the website – section for teaching about how and why to use Multilingual verses and nursery rhymes in class with Teaching strategies & activities, using different scripts, bringing rhymes to life and language analysis work to deepen connections & learning.

https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/multilingual-verses/home

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3. Celebrate Speaking!

Starts February 1st-28th 2026
Global Competition

Celebrate Speaking takes place every February so you have time to plan and get all of your learners involved!

The idea is to Practise and celebrate a language your students are learning or use in their community, and take part in a virtual festival of speaking which runs from 1 - 28 February!

It’s so very  easy to take part, simply:

Ask learners to prepare a short poem, presentation, sketch or dialogue in their favourite language. It can be a solo or joint performance / piece but should be no longer than 90 seconds in total.

Record them delivering the performance.

Under-16s use PowerPoint slides, Bitmoji, images or video, rather than showing their faces.

Upload the performance to your own or your school’s X, Facebook or Youtube account with the hashtags

#CelebrateSpeaking  and the language chosen (e.g. #Polish #Mongolian #French).

Remember to use the hashtag or it might not be found.

Get inspiration from some entries from 2025 by searching X with #CelebrateSpeaking you might find some other years pieces too.

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There's a great skill to speaking a modern foreign language confidently and coherently. It's an important part of the MFL curriculum across the United Kingdom and a significant part of linguistic and cultural development for all learners of languages.

It's also great fun to get your tongue around those different words like Kühlschrank, chatouillement or felicidad!

Join us during February for our festival of language when your students can show off their language skills. This can be a language they are learning at school or one they speak in their community. It's about sharing a love of language and celebrating the diversity of people in the UK who speak a language other than English.

The festival is managed on behalf of the National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) by the British Council, working in collaboration with the Association for Language Learning (ALL) . It is open to all primary and secondary schools.
How do you join our festival?
Practise and celebrate a language your students are learning or use in their community, and take part in a virtual festival of speaking!

It's easy to take part, simply:

Ask your student(s) to prepare a short poem, presentation, sketch or dialogue in their favourite language. This can be a solo or joint performance but should be no longer than 90 seconds in total.

Record them delivering the performance. We suggest that under-16s use PowerPoint slides, Bitmoji, images or video, rather than showing their faces.

Upload the performance to your own or your school's Twitter account with the hashtags #CelebrateSpeaking  and the language chosen (e.g. #Polish).

Remember to use the hashtag or we won't be able to find your performance!

Get inspiration from some entries from last year by watching our short introduction video or watch a recording of the full event from 2022 and 2023..

Live celebration event

Our language partners (including Association of Language Learning (ALL), Goethe Institut, Alliance Française, Confucius Institute and the Spanish Education Department), will select a favourite performance who will be invited to attend a live virtual celebration event in late March 2024, hosted by the British Council with a VIP guest. We would love to have the selected students perform live at this event but you may choose to do a recording of their performance to be played to the attendees.

Get inspiration from some entries from last year by watching our short introduction video or watch a recording of the full event from 2022 and 2023.

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Practise and celebrate a language your students are learning, or use in their community, and take part in a virtual festival of speaking!

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Mother Tongue, Other Tongue digital anthology from 2025 to give an idea of the standard of work as mart of MTOT.

Fabulous!

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We are very excited to publish this is collection of brilliant pieces submitted for the Mother Tongue Other Tongue celebration as part of the Express Yourself North East Festival of Languages 2025.

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2. Mother Tongue, Other Tongue

Mother Tongue Other Tongue is a celebration of young people’s poetic writing that reflects the different languages they speak as a first language or at home, in the community or that they are learning in an educational establishment. Participant teachers say its really valuable in enabling learners and speakers to express themselves and their feelings, their culture and heritage, their sense of belonging and enhanced.

Mother Tongue (MT) is for those who have a language other than English at home or that is their first language, so they write in their Mother Tongue either an original poem, or their memory of a poetic text (a song, nursery rhyme, lullaby, poem) from their early life. They also write up to 100 words or half a page in English to explain why they have written/chosen the text and its personal importance.

Other Tongue (OT) is for everyone who is learning a language at school or in their community. also write up to 100 words or half a page in English to explain why they have written/chosen the text and its personal importance.

Teachers and TAs register by emailing info@expressyourselfne.com to take part.

There is a Teachers toolkit to help you contribute to this with a presentation to follow with ideas and resources.  There are guidelines and an entry form per school / educational establishment.

School entries, individual entries. Maximum of 10 entries per school so you might need to create a gallery and judge them in house before sending.  Some schools involved a whole year group or a whole primary school ergo every learner!  Exciting!

