20 slides for beginners. Each slide has four sentences. Students have to select the odd one out and say why. This could be a handy starter. Editable as usual. CEFR A1.

A 'do now' style starter where students make sentences from lists of words and phrases. Suggestions for use given. A1.

A simple set of beginner slides showing jumbled words and phrases from which students make sentences. Suggestions for use provided. A1.

I have uploaded an audio listening task based on the Basque country text I previously shared as a written text. This can be used as a lecture. Audio file available (text to speech).

An "Ask the experts" communicative task based on three short texts about the culture of the Basque country. Usual format: students find information from the three 'experts', each of whom have a paragraph. Then all the information is combined for oral summary or writing. A nice way to deal with information-heavy texts.

An article with exercises about the culture of the Basque country. Text, vocab to find, true/false/not mentioned, an oral task, oral and writing summary. Suitable for AS level (Y12). CEFR B1.

A text and exercises about parents who want their children to receive a bilingual education in Quimper, Brittany. Text, vocab to find, comprehension, paired vocab test, gap-fill. Good opportunity for conversation about the value of bilingualism and immersion. Regional heritage theme. CEFR B1.

A teacher-led vocab retrieval game, with a grid of bracketed gaps to complete like a football championship. Instructions given in the slides. Also placed on the Y8 page. An idea I nabbed from the Henshaw and Hawkins book Common Ground (2022). Merci.

A Kim's Game on PowerPoint for beginners. Farm animals. The set of slides forms a lesson sequence of roughly 25 minutes. CEFR A1.

A set of five slides, each with a gao-fill to do to a time limit, say 1 minute per slide. Future tense verbs. CEFR A1/2.