French IGCSE Edexcel: PALMS speaking mat for photo description

Prepare your Year 10 and Year 11 students for the IGCSE Edexcel French photo description oral exam with this speaking mat.

Using the PALMS method (People, Action, Location, Mood, and Season), it gives your students a clear structure to follow, helping them add depth and detail to their answers. It also includes key phrases for clothes and seasons, along with some complex structures to push their responses to higher levels.

This resource is ideal for preparing students thoroughly for the picture-based task, a key component of their speaking exam. It can be laminated, displayed in the classroom, glued into their books for easy access or shared with your students digitally.

You will get access to the PDF file, a link to the Google Slide document for you to copy and edit and an editable PPTX version, so you can easily adapt it to suit the specific vocabulary you have covered in your lessons.

PPTX: to keep the format as it is, you will need to download the following fonts “Patrick Hand” and “Luckiest Guy” (available on Google Slides)