Updated March 2025 to add audio recording/AI video
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Describing myself and others - Physical and personality descriptions" in SPANISH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous four Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01, 02, 03 & 04).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Beat the teacher
This or that
Unjumble the sentences
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find the Spanish for
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Correct the mistakes in the English translation
Listening: Fill in the blank
Narrow Listening: Find the Spanish for (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Gapped translation in English (audio included)
Faulty transcript LAM (AI video included)
Structured paragraph writing
Sentence stealer
Oral Ping Pong
Grammar sheet summary sheet
Extensive grammar practice
No Snakes no ladders
100% comprehensible input parallel text dialogues in pairs
100% comprehensible input parallel text dialogues in 3s
Mind reading
Mad dictation
Picture description
Group composition
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Describing where I live" using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, in Spanish, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous three Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01, 02 & 03).**
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Sentence match
This or that
Unjumble the sentences
Gapped translation
Map: True or False
Narrow Reading: Find the Spanish for
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Find the mistakes in the English translation
Narrow Listening: Find the Spanish for (audio included)
Narrow Listening; Answer the questions in English (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Bad translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Faulty transcript (AI video included)
Bad translation
Delayed copying
Structured paragraph writing
Sentence stealer
Oral Ping Pong
No snakes no ladders
Mind reading
Mad dictation
Picture description
Group composition
Parallel text dialogue
Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Describing hair and eyes" in Spanish, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
It also recycles the previous two Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01 & 02).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Complete with the missing word
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find the Spanish for
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Gapped translation
Narrow Listening: Bad translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Extra words and intruders (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Find the Spanish for (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Gapped translation (audio included)
Structured production translation sentences
Structured paragraph writing
Grammar explanation
Sentence stealer
Mind reading
Running dictation
One pen on di
Survey
Communicative drills
Delayed dictation
Picture description
Group composition
Disappearing text
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Talk about my birthday" using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, in Spanish, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Complete with the missing word
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find in the text
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Correct the mistakes in the transcript
Narrow Listening: Find in the Spanish (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Gapped translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Listen and choose the correct translation (audio included)
Structured production translation sentences
Structured paragraph writing
Grammar explanation
Sentence stealer
Mind reading
Running dictation
One pen one di
Delayed dictation
Picture description
Oral Ping Pong
Group composition
All for one and one for all
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Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises
This powerpoint covers the KS2/KS3 topic “My name and my age" in Spanish using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Spot the missing word
Complete with the missing word
Complete with the missing letters
Narrow Reading: Find the Spanish for
Narrow Reading: Find someone who
Narrow Reading: Find the mistakes in the French translation
Narrow Listening: Find the Spanish for (audio included)
Narrow Listening; Gapped translation (audio included)
Narrow Listening: Listen and choose the correct translation (audio included)
Structured production translation sentences
Structured paragraph writing
Grammar explanation
Sentence stealer
Mind reading
Running dictation
One pen one di
Oral Ping Pong
Delayed dictation
Picture description
Group composition
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This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic of Environment and where I live in FRENCH, and follows the NEW GCSE AQA SPEC, with even extra chunks/words added! All exercises include the answers. The AQA mentions 293 words for Foundation, I have added 250+ of those words in this unit, constantly recycled.
This unit is also based on Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applies the MARS EARS framework.
Activities include:
Sentence builder
White board translations
Fill in the missing letters
Beat the teacher
Multiple choice
Gapped translation
Choose the missing words (x2 slides)
Spot the difference (x2 slides)
Choose the correct translation
Narrow Reading: 5 different texts based on the sentence buidler (100% comprehensible input)
Reading 1: Find the French for
Reading 2: Answer the questions in French
Reading 3: True or false
Reading 4: Multiple choice
Reading 5: Bad translation - Find and correct the mistakes in the English
Mind Reader
Multiple choice quiz
Sentence Bingo
Narrow Listening: 4 different listening tasks
Listening 1: Find the French for (audio included)
Listening 2: Multiple choice (audio included)
Listening 3: Fill the gaps (Audio included)
Listening 4: Listen and answer in French (audio included)
Structured production: Narrow translation
Sentence Stealer
One pen one di
Oral Ping Pong
Trapdoor
Delayed dictation
Autonomy Routinisation: Full circle
Autonomy Routinisation: Paragraph translation (Eng - FR)
Spontaneity: Speaking challenge (2 minutes)
Spontaneity: Speed dating
Spontaneity: Interactive city planning (conditional practice)
Spontaneity: Social media simulation
Spontaneity: Vocabulary word hunt
Spontaneity: Problem solver
Spontaneity: Flashcard race
About this resource:
This is the 10th short story of the series in French to supplement the Year 7 EPI unit I have already published. Each short story matches its own EPI units for further consolidation, and enjoyment with reading and listening.
