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!
Lettre au Père Noël
Lesson aimed at a class of Year 9s, recapping the perfect tense, to write a letter to Father Christmas to say why you have been good this, what you did in school, at home, etc…
With the website https://pere-noel.laposte.fr/ , students get to send their letter to La Poste to get an answer ! (Whilst I have taught this lesson, I have not received answers yet as it has been taught recently – dec 2023)
2 hour lesson.
**Lesson 1 **
Recap and practice of the perfect tense.
Study of a model of a letter.
Lesson 2
Writing prep using vocab and verbs needed for the letter.
Writing of the letter
How to post it online to get a response
Extra: send a drawing to a child in hopsital in France, with a note!
Lesson aimed at a higher set of Yr11s and covering the vocabulary of food (recap), how to order food and take orders, and give your opinion about food.
A four-hour lesson.
Lesson 1:
Tenses practice with “avoir” (imperfect, perfect tense, present tense, near future, future and conditional).
Leads to a mwb activity then a translation mixing tenses with the following expressions:
avoir faim
avoir soif
avoir besoin de
avoir envie de
Lesson 2:
Practice of a dialog in a restaurant.
Practice through translation of key sentences, reading and listening (differentiated worksheets available for the whole class to access the activity).
Lesson 3:
Focus on giving your opinion of a restaurant outing, with the help of a sentence builder.
Practice through a reading (differentiated worksheets) and another reading with open answer questions.
Lesson 4:
Students create their own menu.
Work on a role play to go order at their “classmates’ restaurant”.
Writing a Trip advisor review for their classmates’ restaurant, giving their opinion.
Bundle regrouping all the Foundation lessons, meant to last a whole term with 2-to-4-hour lessons.
You will find lessons on:
Countries, accommodation and transports (conditional)
Hotel room booking - leads to a role play
Transports & ticket booking - leads to a role play (+ comparative).
Holidays activities (present and past tense + perfect tense of reflexive verbs).
Restaurant outing - leads to a role play + writing to review a restaurant
Problems on holidays (including perfect tense, some imperfect tense + “j’aurais/j’ai dû… + inf” and pluperfect)
Lessons covering Theme 2 Topic: My area.
The bundle has the Foundation and Higher version of each version.
Planned to cover a whole term (assessment not included).
Bundle with the following resources (lasts a whole term):
Sports (play) + since and pronoun “y”
Sports (do), Instruments + since and pronoun “en”
Internet
Reading ( + paper books vs e-books)
TV shows (higher opinions and adjective agreement).
TV shows (comparative)
Hobbies in the past (passé composé)
Make your planning easier with this Powerpoint !
French and Spanish Listening, Reading and Writing exercises from Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included) sorted per theme.
Included: transcript and answers.
Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).
What I usually do: I have a look at my lesson’s objective and then scan the PPT of the theme I am currently teaching to see if any paper would work well (as a recap / practice / end production).
