Teacher of French and Spanish (French native) at Secondary level.
Teaching towards real life, through GCSE Edexcel.
What to expect:
-> Quality lessons
->Scaffolded activity, increasing in challenge
->Differentiated activities within the lesson
-> KS4: a Higher / Foundation lesson
-> Spiral learning to support retrieval
-> Dual coding to support memorisation
-> exam skills with past papers where applicable
Check out the French lesson on Jobs (free) to see an example of what to expect!
Teacher of French and Spanish (French native) at Secondary level.
Teaching towards real life, through GCSE Edexcel.
What to expect:
-> Quality lessons
->Scaffolded activity, increasing in challenge
->Differentiated activities within the lesson
-> KS4: a Higher / Foundation lesson
-> Spiral learning to support retrieval
-> Dual coding to support memorisation
-> exam skills with past papers where applicable
Check out the French lesson on Jobs (free) to see an example of what to expect!
Risk assessment written to take 60 Yr8s students, via coach, to a nearby city where a French market was being held.
Ideal for any field trip with coach travel and going into town / interactions with people.
RA includes:
Sites and environment
Group / Special needs / Safeguarding
Down time
Leader and activity arrangements
Transport
First aid arrangements
Other factors
Alternative plans
Also find a template for cards to fill in with your school’s phone number and to laminate. This is for students to carry with them on the day, would they get lost.
Lesson on future plans, designed for a lower set Yr11.
Lesson of 1 hour:
Starts with vocab presentation through a listening.
Then a reading to find the synonyms through sentences, and widen their vocabulary through practice of the new vocab.
Recap of simple future.
Practice of simple future through model sentences and mini whiteboards.
Leads to a writing using sequencers.
Aimed at Yr9s
3 lesson of 50 min / 1 hour each practicing vocabulary about getting along with family members and justifiying why. Leads up to a writing task.
Lesson 1: revision / practice of expressions such as I get along well with, I quarrel with…
Lesson 2: Reflexive ER verbs conjugation in the present tense + Revision of adjectives as justification of how well people get along
Lesson 3: Translation exercise of a written model to lead to a writing task.
Two lessons of over an hour each to see / revise listening and reading strategies. Vocab and exercises used from Theme 1 Family and relationships.
Lesson 1: Listening strategies, model + independent practice.
Lesson 2: Reading strategies, model + independent practice.
Aimed at Yr10 Higher set revising geographical features and the weather.
3 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each.
Lesson 1: Types of house / geographical features + activites linked with it with “on peut”
Lesson 2: Revision of conjugation for ER verbs in the present tense. Weather.
Lesson 3: Revision of “on peut” + full conjugation. Leading up to the production of a paragraph and a speaking activity answering questions.
Aimed at Yr9s
3 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each building up students knowledge up to a conversation / role play to organise a meeting, with prompt cards.
Lesson 1: Preposition + some places in town + some times (taught as chunk)
Lesson 2: Revision of means of transport to be able to say how to go there and who with.
Lesson 3: Put all together and speaking practice.
3 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each
Lesson 1: activities to do with friends
Lesson 2: Revision of ER present tense conjugation with verbs from lesson 1
Lesson 3: What makes a good friend (revision of adjective and introduction /
practice of higher sentences).
Aimed at Yr10s Higher set.
4 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour covering information to have a conversation in a visitor information center.
Lesson 1: basic new vocabulary (open/close…) and writing out sentences using je voudrais/ j’aimerais etc…
Lesson 2: Higher version of I would like “je ne veux pas manquer/ je tiens à visiter…” and text (listening first) study to practice the new vocabulary.
Lesson 3: Asking questions (grammar point) and listening practice of conversations.
Lesson 4: Speaking practice based on ads (basis for this lesson found on TES).
Some of the slides have been found on TES from other users and have been adapted to this lesson.
Aimed at Yr10 Foundation/bottom set revising geographical features and the weather.
3 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each.
Lesson 1: Types of house / geographical features + activites linked with it with “on peut”
Lesson 2: Revision of conjugation for ER verbs in the present tense. Weather.
Lesson 3: Revision of “on peut” + infinitives. Leading up to the production of a paragraph and a speaking activity answering questions.
Aimed at Yr10 Foundation/Bottom Sets.
3 lessons of 50 min/ 1 hour each covering what there is(n’t) in a city and directions.
Lesson 1: What there is and isn’t in your city (+ un/une/des or negative + de)
Lesson 2: Direction practice
Lesson 3: Grammar point: the imperative + speaking practice/game on directions.
Bundle with lessons covering the vocabulary of topics that could be important for the students (money, family, studies, war,…) and why. Sentence Builder included.
Higher lesson also contains a grammar points on Ce que vs ce qui.
A lesson aimed at a Yr9 class, recaping TV shows and adding comparatives.
Lesson 1:
Recap of TV shows (focus on gender)
Study of the comparative burger
Practice of comparison with scaffolded activities (sentence puzzle to guide, then translation,…).
Lesson 2:
Introduction and practice of some new vocab to justify their opinion.
