MFL Activities

Lots of activities, ideas and resources

to use in your MFL lessons.
 SKILLS
reading numeracy

listening
ICT

speaking

dictionary
writing
 Sit ‘n’ Spin
Great idea – taken from Pinterest
 Trapdoor
Student has to read through guessing the
correct answer. If they get it right they carry on.
If they get it wrong someone else ha to have a
go but start from the beginning. Lots of
repetition – great for listening skills. First one to
the end wins a prize.
 Darts
Bought from the 99p Store. I use as a plenary. If
students get the question right they can throw
the dart. Group with the most points wins. A
good one for the boys.
 Adjectives
Nice idea when learning adjectives. Students
could do this for homework.
 Adjectives (2)
Another good idea when covering adjectives.
Take photo to stick in their books.
Creative Descriptions
Fun way of presenting a piece of writing.
 Guess Who
PowerPoint with celebrities’ names translated
into French. Students use a dictionary to help
them figure out who the person is.
e.g. prendre ça = Take That

French - Who am I?
 Challenge Capsules
Make tubs with challenges for early finishers.
(You can get about 8 of these tubs in 99p
Store/Poundland)
 Guess The Song
A nice starter activity. My students love this one.
PowerPoint with English song titles translated
into Spanish and they have to guess the English.
Spanish Guess The Song
 Number Flashcards
Write some random numbers (including
negatives) on the board and stick
flashcards over them. Students are in
teams, they tell you a phrase, you take off
the flashcard and that is the number of
points they get.
 Question Chairs
Hide Common Core questions under their
seat and announce 'hot seat' sometime
during the day. Whoever has a question
under their seat has to answer it.
 Guess the Word
Everybody standing up. Write a word on a
whiteboard and students have to guess what it
is and write it on their own. They reveal their
boards then teacher reveals theirs. If they have
matched, they can sit down. If not, they rub off
their word and start again.
 Phrase of the Week
Give students a word/phrase of the week. If they
use it correctly in context they win a raffle ticket.
One of these is picked out at the end of each
week and this student wins a lolly.
JAUNE BLEU ROUGE BRUN
BLANC NOIR ORANGE VERT
VIOLET GRIS BLEU
ROUGE BRUN BLANC NOIR
GRIS VERT VIOLET JAUNE
BLEU ROUGE BRUN BLANC
NOIR ORANGE VERT VIOLET
 Je

regarder
Heads and Tails Sentences
Give students some starts and ends of
sentences and they have to join them
up.

Hier je suis allé en avion.

J’ai voyagé un croissant.
J’ai visité en France.
J’ai mangé les monuments.
 Map speaking activity
Good for talking about places in town, directions
and prepositions. In pairs students have a
different map each and a copy of their partner’s
with some places missing which they have to fill
in by listening to their partner’s
description/asking questions.
 Radio App
Download the TuneIn radio app. Click 'By Location' >
Europe > France/Spain then choose either the type of
music (genre) you want to listen to or the area in
France or Spain.
 Fortune Tellers
Get your students to make these to practise job
vocab. Good for recap of basic numbers and
colours.
 What do you know
about…?
Tell your
partner
everything you
know about…
 Ball Repetition
Students throw
the ball around
the room
repeating the
word after the
teacher.
 Card Finder
Place flashcards on
the walls around the
room. Say the word in
the TL/English and
students point to the
correct part of the
room.
 Miming
Mime a word
and students
shout out in the
target language.
Passez la bombe
Buy a kitchen timer and put it in a
small black box. Put the timer in
the box. When you play, set the
timer for between 1-2 mins, put
into box and say a question you've
covered recently which can have
many different answers. Pass the
bomb to first pupil, who can pass it
on when they've said an answer.
Whoever is holding the bomb
when it goes off has to do a forfeit.
 4 Chairs
4 chairs at the front of the class. The rest of class
must ask each in turn a question. If they are
correct the person stays on the chair. If not the
questioner takes place. The 4 still on the chairs
at the exact moment the bell rings gain
points/sweets.
 Cups
Students are given a set of cards with vocab
on and they have to put them in the correct
cup.