What is included in this story:
This short story related to the following unit:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13171529
It includes the following:
The sentence builder used in the EPI unit and on which this dialog has been based
A dialogue/conversation with the English translation included as parallel text. - - 100% comprehensible input (based on all 9 videos)
A variety of exercises to complete to practice meaning and form
(with answers included at the end)
An AI generated conversation uploaded on my Youtube channel to make it more interactive for kids.
Easily editable format (Word and PDF included)
This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic of TECHNOLOGY in FRENCH, and follows the NEW GCSE AQA SPEC, with even extra chunks/words added! All exercises include the answers.
This unit is also based on Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applies the MARS EARS framework.
Activities include:
Sentence builder
White board translations
Fill in the missing letters
Beat the teacher
Multiple choice
Gapped translation
Probable ou improbable
Choose the missing words (x2 slides)
Spot the difference (x2 slides)
Choose the correct translation
**Narrow Reading: 5 different texts based on the sentence buidler (100% comprehensible input)
Reading 1: Find the French for
Reading 2: Answer the questions in French
Reading 3: True or false
Reading 4: Multiple choice
Reading 5: Bad translation - Find and correct the mistakes in the English
Mind Reader
Multiple choice quiz
Sentence Bingo
Narrow Listening: 4 different listenings + 1 AI DIALOGUE
Listening 1: Find the French for (audio included)
Listening 2: Multiple choice (audio included)
Listening 3: Fill the gaps (Audio included)
Listening 4 (extension): Dual processing. Listen and answer in French (audio included)
Listening 5: Dialogue to listen to and perform in pairs (AI video included)
Structured production: Narrow translation
Sentence Stealer
One pen one di
Oral Ping Pong
Delayed dictation
Retrieval quiz
Autonomy Routinisation: Full circle
Spontaneity: Group composition
Spontaneity: No SB English to French translation
Spontaneity: Speaking challenge (2 minutes)
Spontaneity: Create your own story with prompts
Spontaneity: Debate: Pros and cons of internet with prompts
Spontaneity: Social media posts
This powerpoint covers a variety of GCSE topic with a focus on all direct and indirect object pronouns predominantly in the PRESENT, PERFECT TENSE, and NEAR FUTURE TENSE.
This unit is also based on Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applies the MARS EARS framework.
Activities include:
Sentence builder
Initial set of slides: Grammar explanations
Reading 1 (Present tense)
Reading 1: Find the French for
Reading 1: Answer the questions in French
Reading 1: Relie les phrases
Reading 1: Paragraph translation to English
Reading 2 (Past / Present / Near future)
Reading 2: Vrai ou faux
Reading 2: Remplis les blancs
Reading 2: Direct/Indirect object pronoun replacement
Reading 2: Highlight the direct/indirect object pronouns
Listening: Parallel text dialogue French / English (both audio and AI video included)
Listening: Direct/Indirect object pronoun replacement
Listening: Fill in the blanks
Listening: Rewrite with the correct object pronoun
Structured production: Oral Ping Pong
Structured production: Narrow Translation
Autonomy Routinisation : One pen One di
Autonomy Routinisation: Full circle
Autonomy Routinisation: Faster
Spontaneity: Group composition
Spontaneity: Pull the switch / parallel text dialogue
Spontaneity: Photo description
🔹 What’s New?
