French native speaker, I worked as a language assistant in South Yorkshire over the past 3 years while completing a Master's degree in teaching French as a foreign language. I now teach French at Alevel.
French native speaker, I worked as a language assistant in South Yorkshire over the past 3 years while completing a Master's degree in teaching French as a foreign language. I now teach French at Alevel.
24 Role play Cards to practice for the New French GCSE speaking exam. Cards are designed in an engaging way to invite students practicing the role plays on their own.
Each theme contains 8 cards with 2 cards per subtopic. Each role play has an “answer card” equivalent to student’s card in the speaking exam giving information on expected answers as well as a “question card” equivalent to the examiner’s questions during the role play.
The documents are contained in a Zip file. After downloading simply right click to extract the files. The files come in ppt editable documents as well as PDF documents to maintain font and form.
To complete the practice until the exam: 30 New GCSE Photo Card to practice <strong><a href=“https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/new-gcse-photo-card-french-speaking-exam-11847331”> have a look here!</a></strong>
A 24 pages booklet to practice for the summary part of the French Alevel Exam.
12 articles/book extract are included (2 per AS topic) with their correction. They are authentic material, giving an insight on the French speaking world.
For each topic, the firt text is between 160-200 words and the second one is a bit more challenging: more than 200 words are more complex vocabulary
Famille: - Les enfants «boomerangs» stressent papa et maman (20 min Suisse)
- Pierre et Jean - Extrait du chapitre V (Livre de Guy de Maupassant)
Cybersociété: - Les Français face à la cybercriminalité: une fraude de 6 milliards d’euros en 2017 (silicon.fr)
- Le marché de la téléphonie mobile et du numérique poursuit son envolée en Côte d’Ivoire (La Tribune Afrique)
Bénévolat: - Un loyer en échange de bénévolat (Journal de Montréal)
- Les vertus du bénévolat d’affaires (Journal de Montréal)
Patrimoine: - L’oenotourisme, c’est quoi ? (blog vin du monde)
- Protéger et mettre en valeur le patrimoine moderne de Liège (blog VEGA)
Musique: - Le rap belge dans la grande-place (libération)
- Chanson française : la difficile vie d’artiste (libération)
Cinéma: - Français, le cinéma se meurt ! (Le Miroir)
- « Noire n’est pas mon métier » : des actrices dénoncent un racisme latent du cinéma français (Le Monde)
I hope this resource will be helpful :).
A2 booklet
Bundle AS and A2 booklet
A 24 pages booklet to practice for the summary part of the French Alevel Exam.
12 articles/book extract are included (2 per A2 topics) with their correction. They are authentic material, giving an insight on the French speaking world.
For each topic, the first text is between 200-250 words and the second one is a bit more challenging: more than 250 words, more complex vocabulary and 2 litterature texts
Diversité: - En France, moins de racistes mais plus d’actes violents (Libération)
- Le ventre de l’Atlantique - Extrait (Livre de Fatou Diome)
Marginalisation: - La marginalisation des personnes handicapées (humanité)
- Fracture numérique : 14 propositions pour lutter contre l’exclusion des seniors (Blog de Cyrielle Maurice)
Criminalité: - La délinquance est en hausse en France : un “effet gilets jaunes” ? (L’Express)
- Etrangers dans les prisons suisses, pourquoi ils sont si nombreux (Allez savoir)
Engagement politique: - Neuchâtel veut donner le droit de vote à 16 ans (Tribune de Genève)
- Les jeunes et l’abstention : «Ce n’est pas du je-m’en foutisme», explique un sociologue (le Parisien)
Grève, manifestation: - Germinal - Partie V, chapitre 5 : La révolte des ouvriers (livre de Emile Zola)
- Gilets jaunes, Mai-68 : une comparaison pas vraiment « pertinente » (Ouest France
Immigration: -Le projet de loi asile et immigration adopté (Blog Amnesty International France)
- Assimilation, intégration et insertion (Mediapart)
I hope this resource will be helpful :).
Similar AS booklet
Bundle AS + A2 booklet - Savings!
This card game is the perfect tool to practise conversation in a fun way for A-level students.
It contains 130 question cards covering all As and A2 topics, as well as 50 complex structure cards.
For only £1 more get another 300 questions !
The idea is for students to practice questions such as:
Comment encourager le respect et la tolérance en France ou dans le monde francophone?
Etes-vous pour ou contre le droit de vote à 16 ans?
Que savez-vous du patrimoine français?
With the obligation of using a complex structure to answer it:
si + imperfect + conditional
Bien que + subjunctive
En + Verb(ant)
This ressource is contained in a zip document. To access the cards after your download, right click on the file and extract. This will give you access to 21 documents:
2 blank canvas on words to allow you to create your own questions and structures
5 pdf structure documents. Each document contains 10 cards
13 pdf question documents. (10 questions on famille et relation, 10 questions on relation et couple, 10 questions on cybersociété, 10 questions on bénévolat, 10 questions on patrimoine, 10 questions on musique, 10 questions on cinéma, 10 questions on diversité et tolérance, 10 questions ons on marginalisation, 10 questions on crime, 10 questions on politiques, 10 questions on manifestation, 10 questions on immigration)
(AQA Exam Board)
Buying this resource and leaving a review will give you acess to an extra charged resource for free to thank you for your purchase.
