Let me begin this article with a confession: before taking up my current post as a PGCE tutor in MFL at the University of Bristol, I was a full time classroom teacher with middle management departmental and pastoral responsibilities. No, that’s not the confession. The confession is that I engaged very little, if at all […]

Who would have thought it? The 19th March was my last “normal” day of the school year! It was also the first of many incredible webinars supported by ALL London, and one in which  Joe Dale presented a 12-page-document full of ideas and IT resources to support MFL teachers in response to the Coronavirus outbreak. […]

During the lockdown, many companies offered extended free trials of their language learning websites and apps. Ones I used with my pupils include: Education Perfect, Yabla, LanguageNut, TheEverLearner, ImmerseMe, uTalk and ThisIsLanguage. All of them were great in different ways, including customer support and communication. Considering I was a non-paying customer, I was unfailingly impressed […]