This is a comprehensive self-study grammar booklet of 25 pages covering the main grammar points required at GCSE level and designed primarily for flipped learning.Students need to fill in the grids and complete the gap filling exercises. The Teacher can then check the work in class. Below is a list of the points covered:
• All Tenses : Present, perfect, imperfect, Future, Conditional, Imperative and subjunctive
Regular and irregular verbs in all tenses
• Definite, indefinite and partitive Articles
• Adjectives including possessive
• Negatives
• Direct and Indirect pronouns
Pronouns Y and EN
• Comparatives and Superlatives
Prepositions
Question words
The booklet is in Word format and fully editable.
Comprehensive Powerpoint presentation on the conjugation of the verb "Aller" in the present tense and the prepositions following this verb. It gives lots of useful sentences with "Aller" and is a very efficient way to practice sentence building. This is suitable for Year 9 to 11 pupils, but also works as revision with KS5 students.
I designed this resource after I noticed the recurrent mistakes on the preposition after this verb. This Powerpoint is also an opportunity to revise countries, places, and transport as well as adverbs of frequency and the pronoun "Y".
Comprehensive PPT presentation and practice on the Imperfect and Perfect Tense in French.
It starts with a tutorial on the function and conjugation of both tenses, followed by a presentation on some past holidays in Guadeloupe combining imparfait and Passé composé.
Then you have seven slides with diferent activities to practice each tense and also the difference between Perfect and Imperfect Tense in French.
With the 42 slides, you can easily spend the whole lesson on this.
Please ensure you have covered the perfect tense before doing it though.
This resource is suitable for KS 4 and 5.
This is a comprehensive and interactive PPT on asking questions in French.
It goes through:
_ 3 different ways of asking a question in French
_ Asking closed and Open questions
_ Using all the question words
There are 50 slides and half of them are practice activities: gap-filling, multiple choice, sentence building, translation.
It is suitable for KS3,4 and even A Level students. I also included some worksheets for more practice.
PPT presentation to learn and practice the conjugation of "Prendre/Mettre/ Faire" in the Present Tense. It gives a comprehensive list of expressions with these verbs.
Students have the opportunity to practice these three verbs along with the possessive adjectives through a range of interactive exercises in context.
My students find the activities very helpful for sentence building.
This booklet is a compilation of 38 role play situations based on various contexts. These role plays are suitable for the New GCSE exam foundation and Higher Tier and are all in French.
My year 11 students find them very useful to practise in pairs, even in front of the class. It works well as a warm up or as aproper speaking activity.
This extensive booklet in color, 91 pages, covers all the GCSE topics across the 4 skills. Each topic includes a some set phrases for foundation and higher level which are really useful both for the Speaking and Writing exam. The use of colour and highlight for complex structures will help students with sentence building. Some Model answer with notes and exercises are provided for the Writing activities. A vocab list is also provided for each topic.
The Reading, Speaking and Listening activities are taken from various GCSE resources and are fully relevant to the new GCSE syllabus. Transcript and translation are provided for all listening activities together with the link to access that activity.
Attached is a series of 3 GCSE tests on the topic Fashions and Shopping for Young People.
Each test is made of a long Reading Comprehension, some vocab exercises, a writing task and a few grammar points such as present tense, prepositions, adjectives and pronouns. Each test lasts between 45mn and 1 hour. This is a Reading, Vocab, Grammar & Writing Assesment on School, lasting 45 mn to 1h.
This fully editable resource is suitable for the new GCSE Higher exam and can be adapted for Foundation.
This comprehensive grammar booklet consists of 30 stimulating exercises on 10 Key Grammar points:
Present, Perfect, Tuture tense, Relative Pronouns, Adjectives, Possessive and Démonstrative Adjectives, Articles, Prepositions, Pronouns and Interrogatives.
This can be used in class or for independent learning.
It is suitable for GCSE classes but also works well with As Students to consolidate their grammar.
A ttached are 4 comprehensive PPT presentations, as well as homework tasks to revise the following topics:
Saluer
les mois et les jours
Dire: ton nom, ta nationalité, Où tu habites, ton age, La date de ton anniversaire, Les langues que tu parles, d’ou tu viens
L’alphabet
les professions
les couleurs
Verbes etre/avoir
Les nombres de 1-30
Attached is a bundle of 3 General Tests for Year 8/ 9 students, around 1 hour each, covering basic topics and grammar points.
Each test is made of a range of Vocab activities, grammar exercises such as present tense, prepositions, adjectives and pronouns, Reading Comprehensions and Writing Tasks.
It works well as an End of Year Progress test or for a Prelimanary assessment . It can also be used for independent learning and for lower ability GCSE students.
