Real Life Language

What Intermediate Speakers Can Really Do: A Clear Guide for Language Learners

Reaching the intermediate stage in a language is one of the most exciting milestones in a learning journey. It’s the point where everything begins to work together—your vocabulary, your grammar, your confidence—and suddenly you can have real conversations, express your thoughts, and connect with people in meaningful ways. Bottom line: it is the moment when […]

GCSE-style Food Writing Prompts (English Instructions)

Teaching World Languages

Are you learning a language? Do you teach one? Check out these GCSE-style writing prompts to build fluency to talk about food and learn culture. Describe your favorite meal. What is it? When do you eat it? Why do you like it? Write about a typical day of meals for you. What do you eat

5 Days of Language Proficiency Practice Activities

Second Language Acquisition Course, Spanish Class Resources, Teaching World Languages

Do you feel like you (or your learners, if you teach) are just on the cusp of that point where you can start creating with language? Maybe you just need to check in and invest a bit of hard work to get there? If so, check out this collection of review activities and tasks to

French New Year

Teaching World Languages

Do you teach French? Check out this selection on New Year’s in French Read. Do the questions. Have students circle or highlight unknown vocabulary. Clarify and have them take notes in the text. The selection talks about New Year’s in various countries. Clarify New Year’s in France. It is similar, of course, to many Western

Skit/Scene Project for French Class

Teaching French, Teaching World Languages

Polite Complaints and Everyday Conversations This skit project is a highly engaging way for students to practice everyday vocabulary, real-world communication skills, and the structure of polite complaints in French. By working together to write, memorize, and perform a short scene/skit, students build confidence speaking French while acting out practical situations they may encounter while

Assessment for language learning and teaching: Using pleasure reading to grow fluency

Teaching World Languages

Assessment for language learning and teaching often focuses on tests, grades and performance metrics. Yet one of the most powerful, low-stakes forms of assessment is what learners do when they read for pleasure. Pleasure reading reveals comprehension, vocabulary growth, motivation and engagement in ways that formal tests rarely capture. When we recognise reading as both