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This book provides both. Teachers are more confident and enthusiastic if they have a source of ideas to call on, and students behave better if they enjoy their lessons. 

The book is divided into VII sections or parts. Each has its own brief introduction and there are further general ideas, suggestions and observations throughout.

Part I – which should be read first! –- addresses several of the more common problems met in encouraging pupils to talk, and suggests strategies for overcoming them.

Parts II, III and IV discuss the use of simple stimuli and realia, and suggest ways of encouraging beginners to use and respond to basic phrases and numbers.

Parts Va and Vb – the main, central, section – contain suggestions for classroom activities, group work and games.

Part VI discusses role-play and gives many suggestions for making it more accessible and interesting – without losing sight of the key themes prescribed in most courses.

Finally, there is a section on hosting a visit from a French school – the ultimate practice!

Sally Allport’s book provides a source of ideas for classroom activities aimed at getting students to communicate in the ‘target language’. Most are readily adaptable to suit a wide range of topic or student ability, and most are quick and simple to set up.

Any examples and lists are in French as it was felt that a multi-lingual approach would be clumsy and not very reader-friendly. The ideas can of course be adapted to any other language and the books have in fact been bought by teachers of Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German and Latin as well as French.