-Builds up from the updated Year 7, 8 and 9 Bundles!
-Builds up from the Year 10 GCSE Bundle (Bundle 2)
-Each unit offers 7-9 lessons, ensuring comprehensive coverage, and following the MARSEARS framework
-Lessons include interleaving and interspacing, recycling content from previous units to reinforce learning.
-Added listening audio files or AI video narrations in every unit to enhance the listening sections.
Please ensure that once purchased, you download the files on your device! =)
Resources include:
Unit 1: Life in the town and rural life (recycling and interleaving of previous bundles + subjunctive)
Unit 2: School subjects
Unit 3: Post-16 plans (+Interleaving Unit 2)
Unit 4. Charity and voluntary work (+Interleaving Units 2 & 3)
Unit 5: Future jobs (+Interleaving Units 2-4)
Unit 6: Holidays (Past, Present, Near future, Future simple)
Unit 7: Customs and traditions
Unit 8: Sports (5 tenses)
Unit 9: Cinema (Present, imperfect, perfect tense)
Unit 10. Pronom EN (+Interleaving huge variety of vocabulary)
If you’ve used the resource, your feedback would be appreciated!
Year 10 French Bundle / GCSE FRENCH BUNDLE 2 Updated and re-adapted for January 2025!
🔹 What’s New?
-Builds up from the updated Year 7, 8 and 9 Bundles!
-Each unit offers 7-9 lessons, ensuring comprehensive coverage, and following the MARSEARS framework
-Lessons include interleaving and interspacing, recycling content from previous units to reinforce learning.
-Added listening audio files or AI video narrations in every unit to enhance the listening sections.
Please ensure that once purchased, you download the files on your device! =)
Resources include:
Unit 1: Describe self and others
Unit 2: Why I get along with my family (+Interleaving Unit 1)
Unit 3: Why I do not get along with my family (+Interleaving Units 1-2)
Unit 4. Role models (+Interleaving Units 1-3)
Unit 5: Childhood (+Interleaving Units 1-4)
Unit 6: Food (Present tense) (+Interleaving Units 1-5)
Unit 7: Food (Past, Present, Near future) (+Interleaving Unit 6)
Unit 8: Healthy living (+si clause) (+Interleaving Units 6-7)
Unit 9: Global problems (Environmental)
Unit 10. Global solutions (+Interleaving Unit 9)
If you’ve used the resource, your feedback would be appreciated!
Year 9 French Bundle – Updated for January 2025!
🔹 What’s New?
-10 Units to practice Past-Present-Future in a variety of contexts (Includes 2 double units on Technology and Social Media, so in fact, 12 Units. ).
-Each unit offers 7-9 lessons, ensuring comprehensive coverage.
-Lessons include interleaving and interspacing, recycling content from previous units to reinforce learning.
-Added listening audio files or AI video narrations in every unit to enhance the listening sections.
Please ensure that once purchased, you download the files on your device! =)
If you’ve used the resource, your feedback would be appreciated!
Resources include:
• Unit 1: Holidays part 1: Where I went/How/Who with
• Unit 2: Holidays part 2: What I/We did on Holidays (+Interleaving Unit 1)
• Unit 3: Daily routine and helping at home - Past, -Present, Future and modal verbs (+Interleaving Unit 1-2)
• Unit 4. Accidents and injuries (+Interleaving Unit 1-3)
• Unit 5: Shoppings in the present, perfect tense and near future tense (+Interleaving Unit 1-4 + year 7 Units 11-12). Section on SB included with Si + imperfect + conditional clause to challenge higher abilities
• Unit 6: Saying what I do to help at home (+Interleaving Unit 3)
• Unit 7: Describe a day in the past, present and near future (interleaving of 3 tenses)
• Unit 8: Describe a typical day at school (interleaving of modal verbs)
• Unit 9: DOUBLE UNIT on Technology and Daily routine: Past, Present and Present participle
• Unit 10. DOUBLE UNIT on Social Media and Daily routine in the Past, Present and Present participle (+interleaving on Unit 9)
This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Technology in every day life” in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. It covers both the present tense, present participle and perfect tense.
