My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
Here is a presentation on the use of prepositions, whether it is just revision or teaching it for the very first time. There is a wide range of vocabulary available, followed by slap the board game and a quiz. This activity is geared towards either Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 French.
There will be an accompanying workbook available soon.
Happy teaching and learning!
This activity contains a large number of activities subjecting to a French Christmas. There is also a story in this activity about a little girl named Yvette and the story starts off in 1985 when she is 8 years old. She got a visit from Santa and an elf. The elf asked her to make a wish and her wish was granted by the magical elf which carried her off into the future 32 years later. Her thoughts of all of this, just only being a dream, had more to be desired for. A very overwhelming story but a happy one.
Students can start off the activities by becoming acquainted with the vocabulary by colouring in the pictures and then searching for more complex vocabulary in the story before reading it. While they are reading the story, there are spaces in the story where learners can write in the missing scenes and then draw them. They can be imaginative and creative as much as they like! After reading the story, learners have a choice of differentiated questions. The choice is up to them, which ever level they feel comfortable with.
This activity is geared towards learners whose native tongue is French and also Key-Stage 4 students who are following the standard curriculum as it contains a wide range of verbs in the perfect tense such as transitive and intransitive verbs and reflexive verbs in the perfect tense. There are also examples of the imperfect tense in the story.
The cost of this activity workbook is ₤5.
Happy teaching and learning and have a great Christmas!
This worksheet gives students the opportunity to build up on their vocabulary and also further practise these new words. A very useful tool when developing learners' writing in preparation for the exam. This worksheet is geared towards learners of a weaker ability.
This worksheet gives students the opportunity to build up on their vocabulary and also further practise these new words. A very useful tool when developing learners' writing in preparation for the exam. This worksheet is geared towards learners of a weaker ability.
This worksheet gives students the opportunity to build up on their vocabulary by searching for French synonyms and also further practise these new words. A very useful tool when developing learners' writing in preparation for the exam. This worksheet is geared towards very high achieving students, gifted and talented learners and learners whose native tongue is French.
This worksheet gives students the opportunity to build up on their vocabulary by searching for French synonyms and also further practise these new words. A very useful tool when developing learners' writing in preparation for the exam. This worksheet is geared towards very high achieving students, gifted and talented learners and learners whose native tongue is French.
Les vingt jours de l’été powerpoint: Do you feel your students need to revise numbers 1-20, colours, fruit and gender and agreement? Look no further, as this presentation is designed to do so.
The learning of such vocabulary is set in the theme of ‘the twelve days of Christmas’. I have titled it as ‘les vingt jours de l’été’ (The 20 days of summer) as summer is a very popular season for cultivating fruit. As you go through each slide, you sing along each slide to the very same melody, taking the necessary slow singing as you approach every fifth item. The melody changes slightly when you go through the 6th-20th days of summer as they need to have the same melody when the Christmas song sung is sung from the 6th-12th day of Christmas. You will need to change the melody to that when you come to the 6th-20th day of summer. During the first five days of summer at the beginning of the presentation feel free to click on the audio icon to hear me singing the examples and also at the end of the presentation, click on the another audio icon and you will hear me singing the entire song, so that you get the idea of how to sing it.
Also, there are quizzes of different levels and a follow-up story with more differentiated quizzes to follow. This package is designed for Key Stage 1 primary French (native French nationals/ gifted and talented students) and Key Stage 2 primary French (learners of a weaker ability)
This package revises the following items:
Numbers from 1-20
Ordinal numbers from 1-21
Colours
Names of fruit
Gender and agreement
Accompanying workbooks: The accompanying workbooks both lower and higher level from the presentation ‘Vingt jours de l’été’ exhibits pages and pages of activities and colouring in for primary Key stage 1 and 2 French. It contains countless colouring in pages, opportunities for children to become acquainted with gender and number agreement, mathematics in French and several puzzles and games. This workbook is ideal for learners of a weaker ability.
When you buy all of these items together, they are on promotion for just ₤12.50.
Happy teaching and learning!
This accompanying workbook from the presentation 'Vingt jours de l'été' exhibits pages and pages of activities and colouring in for primary Key stage 1 and 2 French. It contains countless colouring in pages, opportunities for children to become acquainted with gender and number agreement, mathematics in French and several puzzles and games. This workbook is ideal for learners of a weaker ability and various activities have been carefully designed to facilitate their learning.
The cost of this workbook is ₤6. There is a promotion available where you can buy both the presentation and the accompanying workbook for just ₤10!
Les vingt jours de l'été powerpoint: Do you feel your students need to revise numbers 1-20, colours, fruit and gender and agreement? Look no further, as this presentation is designed to do so.
The learning of such vocabulary is set in the theme of 'the twelve days of Christmas'. I have titled it as 'les vingt jours de l'été' (The 20 days of summer) as summer is a very popular season for cultivating fruit. As you go through each slide, you sing along each slide to the very same melody, taking the necessary slow singing as you approach every fifth item. The melody changes slightly when you go through the 6th-20th days of summer as they need to have the same melody when the Christmas song sung is sung from the 6th-12th day of Christmas. You will need to change the melody to that when you come to the 6th-20th day of summer. During the first five days of summer at the beginning of the presentation feel free to click on the audio icon to hear me singing the examples and also at the end of the presentation, click on the another audio icon and you will hear me singing the entire song, so that you get the idea of how to sing it.
