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Lead Practitioner (Languages) in South London. Former Head of MFL 🇪🇸🇫🇷👩🏻‍🏫 Always looking for opportunities to learn something new! #LoveToTeachMFL ❤️

Joined May 2016
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Happy half-term! To celebrate the release of the 2nd edition, I'm giving away 10 copies of the Spanish Grammar Workbook. 50+ new pages, redesigned throughout, entirely new sections. Like & retweet to be in with a chance, winners announced 02/06. 🇪🇸 amzn.eu/d/0r5mkG9
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🎉If you're starting to teach the new Spanish GCSE spec, here's a Complete Set of Module 1 Resources to get you off to a great start this academic year. AQA & Edexcel available. It's free*, so will you enter a couple of coffees? ☕️🙂🙏 RT AQA Units 1, 2 buymeacoffee.com/teacherwork… Units 3, 4 buymeacoffee.com/teacherwork… Units 5, 6 buymeacoffee.com/teacherwork… Edexcel Units 1, 2 buymeacoffee.com/teacherwork… Units 3, 4 buymeacoffee.com/teacherwork… Units 5, 6 buymeacoffee.com/teacherwork… ✅Thoroughly covers essential topics, with a balanced mix of content. ✅Lessons designed progressively, reinforcing prior knowledge while introducing new material. ✅Variety of activities, including games, quizzes, role-plays, comprehension tasks, extended writing, etc. included to cater to different learning styles and maintain student engagement. ✅Aligned with exam board mark schemes, helping students practice and improve on key exam skills like translation, listening and reading comprehension, speaking and extended writing. ✅Ready-to-use, with clear plans, PPTs, student handouts and logical progression, allowing teachers to implement lessons without additional preparation. ✅Can be adapted for different teaching styles and student abilities, making them suitable for both higher and foundation-level students. ✅Encourage independent thinking and retrieval practice, promoting student autonomy and helping them progress at a rapid and sustained pace. #MFLtwitterati #TeachSpanish #SpanishTeachers #EduTwitter #GCSESpanish #MFLResources Thoughts welcome 🙂
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I'll be going on paternity leave very soon so I've made some Contified cover booklets that may be of use to people if you're ever stuck for cover work. #mfltwitterati #epi @gianfrancocont9 SBs included in the booklets. drive.google.com/drive/u/0/f…
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I've just finalised the 𝒏𝒆𝒘 Spanish grammar workbook. Currently still on track for a release on 1st July on Amazon! So, here is the new cover. I have proof copies arriving next week. If you want to win one then like/RT this post and I'll pick two winners on Wednesday! 🇪🇸💃
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Still seeing too many A level lit/cinema language essays which are too long and don't really tackle the question set in a meaningful way. Just to recap on some straightforward strategies which may help in this direction and also improve the way IRP and summary qu are tackled.
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The updated grammar workbook is 99.99% done! It covers 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 grammar point from the WJEC, AQA & Edexcel specs and is 84 pages long! It's taken a month of solid work. I'm giving away 3 copies so RT if you'd like one (will announce winners on 26/07). 🇪🇸 #mfltwitterati
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In January ALL Event, two Spanish teachers were awarded scholarships for online Spanish courses from the Spanish Embassy Education Office @consejeriauk Congratulations!!!@AccEducativaExt @ALLLondon007
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#QuickSpanishTips for AQA Spanish A level too.
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🎉🚨 Competition 🚨🎉 I’m joining the team @EvidenceInEdu as Senior Associate for Teaching & Learning. To celebrate, we're giving away a set of ALL my books & a YEAR subscription to the Great Teaching Toolkit for a school! 😀👏🎉 Retweet this tweet to enter. Good luck!
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Here's my summary of Ofsted's research review into Languages 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇬🇷🇮🇹🇨🇳🇫🇷 I hope it's useful for teachers and curriculum leaders! The high-res PDF version and a more detailed summary are available at marcrhayes.com/post/a-summar… #mfltwitterati #edutwitter #edublogshare
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Do you teach ALevel MFL? This post may be of interest. A pedagogical sequence that certainly works for us! #mfltwitterati @ismla_uk @ALL4language mflcraft.blogspot.com/2020/0…
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Freebie #MFL Resource. "Translate and Fold" #Worksheet Template to support students with basic writing via parallel translation, L2>L1, L1>L2, write 40, transfer knowledge from memory. #French examples but adaptable. tes.com/resource-detail/-126… #MFLTwitterati
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What an amazing infographic to help reduce #cognitiveoverload @Inner_Drive
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This weekend's post. On La Casa de Bernarda Alba and embracing ambiguity of interpretation for an essay. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot… A deliberate contrast to this post on having a clear interpretation of the message of Almodovar's Volver. whoteacheslanguages.blogspot…
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