Mistakes on adjectives is the most common type of error at GCSE Level.
This resource is a comprehensive and interactive PPT on Adjectives with more than 100 slides which aims at using adjectives accurately. It covers adjectival agreement for regular and irregular patterns as well as the position of adjectives and how to make long sentences with many adjectives and adverbs .
The rules are immediately followed by some practice exercises.
The last slides give students the opportunity to use the language creatively by making their own sentences.
This is suitable for KS3 and 4 students, uop to GCSE standarts.
Some worksheets in Word format are also included with the level indicated in the title,
Board game to revise a wide range of Grammar , Vocab and Civilisation points in a fun way. Students have to answer a question related to the colour they land on and are given 4 options by the person asking the question .
Answers are provided on the card.
It includes 380 questions and cover all the grammar points and most of the Topics of the A Level syllabus for AQA, Edexcel and WJEC.
It is suitable for group or 1 to 1 lesson.
Attached are 2 PDF files: the board game and the list of questions
This resource consist of 4 GCSE sample essays based on popular topics:
Holidays, School, Hobbies, Health& Fitness and Visits.
It follows the NEW GCSE format for the essay writing Higher Question 2: 4 bullet points in target language, around 140 words and use of 3 tenses
Each essay includes a range of A star structures highlighted and has the translation in English below. Some essays have also got some useful tips on the side about the structures.
My students found this resource very useful to expand their complex structures and build a range of set phrases before their exam.
This resource is also suitable both for Edexcel and Cambridge IGCSE students. Enjoy!
Revision booklet covering various topics and grammar points.
It contains 5 main areas, each one comprising a tutorial on a specific point/topic followed by 3 to 5 worksheets for practice. (see list of topics below).
This booklet is suitable both for teenagers and young professionals as there is a focus on business French. It can be done either in class using a projector or at home . I wanted to show my A Level students that the language can be used in real work life situation. They enjoyed this work and found it a nice change from the usual exam practice.
Below is a list of the topics covered:
Welcoming a visitor
What did you do last
week end?
Describing a week end
Inviting
Talking about past events
A company profile and history
Talking about your education and career
Comparing company performances
Describing people
Thorough, interactive and fun presentation on the topic of physical description. It works well to introduce and recap this topic. It gives not only a lot of useful vocabulary but also helps to differentiate the use of "etre" and "avoir" in the context of physical description. The communicative exercises provided help checking students comprehension. "The Guess who" game at the end is very successful with all type of ability and can be practised in pairs or in class.
This is a comprehensive presentation, 46 slides, about the values, principles and institutions of the French Republic in an interactice way. It presents the voting system and its executive power. It is suitable for A Level 2nd Year students working on politics.
It can be used as an introduction or a recap, depending on the level of the group.
Attached are two worksheets to practise Translation ( English to French) for the New GCSE Exam.
The first one is a series of 10 sentences on 6 different topics ( 60 sentences overall) . Topics include: Food & Health, Education, Environment, Education, Description,&Family, Hobbies, Holidays and Area.
The second worksheet focuses on the major tenses( Present, Perfect, Imperfect, Near Future Future) and include a range of 40 sentences on various topics. These simple sentences are aimed at pupils, aiming for a 5 to 7 grade at GCSE, who would appreciate some “back to basics” . They are deliberately artificial in style, so as to practise the key structures.
I would go through these in class, eliciting suggestions, then writing some parts on the board, leaving gaps for pupils to complete (depending on the skill of the class).
Pupils could of course adapt the texts by rewriting them with their own details and you could get weaker students to underline verbs in advance, or identify and underline difficult vocabulary.
These Word docs are fully editable, so teachers can adapt the sentences.
Attached are 2 texts on Technology and Dating with a model summary for each one, based on the new A Level AQA exam. It follows the AQA format:
Each text is around 200 words and is summarized into a 80 words summary using the 3 bullets points provided.
The first text is about the rise of online Language learning and the second one about online dating.
My students found them very helpful to understand the skills required for this task.
This resource is suitable for KS2 and Year 7 students.
It consists of a 12 page Survival kit that recaps the basics a 35 pages activity booklet which goes through the following basic topics in French and 7 pages of exercices:
_ Numbers, Months, Greetings, Personal information, Parts of the body,Animals, Months, Common regular and irregular verbs, Articles, Adjectifs, Verbs in Present Tense
A wide range of activities are on offer: Multiple Choice exercises, Crosswords, Matching up, Labelling texts, Gap- filling, Word ordering etc…
Booklet can be used for independent practice or as an End of Term Test. It took my students around 90mn to complete.
It is in Word format and fully editable. Bon courage!