Hi, I'm an MFL teacher from Dorset and have been teaching French in secondary schools for 27 years, including as Curriculum Leader.
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Hi, I'm an MFL teacher from Dorset and have been teaching French in secondary schools for 27 years, including as Curriculum Leader.
Please leave a review if you are happy with your purchase, or email me (Charlie01042000@gmail.com) and I will be happy to resolve any problems.
Do your students need more exposure to authentic texts? This worksheet features 3 short descriptions in French and 4 comprehension / translation exercises
Tasks included:
a) Identify in which text the picture prompt is featured
b) Find the French from the text
c) Put the French phrases from the grid in the correct order to translate the English sentence
d) Translate 6 sentences English - French using vocabulary and structures from the texts
Answers sheet included to enable students to self-mark, reducing teacher workload.
Do your students need more exposure to authentic texts? This worksheet features a text and 4 comprehension exercises to help students understand an extended description of the advantages and disadvantages of living in Paris.
Tasks included:
a) tick the words which appear in the text
b) Find the French from the text
c) True / False / Not Mentioned exercise (statements in French)
d) Identify the 10 mistakes in the English translation of the French text.
Answers sheet included to enable students to self-mark, reducing teacher workload.
While your students are working remotely, it is more important than ever that they keep previously learned knowledge fresh in their minds. Why not set them an extra “Retrieval Grid Challenge” or use one of the slides as no-prep, timed competition starter for your lessons?
This PowerPoint contains 25 vocabulary retrieval grids drawn from the content covered in Studio GCSE French Modules 5-8. Each grid contains a selection of vocabulary ranging from single words to complete sentences, worth between 1 and 4 points, making it easy for you and your students to identify topics that require further revision and evidence progress over time.
Topics covered:
Describing what you normally do on holiday
Dealing with a hotel stay
Talking about traveling
Talking about what you do on holiday
Ordering in a restaurant
Talking about holiday disasters
Revising school subjects and talking about your timetable
Giving opinions on subjects and facilities
Describing your school
Discussing rules and regulations
Describing school uniform
Talking about school activities
Talking about successes at school
Talking about jobs
Discussing work preferences
Talking about hopes, plans and wishes
Discussing the importance of languages
Talking about how you earn money
Discussing work experience
Talking about what concerns you
Talking about global disasters
Talking about protecting the environment
Discussing ethical shopping
Talking about volunteering
Discussing big events
While your students are working remotely, it is more important than ever that they keep previously learned knowledge fresh in their minds. Why not set them an extra “Retrieval Grid Challenge” or use one of the slides as no-prep, timed competition starter for your lessons?
This PowerPoint contains 27 vocabulary retrieval grids drawn from the content covered in Studio GCSE French Modules 1-4. Each grid contains a selection of vocabulary ranging from single words to complete sentences, worth between 1 and 4 points, making it easy for you and your students to identify topics that require further revision and evidence progress over time.
The following topics are covered:
Describing people
Describing my town
Talking about what I do with friends
Talking about family relationships
Arranging to go out (future tense)
Describing a day out (past tense)
The person I admire
Revising leisure activities
Revising films / going to the cinema
Talking about sport
Talking about using technology
Talking about books and music
Talking about tv programmes
Talking about a night out with friends
Talking about food and meals
Describing clothes and what to wear
Describing daily life
Shopping for clothes
Describing festivals and traditions
Talking about shopping for a special meal
Describing family celebrations
Talking about where you live and what you can do there
Revising places in town and asking the way
Describing a region
Finding out tourist information
Discussing plans and the weather
Talking about your town, village or neighbourhood
Do your students need more exposure to authentic texts? This worksheet features a text and 4 comprehension exercises to help students understand an extended description of a town.
Tasks included:
a) tick the words which appear in the text
b) Find the French from the text
c) True / False / Not Mentioned exercise (statements in French)
d) Identify the 8 mistakes in the English translation of the French text.
Answers sheet included to enable students to self-mark, reducing teacher workload.
While your students are working remotely, it is more important than ever that they keep previously learned knowledge fresh in their minds. Why not set them an extra “5 a day Challenge” or use one of the slides as no-prep starter for your lessons?
