This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Sports and Hobbies” in the perfect tense, present indicative, imperfect, conditional present, and future simple in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. Also includes the si+present+future clause.
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for (Chunk level)
Whiteboard translation (Sentence level)
Find the missing word in the sentence
This or that
Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in French
Reading: Vrai ou faux
Personal reflection questions
Comment dit-on?
Listen and highlight the mispronounced words (LAM - audio included)
Listen and write the missing words (LAM - AI video included)
Listening: Missing words and intruders (LAM - audio included)
Listen and tick the correct options (LAM - audio included)
Structured production: Delayed copying
Structured production: Narrow Translation (x3 paragraphs)
Structured production: Oral Ping Pong
Expansion: Grammar conjugation table explanation
Expansion: Grammar task present tense
Expansion: Grammar task perfect tense
Expansion: Grammar task future tense
Expansion: Grammar task multi tense
Expansion: Grammar explanation Negative form present tense
Autonomy-Routinisation: Dictogloss
Autonomy-Routinisation: One pen One di
Spontaneity: Listen and draw pictures - then retell story from pictures
Spontaneity: Pull the Switch
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This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic "Post-16 Plans” in the present tense, imperfect, conditional, near future and simple future, and introduces the SI Clause (si + present + future) in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
More effective if used after Unit 24, previously uploaded =)
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the Sentence Builder
Whiteboard sentence translations
This or that
Spot my phonological error
Comment dit-on… in pairs
Find the intruder in each sentence
Reading and listening tasks (NO AUDIO included - teacher to read)
Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in French
Reading: Fill in the gaps in the English translation
Listening 1: Listen to the text and rearrange the English translation (LAM)
Listening 2: Listen to the text and write the missing words (LAM)
Listening 3: Listen and tick / cross the English equivalent
Listening 3: Listen and answer True or False (LAM)
Listening 3: Listen and answer the questions in French - focus on short answers (LAM)
Structured production: Sentence Translation
Structured production: Narrow Translation
Structured production: Mind reading in pairs
Expansion: Grammar explanation on future tense
Expansion: Grammar explanation on si clause (si + present + future)
Expansion: Choose the correct verb form (focus on future tense)
Expansion:Choose the correct verb form with pronoun “je” (focus on future tense)
Expansion: You are the teacher: explain why the items underlined are wrong grammatically
Autonomy Routinisation : Pyramid translation
Autonomy Routinisation : Mad dictation
Autonomy Routinisation : Plus vite !
Spontaneity: 4,3,2 activity
Spontaneity: paragraph writing
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This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic "Charity and Voluntary work” in the present tense, conditional, and SI+PLUPERFECT+CONDITIONAL PERFECT clause in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the Sentence Builder
Faulty Echo
White board sentence translations
This or that
Sentence match
Quiz
Complete with an appropriate word/ phrase
Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in French
Reading: Correct the English translation
Listening: Tick or cross (Audio included)
Listening: Choose the correct answer (Audio included)
Listening: Find the synonym (Faster audio included)
Listening: Fill the gap AI video included
Listening Bingo
Listen to the text and Tick / Cross the words you hear / do not hear (LAM)
Listen and choose correct the statements in French (LAM)
Listen and fill the blanks in the transcript (LAM)
Structured production: Tangled Translation
Structured production: One pen one di
Structured production: Delayed dictation - (Audio distraction included!)
Structured production: Sentence stealer
Structured production: Quelque chose game
Structured production: 7-level disappearing text
Expansion: Verb quiz - infinitives
Expansion: Grammar explanation on SI + PLUPERFECT + CONDITIONAL PERFECT
Expansion: White board translation on SI clause
Expansion: Grammar on present tense
Expansion: fill the gap on SI CLAUSE
Expansion: Rewrite using the SI + PLUPERFECT + CONDITIONAL clause
Autonomy: Faster
Autonomy: Oral Ping Pong
Autonomy: No Snakes no Ladders
Spontaneity: Group composition
Spontaneity: translation of paragraphs (no SB allowed)
Spontaneity: Flip presentation
Spontaneity: Pull the switch / Dialogue
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This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Télévision et cinéma” in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the Sentence Builder
Match up
Find the missing word in the sentence
This or that
Spot my error (phonological error)
Reading and listening tasks (Audio included for all listening tasks)
Narrow Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in French
Reading: Translate the last paragraph into English
Comment dit-on?
