Here is a previous link to reward student of their good behaviour and discuss the cultural differences between France and the United Kingdom. I have been using it for a whole week now and students keep asking: "Miss, how come more than 19 000 000 of people have watched this video?" I suppose they like French? Or animals?

Great websites!

I do not pretend to have any magic recipe to save some precious time, but I remember my mentor's favourite phrase: "do not reinvente the wheel..."
 So, here is a list of very useful and free websites, which I found useful to use in my planning or in my classroom (the list is not complete):


PLATEA (for French only) - Learning French via songs and their corresponding exercises:
http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/hotpot/chansons/index.htm

ALL SAINTS SCHOOL (Mainly for secondary schools: for French, German and Spanish):
http://www.allsaintslanguagesblog.typepad.co.uk/

CNTN - COMMUNICATE IN CHINESE (Mainly for secondary schools: for Mandarin):
http://english.cntv.cn/program/learnchinese/communicateinchinese/index.shtml

THE LANGUAGE RESOURCES (Mainly for secondary schools: French, German, Spanish, Italian):
http://www.languagesresources.co.uk/index.html

THE CLASS TOOLS (Mainly for Secondary schools: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin):
http://classtools.net/

MYLO (Primary and secondary school: French, German, Spanish and Mandarin):
http://www.hellomylo.com/

And the inevitable TES:
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources/