My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
Here is a fun quiz for your students for Francophonie Day on March 20th. This quiz contains 30 questions regarding a wide range of French speaking countries for your students to become acquainted with. This resource is ideal for Key Stage 3-4 learners.
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Whether you are generally revising the distant future tense with irregular verbs or teaching it for the first time, here is an activity that will give students a firm acquaintance with this concept or greatly revise it. This activity is suitable from Key Stage 3 onwards. The answers are also available with the activities.
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Here is a powerpoint which explicitly explains the use of superlatives and its formation. This powerpoint also contains many interactive activities with progressive levels. This activity is designed for learners from Key Stage 3 French onwards.
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This powerpoint introduces common question words in French with follow-up interactive activities. This presentation is aimed at learners of Key Stage 3/4 level, in particular GCSE/IGCSE level.
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Here is a useful resource which explains the concept of 'etre en train de faire quelque chose'. It starts off with some examples which fundamentally explains its significance, followed by games and drill practice. There are also some translation which students could do upon completion of practising the concept. This concept is geared towards IGCSE and A-Level French.
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Here is a puzzle which has strong links with the GCSE/IGCSE French curriculum and it focuses on vocabulary and grammar at the train station. There are twenty differences to find and it is ideal to give your students this as a warm-up activity at the beginning of the lesson, recapping on previously learnt vocabulary or if they are learning vocabulary for the first time, try and get them to distinguish what some of the vocabulary means without having to use a dictionary.
The answers are displayed on the slides which follow.
The cost of this resource is 3 pounds.
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This presentation gives a thorough explanation of how to form the present participle in French in a way to convey that two actions are happening at the same time. This would be ideal for students who are studying IGCSE French, A-Level French and adults who are simply studying french for the first time or revision.
This powerpoint introduces the expressions of avoir faim and avoir soif in the present tense. This activity is targeted at Key Stage 3 level French and it doesn't hurt to revise this concept at Key Stage 4 level.
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This powerpoint teachers numbers from 1-20 in French. It also reinforces or introduces age and years in French, in addition to how to express one’s age and when one was born in French. There are also follow up activities in this powerpoint such as picture pairs and French mathematics.
This resource explores the functions of the pluperfect and its formation. This resources is geared towards learners of IGCSE level and it is useful for revision at A-Level. There are step-by-step activities which greatly facilitate one’s learning of this concept.
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This resource explicitly looks at how to form questions using ‘est-ce que’ and how to incorporate question words into a question in the context of ‘manger’ (to eat).
Firstly, do a re-cap of the use of ‘tu’ or ‘vous’ by playing a quiz with the students as forming questions follows on from this.
After the quiz, get students to read the each question (you can get them to repeat after you if they have difficulty in pronouncing the words). Ask the class then to raise their hand if they think the correct answer is either ‘A’ or ‘B’. Ask them why they think or what tells them that that is the correct answer.
Play the dice game after the presentation and then get the students to then copy down the vocabulary on slide 51 if you wish or you can hand out the poster on the use of ‘est-ce que’ and question words’. They then can complete the follow-up activities tailored to their level. I would recommend the gifted and talented students to complete activity 4 and the much less able students to complete activity 1.
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Welcome to the fifth installment of the topic of telling the time in French.
This installent focuses the times of the entire hour and it is an extensive way of telling the time in French.
Present the times in French to the class using the powerpoint and you could also use a clock in the classroom in order to model the time if you have one. There is a dice game where the children can practise their speaking and a subsequent differentiated quiz.
The pack contains the following:
Part 5: Powerpoint
Bingo sheet
Part 5: Level 1 (easier) differentiated workbook focusing on reading, writing and listening and also a wordsearch. In the wordsearch, the children look for the times written in French. The words are provided. On pages 172-174, the children cut out both the analogue and digital clocks and then past them onto the appropriate rectangles by looking at times in English.
Part 5: Level 2 (more advanced) differentiated workbook focusing on reading, writing and listening and also a wordsearch. In the wordsearch, the children look for the times written in French. The words are not provided, however the times in the grid are written in digital format which are the times that the children must look for. On pages 172-174, the children cut out both the analogue clocks and the labels of the times in French and then past them onto the appropriate squares by looking at times in English.
Level 1 - Cut out clock sheet for pasting in the accompanied Level 1 workbook on pages 172-174
Level 2 - Cut out clock and label sheet for pasting in the accompanied Level 2 workbook on pages 172-174
A recorded audio in order to complete the listening task
The transcript of the recording
There is also classroom wall display enclosed in this pack which features the times both in analogue and digital format with the times written in French, translated into English
Subsequent installments containing more advanced time will be available shortly. Do keep an eye out for these.
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It can be overwhelmingly difficult, especially for young students, to distinguish the difference between 'savoir' and 'connaitre'. This pack will greatly facilitate students' learning and comprehension of the different terminology, whether it is for Key Stage 3 French, revision during GCSE, IGCSE or A-Level French or teaching adults its concept for the very first time. Fun and games is the key!!
This pack contains the following:
Presentation of savoir
Presentation of connaitre
Follow up quiz
The presentations of both verbs are in the present tense only, however other tenses for 'savoir' are available in my shop.
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Here is a resource which extensively looks at verbs which are followed by the preposition 'à' in step by step form.
This is ideal for students studying French at IGCSE level.
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This resource looks at impersonal verbs and there is a story which uses them explicitly. There are follow-up activities available.
This resource is geared towards learners of IGCSE level and useful to review at A-Level.
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This activity explicitly gives instructions on how to form the immediate future tense, step by step form. This activity is useful for students studying French at Key Stage 3 and GCSE/IGCSE level. It also provides follow up activities with progressively difficult levels.
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Print out the cards and laminate them. Cut along the line which is located in the middle of the page and shuffle them well and turn them over! Enjoy the game!
Here is a powerpoint, regarding shopping in terms of clothes and colours and various other shopping situations and it is geared towards Key Stage 2 French. There is also some differentiated vocabulary incorporated for stronger and gifted and talented students. There are also various interactive activities which reinforces on what the students have learnt.
A very tricky concept to master but hopefully this powerpoint with subsequent activities will reduce any difficulties your students may have when attempting to grasp this concept. Students who are studying the IGCSE / A-Level / IB French programme will definitely become acquainted with this concept at some point.
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