Modern Language Musings

Listening is often deemed to be one of the hardest skills for learners and can be a difficult skill to teach and develop. Once you have...

Vocabulary building can be one of the most arduous tasks for pupils. Pupils can feel bombarded at the start of a topic when they are le...

Languages aren't an easy subject to study and sometimes it can be difficult to make them accessible for a whole range of different ...

How you start your lesson can often have the biggest impact on pupils engagement and behaviour. Pupils have come from another room, ano...

Speaking can often be the hardest skill to get pupils involved in and to assess on a regular basis. With many of our teenagers being sh...

How often do we just give pupils another text to work through, answer questions on and then find the French/Spanish/German? After doing...

Struggling with a lack of engagement or motivation can be one of the hardest challenges teachers face on a daily basis. In this post, I...