French Teaching Resources. The Near Future Tense & New Year's Resolutions PowerPoint & Battleships.

The first slide encourages the students to actively engage with the new vocabulary and grammar: working in teams, using their prior knowledge, knowledge of other languages and using a process of elimination to figure out the meanings and rules. They then discuss the pronunciation and question each other before the teacher checks with the whole class.

Key expressions:

Je vais arriver à l’heure.
Je vais faire mes devoirs.
Je vais écouter mon professeur.
Je vais me coucher de bonne heure.
Je vais ranger ma chambre.


The next slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English, the formation and to drill.

The next section of slides have multiple choice questions. Then there are "what's missing?" slides. The next slide has pictures of all the phrases. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If its the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins!

The next slide summarises the formation of the Near Future and the following slide looks at the conjugation of aller.

The last 3 slides can be used for a re-cap at the end of the lesson or the beginning of the next lesson.

You may then wish to use my Battleships Game/ Lotto grid to consolidate this knowledge.

Expressions:

Je vais
Tu vas
Il va
Elle va
On va
Nous allons
Vous allez
Ils vont
Elles vont

arriver à l’heure.
faire les devoirs.
écouter le professeur.
me/te/se/nous/vous/se coucher de bonne heure.
ranger ma/ta/sa/notre/ votre/leur chambre.
manger des fruits.

Battleships Game
Instructions
Firstly I ask the students to work independently in pairs to translate the expressions and discuss the pronunciation.

I then check the translations and drill pronunciation with the whole class before they play the game. The students secretly choose 5 squares on the top grid and then try to guess which 5 squares their partner has chosen, filling in the bottom grid with “hit” and “miss.” To choose a square say a phrase from the horizontal line and complete the sentence with a phrase from the vertical line. Where the 2 phrases meet up is the square you have chosen.

I use the English language sheet to further challenge the students: they should place this on top of the French version and then try to play the game saying the French phrases as far as possible from memory. I allow the really weak students to have the French version next to the English version so they have lots of support