Hello, there, I hope you are well? It's been a while, I know. I've been busy. MFL seems to have taken a back seat over the last couple of years as I have taken some time out of teac...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2022/12/christmas-mfl-resources.html
Lumni is an education platform for teachers and students from French broadcaster Europe1. It has lots of videos and articles on subjects such as history, news and lifestyle for students of all...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2021/02/lumni-education-platform-from-europe-1.html
Hello there, How are you all today? Good. Like most teachers, I am working from home at the moment. To be precise from the kitchen. It's great. I love it... I have never eaten ...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2021/02/teaching-from-home-or-holding-seance.html
A few weeks ago, I had a job interview. I didn't get the job. Thanks for asking. One of the things they asked me to do was teach a lesson to Year 7. They asked me to teach the full pa...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2020/12/er-verbs-in-40-minutes.html
Hello there. Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la laaaaa et cetera! Here is an updated list of Christmas resources all in one place, so you don't have to search the internet. LIGHTBULB...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2020/12/mfl-christmas-resources-updated-for-2020.html
Hello there, It's been a while, I know. This is a lesson I threw together for my Year 7 classes last week. It involves thinking skills, knowing all about genders of nouns, cognates, and speaking ...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2020/10/halloween-murder-mystery.html
Earlier this year I wrote an article for Teach Secondary magazine about the importance of speaking in MFL. Sadly, due to some pandemic you may have seen on the news, it hasn't yet appeared in pri...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2020/08/languages-are-meant-to-be-spoken-mfl.html
At the end of each academic year, KS3 students at my school study a film. I've written about this before here (German) , here (French) and here (Spanish) . This year was a little different....
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2020/07/zipi-y-zape-y-la-isla-del-capitan.html
Today I was watching Meet The Germans on dw.de. It is a cultural programme in English presented and written by Rachel Stewart . This is dw.de's description of the programme: From beer to n...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2020/07/thats-not-george-clooney-game-for.html
Over the past few days on Twitter there has been a lot of discussion as to whether students learn best sitting in “traditional” rows or together in groups. The UK’s current Secretary of Sta...
Hi there, it's been a while. I've been busy with a lot of other projects recently so I apologise for the lack of posts over the last 8 months or so. Anyway, here's the post... One of my fav...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2020/02/battleships-from-beginner-to-level.html
This is an article I wrote for Teach Secondary magazine: 7 Quick MFL Ideas to Boost Secondary Students’ Word Power Enjoy.
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2019/07/7-quick-mfl-ideas-to-boost-secondary.html
I'm not a Spanish specialist but, due to me obviously upsetting someone in a previous life and being cursed for all eternity, I currently teach it to KS3 (11-13 year old) students. At the end o...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2019/06/zipi-7-zape-y-el-club-de-la-canica.html
It's the holidays and my brain has gone into overdrive... I'm just thinking aloud.... (Is thinking allowed?) Last week, I taught my one of my year 8 French classes the imperfect tense. Bu...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2019/04/mfl-on-need-to-know-basis.html
One of the reasons I've never been a fan of MFL text books is that they date so quickly. Even the most recent text books we have in school have almost ancient photos of sports stars, actors, an...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2019/03/updating-resources-and-keeping-it.html
As well as teaching, and cobbling together this nonsense, I often do other things. One thing I do is write funny things for satirical websites and occasionally the radio . Another thing I do,...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-to-introduce-gendered-nouns-in-ks3.html
My Year 7 students have just had exams. The majority have done well and their hard work has paid off. They scored fewer marks in their writing papers, though. Their spelling really let th...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2018/12/learning-vocabulary.html
Proverbialists and fans of mid-80s pop music would have you believe that Curiosity Killed The Cat. NASA would prefer you to believe that Curiosity is currently exploring the Gale Crater on th...
Silent Corridors, no, not the 1974 Italian horror film or the late '80s Manchester Indie band of the same name*, but the latest great/terrible idea from Senior Leaders (Twitter almost exploded ...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2018/10/silent-corridors.html
Here's a fact for you: Children, like adults, sometimes need to go to the toilet. Unlike teachers, who can avoid using the toilet for days at a time, normal people sometimes get caught s...
This was the lesson I did this morning with Year 12. I wanted to do something a little out of the ordinary. It's the end of term, after all. The first thing we did was watch the short film,...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2018/07/jattendrai-le-suivant-lesson-idea-for.html
A while ago, I was asked to plan and deliver an after school French session for some Year 7AGT (Able, Gifted, and Talented) students. The brief was to get them to do something they wouldn't do ...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2018/07/poetry-teaching-yourself-past-tense.html
I've just read an article on the BBC website: Language lesson gap means poorest miss out, says report. It has made me quite sad and a little angry. (Oh no, not a ranty post, Dom. Yeah. Sorr...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2018/06/are-poorest-students-really-missing-out.html
I'm currently studying Maupassant's Contes de Guerre with my Y12 Advanced Level class. Tomorrow, we are going to imagine that the characters in Boule de Suif have a smart phone and are "live tw...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2018/06/tweeting-boule-de-suif.html
It's fairly impossible to learn a language without learning grammar. I'm learning Danish. Danish grammar is quite difficult in some respects: en hund = a dog hunden = the dog hunde = dogs...
http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/2018/05/teaching-grammar.html