A typical Conti oral scaffold to use at the beginning of practising the topic and a vocab builder to use as prep or follow-up

6 documents including 'Find someone who with cards', communicative drills and a sentence builder for GCSE practice. One of my best resources.

Old school drills, oral activity and vocabulary work on hobbies in preterite (all persons)

A sentence builder, An oral scaffold A set of narrow reading texts and tasks 2 vocab builders

A sentence builder modelling time, adversative, relative, causal and concessive clauses

Oral scaffold, Oral Transl. game and Narrow reading all recycling exactly the same chunks of language

A pool of resources a la Conti covering a range of skills (e.g. sentence builder, narrow readings, no snake no ladders, find someone who, vocab builders)

Sentence builder Consolidation Reading comprehension Survey

A sentence builder + a vocabulary building worksheet

A wide range of activities covering most GCSE grammar structures and tenses

New worksheets packed with vocab building activities on a range of topics

All the GCSE topics covered

Quickies on Cinema, School, Environment (x2), Free time and Health

A range of consolidation worksheets packed with activities drilling in key grammar points

TOPICS; daily routine, school, health and lifestyle, family relationships and my 'universals' Research shows clearly that teaching vocabulary through patterns and collocations is a much more effective way than teaching single words. Although I have always endeavoured to teach words in context and phrases, this collection of quickies is more au fait with current vocab research. As a result, here is a new set of GCSE revision quickies that are chunk-based and focus on collocation and lexical priming. These new quickies complement the ones I have previously created beautifully in my opinion. Why you should use them: they reflect the way humans learn languages - through chunks and lexical patterns rather than single words. So the focus here is on developing a repertoire of ready-to-use phrases recycled over and over again.

First part of a booklet on talking about leisure in the present tense. 14 pages of activities including sentence builders, narrow reading, oral communicative drills and lots more drilling in jouer a / faire du + sport . Vocab includes a wide range of nouns and adjectives, recycled and drilled in over and over again throughout the booklet across all four skills.

Telling someone your name,age and birthday : 3 sentence builders one modelling first person, one modelling third person sing use and one covering all persons of AVOIR and possessive adjectives 3 vocab building worksheets consolidating all the vocabulary + the verb AVOIR in all persons Speaking game: Find someone who (cards to cut up and cards) Speaking game: Oral ping pong to practise all forms of AVOIR + age Reading : 2 narrow reading texts wih relative tasks focusing on meaning, grammar accuracy and spelling

A booklet with an exhaustive list of connectives (with translation) and 14 pages of activities practising them. The booklet is meant for A level students or highy proficient GCSE students. It comprises the following groups of connectives: introduction, progression, conclusion, manner, purpose, concession, contrast/restriction, etc. Each section deals with one of the above groups. The final section includes a vast array of exercises reviewing content from all of the sections.

ANSWER KEY FOR EACH GAME PROVIDED Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win. I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.

The first part of a series of passages for English to French translation designed to practise structures students have often issues with at this level. (thanks to my student Shaneel Shah for the amendments to the original version).