I am a native speaker of French, currently based in India. I am an IGCSE and IB French teacher and I have been teaching for 15 years. I am also Head of Secondary at my school and a former IBDP Coordinator.
I am a co-author of the IBDP Kognity French B textbook and a senior IBDP examiner.
I am a native speaker of French, currently based in India. I am an IGCSE and IB French teacher and I have been teaching for 15 years. I am also Head of Secondary at my school and a former IBDP Coordinator.
I am a co-author of the IBDP Kognity French B textbook and a senior IBDP examiner.
I got my year 8 class to work on this recipe and particularly on verbs and then they brought in the ingredients and they baked the cake themselves, following the instructions in French. They still talk about it!
Worksheet to introduce the subjunctive to yr12 or yr13. The two practice exercises at the end are linked to the environment, but can easily be adapted to whatever you are currently working on.
PowerPoint presentation introducing the simple future with plans for the future. Other phrases expressing the future (j'ai l'intention de, etc.) are also introduced. Feedback welcome.
Worksheet to practise telling the time in French. Can be used as an assessment of a practice exercise. There is a listening task and 2 writing tasks. The listening task can be used as pair-work: one pupil tells the time, the other draws the hands on the clock. Good for peer assessment.
I prepared this booklet for my weaker Yr11. It has sample of questions they could be asked in the exam and frames for the answer. They have to fill in the gaps with their information and they can extend each answer the way they want.
Worksheet to introduce/revise different sports and free-time activities in German, or to extend pupils' vocabulary. Pupils have to match up the phrases with the pictures
I created this quizz for my year 8 top set, to reinforce the vocabulary related to food. However, I think this might be more KS4 material. Anyway, it's great fun, kids love it and I hope you'll enjoy it too!
This worksheets offers students the opportunity to revise the formation of the imperfect, the simple future and the conditional, which they often confuse.
It then explains 3 structures with 'si':
- Si + present + future: Si le gouvernement ne met rien en place, les températures vont continuer d’augmenter.
- Si + imperfect + conditional: Si le gouvernement ne mettait rien en place, les températures continueraient d’augmenter.
- Et si + imparfait? : Et si les températures continuaient d'augmenter?
There are 2 practise exercises (gapfill and fairly substantial translation exercise) for students to practise.
Examples and exercises are all based on the topic of the environment and therefore provide students with the opportunity to revise the basic vocabulary on this topic.
It can be used along with the same worksheet I have uploaded for Higher Level if you wish to differentiate the lesson.
This booklet covers:
- Holiday destinations and activities
- Weather phrases
- Directions
- Complaints in a hotel
- The pronoun 'y'
- Revision of the conditional and imperfect
- Clauses with 'si'
- An introduction to the subjunctive in context
I have created this booklets for 3 of my year 10 students who are working at an advanced level. It covers advanced vocabulary and grammar and includes reading and writing exercises. It is designed so that students can work independently, with limited teacher support. It can also be used for IB/AS level or as cover work.
I created this resource for my year 12 student. It introduces the subjunctive in French, step by step and is linked to the topic of healthy eating. I have also added comparisons to Italian, as my student is Italian, but if that is not relevant to you, just delete that bit. Let me know what you think!
I made this lesson as an introduction to my unit on the media and the press.
The text is about the press in France and the difference between newspapers and magazines, dailies, and weeklies, etc.
It is an excellent opportunity to revise or introduce some key vocabulary related to this topic (hebdomadaire, mensuel, la Une, la police, les faits divers, etc.).
There is a vocabulary exercise, as well as a comprehension task, and a gap-fill summar of the text at the end.
Activity based on an article published in Le Monde in Sept 17 which explores the relationship between the rise in natural catastrophes and climate change in the aftermath of the series of deadly hurricanes which have hit the US and the Caribbean in the Summer of 2017.
This resource is an IB-style (Paper 1) reading comprehension for French B Higher Level students. It can also be used for A2 students, or students wanting to take the DELF B2/C1 exam.
