I made up this fairly naff song to the tune of Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer, using past tense vocab we had learnt. Pupils had to translate into English and also make up their own verse to go next. The brave ones performed for everyone!

A set of 6 sentences in the perfect tense in German, with the words jumbled up. Pupils have to re-order the sentences, then can also translate into English or could extend the sentences with more details.

A set of sentences for pupils to build up in the perfect tense with the first person only. Pupils choose appropriate vocab to match each past participle. Easy to make more challenging by asking pupils to add more details/opinions/change the person, or even rewrite into a story. Useful as a starter for pupils who are encountering the perfect tense for the first time.

A fun worksheet to practise dans/sur/sous with simple vocab in French. A true/false activity followed by a task to create own sentences with similar vocab.

A worksheets which builds up from vocab matching, via sentence translation into English, to pupils writing their own sentences in French to give justified opinions of school subjects.

French worksheet with several tasks, gradually building in difficulty, to practise telling the time. The final task uses the context of the school day to say what time lessons start and end. You could adapt this to your own school day (or ask the pupils to!).

A pair of resources based on using the past tense to talk about a party. First, a set of cards to match the French and English phrases, which are easily photocopied (print out double-sided and the English will appear on the reverse of the correct French, if you choose to use as a memory test instead). Secondly, a worksheet with a grammar task to match perfect tense phrases to the infinitives & English, followed by a reading comprehension. This version is set up so you can print two copies on a sheet of A4.

An imaginative activity in French: pupils read the recipe for a good teacher (subject knowledge, sense of humour, etc) and then use this as scaffolding to create their own recipes for other things like a good party.

A set of sentences in present tense, saying what time I do daily routine activities. Pupils read the sentences and sort into the correct order by their times. First page has more sentences, second page is easier with fewer sentences. Easy to photocopy, with 2 sets of sentences on each page.

There are 4 pages with this resource: page 1 is a set of sentences in the perfect tense which are used throughout the resource. You could use them as a matching activity (you say the English, pupils find the French) or a translation task. Page 2 is a gap-fill with the past participles missing: the sentences run in order from morning to bedtime, pupils choose the correct past participle from the box beneath. Page 3 has the answers to the gap-fill, but can also be used as an ordering task (chop up or shuffle first!). Page 4 has guidance for pupils to prepare their own sentences about their daily routine in the past tense.

A set of sentences in present tense for pupils to sort into school day or weekend. Each daily routine sentence is written with a time it would happen on a school day, and again with a time it could happen on a weekend. Sentences are listed together in pairs, but you could make it harder by jumbling them, or printing out and chopping up. Pupils could write their own sentences about a school day or the weekend, using these as prompts.

A quick task to put the words for the weather in French into the correct order to form short sentences, including some adverbs of frequency. Makes a good starter. Easy to photocopy: 10 sets fit on one page of A4.

A set of 10 pairwork cards with role plays to practise giving personal information and using perfect tense. One partner can see English prompts only (the 'test' side); the other can see the French script to complete the dialogue, including some unprepared questions.

A worksheet with several tasks to practise the present tense of faire, aller, lire and sortir. Starting with a task to complete the English for the conjugations, then a sentence gapfill exercise and finally a more open-ended writing task.

A grid suggesting a sentence structure to describe the weather in French in the different seasons, in your part of the country. This version encourages pupils to include adverbs of frequency and connectives to extend their sentences. Could use as a true/false activity, or I went to market -style task.

A colourful grid to complete on your board with the French masculine colours provided; pupils must add the feminine spellings and English. Accompanied by 2 differentiated grids for pupils to complete independently.

French worksheet suitable as homework task: match the vocab for the countries and nationalities and add the English vocab.

A photo-copiable set of 32 dominoes with French and English vocab to match up, including numbers, greetings and classroom items. Cut up along the lines as shown to make a set which works well in small groups.

A set of short sentences in French about the school day, using regular -er verbs. All spaces and punctuation have been removed, so pupils have to re-write the sentences accurately. You could then ask pupils to extend the sentences, e.g. with times, opinions or other details.

French worksheet with short and simple texts about presents (birthday/Christmas etc). Each short text is followed by a few reading comprehension questions.