BRAND NEW ! PERFECT FOR FIRST LESSONS IN SEPTEMBER Do you want to get your students to talk about their summer holidays? Do you want to run fun activities to aid their recall and application of the past tense? Here are 2 Speaking activities suitable for FOUNDATION French GCSE students to get them to talk about their summer holidays and revise key vocabulary + the past tense. This resource has: 2 TRUTHS AND A DARE Powerpoint slides to introduce the 2 truths and a lie activity with examples and justified opinions A help sheet with a range of past tense sentences organized by theme FIND SOMEONE WHO A worksheet you can adapt and print This is suitable for students studying the AQA syllabus and this directly links into 2 key themes: Theme 1 Identity and Culture + Theme 2 Local, National, Global and International areas of interest)

This resource includes a recap of the mark scheme for the 90-word paragraph task as well as some tips for students. I have then created 3 model answers for each of the 3 themes based on November 2021 past exam papers, meaning you will be able to show your students 9 model answers in total. You can easily customize the Word documents to create a range of tasks to scaffold your Writing tasks, for example: Match the bullet point to the paragraph Fill in the gaps Spot the tense tasks Spot the opinions task Etc…

Key Christmas vocabulary recap 10 multiple questions quiz describing Christmas photos

MOTIVATE YOUR GCSE STUDENTS WITH WORLD CUP TASKS! With this multi-activity resource, students will: 1/ Revise key vocabulary and phrases about football in a gap fill and match up task as a warm up tasks 2/ They will then move on to 13 reading, research and translation tasks using the French version of the FIFA website. 4/ Finally there is a 90-word paragraph task based on sports. Instructions are in French to ensure students get prepared for French rubrics in their GCSE’s. A separate answers Powerpoint and model answer for the 90-word task is also included. The latter has useful tips for planning a high scoring paragraph successfully. Use as classwork, homework or competition!

EXPRESSIONS & IDIOMS TO IMPRESS! 19 expressions/ idioms you can use in your 150-word paragraph task to score higher range of language marks 10 translations from French to English 10 translations from English to French A gap fill finding the equivalent expression A brainstorm task to explore which topics you could use the expressions in An answers sheet

In this 10 slide Powerpoint you will find: • 12 phrases match up to revise key Christmas activities (infinitives) • A class survey with support • A price estimation game students can do in pairs • A 2-part reading comprehension task with extension tasks (grammar + translation) Answers are provided and key info highlighted Use with Year 10 / 11 French to encourage speaking and reading comprehension skills Text includes 3 time frames

This Powerpoint links in to Theme 1: Identity and Culture (AQA) The focus is on relationships and key relationship verbs With translations and a reading comprehension task

2 x handouts with higher structures + examples for your students to use in their Higher writing tasks (150 word paragraph).

This retrieval practice grid with points will motivate your learners. Adapt and use as a starter task or plenary and get students’ brain cogs working hard for recent + older knowledge retrieval.

A French quiz about the Eurovision musical contest past and future (10 questions/ answers) This is ideal to revise: Key question words The past, present and future in context

This powerpoint includes: An authentic picture with 3 questions and 2 unexpected questions laid out with: The student card The teacher script + model answers

This resource is suitable for Year 10/ 11 . In this 14 slide Powerpoint you will find: A speaking task warm up (class survey) 2 different poems I have composed with: A reading comprehension task A find the correct rhyme task A phonics reminder slide for specific nasal sounds seen in the poem and silent morphemes that look the same A reading out aloud task A writing task with a success criteria and template Sound files for the poems so you can also use them as a listening task - Suggestions for peer assessment

Increase your Year 11’s awareness of the cultural diversity of France with links to AQA’s Theme 1: Identity and Culture In this 7 slide Powerpoint you will find: A listening task with a gap fill (based on official statistics about Muslims in France) A transcript with answers A translation task from French into English A Reading comprehension task with answers

16 slides Powerpoint with useful prepositions and prefixes for higher writing with: *Recap *Translation practice Gap fills Re-draft task

Do your students struggle to pronounce French words accurately? This 10 slides Powerpoint will help them and contains: Recap with sound files built in for 4 key phonemes (ille/ eille/ aille/ euille) Read aloud tasks for all A differentiated dictation task (3 levels) with answers ALL AUDIO FILES BUILT IN

Build your students’ vocabulary, translation, oral fluency and speaking skills with this 14 part Powerpoint which include: • An introductory gap fill task about the event • A pair translation task (from French into English) • An introduction and gap fill of this year’s French song and links to the subtitled video and lyrics so students can revisit at their own pace • A set of questions about the song for students to ask each other Links to Theme 1: Identity and Culture and 4 skills (Listening, Reading, Writing Speaking)

Suitable for Year 10’s and Year 11’s. In this 33 slide Powerpoint you will find: A 12 question quiz in French so students can gauge their knowledge of the event and the royal family (Past, present, future tenses) Answers to all above questions A gap fill task with 8 key words relating to the event A translation task into English A research task for students to find out more about the monarchy in France (with links to 4 reliable resources) Links to AQA’s Theme 1, Identity and Culture. Jours ordinaires, jours de fêtes (Unit 5)

This 22 slide Powerpoint includes a 10 question quiz on this key musical event, with separate answers. The types of questions include multiple choice and true or false type questions, covering the present, past and future tenses. Perfect to link in with the theme of Hobbies, one of the Theme 1 sub topics covered in the AQA GCSE French. Suitable for Year 9, Year 10 and Year 11 students.

Train your students to successfully describe a photo card in writing. This resource contains: A summary of how the task is assessed and the success criteria Examples of successful descriptions for photos relating to Themes 1, 2 and 3 A multiple choice quiz to get students to identify adequate descriptions Top tips (success criteria reminder) A model answer prior to test tasks (Theme 1) 5 photos for practice, each of which are followed by model answers A reflection slide to use as a plenary

QUI reference and practice worksheet and answers. This resource contains: 5 examples of French sentences with QUI (and their English translations) A summary of formation/ uses 10 phrases to translate into English 10 phrases to translate into French An answers sheet