My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
This powerpoint teachers numbers from 1-20 in French. It also reinforces or introduces age and years in French, in addition to how to express one’s age and when one was born in French. There are also follow up activities in this powerpoint such as picture pairs and French mathematics.
This resource exclusively explores which items can be found in which shops, as well as the preposition ‘de’.
There are lots of follow-up differentiated activities and attached, is a vocabulary sheet.
This resource is geared towards Key Stage 3 and it is compatible with Tricolore 2.
Happy teaching and learning!
This is the fourth installment of the test papers series which I have devised following my teaching from Tricolore 1 text book which I use to teach my year 7 students.
The content of the test is as follows:
Pets and animals
Colours and gender agreement
Adjectives describing pets
Differences between the use of ‘tu’ or ‘vous’
This pack contains the following:
One listening test paper
One reading, grammar and writing test paper
The audio file for the listening test
A copy of the listening transcript
The mark scheme
This resource is designed for students of Key Stage 3 (primarily year 7 students) (First form in Northern Ireland) or learners of post-Key Stage 3 age who are learning French for the first time.
Pleas note that this resource is linked to the 5th Edition of the Tricolore 1 textbook and not the former ones.
Happy teaching and learning!
This is the fifth installment of the test papers series which I have devised following my teaching from Tricolore 1 text book which I use to teach my year 7 students.
The content of the test is as follows:
Numbers 1-100
Months of the years and dates
Various festivals in France
Expressing cost
Various birthday gifts
Clothes
Use of the ‘avoir’ and ‘être’ in the present tense
Plurality of nouns
This pack contains the following:
One listening test paper
One reading, grammar and writing test paper
The audio file for the listening test
A copy of the listening transcript
The mark scheme
This resource is designed for students of Key Stage 3 (primarily year 7 students) (First form in Northern Ireland) or learners of post-Key Stage 3 age who are learning French for the first time.
Pleas note that this resource is linked to the 5th Edition of the Tricolore 1 textbook and not the former ones.
Happy teaching and learning!
This powerpoint presents possessive adjectives for ‘mon’, ‘ma’ and ‘mes’ in the context of family members. It is a good introduction for Key Stage 2-3 learners as there are follow up activities which follow.
Happy teaching and learning!
This is the second installment of the test papers series which I have devised following my teaching from Tricolore 1 text book which I use to teach my year 7 students.
The content of the test is as follows:
Numbers 1-30
Days of the week
Where one lives
Prepositions used in expressing where one lives
This pack contains the following:
One listening test paper
One reading, grammar and writing test paper
The audio file for the listening test
A copy of the listening transcript
The mark scheme
This resource is designed for students of Key Stage 3 (primarily year 7 students) (First form in Northern Ireland) or learners of post-Key Stage 3 age who are learning French for the first time.
Pleas note that this resource is linked to the 5th Edition of the Tricolore 1 textbook and not the former ones.
Happy teaching and learning!
This is the first installment of the test papers series which I have devised following my teaching from Tricolore 1 text book which I use to teach my year 7 students.
The content of the test is as follows:
Numbers 1-20
General greetings
The use of the definite article ‘le’, ‘la’, ‘les’ and ‘l’’
This pack contains the following:
One listening test paper
One reading, grammar and writing test paper
The audio file for the listening test
A copy of the listening transcript
The mark scheme
This resource is designed for students of Key Stage 3 (primarily year 7 students) (First form in Northern Ireland) or learners of post-Key Stage 3 age who are learning French for the first time.
Pleas note that this resource is linked to the 5th Edition of the Tricolore 1 textbook and not the former ones.
Happy teaching and learning!
Here is a resource which outlines the use of ‘apres avoir/etre/s’etre + past participle’ construction and there are many activities which reinforce this.
This activity is geared at IGCSE level.
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the tenth installment of months of the year, weather and seasons. This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of September and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-31 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in October. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ octobre’.
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il ne fait plus chaud’, ‘il est orageux’ and ‘il y a une inondation’.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the autumn picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also differentiated homework which revises the weather vocabulary from January to October.
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the fourth installment of indirect object pronouns when using both the present tense and the perfect tense. Indirect object pronouns are widely covered in the IGCSE syllabus.
There are plenty of examples in the target language in a cartoon format with follow-up checkpoint questions in English. There are many differentiated activities for consolidation.
Do keep an eye out for the fifth sequel installment. This will be available soon.
Happy teaching and learning!
This classroom displays depicts 105 different places in the town in French from A-Z!! YES, that’s right, 105!!
Each poster is very informative as it contains the place in the town in French with the name in English using both the definite and indefinite article as appropriate, alongside the preposition ‘à’ with its meaning in English.
You don’t need to necessarily put up all 105 posters, but the classroom would look absolutely bright, engaging and colourful if you did! You can of course be very selective and put up the most common ones but it is of course up to you!!
