List of complex structures to achieve high marks at GCSE (speaking/writing). For more writing/translation practice : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-translation-booklet-30-texts-exam-practice-boost-writing-skills-with-answers-12014508 For more speaking practice : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/igcse-gcse-speaking-conversation-help-questions-grade-9-a-worth-pounds-21-9-12007705 Board game to work on PAST + FUTURE tenses with grammar help https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-speaking-practice-board-game-past-and-present-tenses-revision-12083268

Year 7 back to school. French KS3 beginners. Je me présente. Je m’appelle. Mon anniversaire, c’est le… In this bundle, you will find: 3 lessons to teach your French beginner’s class. (Year 7) Lesson 1: learning how to greet in French Lesson 2: introducing myself and learning French numbers Lesson 3: learning how to talk about my birthday Each lesson comes with a .doc booklet and a PowerPoint with answers included to make your life easier. Each lesson builds onto the previous ones to enhance prior knowledge and help students retain vocabulary. Sentence builders are key elements of each lesson. You could use them to introduce new vocabulary and do fun activities with them. Do not hesitate to contact me on Facebook if you need some help. I made sure to use a wide range of activities for the four skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing. There are no listening tracks. I wrote the transcripts (which are included in the PowerPoint) and I usually either record myself or read it at loud. I hope this will work well for you. A knowledge organiser is also included. key words: French KS3 beginners / introducing myself / Allez 1 - le monde et moi / je me présente / back to school / French birthday / French numbers / French greetings / je m’appelle / mon anniversaire c’est le / all about me

A more complete booklet is available here to test your students: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-translation-booklet-30-texts-exam-practice-boost-writing-skills-with-answers-12014508 Translation booklet to help students revise tenses to improve their translation and writing skills. Versatile resource - you could remove some of the answers for your students to fill in the table. Tenses used : pluperfect, imperfect, perfect, conditional, past conditional, present, present continuous, near future, near future and the subjunctive mood. Tenses used : • Home & Abroad • School Life • Daily Routine • Food & Drink • Media, TV & Film • Family • Helping at Home • Hobbies & Interests • Special Occasions • Where I Live • Environment • Holidays

Whole unit available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-l-o-j-habite-whole-unit-reading-speaking-translations-writing-12167518 Sentence builders to help pupils producing sentences on “décris-moi ta maison”. They can start working with the sentence builders with ENG & FR translations (choral repetition, dictations, trapdoor activities, etc.) Then, you could give them the same sentence builders without the EN translations and do some more work on it. To finish, there are sentences for them to translate. They could do some from memory. Pupils should also be pushed to make their own sentences / come up with their own examples I hope this helps. Answers are provided

I created this mat to support my students with the “photo presentation” part of the speaking exam. (it mostly focuses on the iGCSE Edexcel exam but it could be used for other exam boards too). Other speaking activities I have made for my students : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-speaking-practice-board-game-past-and-future-tenses-revision-12083268 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-speaking-practice-board-game-end-of-year-questions-revision-12082694 Knowledge organiser : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-igcse-speaking-and-writing-exams-knowledge-organiser-most-topics-included-12020955

Resource I made to help my Year 11 revise for their speaking / writing exams. It includes the 3 time frames (time phrase + conjugated verbs) - specific adjectives - complex structures. I hope this helps!

French GCSE listening worksheet. Listening revision. Listening practice. This worksheet focuses on the holiday topic. It includes a variety of activities that are all scaffolded to lead towards an exam style question. Matching-up activity :vocabulary extracted from the listening transcript. This should be done before playing the listening. This will help your students brainstorm vocabulary and focus on key words they need to be wary of, whilst working on the listening recording. True false activity: sentences include synonyms of words from the transcript to help students focus on the meaning of the whole sentences. Complete sentences : iGCSE exam style question. This activity usually uses synonyms instead of words extracted from the transcript. Fill in the gaps - transcript : This could be given to weaker students to do the matching-up activity or used as a plenary. Answers are provided to make your life easier These worksheets are made for IGCSE classes but can easily be tweaked for AQA and EDEXCEL GCSE classes. home and abroad, travel and tourism, holiday and travel. Holidays preferences, destinations

Ma famille, my family lessons. C’est quoi une famille ? In this bundle, you will find three complete lessons to introduce family members and to be able to describe them (personality + physical descriptions). Students will also be taught/shown how to use “not” in French. Here is more information regarding lessons with PowerPoints you will find in my shop: Each lesson comes with a .doc booklet and a PowerPoint with answers included to make your life easier. Each lesson builds onto the previous ones to enhance prior knowledge and help students retain vocabulary. Sentence builders are key elements of each lesson. You could use them to introduce new vocabulary and do fun activities with them. Do not hesitate to contact me on Facebook if you need some help. I made sure to use a wide range of activities for the four skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing. There are no listening tracks. I wrote the transcripts (which are included in the PowerPoint) and I usually either record myself or read it at loud. I hope this will work well for you. You might want to edit/tweak the starter activity I created as it is usually linked to previous topics to reactivate prior knowledge. When I have slides introducing new vocabulary, I suggest adding pictures from Google Image to help your students. These lessons can easily be taught remotely. Answers are included to make your life easier. Do not hesitate to check my shop typing “French KS3…” for lessons of the same format. key words: French KS3 / Allez 1 / ma famille / my family / physical descriptions / personality / C’est quoi une famille ? / Allez 1 2.2 C’est quoi une famille ? / Mon monde perso / independent work / cover work / remote teaching.

Whole unit available here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-food-nourriture-whole-unit-reading-speaking-translations-writing-12204663 Reading with : vocabulary search, exam style questions, grammar practice. It comes with a sentence builders to introduce/revision key vocabulary for this sub-unit.

