Translation practice with Indirect /Direct object and emphatic pronouns in the context of school.

A ‘No snakes no ladders’ + an ‘Oral Ping-Pong’ + a ‘Pyramid Translation’ game on the perfect tense of ‘Aller’ + places in town. It also contains a set of Communicative drills with solution. All intended for the STRUCTURED PRODUCTION PHASE in the MARS EARS sequence

two pages of word buiding activities on the environment

An oral ping-pong game (pairwork) on perfect tense of verbs requiring ETRE (English to French)

A reading comprehension on a collage of forum posts on the theme 'croyez-vous a l'amour a vie?'

Wide range of vocabulary building activities drilling in Expo3 module 4 lexical items

Students are given cards with name, town and weather and then do two activities: 1. Must go around under timed conditions and find what the weather is on the different towns listed; 2. Must find out which town has the weather listed in the questions. for both activities, the three people to finish first get rewarded.

Another sheet in the GCSE revision quickie

Activity designed to elicit use of the imperfect tense of the third person of Etre and adjectives. Instructions: 1.students are grouped in teams of three and given one mini board per group; 2. under time constraints they must come up with one or more adjectives to describe the famous (dead) person on teach given slide; 3. One point is awarded to the best description; 5. Students cannot use the same adjective more than once; 6 The team with the highest score wins.

Translation practice on the imperfect. Context: the way one used to be. Particularly suitable for the users of Expo 3 (reference to module 3)

Vocab builder t on pages 22-23 to use for homework, coverwork or revision before test.

Students are divided into teams and given a mini-board per team. The teacher calls out a case (e.g. 45) and the students, under timed conditions, must make as many words containing the letter cluster in that case as possible (note: one word made up of three clusters = three points). I designed the puzzle in such a way that in several cases one can make up as many as three words containing a given cluster.

Students to conjugate verbs in the preterite in the Yo, El and nosotros forms. Context is holiday activities

Vocabulary consolidation sheet meant for a top set yr 11 class. Suitable for AS, too, possibly.

Challenging starter on negatives

consolidation activities on adjectives

Comprehensive list of adjectives meant for quite advanced students with a wide range of activities. I used it successfully with my Yr 10 classes. Ideal as a homework exercise.

Students to take turns, in teams of two or three (possibly with miniboards) to translate the English words in the grey column using the relevant bits in the table.

Reading comprehension/vocab builder based on an article on love amongst adolescents from: http://l-amour-et-les-sentiments.jimdo.com/chez-les-jeunes/

Activities based on page 30 Expo 3