In amongst the madness that is modern-day teaching, I still find time (somehow) and enjoy creating my own resources, from Key Stage 3 worksheets and PowerPoint presentations to Key Stage 5 model A-Level French & German essays, and everything in between. PLEASE leave an honest review if you purchase any of my resources! Thanks, Paul
In amongst the madness that is modern-day teaching, I still find time (somehow) and enjoy creating my own resources, from Key Stage 3 worksheets and PowerPoint presentations to Key Stage 5 model A-Level French & German essays, and everything in between. PLEASE leave an honest review if you purchase any of my resources! Thanks, Paul
1) A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine French Model Essay - Main themes of film director and reaction
My response to the A-level essay question Analysez les principaux thèmes ou les principales idées du metteur en scène que vous avez étudié. Comment avez-vous réagi à ces thèmes ou à ces idées ? which is relevant for either the legacy or the new-style A-level courses. This is a great model resource to discuss the importance of structure and to access for vocabulary and essay-writing phrases. We discuss the importance of the PEE model (Point-Evidence-Evaluation) and sometimes get pupils to do group work whereby each group evaluates a paragraph and explains PEE in each to other groups. ***NOW INCLUDES ASSOCIATED EXERCISES FOR PUPILS, INCLUDING PHRASE-FINDER AND TRANSLATION OF EXPRESSIONS WITHIN ESSAY***
"I think this essay will be helpful to any students struggling to get to grips with the demands of the challenge of writing a target language essay on a cultural topic. It would serve as a sound model for how to structure a sufficiently well-argued response, and demonstrates effectively how details should be adduced to explain and justify the points raised."
2) A2 FRENCH La Haine A2 Model Essay - Points positifs et aspects qu'on pourrait critiquer + exercises
A model essay on La Haine for the A2 French cultural studies essay writing question "Quels aspects de l’œuvre du metteur en scène que vous avez etudié est-ce que vous trouvez plutôt positifs ? Est-ce qu’il y a des aspects de l’œuvre que vous critiqueriez ? Expliquez pourquoi."
This resource includes a 732-word model essay with a variety of points, vocabulary and grammatical structures and also 3 exercises for pupils to complete, including a vocabulary finder task, a reading comprehension and target language response task, and a third task which invites pupils to think of further positives and criticisms of La Haine.
3) La Haine A2 FRENCH Model Essay - Le facteur le plus important pour le succès du film
Another model essay in response to an A2 essay writing question from the AQA FREN3 June 2013 Q14b. This can be accessed in a variety of ways in order to help pupils make progress with their essay writing.
4) La Haine A2 Model Essay - How does the film's director seek to provoke strong emotions among viewers
A model A2 French essay on the film La Haine and on how Kassovitz seeks to provoke strong emotions among viewers.
5) La Haine A2 Model Essay - Influences of director
An exemplar model A2 French essay I wrote on the film La Haine about the influences of the film's director Mathieu Kassovitz. It has a few comprehension exercises thereafter.
5* "Thank you very much for this essay. I really like the exercises at the end too." Mlle Pierre
5* "Excellent - very useful resource. I am not teaching La Haine but it has still provided some valuable inspiration to help support my students on the film we are studying" afyvvmc
6) La Haine A2 Model Essay - To what extent does originality play a role in the film's success
A model A2 French essay on the film La Haine. Pupils could be asked to pick out key vocabulary, identify structures used, adapt ideas or even pick out key points made, evidence presented or evaluation made.
Extent originality contributes to success
Some of the essays have accompanying exercises. Bundle price 18% cheaper than buying essays individually.
I have used these writing and speaking support frameworks with the new AQA GCSE specification to help pupils produce more accurate and varied written ideas, and to support with answering target language questions spontaneously with greater confidence.
The foundation framework includes key verbs in past, imperfect, present, near future tenses as well as key time markers, adverbs and conjunctions.
The higher framework includes a wider range of both regular and irregular verbs in past, imperfect, present, near future tenses, future and conditional tenses as well as a range of time markers, adverbs and conjunctions. They also have reflexive verbs in the tenses listed above, as well as complex structures, including passive voice, subjunctive mood, perfect subjunctive, perfect infinitives, present participles, the conditional perfect and si clauses.
These are very popular with the pupils, and can be laminated on A3 or used as A4 inserts in exercise books.
Two useful insert for pupils to keep at the back of their books and/or to laminate on A3 for pupils to use when responding to 40, 90, and 150-word GCSE writing tasks.
The foundation sheet has key verbs in past, present and future, as well as some common connectives and time phrases. This can be used by pupils to create simple and accurate responses to 40- and 90-word writing tasks in conjunction cognates and near-cognates and foundation level topic-specific vocabulary. I have even used this for my able KS3 Y8 classes.
