Modern Language Musings

DIRT (Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time) has become a huge feature in my lessons over the past year. I'm sure many of you ha...

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...

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

Getting your own classroom and being able to decorate it was one of the things I was most excited about when I landed my job. The thing...

"SIR! How do you say...?" or "MISS! I don't get it!" Cries that can be the very last thing you want to hear afte...

Marking. The time drain that no teacher enjoys. Reading very similar pieces over and over, writing comments and setting targets that are ...