ADJECTIVES
NOUNS VERBS
 First Letters
Give the students the first letter of each word in a
sentence. They have to figure out what the sentence
is.

JVABDLM
Je vais au bord de la mer.
 Weather Wall
Interactive Weather Display

Interactive weather display which

students can easily update or can be
discussed as a starter activity.
 Knocking Out Teeth
Divide the class into two teams. Ask individual team
members questions. Draw two big mouths on the
whiteboard, giving each about 8 teeth. If they get it
RIGHT, you erase one tooth from the OPPONENTS
mouth.

Other suggestions:
• Draw sweets and take them away
• Eat up each others’ apples, bananas, ice-creams, etc.
• Draw a person for each; then, with each mistake they make, draw a part of
something around them; if they lose, they end up with a large monster’s mouth
swallowing them.
 (1) Mon collège s’appelle Ridgewood School.
Hallcross School.
Danum School.
les maths
(2) J’aime l’histoire
l’anglais (3) parce que facile.
c’est intéressant.
amusant.
(4) Je déteste
ennuyeuse
les maths
irascible
parce que le prof méchante
est l’histoire
la technologie
(5) Le dessin est les sciences
plus ennuyeux que
(6) Ma matière
la géographie (7) parce que j’adore apprendre
préférée est les langues.
le sport
l’espagnol
c’est très facile.
 Encore Une Fois
Similar to previous. One volunteer to leave the room. Rest of
class agree on answers. The volunteer comes back in and
begins to read and guesses a/b/c. If correct he continues. If
incorrect he must go back to the beginning and guess again.
Every time the volunteer gets the answer wrong, he must go
back to the beginning and class says ”encore une fois”. This
could then be done in pairs.

(1) Mon collège s’appelle Ridgewood School.

Hallcross School.
Danum School.
 Dice Gap Fill
  1 2 3 4 5 6
Roll the dice and fill in the gaps of
A Luc Pierre Yohan Thierry Quentin Laurent
your paragraph.
B sept quinze dix-sept dix-huit neuf six A Salut, je m’appelle ________________
Normalem Tous les
Une fois
Une fois Tous les Quelquefoi
et B j’ai ___________ ans.
C ent jours
par
semaine
par mois deux jours s C _________________________ au petit
un pain
déjeuner
du pain des un D je mange _________________ et
D grillé céréales
du pain
croissant
au du fruit
chocolat E je bois _______________________ .
du jus du jus de F D’habitude je mange le petit déjeuner
E d’orange
du thé du café
pomme
de l’eau du lait
à __________ heures G dans
F six sept huit neuf dix onze ______________ H avec
___________________.
la ma la salle à la
G cuisine chambre manger
le salon le jardin
voiture I J’adore manger du pain grillé avec du
ma mon mon ma mes mon beurre et de la confiture parce que c’est
H soeur frère copain famille parents petit ami _________________.
savoure nourriss
I ux
délicieux bon goûteux
ant
génial
 Textivate
Textivate
 Virtual Teachers
To promote independent learning and
differentiation. Make a PowerPoint slide with
questions related to the task and hyperlink the
answers. Students can click these when they
need to.
 Dingbats
Students guess the word/phrase from
the picture on the screen. Good to get
their brains ticking at the start of the
lesson.
Sequencing and Matching
Give students a text and translation cut up.
They match the text with the translation
and put in the correct order.
 Trays
Red, amber, green trays for end of lesson.
Students put their book in the correct tray
depending on their level of understanding.
 Similar Writing
Students are given two very different texts and
have to find the similarities between the two in
order to help them decide what they need to
include in their own piece of writing.

J’habite avec ma J’habite avec ma

soeur dans une mère dans une
petite maison en grande maison en
Angleterre. France.
 Expert Tables
Choose students who have mastered an aspect
of languages. Other students go and see these
people for help.
 Silent reading
Read a book,
story, poem or
newspaper in
the target
language.
 Card Racing Game
• Create 7 cards with different tasks.
• Put the pupils into pairs or groups of 3. To
start the game give each group a card and a
mini board.
• They then have to complete the task and
one member of the group brings it to you to
check. Once they have had the answer
checked they get another card.
• The object of the game is to complete all
the cards first, this group wins. Record on a
grid which group has completed which
cards and offer a prize to each member of
the winning group as an inventive.
 Paired Gap-fill
• Everybody has the same text but with
different words missing.