Originally created by Manchester Metropolitan University and Routes into Languages it is a magnificent project and there might be one near you, wherever you are in the world. It is a wonderful project!

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1. The Express Yourself North East Festival of Languages is now live!

The Express Yourself North East Festival of Languages (EYFOLNE) started in 2021, the result of a conversation with Steven Fawkes and International Newcastle Director, Declan Baharini.

Designed to spark curiosity & creativity but to open doors to future opportunities, inspiring the next generations of future linguists and global citizens across the North East of England.

It is the biggest event of its type in the UK, the Festival encourages children and young people (3-18) in schools, community schools and groups to celebrate diverse languages and cultures and our connections to the world.

The Express Yourself programme is packed with FREE events, activities, competitions and resources runs from 6 January, so now to 31st March and is open for registrations. You have to register to take part by email info@expressyourselfne.com

The aim of the Festival is to entertain, enthuse and educate, to foster inclusion and understanding, as well as raise aspirations and awareness of the opportunities that open up through speaking languages and understanding diverse cultures.

It is a wonderful festival with hundreds of events for early years through to adults and everything in between do scan the QR code because there are local events but this year, a national section too so wherever you are in the UK,  you can take part.

If you are outside of the UK, take a look and register for the newsletter – you might be able to take part in some of the events, just not live. Or you might be inspired to replicate some events in your school setting.

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C. Sroka - TEFL - Bullying awareness posters - (France)

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F.Hory TEFL reading wall (Paris)

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Cara Bleiman Harris Federation - Mandarin Primary creative ideas

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I. Hogarth creative translation ideas for KS3

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A. laviolette - moving towards creative assessment

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GCSE text made comprehensible for Key Stage 3 pupils and up!

Embedding language from a Pearson Edexcel Higher sample assessment reading question into resources that take German pupils on a trip to the theatre in Vienna. Demonstrating how we can embed higher level language from a specification in cultural contexts which are relevant to pupils and scaffold vocabulary to make it accessible for all pupils.

Lots of opportunity for interaction and dialogue with pupils, as well as retrieval. Building towards both a creative outcome and a more typical 'exam-style' question.

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Les Jeux et Les sports en chanson - French Made SImple YouTube channel

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Diverse slides for teaching "Food and drink" these are added into the SoW and are representative of some of our students at Fairfield High School.

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Lesson plans using calligraphy in different languages from Lost Wor(l)ds

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A calligram uses words to create a visual image - a perfect opportunity for children to use their various languages.

This activity comes with a supporting PowerPoint and a number of worksheets, although children may want to create their own.

This activity would also be great for the MFL classroom, either as part of a Languages Day activity, or as a creative way to engage with new vocabulary, or revision. Multilingual children can bring their various languages to the task, which is also particularly suitable as a home learning activity.

See below for a little gallery with some of the creative ideas shared with us so far, and be sure to share yours with us, too.

Have you used this activity?

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A calligram uses words to create a visual image - a perfect opportunity for children to use their various languages. This activity comes with a supporting PowerPoint and a number of worksheets, although children may want to create their own.

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Lost Worlds Calligrams mulilingual

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Illustrated Dictation!

We have being doing these more off the back of having Magalie le Huche (French author and illustrator) in as part of the Institut Français' Francophonie on the Road Roadshow. She talked to us about taking written descriptions and turning them into drawings (she got us drawing some weird and wonderful characters in our Dictée Illustrée challenge!). We have been playing around more with dictations where students represent these as pictures on their whiteboard, we use their sentence builder language but go further. We have been throwing in certain more quirky elements such as "a giraffe in the swimming pool" to encourage more creativity with the language and engagement too.

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List of literary texts with resources for French, German SPanish

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Welcome to the Association for Language Learning wiki to support learning languages through literary texts.

The wiki features the generous contributions of UK Language teachers - case studies focussing on the uses of Literature and Texts with 7 - 14 year-olds in the Language classroom.

You can read their suggestions and contributions freely below. If you have a contribution to make, you need to create an account with 'wikidot' and join this site. Click on the grey button in the top right corner.
To contribute please click below ' Click here to make a new entry '

Further content is listed on the right-hand bar of this Home Page.
Related books launched in 2019
Bloomsbury Academic : Teaching Literature in Modern Foreign Languages including a chapter on this wiki .

' Encore! With a song in my scheme of work ' by Steven Fawkes for the benefit of ALL on the ALL website.