This PowerPoint contains 25 sets of “5 a day” questions drawn from the content covered in Studio GCSE French Modules 5-8.
a) A word / short phrase to translate into English
b) A word or short phrase to translate into French
c) A sentence to translate into English
d) A sentence to translate into French
e) An open-ended question to answer in French
Topics covered:
Describing what you normally do on holiday
dealing with a hotel stay
Talking about traveling
Talking about what you do on holiday
Ordering in a restaurant
Talking about holiday disasters
Revising school subjects and talking about your timetable
Giving opinions on subjects and facilities
Describing your school
Discussing rules and regulations
Describing school uniform
Talking about school activities
Talking about successes at school
Talking about jobs
Discussing work preferences
Talking about hopes, plans and wishes
Discussing the importance of languages
Talking about how you earn money
Discussing work experience
Talking about what concerns you
Discussing the weather
Talking about protecting the environment
Discussing ethical shopping
Talking about volunteering
Discussing big events
While your students are working remotely, it is more important than ever that they keep previously learned knowledge fresh in their minds. Why not set them an extra “5 a day Challenge” or use one of the slides as no-prep starter for your lessons?
This PowerPoint contains 27 sets of “5 a day” questions drawn from the content covered in Studio GCSE French Modules 1-4.
a) A word / short phrase to translate into English
b) A word or short phrase to translate into French
c) A sentence to translate into English
d) A sentence to translate into French
e) An open-ended question to answer in French
The following topics are covered:
Describing people
Describing my town
Talking about what I do with friends
Talking about family relationships
Arranging to go out (future tense)
Describing a day out (past tense)
The person I admire
Revising leisure activities
Revising films / going to the cinema
Talking about sport
Talking about using technology
Talking about books and music
Talking about tv programmes
Talking about a night out with friends
Talking about food and meals
Describing clothes and what to wear
Describing daily life
Shopping for clothes
Describing festivals and traditions
Talking about shopping for a special meal
Describing family celebrations
Talking about where you live and what you can do there
Revising places in town and asking the way
Describing a region
Finding out tourist information
Discussing plans and the weather
Talking about your town, village or neighbourhood
Bundle includes:
• One Pen One Dice activities for each separate unit of the module(could be used as a supported translation exercise for students working from home)
• Foundation Tangled Translation activities for each separate unit of the module
• Higher Tangled Translation activities for each separate unit of the module
• 2 x Retrieval Tasks for each separate unit of the module (including Point de Départ pages)
All resources can be used in class or by students working remotely at home
For detailed information about each type of activity included, please see separate item listings in my shop
A selection of “Retrieval Activities” based around GCSE Studio French Module 8
For each 2 page spread in the chapter (including Point de Départ pages), there are 2 powerpoint slides which can be used to help students recap previously learned vocabulary and structures:
a) “Cinq par Jour” - a selection of 5 questions ranging from single word / short phrase translation to an open ended question for students to answer in French
b) A retrieval grid of 16 items for students to translate. Items are colour-coded and worth between 1 and 4 points depending on difficulty. An easy way to measure progress over time and incorporate an element of competition into lessons.
Ideal as no-prep starters or a “refresh your memory” interval in a double lesson!
Could also be used as a revision tool for students working remotely!
Are you looking to add cultural capital for your students while working remotely?
This worksheet features a text and 5 comprehension exercises to help students understand how la Fête des Rois (La Fête de l’Épihanie) is celebrated in France.
Tasks included:
a) Find the French from the text (words are highlighted in red in the text - highlights could be removed to easily differentiate for more able students.
b) Complete the sentences in French with a phrase highlighted in pink in the text - highlights could be removed to easily differentiate for more able students.
c) Complete the statement in French choosing from 3 possible phrases.
d) True / False / Not Mentioned exercise (statements in French)
e) Identify the 10 (factual) mistakes in the English translation of the French text.
Answers sheet included to enable students to self-mark, reducing teacher workload.
As well as a stand-alone task, this worksheet would be the ideal introduction for students to produce their own powerpoint explaining how L’Épiphanie is celebrated, or to being asked to prepare their own galette whilst at home!
Bundle includes:
• One Pen One Dice activities for each separate unit of the module(could be used as a supported translation exercise for students working from home)
• Foundation Tangled Translation activities for each separate unit of the module
• Higher Tangled Translation activities for each separate unit of the module
• 2 x Retrieval Tasks for each separate unit of the module (including Point de Départ pages)
All resources can be used in class or by students working remotely at home
For detailed information about each type of activity included, please see separate item listings in my shop
A selection of “Retrieval Activities” based around GCSE Studio French Module 7
For each 2 page spread in the chapter (including Point de Départ pages), there are 2 powerpoint slides which can be used to help students recap previously learned vocabulary and structures:
a) “Cinq par Jour” - a selection of 5 questions ranging from single word / short phrase translation to an open ended question for students to answer in French
b) A retrieval grid of 16 items for students to translate. Items are colour-coded and worth between 1 and 4 points depending on difficulty. An easy way to measure progress over time and incorporate an element of competition into lessons.
