Brisk Teaching,  Diffit and LDP Multilingual Profiler   Brisk Teaching Throughout the last academic year, I was delighted to embrace AI in my teaching and preparation to save me time and enhance the learning of my students. Certainly, the free Chrome Extension Brisk Teaching, which can be downloaded from the Chrome Web Store here is […]

In the classroom: Joy of reading   Two years ago, I had an epiphany. Cast adrift from the island of MFL to teach English I had realised how steeped in fantastic literature English lessons were and how poor the literary diet was in MFL lessons, by comparison. What could MFL lessons learn from English lessons? […]

How to … use drama and performance to develop confidence and independence in speaking. Exactly ten years ago – Autumn 2014 – Languages Today published an article on ‘Transition: the next challenge’. Primary languages had just become statutory, and transition was a hot topic. I reported on a new KS2 / KS3 French/Drama initiative – […]