Listen and highlight the mispronounced words (LAM) - audio included
Listen and write the missing words - no gaps provided (LAM) - audio included
Listen and write the missing words and cross out the intruders (LAM) -audio included
Listen and tick the correct options (LAM) - audio included
Structured production: Au voleur
Structured production: Paragraph Translation
Structured production: Oral Ping Pong
Expansion: Lexicogrammar table
Expansion: Grammar task 1: Fill the blanks
Expansion: Grammar task 2: Multiple choice
Expansion: Grammar task 3: Match up
Expansion: Grammar task 4: Error correction
Expansion: Grammar explanation Near future
Autonomy: Pyramid translation x2
Spontaneity: Listen and draw pictures - then retell story from pictures
Spontaneity: Pull the Switch
Spontaneity: Exam piece of writing
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This powerpoint covers a variety of GCSE topic with a focus on the indirect object pronoun "EN”, predominantly in the PRESENT tense, with some examples using the perfect tense, near future, imperfect, conditional, and future simple.
This unit is also based on Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applies the MARS EARS framework.
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the Sentence Builder
Find the missing words x2
This or that
Faulty translation
Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in French
Reading: Vrai ou faux
Reading: Paragraph translation to English
Listening 1: Listen to the text and underline the mispronounced words (LAM) audio included
Listening 2, 3 & 4: Listen to the text and write the missing words (LAM) audio included
Listening 5, 6 & 7: Listen highlight all the intruders (LAM) audio included
Listening 8: Listen choose the correct translation for the text (LAM) AI video included
Structured production: Tangled Translation
Oral Ping Pong
Full circle
One pen one di
Expansion: Grammar explanation table on the uses of pronoun EN
Expansion: 4 grammar exercices
Expansion: Further grammar explanation on pronoun EN in other tenses
Expansion: 6 grammar exercices
Autonomy Routinisation : One pen One
Autonomy Routinisation: Full circle
Spontaneity: Group composition
Spontaneity: Pull the switch / parallel text dialogue
Year 9 French Bundle – Updated for January 2025!
🔹 What’s New?
-10 Units to practice Past-Present-Future in a variety of contexts (Includes 2 double units on Technology and Social Media, so in fact, 12 Units. ).
-Each unit offers 7-9 lessons, ensuring comprehensive coverage.
-Lessons include interleaving and interspacing, recycling content from previous units to reinforce learning.
-Added listening audio files or AI video narrations in every unit to enhance the listening sections.
Please ensure that once purchased, you download the files on your device! =)
If you’ve used the resource, your feedback would be appreciated!
Resources include:
• Unit 1: Holidays part 1: Where I went/How/Who with
• Unit 2: Holidays part 2: What I/We did on Holidays (+Interleaving Unit 1)
• Unit 3: Daily routine and helping at home - Past, -Present, Future and modal verbs (+Interleaving Unit 1-2)
• Unit 4. Accidents and injuries (+Interleaving Unit 1-3)
• Unit 5: Shoppings in the present, perfect tense and near future tense (+Interleaving Unit 1-4 + year 7 Units 11-12). Section on SB included with Si + imperfect + conditional clause to challenge higher abilities
• Unit 6: Saying what I do to help at home (+Interleaving Unit 3)
• Unit 7: Describe a day in the past, present and near future (interleaving of 3 tenses)
• Unit 8: Describe a typical day at school (interleaving of modal verbs)
• Unit 9: DOUBLE UNIT on Technology and Daily routine: Past, Present and Present participle
• Unit 10. DOUBLE UNIT on Social Media and Daily routine in the Past, Present and Present participle (+interleaving on Unit 9)
Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Talk about my birthday" using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Complete with the missing word
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find in the text
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Correct the mistakes in the transcript
Narrow Listening: Find in the text (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Gapped translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Listen and choose the correct translation (audio included)
Structured production translation sentences
Structured paragraph writing
Grammar explanation
Sentence stealer
Mind reading
Running dictation
Un stylo un dé
Delayed dictation
Picture description
Oral Ping Pong
Group composition
Tous pour un et un pour tous
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS2/KS3 topic “My name and my age" using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Complete with the missing word
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find the French for
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Find the mistakes in the French translation
Narrow Listening: Find the French for (audio included)
Narrow Listening; Gapped translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Listen and choose the correct translation (audio included)
Structured production translation sentences
Structured paragraph writing
Grammar explanation
Sentence stealer
Mind reading
Running dictation
Un stylo un dé
Oral Ping Pong
Delayed dictation
Picture description
Group composition
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Describing hair and eyes" using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous two Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01 & 02).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Complete with the missing word
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find the French for
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Gapped translation
Narrow Listening: Bad translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Extra words and intruders (AI video included)
Narrow Listening: Find the French for (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Gapped translation (audio included)
Structured production translation sentences
Structured paragraph writing
