A ppt and a worksheet to develop students' crative writing at KS3.

A lesson around the song 'Me Gustas tú' by Manu Chao to teach 'gustar' rules and reading/listening skills.

A worksheet to practice clothes, colours and agreements.

A ppt I start the topic of school with. It promotes students' speaking skills. I show the trailers of 'etre et avoir' movie and 'the class' movies (click on the pictures and you will get to them). Then I explain about the school system in France and students write down the key vocab.

inspired by Expo 2 Module on holidays. The aim is to analyse a leaflet, learn new language and then make their own leaflet.

A basic and colourful powerpoint explaining the origins of the French Poisson d'avril. Useful with Year 7 and Year 8 to revise the negation or orders. I then made students design their own fish to stick, for a relaxed end of term lesson !

3/4 lessons leading up to adapting and acting a role-play where students argue about what to watch on TV. Very useful to have imported some pages from French TV programmes, but you surely can find some on the internet too. Students revise expressions of opinion, TV programmes and how to tell the time. See ppt notes for more details.

A ppt that explains how cloning works before starting a debate.

Training the students to understand tourism leaflets in French, here about the Normandy region.

An overall revision of all tenses needed at GCSE. for the starter, print the verbs on card + cut out and make them sort them per tense (I wrote the categories on an A3 page). If you have time for 2 lessons you can make it extra good by making students explain their verb posters to each other. Make sure you provide them with key grammatical terms to use, such as 'ending', 'stem', etc.

A lesson on how to reduce our carbon footprint with a video from France24

A reading task for Higher students in KS4 that also looks at adverbs and higher structures to use in controlled assessment on health

First lesson on a creative project I organised after completing the 'Crime au chateau' section in Expo, but it can be organised by itself. The crime is that the Headteacher has been killed !! This first part takes about 2 lessons. I place students in groups of 6/7: each will be a character (don't forget to have an inspector in each group). In lessons 1/2 we work on character description and they design and describe 1 character each. Then they make a poster as homework with a picture of their character. Could be developped to include work on clothes and accessories.

A listening and a reading about life difficulties encountered by young people in France. All real material published on the web.

A reading task about how social networks change our life. Also a picture I use as a starter to make students talk.

A good plenary / starter activity to revise the rule for 'j'ai mal à/au/à l''. I make students do it as a pub quiz in groups and then we correct together, looking at the correct answers.

A few lessons to help students work out the rules for the present tense of -er verbs by themselves (in groups). Created for Y7, but can be adapted for any KS3. The word doc with verbs are to create games to practice. 'Clues' should be printed on cardboard and cut, ready to give for stuck students.

A ppt that teaches the weather in 2 tenses (present and past) and that looks at typical French expressions. Also a worksheet to record the vocabulary or to use as starter.

Lesson with objective to lead to expressing an opinion in a debate or discussion about countryside or city. Can be adapted depending on the group: with my Y9 the first 2 slides took a whole lesson while with KS4 it's only 1 reading activity.

A list I give my best A-level students who want to read French books. Especially for students who want to take French at university.

a couple of lessons aimed at Y7 to get them started on the past tense and Level 5. Contains a guided reading task. The last activity is a task to where students adapt the sentences to make new ones by changing the complement.