<p>A full lesson for French GCSE students introducing the imperfect tense, explains how to form it, and use it to describe past habits.<br /> Includes grammar, practice on mini white board, reading comprehension task, and speaking task with prompt sentences.</p>

<p>A French full lesson on the town topic, describing places in town.<br /> using sentence builder, and a range of activities of the G. Conti method:<br /> -spot the sound difference</p> <ul> <li>oral translation</li> <li>delayed repetition</li> <li>ABCD multiple choice activity</li> <li>translation activity.<br /> based on MARSEARS method, which improve students’ recognition and understanding of key vocabulary.</li> </ul>

<p>A comprehensive guide to Giancarlo Conti-style activities for MFL teachers (French, Spanish) for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 language lessons.<br /> Based on Writing, Reading, Listening, Speaking and Translation skills, you will find a range of activities which can be adapted to the language you teach:</p> <p>-dictation<br /> -spot the differences<br /> -sentence stealers<br /> -bad translation<br /> -jumbled sentences<br /> -1 pen, 1 dice<br /> -gap-fill<br /> -battleship<br /> -Pimp my Spanish<br /> and a lot more.<br /> A huge amount of snappy activities which are engaging for students, and which help teachers planning successful lessons.</p>

<p>French cultural knowledge on Tour de France.<br /> A PowerPoint presentation with a starter activity (vocabulary), and slides describing the bike race, the stages, including links to some videos.<br /> Includes a worksheet for students to answer questions while watching an informative video.</p>

A written conversation in French between a waiter and a customer at a cafe, aimed at Year 7 and Year 8.<br /> An activity to use in class to learn about ordering food in French, using &quot;je voudrais&quot;, revision of greetings and connectives, understanding a question and being able to have a full conversation in French.<br /> Practise in pairs. To be used with complementary printable French cafe menu, and Euros sheet, which together gives the students a full experience of a French cafe.<br /> This could also become a fun activity during European Day of Languages, where the class could be decorated as a French cafe.

A worksheet where the students have to match the digits to the French numbers, the numbers go from 1 to 21.<br /> Ideal for French at primary school, or start of Year 7.

<p>Aimed at year 7 and 8, this Powerpoint presentation explains what is “la rentree” to the students, using vocab seen in lessons (school equipment, the timetable, canteen menu etc). It also includes a link to a short Youtube video of a French TV channel report on la rentree, which can be played and for the students to take note of any vocab they can hear and recognise.</p>

<p>A Summary sheet for students to revise the weather phrases in 4 different tenses: present, near future, proper future and past tense.<br /> This is a great resources for the holiday topic and the town topic.<br /> Ideal for Year 10 and 11 for GCSE revision.</p>

<p>This Powerpoint explains in details the picture description task for French GCSE speaking exam and speaking endorsement.<br /> How to describe a picture, using the PALMW method<br /> What other bullet points ask the students to do.<br /> I provide a clear and methodical approach, to get the students thinking on what they need to talk about, tenses, additional details, complex structures…<br /> Can be covered over 2 lessons, to give students time to learn how to describe a picture, and to allow them time to do the actual tasks.</p>

<p>This worksheet describe a visit of Paris using the past tense with AVOIR with regular and irregular verbs (prendre, faire, voir). It uses the vocabulary about Paris (famous tourist places, activities), with singular and plural pronouns.<br /> It start with an easy Level 1 and get slightly harder with the following tasks.<br /> Great for differentiation in the class. This is suitable for Y8 and Y9.</p>

<p>A great powerpoint suitable for Y7 and 8, which describe “la rentree” in France, the differences between French and UK secondary schools, and introduce the school subjects.<br /> Ideal to introduce this topic and to study the cultural differences between the two countries.<br /> It also has a link to a video on La rentree on Youtube.<br /> 14 slides in total</p>

<p>A worksheet to help students revise the past tense in French.<br /> It has some conjugaison practice using avoir and etre with ER, IR, RE verbs, as well as irregular verbs.<br /> Finally there are 20 sentences to translate, 10 of them from French to English and the other 10 from English to French.</p> <p>This can be used as an assessment as well.</p>

<p>Great for any Key Stage, there are 5 designs, on A4 size paper.<br /> The design is on the right side, so when the sheet is folder in half, it makes a lovely card for the students to write a message on the inside.</p>

<p>A step by step activity for Year 10 and 11 to practice describing pictures for the GCSE oral exam.<br /> It goes through the vocabulary, the verb lire in present, past, imperfect and near future, as well as tips to describe the pictures.<br /> Ideal for KS4 students to gain confidence in speaking and describing.</p>

<p>This knowledge checker is designed to assess students level during year 10, or can be used as a first lesson in year 11.<br /> It is made of 20 multiple choice questions and a translation from French into English.<br /> It uses vocabulary seen in the curriculum, as well as various tenses and grammar points:<br /> adjectival agreement, time, the weather, comparison and superlative, negative, reflexive verbs, tenses.<br /> Comes with a correction.</p>

<p>A worksheet for the students to practice the near future tense, from target language into English, and from English into target language.<br /> Ideal for revision for GCSE French preparation.</p>

<p>This powerpoint presentation summarise the 4 tenses studied in French: present, past tense, the near future and the conditional.<br /> The first slides help the students warming up their brain with a quick exercice to remember tenses and vocabulary.<br /> The following slices give details to help them revise each tenses, opinions and timephrases.<br /> Then it uses a simple text, where students have to identify the tenses used, which tense is missing, and how they could improve each part.<br /> The following slides demonstrate how the students can improve each paragraph, and finally the last slide offer a short practice for student to improve an email, re-using the tenses and examples.<br /> This can be used with Year 9, and 10, as part of a revision on the tenses and the holiday topic.</p>

<p>A revision sheet about the present tense in French, with ER, IR, RE and irregular verbs, using all the pronouns.<br /> It offers conjugaison practice and there is a translation section, where the students need to translate 10 sentences from French into English, and 10 sentences from English to French.<br /> Great for revising the present tense in Year 10 and 11 for GCSE French, and can also be used as an assessment.</p>

Two Connect 4 games for Year 7 French student, on the school subjects and canteen topics.<br /> This is a nice end of the lesson game for the students, where the class is divided in 2 groups (circles or crosses).<br /> As in Connect 4, the aim is to have a full line of crosses or circles either horizontally, vertically or diagonally.<br /> The first group starts from the bottom of the grid and chooses a box to translate in either French or English. If the translation is right a cross is put on the box, and the game passes on to the second group.<br /> If they get it right, they put a circle on the box and so on. <br /> In the event that one group has made a mistake or cannot translate a box, then the other group has a go, and if correct gets to put a cross. Each group has to try to block the other while trying to connect as many boxes as possible.<br /> The first group to connect 5 boxes is the winner.

A presentation about Easter in France (history, tradition, food), and a presentation about Easter in Spain.<br /> <br /> Great resources to share with Year 7 and Year 8 languages students, to show the differences between the UK, France and Spain during Easter.<br /> <br /> Those resources can be used as part of a lesson on Easter as an introduction to this topic.

<p>A nice activity for Year 7 and 8 French, where the students create a beautiful Paris picture frame, all resources are provided, although you can add your own.<br /> Clear instructions in French, using school item vocabulary, common instruction verbs, and sequencers.<br /> Included: instructions in French with vocab highlighted, photos of Paris and France, printable frames.</p>