My Top 10 Speaking Activities! 🔥
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Have a read - hopefully be inspired, or at least reminded of something that works really well ❤️
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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-...
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We are there for our students day-in, day-out, and that is what counts - not whether you always say or do the perfect thing in every moment!
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In January I started a new post as a head of year so I see all the time how important it is to be consistent with our behaviour expectations, and also how we communicate those consistently, regularly, clearly.
You need to do something consistently to make progress - but not necessarily perfectly! This is your reminder to give yourself the same grace you give to your students, every day/lesson is a fresh start.
Consistency means more than perfection
Good habits, strong teaching routines, and positive relationships take time
If you've had a bad lesson/day (or even if it just wasn't perfect)... don't worry! Reflect and learn what you can from it, then move on. What you do consistently matters more anyway.
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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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-...
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New blog post! 💡
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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
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Looks great, I was hoping to get stuck in for next year but my school have decided numbers aren't high enough for A level to run 😢 hopefully in the future
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
Lingthusiasm have also recently released a list of lots of places to learn more: lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520... 😊
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
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The end of another term means another chance to reward the class who can answer the most questions in TL in 2 mins!
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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)
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A worksheet with a series of frames that have reflection questions in, my favourite memory was, I learned about, I was proud of myself for, I improved at, people who supported me were, my favourite book I read was, and next year I will spend more time on.
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
Thank you! I'm looking forward to it
I've got some exciting news to share... from January I'm going to be the Head of Year 8 at my school! 🎉
And the FREE planning resource mentioned in the post www.tes.com/teaching-res... great for trainees, ECTs, and anyone who wants to speed up their planning a little bit! #MFLBluesky
Haven't made a blog post for a little while, so here's an early Christmas present: bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-... #MFLBluesky
That's great! Glad to hear it worked for you 😊