• Each pair should be left with two

complete texts.

• Take it in turns to read out a

paragraph. Your partner listens to
your pronunciation and writes the
correct words in the gaps.
HOWEVER YOU MUST NOT LOOK AT
EACH OTHER’S SHEETS.
 6 15 19 6 9 0 21 22
6 24 12 22
Students crack the code to guess the
topic of today’s lesson.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M
19 18 6 12 22 11 2 21 25 10 9 5 3

N O P Q R S T U V WX Y Z
16 24 13 17 15 1 0 23 7 4 20 14 8
 Find in the text
Students underline/highlight (in different
colours) verbs, adjectives, verbs in the
present tense etc.
 Say the next word
Provide students with a text. Read the text aloud
then stop. Students have to say the next
word/next word in the sequence.
Against the clock
Time pupils to read out a
paragraph/sentence.
 Gap Fill
Write words/sentences in the board with
letters/words missing. Students have to fill in the
gaps.

___ m’appelle John. J’________ en Angleterre

avec ____ famille.
 Vindictive
Quickest person to write
word on mini whiteboard
gets to vote people out. If
people who are voted out
are the quickest they are
allowed back in the game
and can vote people out.
Say Something Different
Students are given short sentences and have to
say something different.

L’education est un droit.

L’education est important.
La famille est important.
Fodey
Using the link
below students
create their own
authentic looking
newspaper
articles.
Find the missing word

Read out a list of

words. E.G. days of the
week, months,
colours. Then reread
the list omitting one
word. Students have to
say the missing word.
 Moving dictation
Teacher reads out a text, the students write a
sentence and then pass their exercise book to
another student who writes the next sentence.
 Adjective
Students find an adjective for first letter of their
name.
 Kings and Queens
At the end of the lesson, get two pupils up the front, you
say the English, the first kid to say the word in the target
language wins and the other sits down, to be replaced by
another pupil. The person left standing when the bell goes
is officially king or queen of the class.
 Beat the Teacher
Write down numbers on the board. Point at a
number and say what it is. Pupils repeat. If you
say the word incorrectly they have to stay quiet.
If they are quiet they gain a point.
 Snap
Students are given a pack of cards with
images/words in English. Students play ‘Snap’
and the first person to say the word in the target
language gets to keep the card. The student with
the most cards wins.
 Mini Whiteboards
Ask students questions which they answer on
their mini whiteboards. If someone’s answer
isn’t quite right, hold up their board and ask
how it could be improved.
 Separate Words
Writeasentenceinthe
targetlanguagewhich
studentshavetosepar
ate.
 Choral Repetition
When doing choral repetition ask certain people
to repeat e.g. girls, boys, people with blue eyes,
people who have a pet.
 Elevens
Go around the room saying 1, 2 or 3
numbers in the target language.
Number 11 is out.
 Descriptions
In pairs, students have to describe an
image using as many words as they can.
 Verb Murderer
One student goes out of the room, another is
the murderer. Students chant verb endings. The
murderer has to give a signal for everyone to
change the chant, the other student has to
guess who the murderer is.
 Amateur Dramatics
Students walk around the room, teacher says
stop and a word from the topic E.G. verb,
weather, animal and the students have to act
that word out.
 Brain Gym Images
right
left
both

Students are given a sheet of images with colours

next to them. When they hear the word for that
image they put up the correct hand/s.
 Brain Gym Tenses
right - future
left - preterite
both – present

vamos
puedo
fui
voy a ir
 Wingdings Code
Students are given a text in the target language
and have to use the codes to figure out the
meaning.
 6 Word Sentence
Students have to write a sentence with 6 (or any
other number) words.
 Mood Cards
When doing a speaking activity each student is
given a mood card.
They have to portray this mood while they are
speaking and their partner must guess the word
in the TL.