Also included in this resource, are 20 different things that can be found in the town, such as the bus stop, telephone box, level crossing, etc. Feel free to put those up as well!
Happy teaching and learning!
Hello everyone and welcome!
This powerpoint exclusively explores the four different ways of using the four different interrogative words for ‘which’ in French.
The first activity revises the demonstrative adjectives which the students could do as a warm-up activity. Subsequently, the powerpoint introduces the four different ways to express ‘which’ in French. As each one is explored, display each poster in the classroom to illustrate each meaning and it is a very resourceful way to make use of the working walls in the classroom. Throughout the powerpoint, the students will be acquainted with the verb ‘acheter’ and its conjugation. The students can note its conjugation as they progress through the powerpoint. When the students begin the production stage of the lesson, they can complete the activity on page 59 of the slide. The activities are differentiated and the students can choose which level best suits them. The answers are provided on the subsequent slides of the powerpoint.
There is also a Kahoot quiz available on my account. The links are as follows:
Level 1: https://create.kahoot.it/share/quel-quelle-quels-quelles-niveau-1/b03f2ee0-c8cd-4f72-bb34-28629bd7692d
Level 2: https://create.kahoot.it/share/quel-quelle-quels-quelles/42cb20a2-3bb6-43ad-9b55-326bb82db022
Happy teaching and learning!
This powerpoint teachers numbers from 1-30 in French. It also reinforces or introduces age and (for the gifted and talented) years in French, in addition to how to express one’s age and when one was born in French, but of course, this part is optional. If you don’t wish to introduce the numbers in the context of age, this is absolutely fine and you can just introduce them non-contextually, i.e. 'Répétez après moi - ‘un’, ‘un’, ‘deux’, ‘deux’, etc.
After having introduced the numbers, try out the listening comprehension and it is differentiated into two different levels. For level 1 (lower level), the students choose the correct answer according to the number they hear. For level 2 (higher level), they have a choice of 30 answers to choose from and they can simply colour in the box according to what they hear.
There are also follow up activities in this powerpoint such as picture pairs, French mathematics and a wordsearch. There is also a handout available with this resource that you cna print and distribute to the class.
There are also four differentiated quizzes on kahoot based on French calculations which reinforces numbers 1-30 and they are defined as follows:
Level 1 - Choose the correct answer and they have a minute to answer
Level 2 - Choose the correct answer and they have 30 seconds to answer
Level 3 - Choose the correct answer and they have only 10 seconds to answer
Level 4 - Type the answer in words and they only have 20 seconds to answer
The links to all of the quizzes are provided at the end of the powerpoint.
When you have finished teaching the numbers and when you feel the students have sufficiently mastered them, get them to complete the reflection slip which is also attached to this resource, so they can reflect on how much they have mastered the numbers. It is titled as ‘Numbers 1-30 - Reflection’.
Happy teaching and learning!
This worksheet gives students the opportunity to build up on their vocabulary by searching for French synonyms and also further practise these new words. A very useful tool when developing learners' writing in preparation for the exam. This worksheet is geared towards very high achieving students, gifted and talented learners and learners whose native tongue is French.
This resource is made up from the topic from the Tricolore 2 textbook (5th edition) on page 24 which is about European countries and their prepositions.
The students find the 20 countries in the wordsearch with their preposition and write up the country names in the appropriate tables overleaf.
This resource is geared for Key Stage 3 learners.
Happy teaching and learning!
The second part of the assessment after having successfully completed Stage 1: The present tense and Stage 1-9: Test on the present tense. This part is more comprehensive, although it only focuses on the present tense. There are twenty-five missing answers where students enter the correct conjugation of the verb accordingly.
The time limit you set your students to complete this task, is completely up to you, but I would recommend 15 minutes. The answers to this assessment are available at the cost of £2.
Welcome to the eighth installment of learning about the rooms in the house and there will be more future installments concerning extended rooms of the house
This installment is about the attic and associated objects.
Go through the powerpoint reviewing the previously-learnt rooms of the house and the associated objects. Next, review the new prepositions and then introduce the attic with the associated objects. There is a subsequent quiz with differentiated questions.
There are differentiated workbooks available.
Level 1 (Niveau 1) - Lower level
Level 2 (Niveau 2) - Higher level
Get the students to colour in the things in the attic and the prepositions and unscramble the words on the first few pages of the workbook. Next, cut out and stick in the pictures of the images featuring the masculine words and the feminine words. Then, the children need to complete the missing words by choosing the words below. The next few pages contains the listening tasks. Play the attached recording and the children then answer the questions. Then, the children need to draw the attic, according to the instructions. On the last few pages, they complete the spot the difference activity and then complete the wordsearch.
There is a bingo sheet available which could be used as a plenary or the starter of the next lesson.
There are now subsequent installments available on my online shop. Feel free to take a look at them!
Happy teaching and learning!