Ideal as no-prep starters or a “refresh your memory” interval in a double lesson!
Could also be used as a revision tool for students working remotely!
Bundle includes:
• One Pen One Dice activities for each separate unit of the module
• Foundation Tangled Translation activities for each separate unit of the module
• Higher Tangled Translation activities for each separate unit of the module
• 2 x Retrieval Tasks for each separate unit of the module (including Point de Départ pages)
All activities can be used in class or as revision tasks for students working remotely.
For detailed information about each type of activity included, please see separate item listings in my shop
A selection of “One Pen One Dice” activities for GCSE Studio French
Students take it in turns to roll the dice. The first person who rolls a 6 takes the pen and starts translating. Player 2 rolls the dice until they roll a 6 and says “C’est à moi” (It’s my turn!) This player has now won the pen and can start translating. Player 1 has the dice and needs a 6 to steal the pen. The winner is the first person to correctly translate all the sentences.
NB: To make this activity “COVID-safe”, students should have a dice each and use their own pen.
Could equally be used for individual “remote-learning” translation practice - ideal revision for GCSE students who are isolating, or during school closures
Each file contains between 5 and 7 activities for for the relevant module of GCSE Studio French. For full listings of the topics covered in each module, please see the separate file listings in my shop.
A selection of “One Pen One Dice” activities for GCSE Studio French Module 8
Students take it in turns to roll the dice. The first person who rolls a 6 takes the pen and starts translating. Player 2 rolls the dice until they roll a 6 and says “C’est à moi” (It’s my turn!) This player has now won the pen and can start translating. Player 1 has the dice and needs a 6 to steal the pen. The winner is the first person to correctly translate all the sentences.
NB: To make this activity “COVID-safe”, students should have a dice each and use their own pen.
This pack includes 7 separate activities covering the following topic areas from Module 8:
What is important in life and what concerns me
Talking about the weather
Talking about natural disasters
Protecting the environment
Ethical shopping
Talking about volunteering
Discussing big events
This resource includes 3 files:
a) PPT guiding students through the format of the 90 word task
understand the format of the task
identify key words in the bullet points to ensure correct tense is used
identify linguistic success criteria (sentence starters / connectives / opinions / negatives / tense / intensifiers / comparatives (& superlatives)
use a WAGOLL to identify examples of linguistic success criteria
find the French activity (using the WAGOLL) to identify key vocabulary
Reading activity (using the WAGOLL) - complete the sentences in French from the options in the box
analysis of markscheme (Edexcel, Foundation Writing, 90 word task)
b) Student task sheet
c) Feedback / DIRT sheet
A selection of “One Pen One Dice” activities for GCSE Studio French Module 7
Students take it in turns to roll the dice. The first person who rolls a 6 takes the pen and starts translating. Player 2 rolls the dice until they roll a 6 and says “C’est à moi” (It’s my turn!) This player has now won the pen and can start translating. Player 1 has the dice and needs a 6 to steal the pen. The winner is the first person to correctly translate all the sentences.
NB: To make this activity “COVID-safe”, students should have a dice each and use their own pen.
This pack includes 5 separate activities covering the following topic areas from Module 7:
Discussing work preferences
Talking about plans, hopes and wishes
The importance of languages
Talking about earning money
Talking about work experience
A selection of “Retrieval Activities” based around GCSE Studio French Module 6
For each 2 page spread in the chapter (including Point de Départ pages), there are 2 powerpoint slides which can be used to help students recap previously learned vocabulary and structures:
a) “Cinq par Jour” - a selection of 5 questions ranging from single word / short phrase translation to an open ended question for students to answer in French
b) A retrieval grid of 16 items for students to translate. Items are colour-coded and worth between 1 and 4 points depending on difficulty. An easy way to measure progress over time and incorporate an element of competition into lessons.
Ideal as no-prep starters or a “refresh your memory” interval in a double lesson!
Bundle includes:
• One Pen One Dice activities for each separate unit of the module
• Foundation Tangled Translation activities for each separate unit of the module
• Higher Tangled Translation activities for each separate unit of the module
• 2 x Retrieval Tasks for each separate unit of the module (including Point de Départ pages)
For detailed information about each type of activity included, please see separate item listings in my shop