nervioso/a
 Quiz Quiz Trade
Everyone has a piece of paper with a sentence and the
translation underneath.
Walk around the room reading your sentence to other
people. The other person translates. You then do the same
with their card. If both people translate each others’ cards
correctly you can swap.
Count the amount of times you have exchanged papers.
Can you get more than 10?
 YMCA
When introducing new
vocab students make an F
or an M shape depending
on whether they think the
word is masculine or
feminine.
 Vocab Hunt
• Students are given an empty vocab grid.
Blu-tac the words in the TL around the
room.
• Students work in pairs or small groups and
with only one person being able to leave
their seat at a time they have to fill their
table. The one student who leaves the
group has to memorise the word and the
spelling, come back and share with
partner and group members.
• The other student(s) look up the Spanish
word in the dictionary. Students take it in
turns until all words are found and
translated.
 RHUBARB
• Students in groups.
• Everyone has a copy of the text to read along.
• One person starts reading it… if they make a mistake, or
someone thinks they do, they shout ‘Rhubarb and tell you
what they think went wrong.
• If they are correct the student who shouted out ‘rhubarb’
takes over reading and wins a point for their team.
• If they hadn’t made a mistake, the student who was
originally reading gets a point for their team and carries on
reading.
 Infinitives
TO infinitive and beyond…because
Buzz wants everyone to know that the
infinitive is the verb form which has
‘to’ in it
 Medals
If students manage to complete all
work they are given a medal and are
allowed to go around the room
helping others.
 QR Codes
Generate QR codes using the website below.
Place these around the room. Students scan the
codes on their phones. This could lead them to a
text in the TL or answers to an activity they have
been doing.
 Mind mapping
Let students
brainstorm ideas. je vais je joue

For example they

En
could think of vacances
…
alternate endings
for each verb
je fais je mange
phrase.
Recap
Read through
your notes from
the previous
lesson.
Find your partner
Students are given a
question/answer,
start/end of sentence,
word in English/TL and
have to find their
partner.
 Jumbled Images
Give students a text and some images. They put
the images in the correct order.

Lundi je joue au
tennis. Mardi je fais
de la natation.
Mercredi je fais du
shopping.
Bingo
Ideal as a
starter activity
to practise
numbers in
target language.
 Countdown

Students think of
words in the target
language using the
letters provided.
Crossword
Create a
crossword using
the link below.
Good to get them
thinking at the
start of the lesson.
 Adjective, verb, noun
Students are given words and have to
decide whether they are an adjective, verb
or a noun.
Spot the Mistake
Write sentences on the board relating
to the current topic which include
common errors made my students.
Students have to spot the errors and
correct them.
 Word search
Create a word
search using the
link below. Good
to get them
thinking at the
start of the lesson.
 Under the Desk
Introduce new vocabulary by sticking words
under pupils’ desks before they arrive.
They have to race to find the meaning of their
word in the dictionary then share with the rest
of the class.
 Odd One Out
Write lists of words on
the board in the target
language. Students have
to decide which is the
odd one out from each
set and why.
 One of two game
Students are shown images and have to decide
which of the two words it is.

1.amarillo
2.naranja
 Taboo
Provide the class with
images which they
have to describe in
the target language to
one student who has
to guess the word.
Students are given a
list of words they are
not allowed to say.
 Think, pair, share
Think of 1 thing you learnt last lesson.
Discuss it with your partner.
Join up with another pair and discuss your
answers as a group.
Knock Knock
Give each pupil
the start/punch
line of a joke and
they have to find
their partner.
 Spelling Bee
Split the class into two teams.
Students take it in turns to spell
words from the current topic.
The team with the most correctly
spelt words wins.
Word list
Write as many
words/phrases as
you can
remember from
the previous
lesson.
 Musical Chairs
Say random words
and children sit
down when you
say one from a
selected topic.
E.G. verbs, nouns
 True Wall False Wall
Teacher reads out a statement and if it is
correct, pupils turn to the true wall. If it is
incorrect, they turn to the false wall and
offer a suggestion as to why.
 Put text in correct order
Cut up a text into sentences and students have
to read through it and put it in the correct order.
 Pupil Feedback
Tell a couple of pupils at the start of the lesson
that they will be expected to feedback at the
end. These pupils write up a summary of the
main points on the board. The rest of the class
decides if they agree or disagree with their
summary.
Complete the sentence
Each student is given
a sheet with the
start of a sentence in
the target language
and has to write an
ending.
 TXT MSG
In the back of your books.
Using text speak, write a text
message describing what you
have learnt today.
 Plenary Dice
Roll the dice and discuss your
answers for each one with
your partner.
 Think, pair, share
Think of 1 thing you have learnt today.
Discuss it with your partner.
Join up with another pair and discuss your
answers as a group.
Read all about it
In the back of your books. Write a
newspaper headline which describes
the learning from today’s lesson.
Who wants to be a
millionaire?
Use the French/Spanish template below
to create your own Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire quiz to test students at the end
of the lesson.
 Rap
Write a rap which teaches what
you have learnt in today’s
lesson.
 Longest sentence
In the back of your books. Using
some of the vocabulary you have
learnt today try to write the
longest sentence in the class.
Question Time
Ask the teacher ANY question
about today’s lesson.
 Traffic lights
Hold up the traffic light card to show how
much you have understood the work from
today’s lesson.
Red – did not understand at all
Amber – understood some
Green – understood everything

