Why starters and plenaries ?
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Proforma for starter and learning objectives - use on the IWB as pupils enter the room so that they can start working straightaway
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IDEAS FOR STARTERS:

French Starters and Plenaries

Spanish starters and Plenaries

Opinions and descriptions
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Daily routine starter and its answers
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Gap-fill texts

Cloze exercises

Matching words/sentences and pictures

Find the French/Spanish/German for....

Look up in the dictionary vocabulary that will be important in the lesson

Use a table to make short sentences

Fill in missing vowels in sentences/paragraphs

Colour pictures that will be described later in the lesson

Multiple-choice quiz on PowerPoint