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Powerpoint on the technical aspect of the film La Haine by Matthieu Kasovitz.

La culture urbaine dans le film La Haine de Matthieu Kasovitz

Whole A-level lesson on how France is trying to save French cinema through festivals and incentives such as le printemps du cinéma and la fête du cinéma as well as its tax program. The lesson contains a starter with subjunctive, listening activities (videos - adverts and news report) as well as a speaking activity and a slide to prompt them to present about francophone film festival (to help promote it)

Lesson on Marion Cotillard including a reading from the A-level Year 1 Oxford University Press, a listening activity drawn from a France 24 interview, some short clips of the actress and a speaking in the end. Ideal to work on a successful example of a famous contemporary French actor.

Introductory lesson on heritage. Contains writing, listening/video, speaking, vocab and student presentations activities. This is worth 2 or 3 lessons.

Lesson on l’exception culturelle francaise in music with video, discussion and writing task using subjunctive.

Lesson on Comment sauver la musique française? Videos, speaking, listening and writing tasks. This covers la fête de la musique and famous francophone festivals to promote music.

Speaking, listening and writing activities on the topic of protests and strikes in France. Vocab and videos to engage students in discussion on this A-level topic.

Introductory lesson on Unit 12 (la politique et l’immigration) with some statistics and facts. Then it prompts students to prepare presentations on each main political party’s programme for immigration.

EDEXCEL IGCSE French mock written exam with questions 6, 7 and 8. Topics: hobbies, relationships, family, where I live and holidays.

Example of writing assessment to self or peer-assess in class, or even as homework. Students must underline verbs/tenses, highligh adjectives, circle pronouns, give a grade using the mark scheme and write 3 WWW and EBI.

Useful sheet with the main connectives. Great for GCSE and A-level students.

Lessons about where you live including progressive translation sheets to work on specific grammar points (comparison, prepositions, BAGS adjectives, adjectival agreement, tenses)

Tutor time or full lesson on the United Nations asking and answering the following questions: When and why the UN was created? What does it do? How many members does it have? Why do you think we celebrate United Nations Day? Activities to spark discussion, finishing with a quiz.

Activities prompting discussions based on the short film “Little Things are Big” exploring the internal struggles of a Black Man in the mid-1950’s.

3 presentations for tutor times, with some activities aimed at prompting discussions and reflexion. One is focused on the origins and the importance of Black History Month and the other one on the forgotten figures in the professional field. The last one is a reflective activity on why we need to celebrate BHM with a video from the UK Parliament and thinking activities.

Reading, listening, speaking/writing exercises based on the French architect Le Corbusier and its work that was listed as a UNESCO heritage site. A video from France 24 is used as a visual authentic document to work from. The exercises focus on irregular verbs in the present tense and the vocabulary of the architecture. Answers are provided in the document. Excellent for the topic of “Le Patrimoine” in A-level or for IB “Human Ingenuity” Level: B1/B2

3 excellent documents to promote French in school: Famous French speakers around the world (displays) Lesson presentation to promote Internation Day of Francophonie (20th March) - ideal for lesson or tutor time Famous French speakers by subjects to promote French across all departments (posters)