A highly scaffolded reading-to-write sequence on hobbies starting with narrow reading and ending up with a writing task

A reading-to-write sequence I have designed for my year 7s top set, starting off with a narrow reading tasks set and ending up with a writing tasks. Tasks include: gap-fills, match up. translation. The sequence is carefully scaffolded and graded to enable the students to carry out the task without external help. Lots of recycling of the same syntactic patterns and chunks.

Revision of name, age, birthday, siblings, pets, days of the week, animals, colours, house

A sentence builder, a translation board game and some consolidation drills on -ER verbs + hobbies

Sentence builder + Find someone who + Oral communicative drills + One pen one dice + Written consolidation Note: same chunks of language recycled over and over again across all resources included

reading-to-write resources, oral games, grammar drills, sentence building and vocab building. All recycling the same chunks and patterns

Old school drills + board game

sentence builder, narrow reading, sentence builder, survey, sentence stealer and one pen one dice

50+ worksheets on the perfect tense covering regular, irregular, ETRE and Refflexive verbs and including practice across all four skills

Revision of perfect tense of irregular verbs

Two pages of texts and tasks on talking about leisure/daily life in the past

A set of resources on numbers, dates and birthdays

A sentence builder and other resources to practise the use of Après + past infinitive

Four pages of activities recycling the same vocabulary including: a sentence builder a set of vocabulary (chunk based) building tasks two sets of narrow reading texts with respective tasks A sentence builder modelling use of connectives and useful sentence stems

A wide range of resources for GCSE FRench revision

Four narrow reading tasks on various topics, including films and career plans