Secondary French teacher, rated Ofsted 'Outstanding' at KS3, KS4 and KS5.
PGCE and NQT mentor. Regular CPD/Professional Learning leader. State and private sector experience.
Secondary French teacher, rated Ofsted 'Outstanding' at KS3, KS4 and KS5.
PGCE and NQT mentor. Regular CPD/Professional Learning leader. State and private sector experience.
Excellent cultural resource, working on Le Tour de France. Text outlines the competition, the history of the competition and the course that the cyclists follow.
Support LA learners with vocabulary sheet if required and stretch HA learners with a ‘Challenge’ extension activity - a mini research project into the significance of the different jerseys. A French website is suggested as a first access point.
A brilliant lesson that can branch off in to many different areas (researching winners, the different regions that the course crosses, anti-doping etc.) depending on level of group.
Great resource, providing a template in the shape of a jigsaw piece for students to introduce themselves. Jigsaw pieces can be decorated as teacher sees fit (with photographs or coloured in for example) and displayed, or simply used as a worksheet.
Students asked to complete sentences to provide basic information about themselves including their name, age, nationality, birthday, family, favourite colour and sport. Template can be amended as teacher wishes.
Makes a brilliant display for the start of term, simple and very personal to students. Helps them to get to know each other too!
Excellent resource, based on the popular BBC show 'Only Connect'. Works well as a starter, plenary or as a game to review learning.
Students are asked to apply critical thinking skills to make links between fourteen different French verbs or phrases in each game. The first game focuses on infinitives and present tense conjugations, the second on infinitives and infinitive constructions, and the third on the perfect and imperfect tenses.
Instructions for teachers on each slide, fully animated with all answers and hyperlinks. Fully differentiated. Slides at the end of the PowerPoint are set up to input own vocabulary too. Can be used in lots of different ways!
Always great fun!
Excellent time-saver, a full Scheme of Learning linked to the 'Amici' Italian Edexcel textbook. Designed for year 8 as a second year programme of study. Links to the Year 7 Scheme of Learning which is also available.
Excellent first lesson of the year, comprehensively covering slide-by-slide all that you need your new class to know in an accessible and fun way.
Helps you to get to know your students, and helps them to get to know each-other too, setting them up for some great learning. Also gets you off to a brilliant start with your expectations through a whole-class ‘Partnership Agreement’ that they create and sign.
I use this template every year with every class that I teach and it always works brilliantly. They have a lot of fun, as do you, and you also get all of the bits sorted that you need to without missing anything out (an overview of the year, books, seating plan etc.) which is easily done at the start of a busy term.
Recommended especially for new teachers. Clear instructions on each slide and places for you to insert your own information. 15 slides in total:
1. Resources you need for the lesson.
2. Space to insert your seating plan.
3. Date, title, LO, starter slide.
4. Our Partnership Agreement slide.
5. Expectations / building on slide before.
6. Exercise book slide.
7. Getting to know each other - The two truths game.
8. As above - teacher’s answers.
9. My promise to you (what you will do as a teacher to help their learning).
10. Raffle tickets and how they work, if you decide to use to reinforce positive behaviour.
11. Our lessons - overview of the number of lessons each week, report and Parents’ Evening dates and topics.
12. Help me to understand your learning activity.
13. Examples of feedback from activity above.
14. As before.
15. Bingo game!
Great resource, providing a template in the shape of a jigsaw piece for students to introduce themselves. Jigsaw pieces can be decorated as teacher sees fit (with photographs or coloured in for example) and displayed, or simply used as a worksheet.
Students asked to complete sentences to provide basic information about themselves including their name, age, nationality, birthday, family, favourite colour and sport. Template can be amended as teacher wishes.
Makes a brilliant display for the start of term, simple and very personal to students. Helps them to get to know each other too!
Excellent first lesson of the year, comprehensively covering slide-by-slide all that you need your new class to know in an accessible and fun way.
Helps you to get to know your students, their learning preferences and personalities, and helps them to get to know each-other too, setting them up for some great learning. Also gets you off to a brilliant start with your expectations through a whole-class ‘Partnership Agreement’ that they create and sign.
I use this template every year with every class that I teach and it always works brilliantly. They have a lot of fun, as do you, and you also get all of the bits sorted that you need to without missing anything out (an overview of the year, books, seating plan etc.), which is easily done at the start of a busy term.
Recommended especially for new teachers. Clear instructions on each slide and places for you to insert your own information. 15 slides in total:
1. Resources you need for the lesson.
2. Space to insert your seating plan.
3. Date, title, LO, starter slide.
4. Our Partnership Agreement slide.
5. Expectations / building on slide before.
6. ‘Mon cahier d’exercice’ slide.
7. Getting to know each other - The two truths game.
8. As above - teacher’s answers.
9. My promise to you (what you will do as a teacher to help their learning).
10. Raffle tickets and how they work, if you decide to use to reinforce positive behaviour.
11. Our lessons - overview of the number of lessons each week, report and Parents’ Evening dates and topics.
12. Help me to understand your learning activity.
13. Examples of feedback from activity above.
14. As before.
15. Lotto game!
Excellent resource, based on the popular BBC show 'Only Connect'. Works well as a starter, plenary or as a game to review learning.
Students are asked to apply critical thinking skills to make links between fourteen different French items of vocabulary in each game. The first game focuses on colours, days of the week, numbers 0-5 and 21-30. The second game uses vocabulary linked to types of transport, clothes, places in town and animals. The third game is based on vocabulary linked to the weather, body parts, members of the family and different drinks.
Instructions for teachers on each slide, fully animated with all answers and hyperlinks. Fully differentiated. Slides at the end of the PowerPoint are set up to input own vocabulary too. Can be used in lots of different ways!
Always great fun!
Excellent resource, asking students to find weather conditions in the grid and engage dictionary skills by looking up the correct gender for each word, noting down the article and translating the type of weather into English. Great as a starter or an activity.
Suitable for HA KS2, KS3 and KS4. Links to GCSE module on Travel and Tourism. Also would be a great challenge for younger learners, extending their weather vocabulary. Would link very well across curriculum to geography (discussing weather for example in Haiti or Mauritius).
Links to Assembly for European Day of Languages 2018
Links to Lesson / Assembly for European Day of Languages - French
Worksheet designed to be used alongside European Day of Languages 2018 lesson - French, please see other uploads as detailed above. Can also be used as a stand-alone worksheet for basic French words, including seasons, numbers 1-12, colours and greetings.
First document contains four tables with all of the French vocabulary for these topics. Links directly to PowerPoint. Second document has the answers. Both easily projected / adapted if required.
Numbers 1-100 in number line form with French words for each number written out. Excellent support resource. A huge time saver!
Subtle hints, such as 's' underlined in 'quatre-vingts' and 'quatre-vingt-un' underlined to remind students that 'et' is not required.
Also used successfully in small groups when teaching numbers to ask students to draw out patterns and links between 1-100 in French, and then to create their own numeracy worksheets for each other.
Fantastic and very comprehensive resource covering all aspects of reflexive present tense formation. All animations and formatting ready to go. A huge time-saver!
Powerpoint is 13 slides and can be adapted to suit all learners. Includes clear and concise explanations of reflexive verb conjugation and questions for students to gauge understanding. Perfect for mini-whiteboard activities. Differentiated to help LA access translation questions.
Two reading texts at end of presentation (easily printable as worksheets) for students to spot reflexive verbs. Linked to daily routine / school life.
Excellent for introduction at KS2 / KS3 to conjugation and for revision and further practice at KS4.
Excellent double-resource set, linking to daily routine and reflexive verbs. Suitable for KS2/KS3/KS4. Great as starters / warm-ups / white-board activities in class. All animations and answers included.
The first resource asks students to un-scramble the reflexive infinitives. It is differentiated through giving more support to learners who require it by underlining the first letter of the verb. HA challenged through working out secret message of numbered boxes to form phrase 'Je me réveille' when all answers have been de-coded.