I created this resource as part of a unit on education. It explores the strengths and weaknesses of different school systems around the world and gets students to think about how they learn and how different school systems attempt to provide the best answer to today's challenges around education.
All sources are authentic (1 radio programme and 3 videos) and the links are on the worksheet.
It is also an opportunity for students to learn and practise new vocabulary, as well as revise/learn about conjunctions that call for the subjunctive (bien que, pour que, sans que, etc.).
This activity represents 1200 minutes of class work.
This activity is ideal for A2 students, IB Higher level students or B2 level students.
This booklet covers:
- Jobs (masculine/feminine)
- Useful vocabulary to describe what you do
- The conditional past
- Summer jobs
- Advantages and inconvenients of different jobs
- Verbs followed by the prepositions 'à' and 'de'
- Talking about work experience (mon stage)
- Understanding when to use the imperfect and when to use the perfect tense
- Understanding the different uses of past participles (advanced)
- 2 listening activities (about summer jobs - B1 level)
- 1 reading comprehension (true or false - my work experience)
- 1 scaffolded writing comprehension (modeled on section 2 from paper 4 - my work experience)
I have created this booklets for 3 of my year 10 students who are working at an advanced level. It covers advanced vocabulary and grammar and includes reading and writing exercises. It is designed so that students can work independently, with limited teacher support. It can also be used for IB/AS level or as cover work.
There is a markscheme for all the exercises at the end of the document.
This worksheet contains a detailed explanation of how to use the pronoun 'en'. It looks at how to differentiate the pronoun 'en' from the direct object pronoun and gives a useful mind map for students to follow when they are trying to decide whether to use 'en' of the direct object pronoun.
There are scaffolded tasks meant to build up students' confidence in their use of both the direct object pronoun and the pronoun 'en'.
I created this resources for my Year 12 students who are doing IB French B at Standard Level. It can also be used with Higher Level students as a revision task or as a starting point for a more in-depth lesson on the use of pronouns.
This is a fantastic way to get kids to practise directions and places in town in a foreign language. Find a town where Google street is operational and make a list of instructions for kids to navigate, as if they were actually navigating in that town.
It's a little time consuming to make, but kids really enjoy it and it's the next best thing to actually visiting the place in person!
The follow-up activity is to get kids to plan one of their own in a town of their choice, to get them to practise places in town, using directions, and using the imperative.
I have used it with my Year 8 group, as well as my Year 12 ab initio group, but it can be adapted to any year group by changing the level of difficulty of the questions.
This resource booklet is perfect for students to conduct revision just before the exam. This booklet is designed for students to be able to work independently, but could also be used as cover work or directed revisions.
It contains:
- vocabulary exercises (School subjects, equipement, school system, clothes, daily routine and revision of the time)
- 1 grammar reminder and task (Adjective agreements)
- 1 listening exercise, modelled, as far as possible, on the IGCSE listening paper, but with authentic recordings (link to the recordings is on the sheet itself)
- 1 reading exercise, modelled exactly on Paper 2 (Section 2 - first text)
- 2 writing task, modelled exactly on Paper 4 (one from Section 1 and 2 from Section 2)
- a series of questions with model answers for students to practise the speaking exam.
This resource booklet is perfect for students to conduct revision just before the exam. This booklet is designed for students to be able to work independently, but could also be used as cover work or directed revisions.
It contains:
- vocabulary exercises (physical descriptions, character descriptions, pets, nationalities & chores)
- 2 grammar reminders and tasks (possessive adjectives and modal verbs 'pouvoir', 'devoir' and 'vouloir')
- 1 listening exercises, modelled, as far as possible, on the IGCSE listening paper, but with authentic recordings (link to the recordings is on the sheet itself)
- 1 reading exercise, modelled exactly on Paper 2 (Section 2 - easier text)
- 1 writing task, modelled exactly on Paper 4 (short one)
- a series of questions with model answers for students to practise the speaking exam.