Taboo is a great and challenging activity to do with the pupils. Here are some examples. The word the other pupil(s) has/have to guess is in bold on each card and the person with that word has to describe it in French without mentioning the other words underneath.

My students LOVE Donate or Steal and this is an alternative version. There are other Donate or Steal templates available. In teams (blue & red), pupils answer a question and choose a square from the opponents’ grid. Their opponents then get that score. They are allowed to steal one score only from their opponents throughout the game. An ‘X’ is a wipeout and wipes the opponents’ score. Here, teams can choose to use one of their stars on the score for the opposite team. This can be used only on the opposite team’s total score, not the score they have just revealed. This has to be done straight after revealing the opposite team’s score. It can only be used once – click on the star to use it.

A bit like '20 Questions'. This is a list of questions in French that pupils ask to guess the word someone is think of. The person thinking of a word is allowed to answer only 'oui' or 'non'.

The text is using the imperfect tense to talk about where you used to live. Read the text to the class (or get them to read it). In 2 teams, they then choose one of the English words/phrases at the bottom and find the correct French equivalent in the text. If they are right, click on the English to reveal a random score for their team. A good way to make reading a bit more interesting and fun.

Print this writing wheel out for pupils to use when writing a simple short paragraph about where they live. Work from the centre outwards, using the extra phrases around the edge for extra information.

Pupils work in pairs to read the paragraph about rooms in the house. Each pupil has the same paragraph, but with gaps in different places. By reading to each other, they fill in the gaps in their own paragraph, promoting speaking, listening and transcription skills.

Perfect practice for GCSE students and their speaking skills. A simple but effective board game, using counters and dice, practising talking about where you live. At different places on the board, students must, for example, talk about advantages and disadvantages, say where they would like to live in the future, etc.

Team game. Pupils choose a number from the grid. When you click on the number and reveal a word or phrase, they must translate it to gain a point for their team.

Activities in town. To start with, show the phrases for the activities with the words jumbled up. Pupils can then work out (if possible!) what the correct word order should be, before being told what the activities are. The second activity for the pupils is one where all the images of the activities are on the board and when you say one of the activities in French, they raise their hands, according to what symbol is by the picture. Finally, pupils translate the sentences into English at the end of the PPT. The sentences are saying what you can do and where.

Use this PPT to present the rooms of the house in French. Each room on the floor plans is a link to the corresponding slide with the vocab. Click on links to take you to the upstairs floor plan and to the game at the end of the PPT to practise what the students have just learned (Connect 4).

To begin with, pupils are introduced to the new vocab of saying what there is to do in town. Then, pupils raise their hands, according to the activity you mention (right, left or both hands). After this, pupils choose A, B or C to translate (the options are not shown until they choose). It makes translation a little more fun! Finally, pupils translate the sentences about what you can do in town.

Press F5 and the PPT will flick through the flags very quickly. To make it stop/start, simply press ‘S’. A greater starter activity, following teaching pupils how to say where they live (countries).

Use this PPT to introduce the students to the facts about the French language. On the following slides, students identify the slowly-revealed flags from either general knowledge or even football knowledge!

Pupils use this writing wheel to write about where they live (their house). Instructions are in the notes section of the PPT.

The topic here is 'Where I live' (e.g. in the countryside, etc.) When they see the vocab, pupils put thumbs up or down, depending on whether they agree that the vocab matches the picture. If it does match, the thumbs up image shakes. If it doesn’t match, the thumbs down image shakes and the correct picture appears.

Use this PPT to introduce both rooms of the house and areas where people live (countryside, etc.) Items of vocab are colour-coded, accordingly mainly to gender.

Introduce the poem ‘Pour dessiner un bonhomme’ using this PPT, which goes through each section, using animations to aid understanding.

Use this PPT to introduce pupils to school uniform and its colours.

Pupils have the story of the Princess and the Pea in French and cut up. They must put the chunks into the correct order. The must then put the cards in the correct order on the storyboard. Instructions for pupils are included.

Ideal cover lesson. Pupils fill in the timetable in German to begin with. They then draw and label their school uniform in German, using the vocab list to help. They write some opinion words underneath their drawing. To finish, they must write a sentence or two about subjects and their uniform. For example, “Ich finde Deutsch toll und ich finde Mathe langweilig. Ich finde meine Schuluniform cool und schick.”