Great activity to push student’s writing across KS3 or GCSE. Students are journalist for a gossip magazine and must use a range of vocab, adjectives, adverbs, opinion phrases with reason (simple or complex) This sheet can be adapted for any tense (present or past) and levels (I used it with my year 9 and GCSE classes for instance)

Exercises to push speaking. Context: at the commercial centre. Lots of useful vocab and 3 speaking situations to practise in class.

Worksheet to build up vocab and sentences through 5 exercises of match up and translation exercises focusing on: 1. vocab of facilities 2. advanced adjectives to describe them 3. what you can do in the facilities using “on peut” + infinitive 4. using higher features to describe the school such as si clause, conditional, conectives, adverbs. The aim is for them to be able to produce a paragraph (or in speaking) on their school.

Worksheet to develop students’ answer on their daily routine at school. It includes 4 exercises: gap fill activity to conjugate verbs in present tense, vocab search, speaking activity with typical GCSE questions, writing task. Great to develop vocab and ideas.

Les différences entre le système scolaire français et britannique - worksheet to search independently differences between the French and British system and to develop opinion with a range of vocab and structures.

Worksheet with arguments for and against uniform in school and talking about uniform in France. Match up, translation, reading and speaking or writing exercises included.

Arguments for and against arguments with translation. Then writing (or speaking) using the main vocab to develop opinions with complex reasons. Ideal for GCSE School topic.

Worksheet to develop opinions on subjects (adjectives, adverbs, etc.) Translation, reading, writing and signature game. Ideal for GCSE topic of School.

Les vacances - questions dans tous les temps à préparer à l’écrit ou à l’oral pour l’unité GCSE “Holidays”

Reading comprehension on school life in the past tense. It includes: rvocabulary exercise, gap fill past tense exercise, translation, speaking/writing GCSE questions. The text is great to use as a frame for writing with the use of verbs in the past and connectives.

Reading comprehension including 5 activities: questions on the text, word sorting (verbs, adjectives, connectives), vocabulary, translation and speaking/writing questions to answer. Excellent to expand vocabulary and structure speaking/writing production (the text can be used as a writing frame) and for culture (finding out about Montpellier).

Text to give students an example of production on the topic of “my town” with 4 exercises: reading comprehension, vocabulary, translation and written/oral production. Excellent for KS3 or GCSE.

Great online project to do in class time or as homework for student to use all the vocab from “My Town” unit in GCSE. Could be linked with the topic of holiday too. Students have to plan an exchange in France and have to go through a series of 10 questions to build up their project. They can present it to the class, send it online or print it. Excellent for independent learning and cultural knowledge as they have to research information on a French town.

Ideas, quotes, possible plan for an essay on the theme of youth in the film La Haine from Matthieu Kassovitz.

Reading comprehension on the living conditions of the prisonners in Marseille, France. Exercises on vocabulary, reading comprehension, speaking, summary, translation. Great to develop skills and get students talking, giving them further specific facts. Vocab answers included.

Reading practice to give students a lot of facts about immigration and fight stereotypes. Vocabulary, comprehension, discussion and translation exercises.

Worksheet on a video about immigration in France. Listening, speaking and writing exercises. Great to give students more background to their arguments before, eventually, formulating them.

Lesson to make students reflect on how Joseph is portrayed in the film Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle) The Powerpoints not only gives them ideas but prompt them to reflect and to eventually come up with an essay plan.

Lesson to make students reflect on how antisemitism is portrayed in the film Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle) The Powerpoints not only gives them ideas but prompt them to reflect and to eventually come up with an essay plan.

5 exercises to use si clauses in the context of the film Au Revoir Les Enfants by Louis Malle. It contains grammar rule gap fill, verb conjugation gap fill and 2 sets of translations (FR>EN and EN>FR), and a creative exercise. Answers are included.