The features on Songs (Spring 2019), Culture (Summer 2019) , Grammar (Autumn 2019) and Creativity (Winter 2019-20) have been moved into the section on the right-hand bar called 'Multilingual sources' as a group of attached documents
Our ACAPULCO favourites
At ACAPULCO 2020 Nathalie Paris expressed her belief that authentic texts such as songs, stories and rhymes can touch on all areas of teaching and learning a language, and contribute to the Pillars of Phonics, Vocabulary , Grammar and Culture as well as contributing to Memorisation. She asked the assembled (Primary) teachers their favourite Songs, Stories and Rhymes to use in class.
She has collated them in a Google Sheet doc which you can add to, so please use it and contribute!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ee4-ddCbdSOTpfTTu98SnRGTleYXDEQa-UDjXtuNYuE/edit?usp=sharing
I've just discovered a new (to me) website ...
www.pantheonpoets.com
This website features famous Latin poetry, with each poem translated and read aloud.
European modern linguists and students of English may be studying poetry that is hugely influenced by Latin authors but may know no Latin at all themselves. Literary translations can tell them about content, but can't convey the flavour of the language, which works in very different ways from English, or give them a feeling for prosody based on metrical quantity rather than rhyme or stress.

Jim Anderson

At the ALL Roadshow webinar (June 2020) those attending were given challenges around reciting poems in French and German:
Reciting from memory
Joining in a collective recitation
Recording is here : http://www.all-london.org.uk/site/index.php/webinars/webinar-with-steven-fawkes-qa-languages-update-june-20/
And heard about the 'Strictly in Isolation' celebration organized by ALLNE.
In a nutshell
i) Students choose a poem in their Target Language and learn it by heart.
ii) They rehearse and finally perform it; this might be in a film of themselves reciting, or an audio recording of their recital over a version of the text they have made.
iii) They send their performance to their teacher who forwards it to the ALLNE Strictly in Isolation email address for publication on a YouTube channel.
iv) People view the performances and leave supportive comments.
v) Certificates are awarded.

These are some of the points they made in the chat:
It helps massively with pronunciation
I think it's a great way for pupils to feel they can say something perfectly in the target language since they will have the opportunity to practise
valuing the contribution made by the individual student - and valuing the praise and comments made by other students - beautifully student-led. Bravo encore!
I think poetry is amazing, there is a reason why all children like books
I think it is a great idea to ask children to memorise chunks of language
Prévert is very good: Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau is also great.
A poem I would highly recommend is Poème à mon frère blanc de Léopold Sédar Senghor. I have used to teach colours, cultural capital and combat racism.
I have done Le petit cheval blanc de Paul Fort with my Y7 and with Y9 Le dormeur du val
Another brilliant poem is Liberté by Paul Eluard. Brilliant when discussing WW2.
(Titles in italic now added to the wiki.)

Remember to visit the other ALL wikis:
ALL Grammar Wiki [ http://all-grammar.wikidot.com/]
ALL Writing & Translation Wiki [ http://all-writingtranslation.wikidot.com/]
ALL Progression & Transition Wiki [ http://all-progressiontransition.wikidot.com/]
ALL Speaking wiki [ http://all-speaking.wikidot.com/]

Click here to make a new entry for the wiki.

Once you have created and saved a page, click on the 'files' button at the bottom of the page to attach any sort of file. You also use this button to view files already attached.
Use the search box in the side bar to search for particular topics. Latest texts
ALL cannot be responsible for the accuracy of the references on this wiki, although links were checked at the time of their contribution.

The editorial group has tried to acknowledge any copyright issues. If there are others, please advise us at ku.gro.segaugnal-LLA|ofni#ku.gro.segaugnal-LLA|ofni and we will attempt to rectify or remove any offending material.
In relation to contributors' suggestions about the exploitation of texts, the copyright for those ideas remains with the original author, and not with ALL. We are grateful for the sharing of these ideas.

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Welcome to the Association for Language Learning wiki to support learning languages through literary texts. The wiki features the generous contributions of UK Language teachers - case studies focussing on the uses of Literature and Texts with 7 - 14 year-olds in the Language classroom. You can read their suggestions and contributions freely below.

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German slam poetry lesson plan

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German Poetry Translation Workshop: One Day/Reckoning Text

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One Day/Reckoning Text by Julia Engelmann Julia Engelmann (born 1992) is contemporary poet, musician, and actress who has written 7 bestselling poetry books and won a lot of poetry slam contests. One Day went viral in 2014, with a video of…

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TeachVid - Home: Teach languages with videos

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Create and view language learning content with interactive text reconstruction activities and quizzes based on short videos.

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Short Film Competition 2026 Launch - Association for Language Learning

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Promoting the teaching and learning of foreign languages.

