My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
Here is part 1 of breakfast items in French. The powerpoint introduces differentiated vocabulary for different levels, followed by various activities and a quiz. This pack also contains differentiated workbooks for different levels where children colour in the words blue, as it only contains masculine nouns (and they can colour in the pictures too!). This is ideal for Key Stage 1 and 2 French.
New vocabulary:
Le café
Le pain grillé
Des oeufs
Le beurre
Le jus d'orange
Differentiated vocabulary:
Des oeufs brouillés (scrambled eggs)
Un oeuf à la coque (a boiled egg)
This resource looks at various Asian countries in French with their prepositions, such as ‘au’, ‘en’ and ‘aux’. There is a memory game of the prepositions and the names of the Asian countries in French. You can divide the class up into groups and they can score points for their team for every missing country that they remember. There is also a quiz about the countries and subsequently, the students then copy out the table and fill in the missing gaps.
There is also an accompanying colouring in poster of the flags of the Asian countries with a wordsearch. Furthermore, there is a reading comprehension activity attached with differentiated questions.
This resource is geared at Key Stage 3 level.
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This resource exclusively looks at general school life in France. It looks at the different schools, names of class years and different subjects. It also looks at how school culture in France differs from other countries.
This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 3 level.
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This resource looks at the alphabet in French in the theme of countries around the world and also various cities where there are pages and pages of colouring in. It also executes the reading, speaking, writing and listening skills. This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 1 and Key stage 2. It can also be very good revision for Key Stage 3 learners.
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Preparation time: 30 minutes - 1 hour (introducing new vocabulary)
Lesson length: 45 minutes - 1 hour
Here is the 2nd resource for introducing French to adults at beginner's level!
I have compiled this resource using an adult approach who are learning French for the very first time.
This activity focuses on numbers 1-10 and introduces the conjugation of 'habiter' and 'etre' in such a way that one conveys where one lives in this lesson. This resource also incorporates all the four keys skills such as reading, listening, speaking and writing.
This resource includes the worksheet, the sound file for the listening task, the listening transcript as well as my powerpoint presentation for introducing the numbers 1-10 with many subsequent activites.
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This resource explicitly explores a great deal of weather vocabulary in French and it is targeted at learners of Key Stage 2-3 level.
There is a quiz with five questions which revises the weather that occurs in France for every four months of the year and there is a song at the end of the presentation which is sung in the theme of 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star'
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This resource looks at phrases which use the verb 'avoir' as opposed to 'etre'. The presentation of this concept has been composed in the form of a story about an eleven year-old girl who has recently moved to France and she doesn't speak French that well, resulting her in frequently using phrases that should use 'avoir', forms them with 'etre' instead. It is a very good story with a follow up quiz of the story.
This resource is geared towards students at IGCSE level.
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Here is part 2 of breakfast items in French. The powerpoint introduces differentiated vocabulary for different levels, followed by various activities and games. This pack also contains differentiated workbooks for different levels where children colour in the words pink, as it only contains feminine nouns (and they can colour in the pictures too!). This is ideal for Key Stage 1 and 2 French.
New vocabulary:
La confiture
La marmelade
Une crêpe
Differentiated vocabulary:
Les mouillettes (toasted soldiers!)
Picture pairs numbers 1-100 in French. This is ideal for Key Stage level 2-3 French and also for learners of a stronger ability or gifted and talented learners. There is also a differentiated version available.
Instructions: Print off each slide and them laminate them. Cut along the black line to separate them and begin playing!
Happy playing and learning!
Comparatives are necessary when students are studying the Key Stage 3, GCSE and IGCSE programme. This powerpoint depicts and explains the formation of comparatives in general. It starts off depicting very basic examples such as using numbers and then progresses onto more complex material. There is a quiz at the end of the powerpoint based on general knowledge.
There is also more differentiated version of this powerpoint.
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This resource explicitly looks at the immediate future tense and future plans in which there is a short story on the immediate future tense based on very near future plans. There is a quiz which follows, followed by subsequent activities.
This resource is geared towards Key Stage 3 learners of French.
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This resource looks at reflexive verbs in the perfect tense and it is based on a story about a bank robbery.
The story is ideal for reinforcing reflexive verbs previously learnt in the perfect tense at Key Stage 3 level and it is great for consolidation.
The students read the story and then there are quiz questions which follow every part of the story. There are also subsequent differentiated activities available.
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This resource exclusively revises body parts and looks at various ailments, mainly which use reflexive verbs in the perfect tense with direct objects which agreements are not required, which is a difficult concept.
Students memorise all the body parts and then they play the memory game. They then read the story about Calamity Jane and then try the quiz questions about the story which follow. There are then subsequent, differentiated activites which follow.