If you're looking for more resources for A-level students, take a look at my other resources:
2 displays on complex structures to use for the speaking exam
13 specimen card for the speaking exam
AS vocabulary Taboo game
AS data/information cards to enlarge knowledge on French speaking countries and practice speaking
This board game will allow your students to practice for their speaking Exam in a fun way. At the beginning of the game each player receives a structure cards such as “conditionnel” or “subjonctif” that they will need to use until the end of the game.
They will move, on the board game allowing them to pick up cards with questions on AS topic, A2 topics as well as “Challenge Card” asking for facts/statistics, vocabulary… Some “IRP” squares will also allow students to present their IRP.
The students will judge each other on how satisfactory their answers are to continue moving on the board game or staying on the same question until they have provided a developed answer.
The game contains 18 AS cards (3 questions/topics), 18 A2 cards (3 questions/topics), 18 Challenge Cards, 12 structure cards and blank cards allowing you to add your own questions. A3 and A4 formats are provided. The documents come in editable ppt and PDF to conserve the format/font and are contained in a zip file. After your download simply right click on the file and extract the documents to access them.
(AQA Exam Board)
I hope you and your students will enjoy this resource :)
A booklet (with answers) to practise translation tasks on Year 2 topics. The booklet can be used in class, as assessment or given to students for independent learning.
The booklet comes with a separate mark scheme/answers booklet. (PDD and Word doc)
For each topic, there are 10 sentences from English to French (45 marks) + 2/3 paragraphs to translate from French to English (45 marks). The translations include key vocab on the topic as well as varied grammar points (including more complex structures and “traps”.)
At the end of each topic, there is a recap page, where students can add new vocab they have learned as well as tricky grammar aspects that they would need to revise.
The booklet also include a marking page, where students can keep track of their progress.
I hope this resource will be useful.
Similar resource for A2 available here
Bundle resource for AS and A2 booklet
A booklet (with answers) to practise translation tasks on Year 2 topics. The booklet can be used in class, as assessment or given to students for independent learning.
The booklet comes with a separate mark scheme/answers booklet. (PDD and Word doc)
For each topic, there are 10 sentences from English to French (45 marks) + 2/3 paragraphs to translate from French to English (45 marks). The translations include key vocab on the topic as well as varied grammar points (including more complex structures and “traps”.)
At the end of each topic, there is a recap page, where students can add new vocab they have learned as well as tricky grammar aspects that they would need to revise.
The booklet also include a marking page, where students can keep track of their progress.
I hope this resource will be useful.
Bundle AS and A2 booklets
Similar resource available for AS
Cards covering AS topics to prepare students for their speaking exams. The cards contain general knowledge, data/statistics as well as a few questions on each topic. (AQA Exam Board)
They can be used to help students understand statistics on French speaking countries for the topic. For example:
• Selon une enquête IFOP, 86% des français estiment qu’Internet leur est devenu indispensable.
• En 2011 en France métropolitaine, 1 enfant sur dix de moins de 18 ans vivait dans une famille recomposée.
• En 2015, chaque spectateur français est allé en moyenne 5,3 fois au cinéma.
They can also be used to practice for the speaking exam with questions such as:
2) Quelle est la situation des « enfants boomerang » en France ?
4) Selon ce que vous en savez, quel est l’importance du bénévolat en France ou ailleurs dans le monde francophone ?
Some worksheets will provide general knowledge on:
- Francophone music
- French cinema
- Saint-Emilion (Patrimoine --> oeunotourisme)
- Le Secours Populaire (A charity)
- Les francopholies de la Rochelle (A festival)
The cards are contained in a zip file. Once downloaded right click on the file and extract to get the Word Card.
Buying this resource and leaving a review will give you acess to an extra charged resource for free to thank you for your purchase.
2 displays on complex structures to use for the speaking exam
13 specimen card for the speaking exam
A-level speaking question on all topic game
AS vocabulary Taboo game
This board game will allow your students to practice for their speaking Exam in a fun way.
They will move, on the board game allowing them to pick up cards with questions on the three topics of the new GCSE as well as “Challenge Card” and photo card description.
The students will judge each other on how satisfactory their answers are to continue moving on the board game or staying on the same question until they have provided a developed answer.