Je ne rate jamais
J’apprends beaucoup
J’aime bien l’animateur
Mon émission préférée c’est…
Les acteurs sont très doués
Le scénario est passionnant
Je regarde cette série en streaming
Regarder la télé en direct
Lesson 3:
Practice of Lesson 1 and 2 together, leading to the exit ticket.
Lesson aimed at a lower set of Yr11s and covering the vocabulary needed to book a hotel room (included showers, single/double bed, etc…) and covering the grammar point of nous vs on (useful for the 28 mark formal essay).
A four-hour lesson.
Lesson 1:
Covering vocabulary of hotel rooms, and use of several games to enhance memory, before introducing sentences with “nous” and “on”, as well as “avec” and “sans”.
Lesson 2:
Practicing the vocab seen in Lesson 1 with a reading talking about several hotels.
Introducing the grammar point of “on” vs “nous”.
Lesson 3:
Study of a listening (conversation to book a room) to pre empt questions used in a made up role play.
Lesson 4:
Students are given a card with information in English about the room they want to book and are asked to play out the role play.
Lesson covering sports we play and we do and putting them in a sentence with present tense + since.
Extension: the pronoun “y” (j’y joue depuis trois ans).
3 lessons of 50 min / an hour each.
Lesson 1:
Recap of sports you play (with correct au / à la / aux), whole paradigm of verb “jouer” in the present tense
Lesson 2: Study of since in sentences + grammar point
Lesson 3: More practice in the content of lesson 1 and lesson 2 and adding higher opinion about doing sports such as “je décompresse”.
Lesson aimed at Yr9 students covering sports you do and instruments, justification as to how those hobbies are beneficial and with the use of the pronoun “en” and since.
I have paired them up together as both categories use “du / de la / des” and have “en” as a pronoun.
3 lesson of an hour each.
Lesson 1:
Revision of sports (play) + adding instruments. Grammar point: du / de la / des with the instruments and introduction of “j’en joue” (based on prior learning “j’y joue”).
Lesson 2:
Recap of sports we do + j’en fais.
Then practice of sports (play) + j’y joue depuis; instruments + j’en joue depuis and adding sports (do) + j’en fais depuis…
Lesson 3:
Practice of since with production by the student (translation to French).
Practice of opinion justifications such as “j’oublie mes soucis”, “c’est bon pour le corps et l’esprit”.
Lesson aimed at a Yr9 group, covering the vocab of books, books genre and reading (including opinions). Also covers the negative sentence in this context.
Two lesson of an hour each.
Lesson 1:
recaps book genre and studying them into context with opinion and negative sentences.
Lesson 2 two possibilities, both included):
Both lesson starts with the study of the negative sentence (with pas, plus and jamais).
Both lesson then introduce vocab to argue for or against paper books / ebooks, and then study them in the context of a reading (one uses resources from a manual, whereas the other uses a frame used to write across all topics).
Lesson aimed at a higher set of Yr11s and covering the vocabulary needed to book a hotel room (included showers, single/double bed, etc…) and covering the grammar point of nous vs on (useful for the 28 mark formal essay).
A four-hour lesson.
Lesson 1:
Covering vocabulary of hotel rooms and introducing sentences with “nous” and “on”, as well as “avec” and “sans”.
Lesson 2:
Practicing the verb loger in several tenses and practicing the vocab seen in Lesson 1 with a reading talking about several hotels. Adding other vocab such as “petit-déjeuner inclus” “nos chambres modernes vous attendent” (seen as chunks).
Lesson 3:
Focus on “on” vs “nous” in the present tense (verb endings)
Lesson 4:
Study of a listening (conversation to book a room) followed by a speaking based on the questions of the listening.
Students are given a card with information in English about the room they want to book and are asked to play out the role play.
Assembly to celebrate European Day of Languages 2023, with the launch of a whole school initiative through the creation of a “Language ID”.
A language ID for students to fill in that includes:
Their mother Tongue
Language they are fluent in
Language they speak well
Language they understand well
Language they are learning
Language they know words of
Language they hear a lot
Language they would like to learn
Language they like the sound of
The assembly includes:
A first slide with an animation of 36 translation of “European Foreign Languages”, looping as the students come in. Stops when you go the next slide.
Quick hand up quiz about number of countries / languages
Raise awarness that languages gravitates around us and that we deal with more languages that we realised (mothertongue, fluent, learning, know words of, would like to learn, like the sound of…)
Introduction of Language ID as a whole school Initiative
Why EDL? Objectives of the day
Careers in languages
Introduction of MFL club with Secret agent Language handbook (from EDL resources website https://edl.ecml.at/)
Benefits of a language (on the brain and salary - hand up quiz)
Reflection and prayer.
4 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each.
Lesson 1: revision of Passé composé of ER verbs (and mix with present tense) for the first person singular (je line).
Lesson 2: Revision of Avoir auxiliary to extend the conjugation + game to revise irregulars (j’ai lu / vu / cru, etc…).
Lesson 3: Study of a text known to the students (from Une sortie) to find the time markers and verbs.
Lesson 4: Writing task in the past tense (can be used in lessons later to re write in 3 tenses) with extension on how to improve the sentences (sequencers, intensifiers, time markers,…)