Also, there are quizzes of different levels and a follow-up story with more differentiated quizzes to follow. This package is designed for Key Stage 1 primary French (native French nationals/ gifted and talented students) and Key Stage 2 primary French (weaker, stronger and gifted and talented students and native French nationals are welcome also.)
This package revises the following items:
Numbers from 1-20
Ordinal numbers from 1-21
Colours
Names of fruit
Gender and agreement
Accompanying workbook: This accompanying workbook from the presentation 'Vingt jours de l'été' exhibits pages and pages of activities and colouring in for primary Key stage 1 and 2 French. It contains countless colouring in pages, opportunities for children to become acquainted with gender and number agreement, mathematics in French and several puzzles and games. This workbook is ideal for learners of stronger ability, learners whose native tongue is French and gifted and talented learners. There is now a differentiated booklet available for learners of a weaker ability.
When you buy both of these items together, they are on promotion for just ₤10.
Happy teaching and learning!
This accompanying workbook from the presentation ‘Vingt jours de l’été’ exhibits pages and pages of activities and colouring in for primary Key stage 1 and 2 French. It contains countless colouring in pages, opportunities for children to become acquainted with gender and number agreement, mathematics in French and several puzzles and games. This workbook is ideal for learners of stronger ability, learners whose native tongue is French and gifted and talented learners. There is now a differentiated booklet available for learners of a weaker ability.
The cost of this workbook is ₤6. There is a promotion available where you can buy both the presentation and the accompanying workbook for just ₤10!
A poster which outlines the order of object pronouns when two or more are placed together.
You can print this out and blow it up to A3 size and then get your students to colour it in.
This resource is useful for students who are studying IGCSE French and A-Level French.
This resource is free. Helpful yourself to a copy.
I have designed this puzzle where students will have the opportunity to exercise the use of 'venir de' followed by an infinitive by spotting the 10 differences in picture 2. This would be ideal as a starter after having taught its concept in the previous lesson and this is geared towards students who are studying IGCSE French, A-Level French and adults who are studying French as a foreign language. There is a list of vocabulary available at the bottom of the puzzle to assist unfamiliar vocabulary.
For the stronger students / gifted and talented: Try to encourage them to point out the differences using a reflexive verb as the infinitive.
Students are more than welcome to come up with alternative answers to the answers I have displayed on the subsequent slide.
This presentation outlines and depicts as to how the construction 'venir de faire quelque chose' is formed and used in which context. Go through the slides of each new item and get the students to repeat previously learnt items. This concept is geared towards students who are doing IGCSE French and A-Level French.
Happy teaching and learning!
A very useful handout to give to your students who are studying IGCSE or A-Level French.
This colourful handout explicitly outlines the six direct and indirect object pronouns both in the present tense and perfect tense, as well as the distinction between the direct object pronouns and the indirect object pronouns in the perfect tense. This resource is free, help yourself!
Happy teaching and learning!
Picture pairs numbers 1-100 in French. This is ideal for Key Stage level 2-3 French and also for learners of a stronger ability or gifted and talented learners. There is also a differentiated version available.
Instructions: Print off each slide and them laminate them. Cut along the black line to separate them and begin playing!
Happy playing and learning!
Picture pairs numbers 1-20 in French. This is ideal for Key Stage level 1-2 French.
Instructions: Print off each slide and them laminate them. Cut along the black line to separate them and begin playing!
Happy playing and learning!
Picture pairs numbers 1-10 in French. This is ideal for Key Stage level 1-2 French.
Instructions: Print off each slide and them laminate them. Cut along the black line to separate them and begin playing!
Happy playing and learning!
From my own experiences as a language practitioner, children really enjoy playing battleships and it is an excellent way of practising French vocabulary and grammar.
This pack contains the following eight board games:
- Dates
- Intransitive verbs (etre verbs)
- Transitive and intransitive verbs (mixture of avoir and etre verbs)
- Verbs that are followed by the preposition 'a' (Excellent for AS French)
- Verbs that are followed by the preposition 'de' (Excellent for AS French)
- Telling the time
- Expressions with avoir (Excellent for IGCSE French)
- Countries and languages
- Different coloured cut out ships are also available with every individual board game with instructions.
Happy playing!
This attractive colouring in workbook is designed for learners of Mandarin Chinese who are learning Mandarin for the first time. After having coloured in the twelve pictures and practised their character writing, they can do the subsequent exercises which follow, including dates in Chinese. This workbook is geared towards students of a stronger ability, gifted and talented students and students whose native tongue is Cantonese or who have been exposed to traditional characters.
This activity is designed for students who are studying two languages at GCSE/IGCSE level and also who are learning dates for the first time. This resource is also geared towards native French speakers who are studying Mandarin Chinese.