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Blaine Pike

Jan 23, 20213 min read

The top 10 MFL tweets this week

Your weekly MFL resources roundup (w/e Saturday 23 January) Hi guys, hope you've all had a great week! This week I'm including tweets...

Blaine Pike

Jan 16, 20215 min read

#MFLTop10: Saturday 16 January

There were 638 MFL tweets this week, but who made this week's top 10? Welcome to this week's #MFLTop10! This week's roundup - as voted...

Blaine Pike

Jan 9, 20214 min read

#MFLTop10: This week's top MFL tweets

There were 449 MFL tweets this week, but which made the top 10? Welcome to the first #MFLTop10 of 2021. What a week it's been in the...

Blaine Pike

Dec 19, 20203 min read

#MFLTop10: This week's top MFL tweets

There were 458 MFL tweets this week, but who made the top 10? Firstly, huge congratulations on making it to the end of the year! And what...

Printable: 2021 Word-A-Day Calendar (French)

Blaine Pike

Dec 12, 20201 min read

Printable: 2021 Word-A-Day Calendar (French)

Decorate your classroom with this free GCSE French calendar! With only a week until the school holidays, I've made something fun for you...

Printable: 2021 Word-A-Day Calendar (Spanish)

Blaine Pike

Dec 12, 20201 min read

Printable: 2021 Word-A-Day Calendar (Spanish)

Decorate your classroom with this free GCSE Spanish calendar! With only a week until the school holidays, I've made something fun for you...

Printable: 2021 Word-A-Day Calendar (German)

Blaine Pike

Dec 12, 20201 min read

Printable: 2021 Word-A-Day Calendar (German)

Decorate your classroom with this free GCSE German calendar! With only a week until the school holidays, I've made something fun for you...

Jumbled: French exam sentences (AQA 2018 F)

Blaine Pike

Dec 5, 20202 min read

Jumbled: French exam sentences (AQA 2018 F)

Some scaffolded exam prep - differentiated for mixed abilities Hi guys! This week I've created something that grabs all the French...

Jumbled: Spanish exam sentences (AQA 2018 F)

Blaine Pike

Dec 5, 20202 min read

Jumbled: Spanish exam sentences (AQA 2018 F)

Some scaffolded exam prep - differentiated for mixed abilities Hi guys! This week I've created something that grabs all the Spanish...

Jumbled: German exam sentences (AQA 2018 F)

Blaine Pike

Dec 5, 20202 min read

Jumbled: German exam sentences (AQA 2018 F)

Some scaffolded exam prep - differentiated for mixed abilities Hi guys! This week I've created something that grabs all the German...

Mapped: 2018 German Reading paper (AQA Higher)

Blaine Pike

Nov 29, 20202 min read

Mapped: 2018 German Reading paper (AQA Higher)

Think, Pair, Share: How many words can your students find? This week I've created a wordcloud of all the vocab from the 2018 German...

Mapped: 2018 Spanish Reading paper (AQA Higher)

Blaine Pike

Nov 29, 20202 min read

Mapped: 2018 Spanish Reading paper (AQA Higher)

Think, Pair, Share: How many words can your students find? This week I've created a wordcloud of all the vocab from the 2018 Spanish...

Mapped: 2018 French Reading paper (AQA Higher)

Blaine Pike

Nov 29, 20202 min read

Mapped: 2018 French Reading paper (AQA Higher)

Think, Pair, Share: How many words can your students find? This week I've created a wordcloud of all the vocab from the 2018 French...

9 hacks to boost students' GCSE Spanish vocab

Blaine Pike

Nov 22, 20202 min read

9 hacks to boost students' GCSE Spanish vocab

In brief: What are the top spelling patterns to teach to expand students' vocab? Continuing with the theme of shameless shortcuts (which...

11 hacks to boost students' GCSE French vocab

Blaine Pike

Nov 21, 20203 min read

11 hacks to boost students' GCSE French vocab

In brief: What are the top spelling patterns to teach to expand students' vocab? Continuing with the theme of shameless shortcuts (which...

10 GCSE German Tips to Boost Student Vocab

Blaine Pike

Nov 20, 20202 min read

10 GCSE German Tips to Boost Student Vocab

In brief: Teach the most popular spelling patterns to help students expand their AQA German vocabulary quickly. Continuing with the theme...

The Top GCSE Spanish-English Cognates, Ranked

Blaine Pike

Nov 15, 20202 min read

The Top GCSE Spanish-English Cognates, Ranked

TL;DR: Teach your high-similarity vocab first to see faster progress across both the stronger and weaker ends of the class. Students...

The Top GCSE French-English Similarities, Ranked

Blaine Pike

Nov 13, 20202 min read

The Top GCSE French-English Similarities, Ranked

Students struggle with recall We know how much MFL students struggle with recall. However we look at it, though, the more words a student...

The Easiest GCSE German Vocab, Ranked By Similarity

Blaine Pike

Nov 11, 20203 min read

The Easiest GCSE German Vocab, Ranked By Similarity

What's the problem? We all know how much MFL students struggle with recall. And whichever way we want to look at it, the more words a...

Blaine Pike

Nov 8, 20202 min read

Scraped: Spanish Vocab Spreadsheet

Aaaand finally / third time's a charm / enter your own number-based cliché here..! After the wonderful responses to the AQA French and...

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