Small paragraphs on different social medias :
Facebook
Twitter
Snapchat
Instagram
TikTok
Whatsapp
They are all followed by three activities :
Find three translations in the text
True or False
What’s your opinion on this social media
Canva presentation with 4 exercises to revise the topic of Holidays in French:
Qu’est-ce qu’on boit / mange? - Match up holidays and the thing that you usually drink / eat for the occassion
C’est quelle fête? - Small paragraph describing what happens during this holidays and students need to say which holiday it is
5 choses - Students need to write down 5 things (food/drinks, clothes, holidays, transports, colours, verbs in the present, verbs in the past, verbs in the future)
Traduction - Translation with three levels to be added on the board as a competition for the class to complete.
Canva presentation:
Vrai ou Faux on stats around the La famille topic (AQA A-level Year 1)
Mini presentation project on French speaking countries
3 questions to be answered to guide them
Recap slide with tips
Perfect to use as a revision / retrieval practice for students.
Canva presentation to revise : Year 8 Dynamo 2 Module 1,2,3 for a Reading assessment:
Vrai/Faux - Small texts about films and statements in English True or False?
La bonne heure? - Match up times written in letters in French with their numbers equivalent
C’est quel jour? - Text with what the person does on the different days of the week, statements about the activities and students need to say when they did that
Nourriture - Text about food they like and dislike, lists of food in english, they need to tick the 5 that are mentionned
Pourcentage - Text with percentages of people and what they do, statements with activities in English, students need to put the corresponding percentages
Genially with integrated wheels with random questions on all topics for revision of Speaking GCSE French. Perfect to use in lessons or for students to use as independent practice.
Canva presentation to play the Taboo game with students revising vocab of La cybersociété (French AQA A-level Year 1)
17 cards with a word to make the class guess and three other words that are forbidden to be used
2 teams to be created and give points to each words guessed by the team
Canva presentation to make students debate:
Slide to divide the class into 2 teams
Slide to explain that each person need to have a number
5 different debate questions on the topic
Link to a flippity to decide which number will debate in each team
Canva presentation to revise the topic of Bénévolat with Year 12:
Slide to explain the principle
Slide with an example
11 cards (bénévole ou association)
Each student is given a card either they are a volunteer or they are a charity, they need to discuss with each other (speed dating style) and find their best match (3 characteristics on what they are looking for are written on the cards)
Canva presentation - students are in pairs they get a card with two things to research on it. One persone research the first, the second the other one. They then get 5 minutes to explain their research to the other person in French.
11 cards with two french speaking heritage things to research
Listening activity - Technology and old people
Different activities to be completed during the lesson :
Comprehension of the video - quiz
Survey - Addicted to technology or not ?
Advices to your friends
Year 10-11 lesson on New Technology
List of all the French films to be seen with students from Year 7 until A-levels, links to trailers on Allo Ciné and links to resources for some movies on TES, Into Films,…
Will be updated yearly.
This is a template to create your own battleship war game in French, you’ll have to edit it so that you have either the beginning of a sentence in the columns and the end on the rows or it can work as well with conjugation of verbs.
Perfect to play with Ks3 students when you want to practice a bit of speaking and make it fun at the same time.
Article from Le Monde - Interdiction du diesel Reading
Perfect to work on the environment topic with Year 11
Activities are varied with three levels of difficulty, the challenge is preparing students for A-level
Grammar revision - Two level of difficulty
EASY level:
Verb table (present / near future / perfect tense)
Vocabulary (3 words per categories)
Link answers to questions
Which article : Le / La / L’ / Les
Adjective agreement
Subject pronouns
Translation French to English
Challenge : writing
HARDER level:
Verb table (present / near future / simple future / imperfect / perfect / conditional)
Vocabulary (5 words per categories)
Write the right question
Le/la/l’/les exercise
à la/ aux / au exercise
du / de la / des / de exercise
Conjugation of verbs
Translation English to French
Challenge : Writing
Cultural lesson for French students, used with a mixed group of Year 9 (some continuing some were not), in English with some words in French. Good for bottom set or mixed groups of students that are not continuing French.
Link for the video, some words in French but mostly in English
Questionnaire in English about cultural facts
Good for a starter before or after the 14th of July.
End of Year lesson for Year 9-10
Different activities to be completed one by one :
Reading comprehension (Festivals in Bretagne)
Translation (Festivals in La Réunion)
Grammar practice
Challenge : creative writing
Focus on Positive behaviour (6 Student Vision skills - Empathy / Collaboration / Courageous / Inquisitive / Reflective / Reasoning) with bonus points to be earned.
Used at the end of the year to get challenging Year 9 to focus on good behaviour and win watching a movie.
This template can be used to create a sudoku, they work really well with irregular verbs in the present for Year 7 for example but you could create anything that needs to have 6 sentences or conjugation within, it makes them write it over and over again without thinking about it. I use it a lot with verbs.
Perfect as a revision, or a starter, you can change the categories, this is the ones I use most of the time. You could even create one topic related, I had one done for the school topic. Then on the day, you select at random a letter of the alphabet.
Can be done in lesson with access to dictionaries to help weaker students.
Based on an article from Phosphore published in 2020 (authentic resource), the title is the following: Le nucléaire peut-il être une solution?
Different exercises : vocabulary searching (to train them to recognize and understand an unknown word with the context), understanding (questions in English on an overwhole understanding of the text), translation French to English and writing activity (being able to summarize and answer a question with your own words).
Perfect to start on the topic of the environment, especially with classes that could struggle with the topic, make them reflect on since when has it been a problem and why is it still a problem.
Will be part of a bundle with 14 other small reading activities soon.