Great readings with many tasks for students to deduce the formation and use of the simple future. From a reading, students will develop their writing and speaking skills through 6 distinct exercises: spotting verbs in a reading, finding out the formation, vocab search, conjugation of irregular verbs, translation and a writing task (that can be used as a speaking task) to reuse the future tense in a personal context.

Reading comprehension on school life in the past tense. It includes: rvocabulary exercise, gap fill past tense exercise, translation, speaking/writing GCSE questions. The text is great to use as a frame for writing with the use of verbs in the past and connectives.

Worksheet to match the name of festivals in France with their definition.

Translation to use VOULOIR properly with an infinitive verb after.

Presentation to work on the essay title “Où se passe l’action de l’œuvre que vous avez étudiée ? Croyez-vous que cet aspect de l’œuvre soit bien illustré par l’auteur ou le directeur ? Justifiez votre réponse.” This is worth a full lesson. Several activities to have students discuss the importance of social class in the film, give students ideas with concrete scenes and examples, and have them come up with an essay/essay plan by the end of the lesson.

Presentation / lesson on the topic of division in the film. The presentation contains a lot of questions and ideas that lead to an essay plan. Great to foster students’ reflection.

Presentation with ideas and key questions on the topic of “l’autorité” in the film Au Revoir Les Enfants by Louis Malle.

This is a fun activity to revise each and every unit studied in the new French A-level program. It contains essential questions. Students have to speak for at least 1 minute on each question with high order structures. I have put those questions on a separate document if you want to have them prepare them in advance or at home. Once downloaded, questions can be altered to suit your teaching.

Great settling activity that pushes literacy in French by having students spell words properly, read and translate a text, judge it and write a reply. This has worked very well with my wildest students! Used it for Year 7 and Y8 students, can be adapted to include past tense. Answer is provided.

Listening activity on what Unions, how they act, who for, etc. Introduction of the main vocab that ends with discussions and students writing their own definitions with key words.

Lesson on the voting age in France “Faut-il accorder le droit de vote dès 16 ans?” with speaking and writing tasks.

Lesson on the A-level French topics: Les ados et l’engagement politique - motivés ou démotivés with listening (video), speaking, writing exercises drawing from actual examples that were in the news.

Lessons on the A-level topic of politics “L’Union Européenne a-t-elle un avenir?” with 2 videos, speaking and writing activities.

Introductory lessons to explain how the French mentality is built on the power of the people and rebellion - through history, art, institutions.

3 sets of questions about the A-level topic of manifestation to prepare students for the speaking exams. The lesson is based on 2 listening (videos) activities on the example of the company GOODYEAR.

A-level French lesson to introduce the topic of heritage (patrimoine) with video, key words, listening, speaking and writing tasks.

This is a fun activity to revise each and every unit studied in the new French A-level program. It contains essential questions. Students have to speak for at least 1 minute on each question with high order structures. Once downloaded, questions can be altered to suit your teaching.

Listening activity based on a video on leisure and French people. Prompts for discussion.

Examplar essay on La Haine by Matthieu Kassovitz on the title: Pour beaucoup de critiques, La Haine est un chef d’œuvre du cinéma. Dans quelle mesure êtes-vous d’accord avec ce jugement? Students must assess it.