If you have understood everything help

those who haven’t.
 Get Poetic
Write a poem which teaches
what you have learnt in today’s
lesson.
Past Tense
Write a sentence in
the past tense using
vocabulary you
have learnt in
today’s lesson.
 60 Seconds
Students have 60 seconds to list as many
words as they can from the current topic.
 Post-it plenary
On a sticky note, write a word or sentence
from today’s lesson. Give to your partner
to translate into English. Then stick on the
board.
 Get Lyrical
Write a song which teaches
what you have learnt in today’s
lesson.
 XOXO
Split the class into 2 teams. Draw a 6x6
grid with words/images in each box. If a
student from the team is able to say the
word in the box they can put a X or a O.
The team which gets 3 in a row wins.
Test Your Partner
At the back of your partner’s book.
Write 3 questions about what you have learnt
in today’s lesson.
Your partner answers them and you mark them.
Present Tense
Write a sentence in the
present tense using
vocabulary you have learnt in
today’s lesson.
 True/false
Pass around a box filled with statements
about today’s lesson. Play music, when
the music stops, choose a statement, read
it and decide whether it is true or false. 
 Strip Bingo
Students write a list of words from the
current topic on a piece of paper. If the
teacher calls out a word from the top or
bottom of their sheet they must tear it off.
The first student to get all their words
read out is the winner.
dog

cat
pi g
n ea
gui
us e
mo
Future Tense
Write a sentence in
the future tense
using vocabulary
you have learnt in
today’s lesson.
 Question Box
1 student stands in the ‘Question Box’ and
answers questions about the current
topic. They can leave when they get a
question right.
Dice Improvements
Roll the dice and follow the instructions
below to try to improve your work.

1 – add an adjective
2 – add an adverb
3 – check your genders
4 – check your spellings
5 – add an opinion
6 – add a different tense
 Charades
Student or teacher acts out something
from the current topic and the rest of the
class tries to guess what it is.
 Classwork
Peer Assessment
Students assess their partner’s
work using the two stars and a
wish format.
 Twelve
12 words/pictures on screen without written
support. Pupils can say one or two numbers at a
time, starting at number 1. Whoever says the
twelfth is out of the game. If a pupil cannot
remember the word, they are also out of the
game!
Draw Something

One student
draws an image
on the board and
others guess
answers in TL.
 Design An Exercise
Design an exercise to check how much your
classmates have understood in this lesson.
Discuss it with your partner.
 Splat
Write ten key words from the lesson on the board,
and put pupils into two teams. Ask questions for
which the words on the board are the answers.
One member of each team stands by the board.
They race to ‘splat’ the correct answer.
Vocab Test

