Resources made by a native French speaker with 17 years of primary and secondary experience. I currently teach French in two primary schools. A lot of the resources I made for upper primary children can also be used for ks3 pupils.
Resources made by a native French speaker with 17 years of primary and secondary experience. I currently teach French in two primary schools. A lot of the resources I made for upper primary children can also be used for ks3 pupils.
Here is a powerpoint presentation aiming at teaching pupils how to say what they have or what there is in their school bag or pencil case using there is/are as well as ‘j’ai’, ‘je n’ai pas’ or il n’y a pas. I have also included a listening task.
See below a description of the full content:
Slide 1 : key vocabulary that will be taught.
slides 2 to 7: new language
slide 8: recap of new language
slide 9 to 11: new language
slide 12: recap
slide 13 to 21: choose correct sentence that matches the pictures (reading task)
slide 22 to 27: new language
slide 28: overview of the taught vocabulary
slide 29 to 31: choose correct sentence (reading task)
slide 32 to 33: complete with missing information (available on the worksheet 3)
slides 34 and 35: describing the colour of school equipment.
slides 36 to 38: writing task (available on worksheet 3)
slide 39: true or false (worksheet 3)
slide 40: reading task (worksheet 3)
slide 42: using the negative (see worksheet for the task)
slide 43 to 45: listening task
slide 46 : answers
slide 47: noughts and crosses game
I have also included two short starting tasks and a long worksheet with various tasks (some are also on the powerpoint). There is snap/memory game ( turn the cards over and pick two. Match the words to pictures)
The resources I made aim at teaching various sports with je joue and je fais.
In this pack you will find a powerpoint, a 5 in a row board game, snap/memory game and two reading tasks.
Here is a complete lesson on clothes and colour adjectives and how to apply the grammatical rules. I have included some tasks on the powerpoint that can be done verbally or on whiteboard to apply the rules (correct or incorrect, spot the mistakes). I have also made a pair work activity (battle-ship game) and a worksheet to describe what the pupils are wearing.
Here is a very lengthy powerpoint presentation that can be used over two or three lessons. It gives the pupils plenty of opportunities (orally or in writing) to use the correct ending for each pronoun. I tried to use it with free time and hobbies (to model possible answers for speaking exams). I have also included few board game (5 in a row class work or pair work) and some blockbuster games.
Powerpoint overview:
Slides 1 and 2 understanding pronouns.
Slide 3 : understanding infinitives
Slide 4: what is the present tense?
Slide 6: endings for each pronoun
Slides 7 and 8: Je and Tu endings
Slide 9: il and elle ending
Slides 10 to 19: which sentence is correct?#
Slide 20: pair work (choose an action to go with each pronouns, guess your partner’s choices)
Slides 21 to 25: write or say a sentence for each picture.
Slide 26: write sentences
Slide 27: add adverbs
Slide 28: add frequency expressions
Slide 29: use the negative
Slides 30 and 31: Blockbuster (boys vs girls) translations
Slide 32 : write sentences using adverbs
Slide 33: nous and vous forms
Slide 34: ils and elles forms
Slides 35 to 49: which sentence is correct.
Slides 50 to 52: Translation
Slides 53 to 55: French culture quiz
Here is a powerpoint presentation on places in town. It aims at teaching primary age children teaching or a lower ability class. I used the town of Redcar in the North East. The powerpoint has two workksheets (differentiated) to work on reading and writing skills. They are very easy tasks (circle the correct answers) and complete with missing vowels, replacing pictures by words. There is a comprehension task for the more able pupils.
I have created a four in row speaking task to play in pairs or as a group (one with support il y a…and one with there is, there is no, there are…to translate).
Here is a powerpoint I prepare to recap/ introduce gradually numbers 1 to 100. It aims at practising saying, reading and writing prices in euros. Prior to this lesson I taught various food and drinks and wanted to reuse this topic to learn how to say prices in euros. The first few slides aim at recaping numbers. From slide 5 I introduce how to say prices with decimals and want the children to write on their whiteboard or the attached worksheet the prices in words. There is plenty of written on each slide to help the pupil write the words correctly. From slides 9 I want the pupils to guess the prices of essential items (speaking), I can only help them by telling them ‘plus eleve’/ ‘inferieur’ or ‘plus bas’ /‘superieur’ . From slide 17 the pupils have to read the words and write the prices in words.Then I introduce numbers 70 to 100. From slide 25, pupils have to write prices in words and then from slide 30 they have to write the prices as a number.On the next slides I introduce the Euro coins and bank notes.
These worksheets have been created to help year 6 children order breakfast food and drinks while visiting France. I use ‘je voudrais’ but this can be changed to ‘je mange’ and ‘je bois’. They would suit perfectly upper ks2 children and ks3 pupils.