The second resource is a pre-prepared time-saving table, with key verbs for daily routine and reflexive verbs, asking students to translate infinitives.
Both very useful for HA KS2, KS3 and KS4, either as starters or class activities.
Three differentiated resources for higher and lower ability students linked to adjectives to describe people. Fully formatted and animated with all answers. Engages higher-order thinking skills. Can be used as Starters, Activities or Plenaries. All are great think-pair-share, whiteboard or individual tasks.
Excellent resource for charting and assessing student progress within lesson. Slide can be printed and students given a copy, or slide can be displayed for students to draw their own learning journey arrow on a whiteboard at the start of the lesson.
They circle where they feel they are in terms of their confidence with the LO at the start of the lesson, and then come back to it at various points. At the end of the lesson, they review their learning and should be at the higher end of the scale. A useful reference tool for the teacher to determine those who need more support, and those that can be pushed further.
Useful for daily teaching, or to use over the course of a module. Great when being observed too as very visual signpost that learning is being monitored by teacher, and those students that need support / further challenge are being picked up and helped appropriately.
Excellent lesson, graded outstanding, introducing different sports to learners and basic opinions and reasons to express their thoughts.
Fully animated with all answers and instructions for each activity in Notes section of slides. A huge time saver and great fun to teach!
Lesson links to London 2012 Olympics and features Paralympians and Olympic athletes. Lesson begins with YouTube montage hook, set to Emilie Sandé's cover of Imagine by John Lennon. Students asked to consider why they are watching video.
Starter asks students to think of how to say two numbers and why these might be important in context of Olympics (number of medals won at London 2012 by Team GB). Students then complete table with French and English for 9 different sports, using cognates and near-cognates to support.
Next activity is a repetition of the different sports (with actions) to practice pronunciation, followed by a game of 'Splat' to consolidate knowledge. Students are then asked to read an iPhone text message conversation (created on classtools.net) and answer questions about sports preferences. Listening activity follows, fully differentiated, followed by a speaking activity, whereby students roll dice and create sentences about the sport that the number rolled corresponds to. Final activity is to respond to a friend texting them about their sports preferences, and to write their own messages in reply.
Pictionary game as plenary!
First lesson on sport in series of three. Please see other resources.
Fabulous and very comprehensive resource that can be used for one or a series of lessons. 45 slides in total. Introduces all main types of weather with images, and a series of activities designed to build learner confidence and use of new language.
Activities include:
* Large images with text for students to repeat after teacher.
* Differentiated tables with weather phrases (Option 1 to draw lines between French and English translations, Option 2 to match French weather phrases to images and add in English).
* Dice game to practice pronunciation.
* Pass-the-parcel team game to improve memory recall.
* Listening activity (again differentiated with two options).
* Speaking activity - Think, pair, share to describe weather in different parts of France. Excellent cultural link through geography of France and where different cities are situated. Could easily be developed into a research project with different types of weather in these places across the year and how they compare to home.
* Writing activity - Preparing own weather forecast (again differentiated with scaffold for learners who require).
* Speaking / presenting activity - Students present their weather forecasts to class.
* Review / Plenary triangle - Students reflect on their own learning by noting down three things that they knew already but now better understand, 2 new things they learned during lesson and one thing they need to find out more about.
Fully animated with all answers and explanations for each activity under relevant slides.
Huge time saver and great fun to teach!
Full lesson, describing hair and eyes in third person and introducing second and third person singular of avoir.
Fully animated with all answers. Step-by-step support for each activity is detailed in the notes section of the slides.
Very engaging, incorporating whiteboard work, AfL, 'C'est qui?' (Guess Who) in pairs, individual written task and Blockbusters game at end to review learning.
Clear, concise explanation of use of faire with different tenses. Examples given with perfect, imperfect, pluperfect and simple future. Second slide has a series of questions for students to translate, using four tenses. Easily adaptable for younger learners, using extra tenses as differentiation for HA.