This sequence should be enough for 8-11 lessons, depending on individual schools’ timetable.
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
This or that (Reading and Listening versions)
Sentence match (reading and LAM)
Find the error in my Spanish sentence
Write the missing letters
Sentence puzzle
Multiple choice quiz
Narrow Reading Part 1: Present tense and Present Participle (3x readings)
Narrow Reading Part 2: Present, Perfect tense, Present participle (x3)
Narrow Listening Part 1: Present and Present participle (x3 - 3x audio included)
Narrow Listening Part 2: Present, Perfect tense and Present participle (x3 - 3x audio included)
Structured production (Structured paragraphs to write)
Disappearing texts (6 levels)
Disappearing texts (routinisation stage)
One pen one di
Oral Ping Pong
Mind reading
Delayed dictation
Sentence stealer
Mad dictation
Pyramid translation
Group compositions
Listen to the story and draw pictures - retell the story in pairs
Ladder writing
Role Play - General conversation questions
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Updated January 2025 to add recordings and AI video for listening section
This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Describe a typical day”, in FRENCH, and applies 3 tenses (perfect tense, near future / present indicative) throughout 73 slides. This sequence will cover 7-9 lessons on this topic, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Find the errors in the sentences
Match up task
Finish my sentence
Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in English
Reading: Find the correct translation
Listening: Find the French for (Audio included)
Listening; Listen and fill in the gaps (Audio included)
Listening: Answer the questions in English (Audio included)
LAM Spot the errors (Audio included)
LAM (Les mots qui manquent et les mots en trop) (Audio included)
LAM Post-it Hunt
7 levels disappearing text
Narrow translation
Structured paragraph writing
2x Grammar conjugation tables across three tenses
Delayed dictation
Sentence stealer
Un stylo un dé
Mind reading
Pyramid translation
Mad dictation
Group compositions
Pull the switch / Dialogue
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Updated January 2025 to add recording files
This powerpoint offers a full GCSE unit on the topic of “Saying what I do to help at home”, in FRENCH, and can cover 7-9 lessons. It applies the Full MARS EARS sequence and the EPI metholology by Gianfranco Conti.
Activities include:
white board translations
Faulty echo
Find the error in my sentences
Multiple choice translation
Probable or Improbable?
Write the missing letters
Reading: Find in the text
Reading: Answer the questions in English
Reading: Spot the 12 errors in the English translation
Listening: Listen and Find the French for (audio included)
Listening: Listen and complete the English transcript (audio included)
Listening: Listen and write the missing words (audio included)
Listening: Listen and choose the correct translation (AI video included)
Modal verbs conjugation task
Multiple choice quiz (LAM)
structured production (TANGLED Translation)
Sentence stealer
Sentence Puzzle
Faulty translation
Delayed copying
Grammar checkpoint table
Grammar tasks on modal verb (positive and negative) and perfect tense
Un stylo un dé
Mind reading
Shadow Tracking
Find Your Match
Sentence Chaos
Quelque chose
Correct the mistakes (focus on grammar)
Delayed dictation
Pyramid translation
Running dictation
Mad dictation
Disappearing text
Full circle
Sentence Puzzle race
Picture description
Group composition
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This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic of Shopping & Services predominantly in the present tense, near future tense, conditionnal tense and perfect tense , as well as modal verbs
This unit is also based on Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applies the MARS EARS framework.
Activities include:
White board translations
Fill in the missing letters
Beat the teacher
Multiple choice
Gapped translation
Sentence Match
Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in English
Reading: Answer the questions in French
Reading: Multiple choice
Reading: Find and correct the mistakes in the English translation
Mind Reader
Multiple choice quiz
Sentence Bingo
Listening: Tick or Cross (AI video included)
Listening: Vrai ou faux (Audio included)
Listening: Fill the gaps (Audio included)
Structured production: Translate the paragraph into English
Structured production: Tangled Translation
Exam Structured writing with model answer
Sentence Stealer
One pen one di
Oral Ping Pong
Delayed dictation
Retrieval quiz
Expansion: Grammar explanation table
Expansion: 6 grammar exercises
Autonomy Routinisation: Full circle
Spontaneity: Group composition
Spontaneity: No SB English to French translation
This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Accidents, injuries and illnesses”, in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. This unit of work also recycles the perfect tense (context of holidays and reflexive verbs) as well as modal verbs using EPI / MARS EARS as well as content from all other units uploaded so far.