Say words and

students have to
write them in the
target language.
Adverb game
In groups, one person from
each group leaves the room.
The rest of the group agrees
on an adverb in the target
language. The other person
then has to guess which
adverb they have chosen by
commanding them to do
things in that style
e.g. ‘jump’, ‘eat’, ‘sing’ etc.
 What’s the question?
Provide students
with answers and
they have to decide
what the questions
are.
 Vocab Golf
Give students a grid of
words. They have to
assess their knowledge of
each word according to
the given criteria and add
up the scores at the
beginning and end of the
lesson.
VOCABULARY GOLF
Look at the following words and give them points according to the criteria below:
1 = I can pronounce this word and I know what it means
2 = I know what it means
3 = I think I know what it means
4 = I know I have learnt this word but I can’t remember what it means
5 = I have never seen that word before
Vocab Tennis
In two teams, students
have to take it in turns
to say a word from a
certain topic in the
target language. If a
student can’t think of
a word or repeats a
word, their team
loses.
 First letter last letter
In two teams. Give
students a word in the casa
target language. Students
take it in turns to give a
word which starts with animal
the last letter of the
previous word. The team león
with the longest chain of
words wins.
Create a quiz
Create a quiz
using the website
below. Students
can play the quiz
online.
 Pass the Parcel
Pass the box around the room.
When the music stops, pick out a piece of paper.
On each piece of paper is a theme in the target
language.
e.g. ‘los animales’
Name an animal in Spanish, then pass on the box.
I went to the supermarket…

Students play ‘I went

to the supermarket
and I bought…’ using
vocabulary learnt
throughout the
lesson.
 Memory game
Students have to say
which word is
missing/has
disappeared from the
PowerPoint.
 Lucky Dip
At an appropriate point in the lesson pupils
have to write a question based on the topic
or issue studied. Questions are placed in a
box - at the end of the lesson each pupil
draws a question out one by one and answers
it.
 Blockbusters
Split the class into two teams.
The first team to make a line of
hexagons across the board by
answering questions correctly
wins. 
 Like/dislike
Make like/dislike and activity cards.
In pairs, students take it in turns to take a
card from each pile and try to say the
sentence.
E.G

Me gusta nadar en la piscina.

 Vocab matchup
Make cards/Smart
Board games with
words in English and
the target language.
Students have to
match up the words.
They could time
themselves to do this.
 Find words in the text
Find and highlight these words in the text:
a) normally
b) in the garden
c) when it rains

Normalement j’aime jouer au foot dans le jardin

avec mon frère. Quand il pleut j’aime aller au
cinéma avec ma famille.
 Who did what?
El fin de semana que viene voy a ir a Francia y alojarme en un hotel cerca de la playa. Voy a visitar los museos y los
monumentos y sacar fotos. En mi opinión me encanta Francia porque hay mucho que hacer.
-Ella
La semana que viene mi novia y yo vamos a viajar a Alemania en tren. Vamos a ir de compras porque es el cumpleaños de
mi novia y quiere comprar nueva ropa. ¡Que aburrido!
-Juan
La semana pasada fui a los Estados-Unidos con mis padres y mi hermanita. Monté en bicicleta y nadamos en la piscina. Lo
pasé muy mal.
-Belen
El año pasado fui a Portugal con mi hermana. Nuestros padres se quedaron en casa. Mi hermana y yo fuimos a la playa y
tomamos sol todos los días. Lo pasé fenomenal y hizo mucho calor.
-Selena

Ella Juan Belen Selena

Tick the correct box for each question
Who went on holiday last year?        

Who went to the beach?        

Who went with their parents?        

Who is going to go on holiday next week?        

Who is not really looking forward to their holiday?        

Who says ‘there is lots to do’?        

 Underline the correct translation

ir to have to go to do
voy I go I do I am going to go
la piscina the swimming pool the train station the cinema
 Nouns/verbs/adjectives
a) Highlight 5 nouns
b) Underline 5 verbs
c) Put a circle around 5 adjectives

D’habitude je vais au collège avec ma soeur. Je

déteste parce qu’elle est ennuyeux.
 Match translations
I went Je vais voir
I am going to go J’ai mangé
I am going to see Je suis allé
I ate Je vais aller
 Running dictation
Place texts on the wall
around the room. In groups
students have to take it in
turns to remember as much
of the text as they can in 1
minute before returning to
their table and dictating to
the writer. The group with
the text closest to the one on
the wall wins.
Back to back descriptions