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Michaël Vidon: Poet, Spoken word / Creative Writing workshop leader, England

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The official website for Michaël Vidon, bilingual French poet, performer, teacher and educator in the UK. Spoken Word Artist and Educator, MFL Teacher, Producer of poetry events and poetry slams.
Collaborative music performances.

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European Day of Languages Manifesto

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Learn French Creatively and Deeply Through Song10 Songs. 50 Pages. 1 Soulful Journey into French.This isn’t your typical grammar workbook.It’s a curated collection of 10 French songs, from Stromae to Aznavour, Angèle to Edith Piaf, carefully broken down to help you feel the language as you learn it.Learning through music is one of the most effective ways to internalize vocabulary, feel grammar patterns naturally, and boost retention, all while enjoying the journey.You’ll explore: Everyday and emotional vocabulary French tenses in action (past, present, future, conditional…) Expressions, adverbs, reflexives, and more, taught in context Listening prompts to sharpen your ear Speaking practice & creative writing prompts French culture, emotion, and rhythm All at a slow, beginner-friendly pace with real-life language and zero overwhelm.Who is it for? You love music, language, and depth You’re tired of sterile textbook French You want to learn with feeling, not just rules You’re an intermediate or late beginner looking for real-world input Or you just want to reconnect with why you fell in love with French in the first place What You Get: 50 beautifully designed pages (PDF) 10 song-based chapters Grammar, vocabulary, translation & creative prompts Bonus: Cultural notes, pronunciation tips, and listening tricks A soulful, structured approach you can return to again and again The QR code in the workbook to access the Spotify playlist. Already a paid subscriber to French en poésie?This workbook is included in your subscription!

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French en Poésie | Morgane Andersson | Substack

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Immerse yourself in the beauty of the French language through poetry & literature. Listen, feel the rhythm, and learn naturally with audio, translations, insights and a dose of French culture. For Francophiles, french learners, and poetry enthusiasts. Click to read French en Poésie, by Morgane Andersson, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Ada Lovelace School - I. Hogarth Creative Translation with a poem in German with year 9

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Welcome to the Association for Language Learning wiki to support learning languages through literary texts.

The wiki features the generous contributions of UK Language teachers - case studies focussing on the uses of Literature and Texts with 7 - 14 year-olds in the Language classroom.

You can read their suggestions and contributions freely below. If you have a contribution to make, you need to create an account with 'wikidot' and join this site. Click on the grey button in the top right corner.
To contribute please click below ' Click here to make a new entry '

Further content is listed on the right-hand bar of this Home Page.
Related books launched in 2019
Bloomsbury Academic : Teaching Literature in Modern Foreign Languages including a chapter on this wiki .

' Encore! With a song in my scheme of work ' by Steven Fawkes for the benefit of ALL on the ALL website.

The features on Songs (Spring 2019), Culture (Summer 2019) , Grammar (Autumn 2019) and Creativity (Winter 2019-20) have been moved into the section on the right-hand bar called 'Multilingual sources' as a group of attached documents
Our ACAPULCO favourites
At ACAPULCO 2020 Nathalie Paris expressed her belief that authentic texts such as songs, stories and rhymes can touch on all areas of teaching and learning a language, and contribute to the Pillars of Phonics, Vocabulary , Grammar and Culture as well as contributing to Memorisation. She asked the assembled (Primary) teachers their favourite Songs, Stories and Rhymes to use in class.
She has collated them in a Google Sheet doc which you can add to, so please use it and contribute!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ee4-ddCbdSOTpfTTu98SnRGTleYXDEQa-UDjXtuNYuE/edit?usp=sharing
I've just discovered a new (to me) website ...
www.pantheonpoets.com
This website features famous Latin poetry, with each poem translated and read aloud.
European modern linguists and students of English may be studying poetry that is hugely influenced by Latin authors but may know no Latin at all themselves. Literary translations can tell them about content, but can't convey the flavour of the language, which works in very different ways from English, or give them a feeling for prosody based on metrical quantity rather than rhyme or stress.

Jim Anderson

At the ALL Roadshow webinar (June 2020) those attending were given challenges around reciting poems in French and German:
Reciting from memory
Joining in a collective recitation
Recording is here : http://www.all-london.org.uk/site/index.php/webinars/webinar-with-steven-fawkes-qa-languages-update-june-20/
And heard about the 'Strictly in Isolation' celebration organized by ALLNE.
In a nutshell
i) Students choose a poem in their Target Language and learn it by heart.
ii) They rehearse and finally perform it; this might be in a film of themselves reciting, or an audio recording of their recital over a version of the text they have made.
iii) They send their performance to their teacher who forwards it to the ALLNE Strictly in Isolation email address for publication on a YouTube channel.
iv) People view the performances and leave supportive comments.
v) Certificates are awarded.