Activities include:
Find the French for (Chunk level)
White board translations (Sentence level)
Faulty echo
This or that (Reading and Listening versions)
Listen and find the missing word
Finish my sentence
Sentence puzzle
Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in English
Reading: Correct the mistakes in the English transation
Listening: Listening and find the French for (audio included)
Listening: Listening and answer the questions (audio included)
Listening: Listen and fill in the gaps (LAM) (audio included)
Listening: Faulty transcript (LAM) (AI video included)
Structured production (Narrow Translation)
Grammar explanation (reflexive verbs in present, past + modal verbs)
Variety of grammar tasks
Un stylo un dé
Mind reading
Au voleur
No Snakes No ladders
Mad dictation
Pyramid translation
Group compositions
Listen to the story and draw pictures - retell the story in pairs
Pull the switch - Parallel Fench / English dialogue
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This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic "My daily routine”, in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. Includes modal verbs and near future.
This unit of work also recycles the previous five units I have uploaded so far (as labelled, 1-5).
Full MARS EARS sequence
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
Multiple choice quiz
This or that?
Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Bad translation
Reading: Translate the paragraph into English
Listening: Find the French for (audio included)
Listening: Listen to the text and complete the sentences below (audio included)
Listening: Answer the questions in English (audio included)
Structured production (writing/translations)
Jigsaw translation task for structured production
Sentence stealer
Grammar tasks focusing on modal verbs
Sentence Puzzle
Faulty translation
Mind reading
Delayed dictation
Oral Ping Pong
Staircase translation
Mad dictation
Plus vite !
Group composition
4,3,2 technique task
130-150 word paragraph writing
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This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Discussing previous holidays”, in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. This unit of work also recycles content from the resource : FRENCH GCSE Resource - Les vacances (Part 1 - Past holidays) EPI / MARS EARS as well as content from all other units uploaded so far.
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
This or that (Reading and Listening versions)
Listen and correct the English translation
Write the missing letters
Match up
Sentence puzzle
Reading: Find the French for
Reading: Answer the questions in English
Reading: Correct the mistakes in the English transation
Gapped parallel translation (LAM) (audio included)
Les mots qui manquent & les mots en trop (LAM) (audio included)
Listen and fill in the gaps (LAM) (audio included)
Faulty transcript (LAM) (AI video included)
Structured production (Narrow Translation)
Thorough explanation of Perfect tense
Variety of grammar tasks
Un stylo un dé
Mind reading
Delayed dictation
No Snakes No ladders
Mad dictation
Communicative drills
Pyramid translation
Group compositions
Listen to the story and draw pictures - retell the story in pairs
All for one and one for all
Pull the switch - Parallel Fench / English dialogue
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This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Discussing previous holidays”, in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework.
This unit of work also recycles the previous nine units I have uploaded so far (as labelled, 1-9)
Activities include:
White board translations
Faulty echo
This or that (Reading and Listening versions)
Listen and correct the English translation
Write the missing letters
Match up
Sentence puzzle
Reading: Find the French in the text
Reading: Answer the questions in English
Reading: spot the 12 mistakes in the English translation
Listening: Find the French equivalent (audio included)
Listening: Asnwer the questions in English (audio included)
Listening: Listen to the text and fill in the gaps (audio included)
Listening: Spot the error/Faulty transcript (audio included)
Listening: Les mots qui manquent et les mots en trop (audio included)
Listening: Jigsaw listening (audio included)
Structured production (Narrow Translation)
Grammar task
Faulty translation
Un stylo un dé
Mind reading
Delayed dictation
Mad dictation
Pyramid translation
Full circle
Group compositions
Listen to the story and draw pictures - retell the story in pairs
All for one and one for all
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