Students sit back to

back. One student
describes an
object/image to the
other who has to
draw it.
 Quizlet
Make online
flashcards using
the link below.
Students can use
these to practise
vocabulary and
then play the
games.
 Splat the teacher
Use the PowerPoint
below. In two teams
students answer
questions about the
current topic. If they get it
right they can ‘splat the
teacher’. The team with
the most ‘splats’ wins.
 Dictionary Race
In pairs, teacher gives pupils the first word in
English to find in the dictionary. They must write
it down and take it to show the teacher. If it is
correct the teacher will then give them the next
word on the list. The first team to find all ten
words wins!
 Sporcle
Create your own
Sporcle language
games. Students
have to type
answers in a
limited amount of
time.
 Unscramble
Write scrambled words/sentences on
the board. Students have to rewrite
them in the correct order.
Voki
Students create their
own animated avatar,
type text in the target
language and select the
appropriate language.
Pupils can then listen to
their text and practise
pronunciation.
Dice verb endings
In pairs, students are given a verb
and have to roll the dice and say
and write their conjugations. The
first one with all six wins.

HABLAR
1. o
2. as
3. a
4. amos
5. áis
6. an
 Class sentence
Going around the room, each student
has to say a word making up a
sentence/story.
 Consequences
In pairs, take it in turns to write answers for the following,
then fold the paper to create a story in the target language.
Choose some pairs to read out their story.
1. Man’s name
2. Woman’s name
3. Where they met
4. He said
5. She said
6. Where they went
7. What they did
Wallwisher
Students double click
on the board and
write their own
sentences.
 MFL Songs and Videos
Spanish
French

Pinterest can also be a good source of

teaching and classroom resources and
ideas!
 Stand up sit down
Say sentences in the
target language.
Students sit down
when the sentence
applies to them.
E.G. J’ai les yeux
bleus.
 Find the treasure
Use the PowerPoint
below. In two teams, ask
students questions
about the current topic.
If they get a question
right a box disappears
and they gain 1 point,
for every coin they find
they gain 3 points.
 Trivial Pursuit
Each colour represents a
topic. Students have to
talk about that topic for a
certain amount of time. If
they manage it they can
colour in one of the
triangles.
Wordle (1)
Students type up their
written work onto the
website below.
Repeated words will
be bigger than others.
Good for GCSE.

*Apparently if you put a tilde in

between two words it keeps them
together.
Wordle (2)
Type in a list of
vocabulary such
as adjectives to
describe people.
They have to
underline in red,
words to describe
their mum etc.
Wordle (3)
Type in a list of
words from a
speaking activity.
Get the students
to listen to the
text and number
the words when
they hear them.
*Include words which
aren’t there as well.
 Tagxedo
Similar to Wordle.
Not used it much
yet but looks like
it may be better!
 Hot Seat
One student sits on the ‘hot seat’ and the rest
of the class asks them questions relating to
today’s lesson. If they get a question wrong they
must sit back in their own seat.
 Peg Verbs
Buy some wooden pegs and
write the verb conjugations
on them. Students have to
match the correct peg to the
correct section on the card.
 MFL All Around You
Quite a different
homework. Could be used
at start of school year. Find
6 French/Spanish items in
your town – food,
instructions, menu,
anything and write about
it.
 Take A Number
Put a ribbon in your
room with numbered
pegs on. Students take a
peg if they need help/to
speak to you, instead of
queuing or keeping their
hands up.
 Absent
Always do enough
worksheets for the class. If a
student is absent put it in
that class’ folder in a box in
the room. It can be students’
responsibility to check this
box when they come back
next lesson.
 Tree of Knowledge
A tree is drawn on a sheet of paper/the board.
Each pupil has a leaf shaped piece of paper. On
it they write as briefly as possible what has
been the most important thing they have learnt
in the lesson – preferably one word. Pupils stick
their leaves on the tree and say what is on the
leaf.
Class Tools
Create your own
games at
Class Tools
 Spider Web
Think of one sentence using the
vocabulary you have learnt today. Use a
ball of string/ribbon. Students stand in a
circle and take it in turn to say their
sentence and hold the string, making a
web around the room.
 Gimme 5
In the backs of your books. Write down five
questions which will test your understanding of
what you have learnt in today’s lesson. Answer
these questions at the start of next lesson/for
homework.
 Finger Spelling
In pairs students use
their finger to draw a
word in the TL on
their partner’s back.
Their partner has to
guess the word.
 Be The Teacher
Pretend you are a primary school teacher.
How would you teach what you have learnt today
to a primary school student? Discuss with your
partner.
 Memory Master
Write a list of words in the target
language on the board. Pupils are
given a minute to remember the
list. When time is up, remove the
words. Pupils have to write out
the translations of terms,
remembering as many as they
can, in a specified time.
 Soft Ball
A soft ball is thrown from one
pupil to another named pupil
in class. Pupil says one
concept/key word - next one
explains it then chooses
another.
Joggers
All students stand up
and jog on the spot –
they can only sit down
once you have been
given 3, 5, 7… etc.
things that they have
learned during the
lesson.
 Fireworks
Students stand up quickly
and shout out something
they have learned during the
lesson, then sit down again
fast. Ask for 3, 5, 7…etc.
fireworks before leaving the
room.
 Bang!
Make a ‘bang’ tin with words in. Could be a good
idea if some students finish work early. If the
student can say the word correctly in the other
language they keep the card if not it goes back
in. If they get a BANG card, all of their cards go
back in.
French Bang
Spanish Bang
 Question Cards
Question cards to promote independent learnin
g

