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Sunday, 30 June 2024

The Messy Middle.

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 Last week I wrote a long post about Language-Learning and the arguments between Knowledge and Skills . I looked at the lovely idea that Sk...
Friday, 28 June 2024

Nitty Gritty Teaching

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 Time to reflect on some of the things we put in place in the light of the Ofsted "Research Review". One idea was that we had been...
Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Planning the new GCSE: The Vision

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An audio podcast summary of this post created by notebook LM AI is available here https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/b5b305aa-6a70-472b-...
Sunday, 9 June 2024

Language Teaching: Building knowledge into Skills

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 Where does MFL sit in the current debate about knowledge and skills? We could be the perfect subject to see this play out and explore the r...
Saturday, 1 June 2024

A Year 8 French group who are really on the ball

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 A scientific hypothesis has to be tested against reality. And the biggest test is whether it can be used to predict outcomes. Not just to t...
Sunday, 26 May 2024

Hot and cold over Cold Calling

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 I've let some of the heat go out of the Cold Calling debate on twitter before writing this. What I want to say about it is too much and...
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Sunday, 19 May 2024

The New GCSE Vocabulary List. The Final Word?

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 I've had at least two goes already at tackling the implications of the High Frequency Vocabulary List for the new GCSE. Wouldn't i...
Saturday, 18 May 2024

Describing - Planning for Aspects of the New GCSE

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 You might be surprised that "Describing" is one of the aspects of the new GCSE that I am focusing on. But for the current GCSE, I...
Monday, 13 May 2024

Vocabulary and the new GCSE - a second attempt

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 In a previous post , I tried to think through what I wanted from a Scheme of Work for the new GCSE in terms of Vocabulary and the Vocabular...
Saturday, 11 May 2024

Planning for Aspects of the new GCSE: Vocabulary

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 In recent posts, I have been looking at aspects of the new GCSE. (Link to these posts here.)   I don't have the answers, but writing th...

Links to posts on planning for the new GCSE

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Links to all posts on planning, resourcing and actually teaching the new GCSE: Working on the three different sorts of answers you need for ...
Monday, 6 May 2024

Planning for Aspects of the New GCSE: Unexpected Questions

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 The part of the current GCSE exam where my pupils do worst is the unexpected question on the Role Play. If any of them ever score marks the...