French Teaching Resources. GCSE Listening & Reading Key Vocab Starter Activity.

This two slide PowerPoint can be used to practise the following vocabulary which has caught out some of my GCSE students in their Listening and Reading papers:

Ne...pas
Ne...rien
Ne...jamais
Ne...que
Maintenant
De nos jours
D’habitude
De temps en temps
Tous les jours
Avant
L’année dernière
Dans l’avenir
L’année prochaine
Trop
Un peu
Seulement
Souvent
Toujours
Quelquefois
Surtout
La plupart
Certain
Tellement
Rarement
Assez
Beaucoup
Par contre
Même si
Si
Sans
Le matin
Le soir
Parfois

It can be used at the beginning of term and throughout the school year.

I give the students time in team to translate the expressions and to discuss the pronunciation. I then use the vocabulary either for a game of lotto/ bingo or for a game of "slap the board" whereby I divide the students into 2 teams and line them up in front of the interactive whiteboard. One student from each team steps up and I say the English expression. The students race to slap the correct phrase to win a point for their team.

The second slide has a link to the fabulous free classroomtool.net website where I have added the vocabulary to a fruit machine. The students compete against each other in pairs to shout out the correct translation. Fun and loud!

Enjoy!