Each group has four cards. If they want to ask a

question they lose a card. Group with the most
cards at end of lesson wins sweets.
 Uses of ICT
ICT Ideas

Click link above for more useful ideas

for embedding ICT into MFL lessons.
 Dominoes
Make vocab domino cards for students to match
up.
Example
 Independent Learning Folders
Create a folder which has explanations of tenses
and key vocabulary sheets. Encourage students
to look in here before asking you questions.
French - Improving Your Work
Spanish - Improving Your Work
 4 Pictures 1 Word
Students guess the word by looking at the four images
and the jumbled up letters below. PowerPoint game
based on the popular app. Nice starter activity!
KS3 Spanish: 4 Pictures 1 Word
KS3 French - 4 Pictures 1 Word
 Popcorn
A different way of presenting questions/tasks.
Students choose their own.
 Who am I?
Students are given cards with objects/people on
them and they have to guess what they are by
asking their teammates questions.
 Creative Writing
This one could be useful when learning the
conditional.
Spot the Difference
Presenting Vocabulary
Would look great in their books.
Discussion Prompts
Lots of these on Pinterest. Ones on
this page could be good when
introducing Technology topic.
 Colours
A creative way of presenting colours.
 Speaking in the Target
Language
Each group are given one of these and lose a
number every time they speak English. One with
most at the end wins a prize.
 Synonyms
Could be adapted for MFL. Students use
dictionary to find synonyms of common words.
 Student Feedback
Students feedback which subjects they enjoyed.
 MFL Displays
Displays
 Categories
Could be used as a starter activity. Students
have to find one word from each category
using the dictionary to help them.

French Scattegories
Twitter Board
Writing About Yourself
 Question Tin
Make a question tin and add questions to it
throughout the year. Good way of recapping
previous topics as you can do it as a starter
activity each lesson. Student picks a question
and answers it/chooses someone else to answer.
 Plenary Questions
What if we hadn’t What have you found
done today’s easy in this lesson?
lesson?

What if you weren’t What have you found

allowed to know challenging in this
what we’ve learnt lesson?
today?

What have you done

well this lesson?
What other
vocabulary do you
think you would
need to learn to
What could you
be able to talk
improve on next
about this topic?
time?
 Blogging Tips
Blogger
Example

Create your own languages

blog which the students can
use in their own time. Make
QR code of this and give to
them to stick in their books
for the year.
 Blogging Tips
Upload PowerPoints used in
the lesson to SlideShare,
these can then be embedded
into your blog for students
to see in their own time.

See my blog for examples:

Example
 Blogging Tips
Include a list of links they can
access at home.

Embed games and flashcards (a

lot of which were mentioned in
this PowerPoint) into the blog.

See my blog for examples:

Example
 Pinspiration

Pinterest MFL Ideas