When listening is done really well, speaking becomes much easier for students! New blog post about how we can teach listening to support how we teach speaking: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... #MFLBluesky

I wrote about dictation again, based on my year 10 Germanists in the classroom today. I hope it is useful to some - and it's not just relevant to those teaching or learning German! learninglisteninglanguages.blogspot.com/2025/07/gett...

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A bite-sized boost for MFL trainee and new teachers to help you thrive in the classroom. Follow along for more daily tips! #NewTeacherNuggets #MFLTwitterati #MFLBlueSky

My favourite activity at the moment: children can see the 10 words we are working on. I say 9 of them randomly, then they have to tell me which one I didn't say. Always goes well and they get to hear the vocab lots of times. Helps to prepare in advance 👍. #mflbluesky

'Phonics needs to be scaffolded and deliberately practiced, not only by actually saying the target sounds, but by listening too.' Read more on the blog! bethlingual.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-... #MFLBluesky

New blog post! 💡 bethlingual.blogspot.com/2025/06/how-... #MFLBluesky

Looking for clear teacher scripts for the new GCSE speaking exams? With all the timings and what to say? Here you go... www.tes.com/teaching-res... Link has mark schemes too - F&H tier, in French, Spanish, & German, AQA #MFLBluesky

Just added on my TES shop: www.tes.com/teaching-res... revision worksheet on the topic of future plans 🇪🇸 #MFLBluesky

A great option for cover work while you're doing speaking exams, or just for general consolidation and practice: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

The 2 mins speaking questions challenge continues to work really well with engaging our students to speak spontaneously: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/09/2-mi... #MFLBluesky

Getting students to read aloud: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/refl... #MFLBluesky

Free dice game to practice speaking and writing (responding to unseen questions/bullet points) on my TES shop: www.tes.com/teaching-res... my most popular resource so far 🇫🇷 #mflbluesky

Practicing reading aloud? Some things to think about: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/refl... #MFLBluesky

Been so impressed this week with how much students can remember after Christmas! Some great answers in the 2 minute speaking questions challenge 💙 #MFLBluesky bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/09/2-mi...

The end of another term means another chance to reward the class who can answer the most questions in TL in 2 mins! bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/09/2-mi... if you're looking for a quick speaking task to build confidence and automaticity in the new year, this works 💪 #MFLBluesky

Need a French Christmas quiz? Why not try this: www.tes.com/teaching-res... (lots of culture questions, plus festive themed listening and reading) Or this: www.tes.com/teaching-res... (quiz about 'false friends' tricky vocab) #MFLBluesky

Just added a free '2024 reflections' resource to guide students to think about the past year in review. Hopefully, a lovely tutor time activity amidst the chaos of the last week before Christmas: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky #Edusky

I've got some exciting news to share... from January I'm going to be the Head of Year 8 at my school! 🎉

Haven't made a blog post for a little while, so here's an early Christmas present: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-... #MFLBluesky

If you aren't allowed to do Christmas lessons, why not try a fun 'Call my bluff' quiz? 🇫🇷 Tests false friends that often come up at GCSE, so it's ideal for around mocks too! www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

French Christmas Quiz! 🇫🇷🎄 Culture questions, listening skills, and vocab tasks: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

Need some low prep, high impact ideas for the last few weeks? 💡 bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/low-... #MFLBluesky

Some lessons for before or after the French writing mock exams: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

This looks great, thanks! I've recommended memorizer.me before but I like that this one has many more activities to practice the texts #MFLBluesky

I hope it's not just me who sometimes struggles to get GCSE students to say (and show off) what they already know how to say! Here's what I've been trying to tackle this: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/mfl-... #MFLBluesky

📚NEW POST📚, yesterday was my day off and as the weather was not playing nice, I spent it writing a post on what I have been working on with my students - reading strategies for their GCSE Mock exams! Hope you find it useful. #MFLBluesky www.fraubastowmfl.co.uk/post/transfo...

Year 8 enjoyed the 'beep game' today - students take it in turns to read either 1, 2 or 3 sentences from a list, and try not to be the one reading when they hear the beep (youtube video with beeps at random intervals in the background) #MFLBluesky

If you're doing studio module 7 with year 11 at the moment, why not add some culture? Here's a resource based on Stromae's song 'Santé', packed with listening and reading skills practice www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

Haven't really tried doing much with AI yet, as I wasn't convinced it could give me anything worth using... but I was quite impressed this week when I asked chatgpt to write a fantasy story with lots of -er verbs (for practicing conjugations) #MFLBluesky

🌟1000 views 🌟 on my still-quite-new blog, bethlingual.blogspot.com 🎉 Thanks for reading, and I hope you've found it helpful and interesting! #MFLBluesky

Working on the 3 different types of answers you need for the new GCSE speaking exam. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2024/11/work...

I use English key words when teaching French phonics, and here's why: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/10/teac... Get your display here: www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky #phonetics

Another quick activity to practice phonics... Photo taken after discussing the answers! #MFLBluesky

📢 New blog post! #MFLBluesky bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/low-...

Fun linguistics tidbit: Mark Hamill signing his name Mar🐫 because in English /p, t, k/ sounds at the beginning of a stressed syllable are pronounced aspirated, ie with an extra breathy sound (the same sound that's h when it's by itself) So Mark Hamill is pronounced the same as Mar Camel

Bravo to the #GoetheInstitute! Let's hope "Wuschel auf der Erde" works wonders in promoting the #German language. There's no doubt kids will love it - and they really enjoy German, given a chance to learn it >> let's hope more schools are inspired to offer German! www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The 2-minute Speaking Questions Challenge has been super effective to help my students be more confident, motivated, and accurate when speaking in target language. Why not give it a go: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/09/2-mi... #MFLBluesky

French Tenses Mat resource - FREE www.tes.com/teaching-res... #MFLBluesky

My students this week have been practising with the read aloud / dictation toblerone! Pairs take it in turns to read to their partner, and write what their partner is saying. #MFLBluesky

With mocks coming up, I'd like to share again this super popular resource for GCSE French revision: www.tes.com/teaching-res... I've also added many more writing revision resources to my TES shop recently!

MFL teachers! How much do you know about phonetics? bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/09/what...

I write a blog about language teaching - this is my most recent post about when and how to develop reading aloud: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/11/refl...

Hi 👋 you can find me on X and insta, and I thought I'd see what's happening here as well! Lovely to see so many MFL people 💙