Joyeux Noël and welcome to the special addition of the house which is all Christmas themed!!
This edition is assumed that the children have already learned the prepositions, the rooms of the house alongside the associated items and there is a preliminary quiz and various activities which reinforces this. This edition is very heavily differentiated which is tailored to the needs of the children, whatever their level.
The main powerpoint explores various Christmas items with constant reinforcement and then followed by a quiz.
There are also differentiated workbooks available in this pack and there are many activities which consolidate the learning of the Christmas vocabulary, including making a Christmas card!!
The activities in the workbooks are as follows:
Unscramble the words and colour in the pictures.
The next section looks at the prepositions and once again, the children can choose the correct words in the white box below.
Next, the gender of the words is explored and the children cut out and paste the pictures with the correct label. They can colour them in too if they wish.
Next is the listening comprehension. The first part looks at single words and the children write the correct letter in the box according to the word. The second part is more complex and is formatted as ‘true or false’ questions. The children listen to the sentences and look at the picture and decide if the sentences are true or false. 8 sentences will be ‘true’ and 8 will be ‘false’.
In the next section, the children fill in the missing words in the sentences by choosing the choice of answers in the box below the picture.
The children read the instructions of the living room and the garden and they cut out and paste the pictures according to the given instructions.
Spot the differences - children write down any 10 differences between the two pictures. If there is insufficient space in the workbook, they can write them in their exercise book. There is vocabulary available below the picture in order to assist them with this and you can model some example answers with them and use assessment for learning techniques to show they understand if required.
Make a French Christmas card!! They can be as creative as the wish!!
Complete the word search!!
There are also supplementary and differentiated bingo sheets available which focuses on Christmas!
I hope you enjoy this pack and I wish you a very Merry Christmas!!
Welcome to the seventh installment of learning about the rooms in the house.
This installment is about the cellar and associated objects.
Go through the powerpoint introducing the previous leartn rooms of the house with its associated vocabulary and the prepositions first and then introduce the cellar with the associated objects. There is a subsequent quiz with differentiated questions.
There are differentiated workbooks available.
Level 1 (Niveau 1) - Lower level
Level 2 (Niveau 2) - Higher level
Get the students to colour in the things in the cellar, unscramble the words and write in the prepositions on the first few pages of the workbook. Next, cut out and stick in the pictures of the images featuring the masculine words and the feminine words. Then, the children need to complete the missing words by choosing the words below. The next few pages contains the listening tasks. Play the attached recording and the children then answer the questions. Then, the children need to draw the cellar, according to the instructions. On the last few pages, they complete the spot the difference activity and then complete the wordsearch.
There is a bingo sheet available which could be used as a plenary or the starter of the next lesson.
There are now subsequent installments available on my online shop. Feel free to take a look at them!
Happy teaching and learning!
Drill practice using the perfect subjunctive in French for those who find the formation difficult. This is the final stage as tenses beyond this level are incredibly rare. This stage is the toughest level, however this activity primarily focuses on the perfect tense in subjunctive format in all possible formation of regular and irregular verbs, which also include number and gender. This activity also revises Stage 8: The present subjunctive, Stage 7: The past conditional, Stage 6: The conditional, Stage 5: The future, Stage 4: The pluperfect tense, Stage 3: The imperfect tense, Stage 2: The perfect tense, Stage 1: The present tense. This activity is carried out in eight stages:
Stage 1: Common basic irregular verbs: Aller, Faire, Avoir, Etre, Boire, Ouvrir, Prendre, Croire
Stage 2: Regular -er verbs: Parler, Manger, Regarder, Partager, Entrer, Porter, Essayer, Envoyer
Stage 3: Regular -ir verbs: Finir, Ralentir, Choisir, Grandir, Fournir, Batir
Stage 4: Regular -re verbs: Vendre, Rendre, Attendre, Perdre, Repondre, Descendre, Entendre, Tendre
Stage 5: Irregular -re verbs: Dire, Lire, Mettre, Ecrire, Suivre, Craindre, Comprendre, Inclure
Stage 6: Irregular -ir verbs: Voir, Vouloir, Pouvoir, Savoir, Devoir Recevoir
Stage 7: More irregular -ir verbs and intransitive verbs (verbs that take 'etre'): Tenir, Venir, Partir, Sortir, Revenir, Mourir
Stage 8: Impersonal verbs and sample reflexive verbs: Pleuvoir, Falloir, Valoir, S'agir, Se reposer, S'attendre, Se souvenir
It is difficult at times to remember the conjugation of the tenses which is why I have designed these activities as means of becoming deeply acquainted with the conjugation. Repetition is the key! There are two tests available which are titled as 'Partie 9-9: Test au subjonctif au passe' and 'Partie 9-9a: Test au niveau superieur'. Upon successfully passing these tests, your level of mastering the tenses in French would closely demonstrate characteristics of A2 level/Pre-University level.