The game contains 16 Question Cards per three topics, 16 Challenge Cards, 16 photo cards and blank cards allowing you to add your own questions/photos/challenges. A3 and A4 formats are provided. The documents come in editable ppt and PDF to conserve the format/font and are contained in a zip file. After your download simply right click on the file and extract the documents to access them. (AQA Exam Board) I hope you and your students will enjoy this resource :)
13 specimen cards for the AQA French A-Level speaking exam covering all the topics. (AQA Exam Board)
Card A - PACS
Card B - Monoparentalité
Card C - Cyberterrorisme
Card D - Bénévolat
Card E - Les journées du patrimoine
Card F - La fête de la musique
Card G - Le cinéma français à l'étranger
Card H - La tolérance
Card I - La marginalisation des personnes handicapées
Card J - La récidive
Card K - Les jeunes et la politique
Card L - Les syndicats
Card M - Politiques d'immigration au Canada
To access the cards, extract them from the compressed file using the right click after downloading.
Buying this resource and leaving a review will give you acess to an extra charged resource for free to thank you for your purchase.
If you're looking for more ressources for A-level students, take a look at my other ressources:
2 displays on complex structures to use for the speaking exam
A-level speaking question on all topic game
AS vocabulary Taboo game
AS data/information cards to enlarge knowledge on French speaking countries and practice speaking
A trivial pursuit board game to prepare students for their speaking exam. A fun and effective way for student to practise independently.
The game contains (available in PPT and PDF): - board game
- 40 cards
- card template
Blue = questions on famille or cybersociete such as: “Comment a evolue le modele familial en France?” - “Que savez-vous du cyberterrorisme dans le monde francophone?”…
Pink = questions on benevolat or patrimoine such as: “Dans quels secteurs les Francais font-ils du benevolat?” - “Avez-vous deja visite un monument francais? Si non, lequel aimeriez-vous visiter?”
Yellow = questions on musique or cinema such as: “Quel est votre artiste francophone favri et pourquoi?” - “si vous etiez le president francais que feriez-vous pour proteger le 7eme art?”
Green = verbs : “Etre – Elles - Imparfait” or “Faire - Nous - Subjonctif”
Brown = Translation such as: “Quel dommage” or “It surprises me that it is”
Orange = General knowledge such as: “Quel est le pourcentage de musique francophone à la radio française?” or “Complétez la devise de la France: Liberté, …, …”
A2 version and bundle coming soon ;)
Grammatical power point on the present tense, explaining the pattern for regulars verbs (group 1 and group 2) as well as irregular verbs (group 3).
A recap' word document is also included.
As well as two word documents with exercices. One on regular verbs and être/avoir and one on irregular verbs.
This bundle gathers resources around questions to prepare students for their speaking exam.
- 120 questions on A2 Topics
- 180 questions on AS topics
- A card game to practice these questions in a fun way using complex structures.
(AQA Exam board)
For more description, please have a look at the different resources.
I hopethese resources will be useful and your students will enjoy it!
Bundle of booklets to practise translations for the A level exam.
Both booklet cover all the topics seen in Y1 and Y2 of the course + a separate booklet with answers.
10 sentences eng --> fr (45 marks)
2/3 paragrapfs fr --> eng (45 marks)
The booklets can be use in class, as assessment or given to students as independant learning.
booklet with translation tips
Hours of time save ;)
This bundle contains resources covering all the aspects of the new French GCSE speaking Exam.
30 photo Cards
24 role play cards
A fun board game containing 64 questions
1 mat for describing a photo
Please have a look at the resources for previews. I hope this bundle will be useful.
Bundle including key resources on Christmas for the French classroom.
Advent calendar. A surprise everyday until Christmas before starting the lesson
Vocabulary posters and games
Dobble Game on Christmas vocabulary
Snake and ladder board game to practise speaking around Christmas questions
Christmas Maze to revise directions
This bundle compiles 6 ppt presentations containing 20 questions with types of answer for the French Alevel speaking exam (A2 topics/AQA Exam board)
Most questions have a focus on the French speaking world and the answers refer to data, facts or statistics.
For previews on what to expect please see each resources' pages.
This bundle will be perfect to help your students gain ideas, knowledge and vocabulary for their speaking exam.
For an extra £3 only get another 9 resources !! Have a look at my Super Bundle Here!
This bundle contains key resources to prepare your students for their speaking exam.
- 13 unique specimen cards covering all AS and A2 topics
- 12 cards on AS topics to develop students’ knowledge on the French speaking world
- 2 displays on complex structures and expressions to use during the speaking exam
- A card game contaning 130 questions on all As/A2 topics and 50 complex structures cards
- more than 300 questions on AS and A2 topics
(AQA Exam Board)
Buying this resource and leaving a review will give you acess to an extra charged resource for free to thank you for your purchase.
14 resources worth £36 for only £10 to prepare your students for their speaking exam!
One full Board Game to practice questions and IRP
13 unique specimen cards
12 AS worksheets containing facts/statistics on each topics
6 ppt presentations containing questions/answers including facts/statistics on A2 topics
300 questions
A Card Game to practice questions with complex structures
AS taboo game
Board Game on the A2 topic “l’engagement politique”
2 displays on complex structures
Some of the resources offered in this Bundle are similar to resources contained in the £7 speaking bundle. (13 specimen cards, 300 questions, Card Game, 2 displays and 12 AS worksheets)