Why starters and plenaries ?
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More information can be found in the "Training materials for the foundation subjects" folder, or online

You can buy a CD-Rom of KS3 starters and plenaries

Have a look at these websites for ideas
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Proforma for starter and learning objectives - use as an OHT to be on the board 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

Ideas for starters based on the National Strategy for Y7

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 (there's a program called Internet Text Exploiter that's really good for preparing this)

Colour pictures that will be described later in the lesson

Multiple-choice quiz on PowerPoint