These are some of the points they made in the chat:
It helps massively with pronunciation
I think it's a great way for pupils to feel they can say something perfectly in the target language since they will have the opportunity to practise
valuing the contribution made by the individual student - and valuing the praise and comments made by other students - beautifully student-led. Bravo encore!
I think poetry is amazing, there is a reason why all children like books
I think it is a great idea to ask children to memorise chunks of language
Prévert is very good: Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau is also great.
A poem I would highly recommend is Poème à mon frère blanc de Léopold Sédar Senghor. I have used to teach colours, cultural capital and combat racism.
I have done Le petit cheval blanc de Paul Fort with my Y7 and with Y9 Le dormeur du val
Another brilliant poem is Liberté by Paul Eluard. Brilliant when discussing WW2.
(Titles in italic now added to the wiki.)

Remember to visit the other ALL wikis:
ALL Grammar Wiki [ http://all-grammar.wikidot.com/]
ALL Writing & Translation Wiki [ http://all-writingtranslation.wikidot.com/]
ALL Progression & Transition Wiki [ http://all-progressiontransition.wikidot.com/]
ALL Speaking wiki [ http://all-speaking.wikidot.com/]

Click here to make a new entry for the wiki.

Once you have created and saved a page, click on the 'files' button at the bottom of the page to attach any sort of file. You also use this button to view files already attached.
Use the search box in the side bar to search for particular topics. Latest texts
ALL cannot be responsible for the accuracy of the references on this wiki, although links were checked at the time of their contribution.

The editorial group has tried to acknowledge any copyright issues. If there are others, please advise us at ku.gro.segaugnal-LLA|ofni#ku.gro.segaugnal-LLA|ofni and we will attempt to rectify or remove any offending material.
In relation to contributors' suggestions about the exploitation of texts, the copyright for those ideas remains with the original author, and not with ALL. We are grateful for the sharing of these ideas.

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Welcome to the Association for Language Learning wiki to support learning languages through literary texts. The wiki features the generous contributions of UK Language teachers - case studies focussing on the uses of Literature and Texts with 7 - 14 year-olds in the Language classroom. You can read their suggestions and contributions freely below.

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This is a project that I have used as a means of evaluation with Lower 6th in IB French. It is a mix of writing/ speaking and so introduces some of the marking concepts of both skills. It also requires research using authentic material. Students found it engaging and motivating, their projects were varied, and I ended up with well-researched proposals for an actual trip to a French-speaking country!

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German Speaking Countries Mini Project

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German Speaking Countries Mini Project Wynonah Plattner

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Describing Your Room Project

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Describing Your Room Project Wynonah Plattner

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English as foreign language homework instructions year 7 (6eme)

2h per week of curriculum time.

Example video below (collège de Ronchin France)

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CREATIVE homework French curriculum yr7 (6eme) learning English as a second language.

2h of curriculum time per week.

Objectives: present a video describing your house using the vocabulary and structured learnt in class.

Assessment criteria: spontaneous speaking activity (no reading) - resuse the vocabulary and sentences learnt. Look for new vocabulary to create your own sentence. Check for clear pronunciation.

College de Ronchin (France)

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FRENCH EXCHANGE:

An eco-friendly trip to London

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ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE:

Read and Act for Earth project

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Using visuals and pictures to introduce poetry and culture - Stephen SPender Trust collaboration with Birmingham University

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Translating Poetry and Visual Culture Resources

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Poetry Booklet curated by Dr Emma Wagstaff The poems in this booklet are chosen from poetry published in French between the First World War and the present day. The poets come from France, Haiti, Quebec and Tunisia and express their…

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This is one of my lesson for year 10 including 15 min routine of phonics, enabling the students to pronounce accurately the sounds /ga/, /go/ and /gu/. Hope you like it !

Andrea Schanda

PGCE Languages

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presentation criteria on holidays

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A metaphor to explain the verbs and tenses

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Year 10 Easter lesson with French expressions

Manon Tournier Gumley House

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Year 9 Summer term project based on the film Entre Les Murs - this lesson is based on writing their autoportraits and make a video like the characters in the film

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Booklet on le film L'Odyssee ( Life of Jacques Cousteau) Year 10 project on the AQA GCSE Theme 2 Topic 3 environment

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Using the film Le Petit Nicolas to describe family members - worksheet A2 level