A worksheet on Maître Gims's new song 'Cameleon' from December 2017. Filling in the blanks in lyrics, matching up new vocab, and some short 'find the vocab' activities. You could also spend some time at the start of the lesson discussing French music, Maitre Gims, Black M and Sexion d'Assaut to see if any students have discovered their music before.

A (basic) quiz on French culture to complete with students over zoom / equivalent. Instructions in the powerpoint - I ‘share my screen’ with the students and open the powerpoint to go through each slide with students who complete the answers by typing them on their phones in an email to me.

A quick starter activity to revise present, imperfect and future tenses to aid translation.

A sentence builder in French teaching students to give compliments to describe other people’s character, including an idea for a positivity-spreading / kindness-spreading activity! Thanks to Gianfranco Conti for giving me the idea for this.

A challenging microlistening task based on the song fête de trop by Eddy de Pretto. This can be used AFTER students have had plenty of practice differentiating between the different vowel sounds in French, including the nasal sounds. A good way to practise (and also assess) the students’ understanding of these sounds. Answers included.

A set of useful phrases to teach GCSE level students for talking about the future in French.

A listening exercise on the topic of holidays where pupils have to listen and correct their transcript with the errors.

Three reading gap-fills, true or false exercise and some English-French translation on the topic of pocket money and helping at home.

Some short & snappy vocab activities for students to complete orally on the topic of transport in town.

A short worksheet of exercises to practise the vocab from the sentence builder at the following link - https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/le-travail-de-mes-r-ves-sentence-builders-12282131

A short worksheet matching up personal qualities with definitions to build vocab.

A powerpoint of oral activities to do with a worksheet to follow it. Answers included.

A sentence building for French KS3 / KS4 on describing your favourite type of cuisine and why. Click this link to see ideas on how you can use sentence builders https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

A quick true or false quiz on healthy eating - can be done as a listening or a reading to consolidate the vocab on this topic.

A task to practise describing why you like or dislike certain foods using expressions pupils have learned in class.

A selection of activities focusing on the rules for adjective agreement on the topic of food and drink. Activities include a video to watch, table to fill in, gap-fill and translation.

A selection of links where I have compiled lists of key verbs in the main tenses for GCSE French, particularly useful for giving to students for GCSE revision. Download the document for details on how each link can be used by students and teachers. Printable Quizlet PDFs of each list are also included.

A set of 12 basic sentences with which to play a Conti sentence stealer game - see link below if you’re not familiar with the game. This is a reading aloud task can be played just after pupils have been made aware of the pronunciation differences between masculine and feminine adjective endings. You could also later use the same sentences with your pupils to do translations on mini whiteboards, dictation sentences on mini whiteboards, or a quiz quiz trade game. https://gianfrancoconti.com/2018/03/16/my-favourite-read-aloud-task-and-how-i-use-them/

A 3-page worksheet to introduce the use of the pronoun ‘en’ in different set phrases for talking about food. Very little prior knowledge is assumed other than some basic opinions on food items, and some time phrases like souvent and jamais, so this lesson should appear in a sequence after pupils have acquired those. It is practised mainly in the present tense, but extension tasks are provided in other tenses, Activities include a match-up, grammar explanation, teacher-led listening, translation into English, sentence unjumbling task and a short, guided sentence-writing task. Answers included.

A worksheet explaining in detail how to use the pronoun ‘en’ in the context of the topic of school / my studies / mon école/mon lycée. Ideal for helping pupils to integrate these into their writing to score higher marks for complexity / use of ‘complex structures’. The principles for how en works are explained and several different examples are given, and then there is a 10-sentence translation task with Fr-En and En-Fr translation. Answers included. Suitable for KS4 French or very able KS3 pupils as extension work. See below a more detailed resource with more activities to practise ‘en’ and ‘y’ in the topic of free time: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12967317