This is another of my verb card races. Print off the cards from the word doc and get groups to compete against each other to get the translations right. It uses the verb 'porter' as an example and requires knowledge of the present, perfect, imperfect, future and near future.

A Christmas worksheet, fill in missing verbs.Pupils can be given the infinitives and told to work out what tenses they have to use. Alternatively, you could decide to give them no help at all and let them get inventive. You could of course give out the answers and get them to match the captions to the blank pictures. Apologies in advance for my frightful sense of humour. Blank version and suggested answers included.

This is a grid containing the 3 digit codes to enter foreign language accents. I have near our work stations and still use it now!

NEW VERSION for être verbs. Print out the cards and laminate them. Pupils work in pairs or small groups and race against each other to form the perfect tense with the cards after reading the infinitive and the subject from the PowerPoint. Good element of competition and really highlights how much (or little!) they actually know. Includes all 13 être verbs and agreement. Can be easily adapted to suit your requirements too.

Mat for any class to use when giving opinions in speaking.

This is a bingo game that can be used during 6th form speaking sessions. The idea is to cross off as many boxes as possible by using the phrases/tenses/specific vocabulary correctly. It encourages students to think about their range of language whilst they debate. It can be adapted for all ranges and to suit all topics.

Just a series of slides with gap fill exercises. For use to consolidate understanding of imperfect. I suppose I am showing my age!

Game board enabling pupils to revise key vocabulary for the topic of Lifestyle. All you need is a die and some counters. I print the boards out in colour A3 size and laminate them. Can be used for any language. I have uploaded four other boards for the other topics too. Very good for independent learning, encouraging spontaneous speaking (group talk) and GCSE revision. Do let me know if you think it needs altering in any way.

A2 French AQA stimulus cards from June 2011-2013 grouped together by topic. Good for revision or just for reference. I have copied the examiner's notes too.

I use these to teach regular present tense verb patterns to beginners, but the flowers can be used for any tense that is made of a stem and ending. I have displays of flowers in all of the language classrooms. You can reduce the size of the flowers and print multiple copies on a page. Pupils can then make a collage to represent all of the verb groups or tenses they know.

This is a presentation designed to encourage GCSE pupils to use a variety of complex structures in their written and spoken controlled assessments. The worksheet asks them to build up lists of different kinds of grammatical structures (there is a honeycomb of different examples to start with) before embarking on their own creations. I asked mine to work with their AQA word lists. Apologies to Heston Blumenthal. All feedback gratefully received.

From Mira 2 Module 2 Chapter 1, this PowerPoint presents vocabulary for places in a town and revisits the verb ir. The near future is introduced with activities and there is an exercise on the PowerPoint as well as a reinforcement worksheet.

PowerPoint using freetime activities to introduce the present tense of regular, stem-changing and common irregular verbs. Accompanying worksheet with verb tables and translations.

Some practice translation exercises based on the AQA A2 French Nelson Thornes book.

Simple introduction to the perfect tense. I use this after having taught a lesson on the perfect tense in English where I ask the class (they use Expo 2 vert so they are not high flyers) to spot patterns in regular and irregular English verbs. the worksheet is designed for them to fill in as you go through the presentation.

Lesson talking about dates to revise the perfect tense. Titeuf and Nadia go out on a date and there is an exercise to complete based on an episode of Titeuf (link on PowerPoint). Includes, reading, writing, speaking and listening activities. We use it with Studio 3 rouge. Do let me know if you spot any errors.

A PowerPoint lesson revising the future tense, practising prepositions with towns and countries (à, au, aux, en) and introducing the conditional to talk about dream holidays, based on unit 7 of Tricolore Total 4 but can be used with any course.

This is a complete list of all of the essay titles. Split by topic and there is a second document with a list of suggested content points (taken from the exam reports). My students found it very useful.

Presentation for Module 1 Unit 1 of Studio AQA GCSE Higher book. Enough for several lessons Includes: Slides for all activities - with most answers Grammar explanations Grammar sheet with answers Translations Vocabulary game Homework slide BONUS: French presentation template (save the presentation as a PowerPoint template in your Custom Office Templates folder and you can use it again when you make your own presentations)