The higher sheet is double-sided and alongside a wider range of categorised verbs in past, present, future and conditional, it also includes examples of generic complex structures which could be incorporated into written responses to 90- and 150-word tasks.
Feedback from pupils has been wholly positive, and these have also been useful in encouraging greater verbal responses from pupils in speaking tasks.
I designed a lesson for my able Year 8 French group which could also be suited to GCSE students based around a past disasterous visit to a fictitious French restaurant. The lesson revolves around a differentiated reading comprehension task based on reviews of people’s experiences at La Bouffe restaurant. This culminates in students being asked to write their own restaurant reviews about a visit. Some may wish to use an online voice recorder, such as Vocaroo to record and submit their restaurant reviews.
Two useful insert for pupils to keep at the back of their books and/or to laminate on A3 for pupils to use when responding to 40, 90, and 150-word GCSE writing tasks.
The foundation sheet has key verbs in past, present and near future, as well as some common connectives and time phrases. This can be used by pupils to create simple and accurate responses to 40- and 90-word writing tasks in conjunction cognates and near-cognates and foundation level topic-specific vocabulary. I have even used this for my able KS3 Y8 classes.
The higher sheet is double-sided and alongside a wider range of categorised verbs in past, present, future, near future and conditional, it also includes examples of generic complex structures which could be incorporated into written responses to 90- and 150-word tasks.
Feedback from pupils has been wholly positive, and these have also been useful in encouraging greater verbal responses from pupils in speaking tasks.
A 618-word response to Q8.2 in the AQA’s recently published November 2020 A-Level French Paper 2 resource based on the novel Kiffe kiffe demain.
« Ce qui rend la vie supportable pour les personnages dans ce roman, c’est la qualité des rapports qui existent entre eux. » Dans quelle mesure êtes-vous d’accord avec ce jugement ?
The essay contains 3 main paragraphs, as well as an intro and conclusion. Each paragraph contains a clear point linked to the title itself, as well as specific evidence and then developed evaluation.
This model can be explored in a variety of ways to look at essay structure, in particular the weighting of point-evidence-evaluation within paragraphs, grammatical structures or vocabulary.
Useful resource I created for all my GCSE French classes and also my KS3 top sets. Key verbs in 3 tenses and also time markers and conjunctions. These phrases are the high frequency type of expressions used in speaking and writing and it now includes phonetics for each one.
Phonics-focused lesson geared towards GCSE-level pupils on the topic of Music. Includes a retrieval practice starter which can easily be adapted to suit prior learning/topics.
Activity based around a Stromae song which includes examples of the phonics.
There are then some modelling and repetition of vocab from the topic of Music, TV & Cinema from the AQA spec, as well as a differentiated listening and transcribing task with answers and suggested WWW/EBIs.
A detailed booklet of 22 themes and page-referenced quotes/examples for each which corresponds to the edition by the publisher Livre de Poche Jeunesse
(ISBN: 9782012490185). My AS and A-level students have found this to be a really useful resource when looking for evidence to include in essay responses.
This is not a workbook with activities, but a booklet with categorised examples whose purpose it is to be accessed a crutch when completing or when preparing for AS and A-level essays on the Kiffe Kiffe Demain novel.
A 28- page French helping hand booklet, which can be used from Year 7 right up to those struggling in Sixth Form. Contents include;
Foundation level GCSE key verbs
Higher level GCSE key verbs – 8-9 stuff
Articles & Genders of nouns
Connectives and conjunctions
Opinion phrases – 8-9 stuff
Tenses
Qualifiers
Fancy adjectives – 8-9 stuff
Time phrases
Sequencers
Relative clauses – 8-9 stuff
Comparisons and superlatives
Infinitive phrases
Idioms – 8-9 stuff
Photo Card language
Phonics
Response from pupils and colleagues has been very positive, and this can be tailored by simply removing pages to suit KS3.
A 522-word model essay responding to the 2022 A-level Paper 2 question on La Haine entitled “Analysez les moyens par lesquels Kassovitz présente le thème du conflit dans le film. Comment jugez-vous son traitement de ce thème ?”. The piece includes a wide range of vocabulary and structures to exploit as a model, and sticks loyally to the point, evidence, evalutaion/analysis model.
This makes for a useful model essay resource in preparing A-level pupils for the Paper 2 exam.
A 598-word model essay based on the 2018 A-Level French AQA Paper 2 title : “Analysez comment les différents aspects de l’amour sont présentés dans Kiffe Kiffe Demain”. This includes an introduction, three main paragrapghs using point evidence and analysis as well as a conclusion to definitively answer the question. This can be exploited in a variety of ways with students to explore structure, new vocabulary, grammar and so on.
