Group activity. Once pupils familiar with vocabulary to describe houses, this can be attempted. First activity: fill in the sheet with the boxes by reading the letter text. Next, each group has a colour picture of a house and tries to create a description of it. They can then present the description to the class who can (hopefully) work out which house they are describing.

Vocab' sheet and guide to create a speaking test on food.

Very simple sports wordsearch. Encourage them to draw or write the meaning in the boxes once they've found the French words. Could be good for a starter for weaker groups.

Leisure activities to categorise into genders.

Both verbs written out with gaps to fill in. Makes a good test to see if pupils have learnt the verbs! Or good quick revision starter.

A powerpoint to introduce basic hobbies. Colour coded vocabulary items to show masc/fem/vowel. Due to be updated so watch for a new version…

Simple worksheet for Y7 about basic greetings.

A simple presentation to encourage positive attitudes to foreign language learning.

Simple powerpoint to introduce which floor of a building. Mice will appear on the last slide to generate speaking.

A log for pupils to note when they use TL (French) in the classroom. They monitor and tell you when they've achieved a reward which you can tailor to your own school's rewards system.

A carousel activity on hobbies to encourage all four skills and independent learning.

Parts of the body on a skeleton to label and learn.

Good for cover or settling work! Weather phrases to combine with clothes you'd wear or activities you do (so assumes some prior knowledge or a vocab' sheet...). Present tense but last writing task is open for more able. Write on double-sided (or reduced) sheet or write in exercise book.

La routine quotidienne French daily routine worksheet This worksheet is great for cover or just to consolidate reflexive verbs in French. The language used assumes prior knowledge of daily routine verbs and activities. Question 1 Fill the gaps with the reflexive pronouns Question 2 Fill in the daily routine verbs Question 3 Translate ex1 and ex2 Question 4 Write out the daily routine from the image and time cues Question 5 Open-ended writing task to write own routine paragraph with times. Suggested extension: write out the routine of a family member so that learners can use third person verbs

A vocab' sheet to help with household chores words.

French : Les voyages - CATEGORIES What is this resource? Lots of sentences or questions to categorise into four columns or sections. The categories are given in French. Encourages independent learning! (clever clogs children will notice the upside down help at the bottom of the worksheet…). Good for cover work. To extend, learners could translate all of the sentences into English or make dialogues Not printed this for a while, so let me know if it needs altering at all if it doesn’t come out right!

Petits Boulots: French vocabulary presentation with pictures for jobs around the house plus opinions to use as an aide-mémoire or a way to introduce the words. Good for HW learning or cover.

FRENCH Routine quotidienne DAILY ROUTINE Learners have images and daily routine scaffolding where they must fill the gaps in the routine sentences. The language used is basic phrases and vocabulary in order to give extra support in daily routine assessment. The A4 strip is a structured vocabulary test with scores and leading to extension writing on daily routine phrases. Two strips the same, side by side for easy of printing. You should be able to get an idea of it in the preview image.

Rapports Personnels French: Personal Relationships A bilingual vocabulary list about personal relationships in English and French. Should help to develop this tricky to articulate topic!

Grids of avoir and être to print and learn. Check they are correct and they can keep it as a reference sheet.