Grammar explanation
Sentence stealer
Mind reading
Running dictation
Un stylo un dé
Survey
Communicative drills
Delayed dictation
Picture description
Group composition
Disappearing text
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Describing where I live" using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous three Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01, 02 & 03).**
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Sentence match
This or that
Unjumble the sentences
Gapped translation
Map: True or False
Narrow Reading: Find the French for
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Find the mistakes in the English translation
Narrow Listening: Find the French for (audio included)
Narrow Listening; Answer the questions in English (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Bad translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Faulty transcript (AI video included)
Bad translation
Delayed copying
Structured paragraph writing
Sentence stealer
Oral Ping Pong
No snakes no ladders
Mind reading
Mad dictation
Picture description
Group composition
2x Parallel text dialogues
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Describing myself and others - how I get on with my family" using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous five Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01, 02, 03, 04 & 05).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
This or that
Unjumble the sentences
Faulty translation
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find the French for
Narrow Reading: Answer the questions in English
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Find the mistakes in the English translation
Narrow Listening: Mispronounced words (audio included)
Narrow Listening: The missing words (AI video included)
Narrow Listening: Listen wirte the missing chunks (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Spot the error (audio included)
Structured paragraph writing
Sentence stealer
Oral Ping Pong
Delayed dictation
Mind reading
Group composition
Communicative drills
Find someone who
Auction someone out
Plus vite !
All for one and one for all
Vocab/Chunk test
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Updated January 2025 to add audio recording/AI video
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Describing myself and others - Physical and personality descriptions" using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous four Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01, 02, 03 & 04).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
This or that
Unjumble the sentences
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find the French for
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Correct the mistakes in the English translation
Listening: Fill in the blank
Narrow Listening: Find the French for (AI video included)
Narrow Listening: Gapped translation in English (AI video included)
Faulty transcript LAM (AI video included)
Structured paragraph writing
Sentence stealer
Oral Ping Pong
Extensive grammar practice
No Snakes no ladders
Communicative drills
100% comprehensible input parallel text dialogues x2
Mind reading
Mad dictation
Picture description
Group composition
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Talking about animals" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous six Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01, 02, 03, 04, 05 & 06).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
This or that
Unjumble the sentences
Faulty translation
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find the French for
Narrow Reading: Answer the questions in English
Narrow Reading: Complete the table
Narrow Listening Find the French in the text (Audio included)
Narrow Listening Answer the questions in English (Audio included)
LAM: Mispronounced words (Audio included)
LAM: Missing words (Audio included)
Tangled translation
Shadow tracking
Sentence chaos
Find your match
7 Levels disappearing text
Explicit grammar on adjective agreement and nouns
Sentence stealer
Delayed dictation
Mind reading
Full circle
Group composition
Photo description
All for one and one for all
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 7 topic “Hobbies in the Present and Near future" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs JOUER, ALLER, FAIRE in the present and near future tenses (je/tu/il/elle form) with full retrieval of the previous units.
**PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR THIS UNIT TO BE AS EFFECTIVE AS POSSIBLE, IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE USED AFTER THE PREVIOUS UNIT ON FREE TIME (UNIT 011 : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13171530) **
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the SB
Beat the teacher
Ghost time shadow reading
This or that
Gapped translation
Faulty translation
Unjumble the sentences
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading Find someone who
Narrow Reading gapped translation
LAM - Find the mispronounced words (Audio included)
LAM - Find the intruders x3 texts (Audio included)
LAM - Fill in the missing words x3 texts (Audio included)
LAM - Find the correct translation (AI video included)
Production : Sentence Translation
Production : Narrow translation
Production: Sentence chaos
Production: Quelque chose
Grammar Table on verbs Aller, Faire, Jouer, Manger, Boire, Prendre, Porter in the present and near future
Grammar tasks to practice x4
Sentence stealer
One pen one die
Oral Ping Pong Regular
Oran Ping Pong Super Challenge
Full circle
No Snakes No Ladders
Picture description
Group composition
one for all and all for one
Pull the switch / Parallel dialogue (Regular)
Pull the switch / Parallel dialogue (Extended challenge )
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Opinions about my teachers" using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the first six units uploaded, labelled (01 - 06).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Match up
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
This or that
Faulty translation
Guess my word
Likely or unlikely?