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This bundle contains the editions of possessive pronouns for both the masculine and the feminine form.
They can be tricky, therefore I devised these powerpoints in a way to facilitate learning.
Go through the slides with the students and get them to complete the missing words in the practice stage. There is a subsequent quiz and differentiated activities which reinforces the vocabulary as well as the masculine form of possessive pronouns.
This is ideal for students studying French at IGCSE, A-Level and IB level.
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Hello and welcome to the first installment of school subjects and ‘-er’ verbs at Key Stage 2 level.
This may be the first time, Key Stage 2 school children will become acquainted with ‘er’ verbs and school subjects in French.
Attached is a powerpoint and differentiated colouring in workbooks.
My methodology is as follows:
Go through the powerpoint with the children. Get them to say the missing endings of the verbs and the missing school subject.
Play the noughts and crosses game as a follow-up activity.
On slide 111, get them to copy out the vocabulary if you wish or you can print off the slide and give it to them as a vocabulary list.
On slide 112, the children can select whichever differentiated work they wish to complete in class and whatever they feel most comfortable with.
The next lesson:
Hand out the colouring in workbooks to the children. Selectively distribute whichever level workbook that you feel they could cope with.
Get them to colour in the endings of the conjugated verbs and ask them to go over the grey words in the box with their pencil. They can also colour in the cartoons too if they wish.
Get them to colour in the flags according to the languages.
If you have time during class, they can complete the work on slides 19-21 or they can complete it for homework.
They are going to be more installments for other verbs and other school subjects. Do keep and eye out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
Here is part 3 of breakfast items in French.This is the final stage of lessons concerning breakfast. The powerpoint introduces differentiated vocabulary for different levels, followed by various activities and games. This pack also contains differentiated workbooks for different levels where children colour in the words blue and pink, as it contains both masculine and feminine nouns (and they can colour in the pictures too!) and there are comic strip quizzes available also! This is ideal for Key Stage 1 and 2 French.
New vocabulary:
une orange
le miel
le lait chaud
un croissant
Differentiated vocabulary:
le petit déjeuner anglais
des flocons d'avoine
This resource looks at exclusively, the numbers from 1-50 in French and expressing the year in French. This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it can also be good revision for learners at Key Stage 3 level. This resource exercises reading, writing and listening skills, alongside mathematical skills. The workbook contains differentiated versions. The children can colour in the numbers on each page of course!
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This powerpoint teachers numbers from 1-30 in French. It also reinforces or introduces age and (for the gifted and talented) years in French, in addition to how to express one’s age and when one was born in French, but of course, this part is optional. If you don’t wish to introduce the numbers in the context of age, this is absolutely fine and you can just introduce them non-contextually, i.e. 'Répétez après moi - ‘un’, ‘un’, ‘deux’, ‘deux’, etc.
After having introduced the numbers, try out the listening comprehension and it is differentiated into two different levels. For level 1 (lower level), the students choose the correct answer according to the number they hear. For level 2 (higher level), they have a choice of 30 answers to choose from and they can simply colour in the box according to what they hear.
There are also follow up activities in this powerpoint such as picture pairs, French mathematics and a wordsearch. There is also a handout available with this resource that you cna print and distribute to the class.
There are also four differentiated quizzes on kahoot based on French calculations which reinforces numbers 1-30 and they are defined as follows:
Level 1 - Choose the correct answer and they have a minute to answer
Level 2 - Choose the correct answer and they have 30 seconds to answer
Level 3 - Choose the correct answer and they have only 10 seconds to answer
Level 4 - Type the answer in words and they only have 20 seconds to answer
The links to all of the quizzes are provided at the end of the powerpoint.
When you have finished teaching the numbers and when you feel the students have sufficiently mastered them, get them to complete the reflection slip which is also attached to this resource, so they can reflect on how much they have mastered the numbers. It is titled as ‘Numbers 1-30 - Reflection’.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource looks at the conjugation of ‘aller’ in the present and different means of transport, alongside the appropriate preposition. There are lots of colouring in pages and handwriting practice when conjugating the verb ‘aller’ and writing the correct preposition. There are also subsequent activities.
This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level.
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This excellent resource exhibits the 12 days of Christmas in French, where children of Key Stage 2 level become acquainted with the vocabulary featured in the song. They will also become acquainted with ordinal numbers in French such as ‘premier’, ‘deuxième’, 'troisième, ‘quatrième’, etc and also the revision of numbers from 1-12. The children colour in the pictures and then complete the missing words for each day of Christmas, which reinforces on what they have learnt. Subsequently, there is a crossword which reinforces numbers 1-12, ordinal numbers and the introduced vocabulary.
Happy teaching and learning!
Joyeux Noel!