Welcome to my shop! I teach French and Spanish in the North West and I'm passionate about helping students to access and enjoy communicating in MFL! Expert in linguistics and phonics.
Welcome to my shop! I teach French and Spanish in the North West and I'm passionate about helping students to access and enjoy communicating in MFL! Expert in linguistics and phonics.
Booklet on language links between English and French -using cognates, accents and morphology. Encourages using knowledge of English to help with reading and vocab skills in French, can incorporate dictionary use.
French GCSE revision sessions to help students develop key skills for the writing and speaking exams
3 PPTs broken down into vocab/building sentences/developing paragraphs
Can be used over multiple revision sessions or used for independent revision
All 3 themes included (current/old GCSE spec)
Activities include:
LCWC with lots of vocab and template to create your own
missing letters
choose best translations
inital letters translations
manipulating sentences - changing tenses, adding opinions, details etc
gapfill
substituting chunks
reordering chunks
French GCSE Knowledge Organiser to help focus students’ revision for the writing and speaking exam (current/old spec). Great for answering any type of question spontaneously (writing bullet points/ speaking unseen questions).
High frequency vocab that can be used across many topics.
Time phrases
Verbs in 3 time frames
Infinitives and phrases to use with them
Giving opinions
Describing photocards
Understanding question words
Set of 4 sentence builders on the topic of identity and relationships.
Broken down into key verbs - avoir (hair/eyes), etre (personality), habiter/venir (de)/parler (nationality/place of origin), and reflexive verbs (relationships).
Matches the new GCSE vocab and grammar requirements for AQA French.
Helps with planning for the first module of year 10.
Peace of mind - everything students need to know, in a clear and easy to follow format.
Download the first sentence builder (avoir) free: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13074327
Full lessons to follow!
French Sentence Builder/Knowledge Organiser to support students to give excellent complex, varied opinions at GCSE and A-level.
Shows students how to build and develop their sentences when giving an opinion.
Important vocab for writing/speaking at GCSE Higher tier, in a format accessible for all students. Useful A-level reminder sheet to encourage variety and quality of language.
Broken down into ‘essentials’ with some key vocab + list of extra options
Support to give opinions 3 time frames, 4 tenses, + subjunctive
All translations included, each column in alphabetical order for ease of use
Grammatical categories included
PDF copy and editable word document version to personalise for your students
For example, my students choose and highlight useful vocab and have to include a certain number of WOW Phrases when preparing writing questions. This resource has helped them to write more confidently and use excellent vocab more automatically.
French KS2/KS3 lesson on holidays, ideal for a Y5/Y6 taster or transition day or as something fun to do with Y7 at the end of the year.
EPI style activities with a Sentence Builder and modelling and LAM activities.
Uses the near future tense to talk about students’ holiday plans, includes cognates and high frequency vocab on the topic.
starter task to activate prior cultural knowledge and facilitate discussion
faulty echo
sentence chaos
identify which sentences are nonsense
sentence bingo
all English translations included on sentence builder
No printing of activities required unless preferred, I recommend printing the sentence builder and using mini whiteboards.
Editable version of PPT included.
French revision worksheet recapping the past and future tense together.
With EPI-style activities. (Passé composé and futur proche).
Ideal for cover, revision & consolidation, homework etc.
Could be used with GCSE classes, A-level transition and recap, high ability KS3.
Fill in missing letters
Match up vocab
Verb anagrams
Reordering sentences
Choose correct pronoun
Spot and add missing word
Add the spaces
Likely or unlikely
Multiple choice translation
Model text to read and answer questions in English
Could be completed as a retrieval activity or with a dictionary to support, depending on pupils. Topics and vocab based on GCSE AQA French.
The first sentence of each task has been done as an example.
With a suggested ‘challenge task’ extension at the end.
GCSE French Conversation Jeopardy
Jeopardy style game - students choose their topic and level of difficulty, and answer the corresponding question.
Works well as a team game or more independently.
Great for practicing the general conversation AND dealing unseen questions.
Slides can include a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) as an example to support if needed.]
Slides are fully editable and easy to navigate.
French Christmas Quiz for all years with 3 rounds.
Multiple choice questions about traditions
Pointless-style vocab translation task (into English)
Listen to a Christmas song and complete the gaps in the transcript
Answers included
Fun cultural lesson for end of term!
French phonics guide display
all the French phonemes students need for the new French GCSE
eye-catching, clear and concise with English key words and images to represent key phoneme sounds
based on research into ‘lexical sets’ to help students remember key sounds clearly
contains 25 A4 B&W pages - can be printed in any size, on any colours for your classroom
clear but not overloaded
prepare for the SSC (sound-symbol correspondences) tested in the new MFL GCSE - resource matches the list of phonemes students must know
includes French examples for each phoneme
makes abstract sounds concrete by linking the SSCs to English phonemes students already know, and dual coded with images from The Noun Project
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