Listen and fill in the gaps
Narrow reading - Find the French for
Narrow Reading - Answer the questions in English
Narrow Reading - Faulty translation in the English
Listening - Sentence bingo
Narrow Listening - Find the French for (audio included)
Narrow Listening - Answer the questions in English (audio included )
Narrow Listening - Fill in the gaps in the English translation (audio included)
Structured production: Tangled translation
Au voleur
Expansion: adjective agreement
Expansion: choose the corrective possessive pronoun between mon/ma
Expansion: practice and explanation of elision (de vs d’)
Autonomy: Delayed dictation
Autonomy: Pyramid translation
Spontaneity: Oral ping pong
Spontaneity: No snakes no ladders
Spontaneity: Picture description
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 7 topic “Talking about hobbies" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs Jouer, Faire and Aller with a second sentence builder that introduces all personal pronouns later down the sequence. This is fully recycled in the next unit, as well as in the Year 8 bundle.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
Complete with the missing letters
Multiple choice quiz
Sentence match
This or that quiz
Break the flow
Gapped translation
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading Comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Bad translation
LAM Collocation grids
Narrow Listening Tick or Cross (audio included)
Narrow Listening Gapped translation (audio included)
LAM Faulty transcript (audio included)
LAM Shadow reading (audio included)
Production : Jigsaw translation
Production : Narrow translation
Grammar SB
Grammar explanation on “Jouer + sport / instruments”
Grammar explanation on “Faire + activities”
Running dictation
Sentence stealer
Photo description
Group composition
One for all and all for one
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Talking about jobs" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous seven Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01 - 07).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Beat the teacher
This or that
Unjumble the sentences
Fill the gaps
Likely or unlikely?
Listening Bingo
Narrow Reading: Find the French for
Narrow Reading: Answer the questions in English
Narrow Reading: Complete the table
Narrow Listening: Find the French for (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Correct the mistakes in the transcript (audio included)
Narrow Listening; Gapped translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Listen and choose the correct translation (audio included)
Jumbled translation
Mosaic translation
Explicit grammar on Travailler and Être
Sentence stealer
Delayed dictation
Mind reading
Staircase translation
Photo description
Dictogloss
4,3,2 Technique
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 7 topic “Making comparisons" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous eight Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01 - 08).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Beat the teacher
Sentence match
Fill the gaps
Faulty translation
Narrow reading: Tick and Cross
Narrow Reading: Comprehension
Narrow Reading: Faulty translation
Listening Bingo
Narrow Listening: Find the French for (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Gapped translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Find the correct translation (AI video included)
Narrow Listening: Match picture with audio (audio included)
Translation Auction
Narrow Translation
Sentence stealer
Pyramid Translation
Mind reading
Chain Reaction
Photo description
Group composition
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 7 topic “Talking about School items" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous nine Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01 - 09).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Beat the teacher
Multiple Choice
Likely or unlikely?
Faulty translation
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading Comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Faulty translation
Listening Bingo
Narrow Listening: Find the French for (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Find someone who (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Les mots qui manquent et les mots en trop (audio included)
3x translation tasks for structured production
Tangled Translation
1x Grammar Sentence builder all persons for AVOIR
4 grammar tasks to match Sentence Builder
1 Pen 1 di
Sentence stealer
Mind reading
Photo description
Group composition
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This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 7 topic “Talking about future holidays" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is the near future using the “je” and “nous” pronouns.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Find the French for in the SB
Faulty echo
Match up
Multiple choice x2
Beat the teacher
Broken words
Sentence match
Narrow reading Find the French For
Narrow Reading English comprehension questions
Narrow Reading Find someone who
LAM - Listening : Collocations / Colligations training
LAM - Narrow Listening Find the French for (audio included)
LAM - Narrow Listening Gapped translation (audio included)
LAM - Which is the correct translations? (AI video included)
Production : Narrow translation (3 paragraphs)
Grammar explanation on near future + practice
Sentence stealer
Disappearing text
Mad dictation
Group composition
4,3,2
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