Worksheet (reading, vocab, grammar, translation) on Environment based on an article about Greta Thunberg

This is a worksheet I use at the start of the year with Year 7, 8 or 9 to introduce them to the French school system (how many lessons a day do French students have? Why are there different holiday “Zones” in the winter? Do students bring their pack lunch? What are years called in French? etc. You can either use it in class or as a research homework.

A memo compiling and explaining the differences between all the pronouns (direct, indirect, emphatic, y/en) A exercise sheet with answers

This resource on University or Work? (11.1 Foundation and Higher AQA) contains: a lotto/memory game with vocab from the AQA lists and added extension words. Words are already mixed so students can either find the pairs in the table or you can cut each card and use it as a game. a translation task using the words: ask the students to fold the paper (concertina fold with the column Read at the front), they read the sentence out loud, turn the page and write the translation in French, check their sentence with the third column and translate it again into French in the fourth column.

A resource on Asterix and Obelix with many extension and differentiation options that you can adapt to your classes. Research, translation, writing and grammar activities. Can be used as holiday work, homework, project or end-of-year activity.

This is a full unit on Introduction to Poetry (5 lessons) which can be used with students who have a strong level of French (A Level students, GCSE students choosing to do French A Level, adult students…) but can be adapted to different levels. I have used it at the end of the year after exams to do something a bit different and during cross curricular weeks (connections with English, Music, Arts and History). Detail of the lessons (each lesson can be covered 2 teaching sessions) Lesson 1: La poésie (what is poetry, vocabulary around poetry, analysis of the format and content of Chansons d’Automne by Paul Verlaine) Lesson 2: Victor Hugo (his life, analysis of Demain, dès l’Aube, extension: Le Dormeur du Val by Rimbaud) Lesson 3: Calligrammes (origin, discussions around La femme au chapeau by Guillaume Apollinaire, exercise on Il pleut by Daniel Brugès or Il pleut by Guillaume Apollinaire) - lesson Art/French Lesson 4: La poésie dans/et d’autres arts (le rap - La Belle et le Bad Boy by MC Solaar, le slam - Grand Corps Malade, singers/poets? - Stromae) - Lesson Music/French Lesson 5: Assignment - (various options: translation of English poems into French (poets inspired by Verlaine and Rimbaud and by the Romantic movement), translation of a poem by Prevert into English, draw/write your own calligramme, write an analysis of a French poem) Files included: Powerpoint presentations for each lesson, booklet for students

This is a full unit on French Youth during the German Occupation (5 lessons) which can be used with students who have a strong level of French (A Level students, University students, adult students). There is a student booklet containing all the presentations and the quizzes. There are plenty of short tasks, discussion ideas, etc with original pictures, videos or documents as starting points. I have used it at the end of the year after exams to do something a bit different and during cross curricular weeks (connections with History). Detail of the lessons (each lesson can be covered 2 teaching sessions) Lesson 1: La France occupée (causes of WWII, France in 1939-1940, occupied France) Lesson 2: Le quotidien des jeunes Francais Lesson 3: Resister ou collaborer Lesson 4: Etre juif sous l’Occupation Lesson 5: La fin de la guerre Files included: Powerpoint presentations for each lesson, Quiz for Lesson 1 to 3, booklet for students