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Dr Gianfranco Conti

@gianfrancocont9

Speaker,trainer,best-selling author, ‘Breaking the sound barrier’, etc.; Sentence builders book series; TES Award winner; CEO language-gym.com; creator #EPI

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The Status of MFL in England: A Summary of the recently published 2025 Language Trends Report gianfrancoconti.com/2025/07/05/the…

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Yesterday I had a great time at President Kennedy School in Coventry, presenting on Evidence-based Instructed Second Language Acquisition - a non-EPI workshop focused on Curriculum Design, Input-to-Output sequences, Vocabulary, Grammar and Oracy. Many thanks to Nick Mort and the

Yesterday I had a great time at President Kennedy School in Coventry, presenting on Evidence-based Instructed Second Language Acquisition - a non-EPI workshop focused on Curriculum Design, Input-to-Output sequences, Vocabulary, Grammar and Oracy. Many thanks to Nick Mort and the
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Moving on to Deputy Headship from September so probably won't be thinking much about MFL. With that in mind, I've started to upload all of my Spanish EPI resources from this year into this drive which is free for everyone. drive.google.com/drive/folders/… A bit of context for FYI...

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Each lesson has a sentence builder at the beginning. Each lesson starts with a 'HIR' (high intensity retrieval). Basically a 'Do Now'

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The tasks are repetitive across year groups and topics. Consistency is key for me but I wish I had a bit more time to do the more exciting stuff. Tasks are on the 'printing' ppt. I eventually moved on to having tasks all on one document (booklet style) to save dead time

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Some lessons overlap across the weeks. This was because of how the terms started and when the classes were taught. Some lessons might be out of sequence due to bank holidays, Eid or other whole school events.

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Check out these great resources by Joe - fantastic HoD and classroom practitioner by all accounts and staunch EPI advocate. Always down-to-earth and humble. Soon-to-be headteacher. No doubt.