Here is a range of activities for pupils to practise the future tense. The activities are all related to the holiday topic. I prepared three differentiated tasks. I made a fairly easy one to use for the lower ability pupils focusing mainly on the first person of the singular. The other two sets of cards have more challenging vocabulary (countries, leisure, time expressions, various pronouns and expressing a few opinions). These speaking tasks would suit year 10/11 who needs to practise their oral. It can also support them for writing about their future holidays by modelling correct use of future tense.
The speaking tasks are to be used in pairs or in a group (one pupil shows the card, he/she hides one sentence and the others have to translate it in the other language).The quickest pupils to translate it correctly wins the card, at the end they count who has the most cards.
After several speaking practices, pupils work on the worksheet (two different levels). I have also attached the correct answers for the writing tasks.
Here is a range of resources to practise common French words and short sentences. They can be used as a recap or to introduce French to new learners. There are a card game and a snakes and ladders game to practise speaking. There is a worksheet with differentiated tasks (the first two are for LA and the last two can be used for MA or HA children). Finally I made a powerpoint with audio recording (can be deleted) to listen to the sound of these common words/expressions. There is a slide on some French sounds and children have to list the words that have these sounds.
A powerpoint presentation to practise the basics ‘je m’appelle’ with famous historical figures. It also teaches how to use ‘il or elle s’appelle’ and ‘ils or elles s’appellent’ when introducing other people. You will also find two worksheets to practise using them correctly.
Here is a booklet (with differentiated tasks) on the Football Word Cup 2022. It gives the opportunity to recap names of countries/nationalities and the languages spoken. It also gives the opportunity to recap colours (flags) and tackles geographical and general knowledge. I have also attached the answer sheets.
NB: To introduce players, I had in mind the clubs they play or played for and therefore the language they had to learn. However some football players may speak more languages e.g. Kylian Mbappe is apparently fluent in English and Spanish but has only played in France.
Here are various resources linked to the King Charles III’s.
The first powerpoint contains some challenging language but it goes a worksheet (cut strips of paper and match the French paragraphs with the English ones) in order to help the pupils understand tricky language. Linked to this powerpoint is an easier translation task. The pupils have to work out the meaning of key vocabulary and label the pictures with the correct French word.
The second powerpoint only has key words to practise. I get them to choose 4 or 6 key words from the last slide and play bingo. Linked to this simplified powerpoint, I have attached a wordsearch and simple cross-words.
There are two differentiated reading tasks (royal family, colour of hair, eyes, family relation and age) and a very simple on King Charles and pets/animals. Pupils will have to fill in the missing words.
A worksheet to go alongside the powerpoint ‘comment tu t’appelles ? Comment s’appelle-t-elle/il?’ using famous historical figures or paintings. Opportunity to test children’s cultural knowledge.
A worksheet to practise writing and reading skills (differentiatied tasks) on breakfast food and drinks.
I have used ‘je voudrais’ instead of ‘je mange’ and ‘je bois’. I usually prepare my year 6 for a French residential and I like to get them ready at communicating in French independently. My resource focuses on ordering food and drinks.
A powerpoint presentation to introduce different colours of hair and colours of eyes using different characters from Harry Potter. It can be used to recap previous learning or to introduce new vocabulary. I use slides 1, 9, 10, 11 and 12 to introduce new language. I get the children to repeat the new language (playing a repetition game against me). Then I reuse the same slides as a support for pair-work (mouthe and guess, encore une fois…etc). There is a speaking activity
(nought and crosses game) where the pupils need to say the colour of hair or eyes or the hair length or style. The slide 14 is a model for a writing activity. Obviously depending on their ability or previous learning , pupils can say or write a bit more.
This is a powerpoint I made last year during lockdown when my primary children were working from home.There is an audio recording (French native speaker) for the key vocabulary which is ideal if you are not confident at French but have to teach it. Obviously you can get rid of it, if you want to. To make sure the lesson catered for all abilities, I kept it simple and use repetition a lot to drill key vocab.
There are a couple of differentiated reading and writing tasks at the end.
Here is a bundle of various reading and writing tasks to practise French numbers 1 to 60. I have created these tasks to keep my lower ability pupils busy. These don’t require a great amount of writing but help them learn their French numbers in a creative way. You will find a couple of puzzle tasks (match the digit with the words), a colour matching task, ‘spot the correct spelling’ task, a battle-ship task and a writing task with plenty of support.
Here is a task I made for my end of the year lessons. You have to cut the pictures, the description and the names and the children have to match them after reading the description. It is in English as the language would be too complex for my primary children. This can be used as an end of year task.