Amy Bates

Amy has been writing content for Spanish and French at Save My Exams since 2025. She is a former MFL teacher and leader with over a decade of classroom experience as a teacher, head of department and head of faculty.

She holds a BA in European languages and an MA in translation, and is CELTA-qualified. She is particularly interested in applying evidence-informed research to subject-specific pedagogy and has also held roles as an ITT tutor, an assessor for NPQs in leading teaching and leading teacher development, and teacher educator.

In her spare time, Amy enjoys travelling, and is always keen to learn new languages - she is currently working on Arabic and Italian.

Published work

Amy has authored a number of teacher guides, textbooks and revision resources for various publishers, including:

• Cambridge IGCSE Spanish Student's Book, Collins (2025)

• AQA GCSE Spanish Complete Revision and Practice, Harper Collins (2024)

• AQA GCSE German Teacher Handbook, OUP (2024)

• Vif 1 KS3 French Teacher Handbook, OUP (2023)

• Echt 1&2 KS3 German Teacher Handbook, OUP (2020, 2021)

• Cambridge IGCSE German Student Book, Hodder (2019)

• AQA GCSE 9-1 German Complete Revision and Practice, Collins (2018)

Education

• BA (First Class Honours) in European Languages (French, German and Spanish) from the University of Salford

• PGCE in Secondary MFL from the University of Chester

• MA (Merit) in Translation from the University of Bristol

Expertise

As well as writing and editing language resources and online packages, Amy has worked with a number of organisations as an MFL educational consultant and advisor, and with exam boards to develop the new MFL GCSE qualifications. She recently designed the new MFL curriculum for a national ITT provider.

Top revision quote

Little and often is the key to revising a language – the more you revisit something, the easier it will be to remember.