French GCSE listening practice questions on the topic of holidays (les vacances). Great for French GCSE listening revisions. Travel and tourism, Holidays, preferences, experiences, destinations, travel and tourist transactions, home and abroad, tourist information. It includes pre-listening tasks which include key vocabulary that will be used in the recordings. Each recording comes with a transcript and answers. Ideal for self-assessment, independent work. Great for home learning. The transcript could also be used for further activities (vocabulary search, gap fills, looking for mistakes, looking for synonyms, reordering sentences, etc.) The 7 different exam style questions mirror the IGCSE French Edexcel listening papers. They can easily be adapted for AQA & EDEXCEL. (listening for detail / listening for opinions / taking notes / multiple answer questions / gap fill activities / taking notes (pros & cons) Other listening booklets available in my shops are : Home & House School Food Daily routine / chores / family Hobbies / Life in town Media I hope this helps. Do not hesitate to get in touch with me on my Facebook page should you have any questions / comments.

Guidelines to help your students write good structured essays (Edexcel) with a reminder a complex structures they need to use to boost the quality of their writing. I hope this helps.

French GCSE / IGCSE lesson on the holiday topics (les vacances). It is great to revise/work on the holiday topic and revise the present tense (regular verbs mostly) Travel and tourism. Local area, holiday and travel. Holidays: preferences; experiences; destinations This worksheet works well with both the EDEXCEL and AQA examboards for French. It is composed of scaffolded activities including pre-reading tasks, a vocabulary search, grammar tasks, a reading task, exam style questions and translations. It also comes with sentence builders to introduce key vocabulary and work on a variety of structures. More lessons on the topic of holidays are available here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/vacances-gcse-12290339 Some of the subtopics /grammar concepts included in the whole unit are: les destinations, les pays, les moyens de transports, le passé, présent et le futur, différences entre « JOUER » et « FAIRE », etc.

Have a look at the WHOLE BOOKLET (£4) here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-translation-booklet-french-english-writing-skills-30-translations-10-topics-with-answ-12014508 3 different texts to translate (EN-FR / FR-EN) on the following GCSE topic: FOOD - HEALTH Answers are provided - grammar help is provided to support weaker students / boost students’ confidence. Grammar checkup at the end using grammar concepts used in the three translations. Great to practice translation skills but also to improve students’ writing skills.

French GCSE listening worksheet. Listening revision. Listening practice. This worksheet focuses on the food topic. It includes a variety of activities that are all scaffolded to lead towards an exam style question. Matching-up activity :vocabulary extracted from the listening transcript. This should be done before playing the listening. This will help your students brainstorm vocabulary and focus on key words they need to be wary of, whilst working on the listening recording. True false activity: sentences include synonyms of words from the transcript to help students focus on the meaning of the whole sentences. Complete sentences : iGCSE exam style question. This activity usually uses synonyms instead of words extracted from the transcript. Fill in the gaps - transcript : This could be given to weaker students to do the matching-up activity or used as a plenary. Answers are provided to make your life easier These worksheets are made for IGCSE classes but can easily be tweaked for AQA and EDEXCEL GCSE classes. food and drink / daily life / food and eating out / free time activities

Booklet on other units available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-ks3-revision-vocabulary-grammar-allez-1-module-6-7-8-9-12119007 You can find a variety of KS3/4/5 lessons on my shop - do not hesitate to have a look! I made this worksheet for my pupils to revise grammar points / vocabulary on different topics we have seen this year. This is for them to revise individually at home & use the answers to mark their work. I hope this helps. More than 40 reading tasks here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-french-reading-and-writing-activities-allez-1-textbook-12164922

French GCSE listening practice questions on the topic of home and house (là où j’habite). Great for French GCSE listening revisions. House and home, Home, town, neighbourhood and region, Life in the town and rural life, Town, region and country. It includes pre-listening tasks which include key vocabulary that will be used in the recordings. Each recording comes with a transcript and answers. Ideal for self-assessment, independent work. Great for home learning. The transcript could also be used for further activities (vocabulary search, gap fills, looking for mistakes, looking for synonyms, reordering sentences, etc.) The 7 different exam style questions mirror the IGCSE French Edexcel listening papers. They can easily be adapted for AQA & EDEXCEL. (listening for detail / listening for opinions / taking notes / multiple answer questions / gap fill activities / taking notes (pros & cons) Other listening booklets available in my shops are : Holidays School Food Daily routine / chores / family Hobbies / Life in town Media I hope this helps. Do not hesitate to get in touch with me on my Facebook page should you have any questions / comments.

**Complete READING BOOKLET (11 subtopics) available here : ** https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-reading-booklet-exam-style-questions-12102665 Reading activity on “les vacances en Bretagne”. It is composed of : A challenging piece of reading A vocabulary search Exam style questions Answers are provided

Board game to work on PAST + FUTURE tenses with grammar help https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-speaking-practice-board-game-past-and-present-tenses-revision-12083268 Made this board-game to help my students revise for their end of year exam. It contains questions they may not have seen already but that they should be able to answer without many prompts as they are quite easy. It is accompanied with different A* / complex structures. I challenged my students to use as many different structures as possible in their answers. They highlighted them. I hope this helps.

Whole unit available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-environnement-environment-whole-unit-reading-speaking-translations-writing-12178101 Sentence builders to help pupils producing sentences on “pour aider l’environnement + INFINITIVE STRUCTURES”. They can start working with the sentence builders with ENG & FR translations (choral repetition, dictations, trapdoor activities, etc.) Then, you could give them the same sentence builders without the EN translations and do some more work on it. To finish, there are sentences for them to translate. They could do some from memory. Pupils should also be pushed to make their own sentences / come up with their own examples I hope this helps. Answers are provided

Whole unit available here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-festivals-and-traditions-no-l-christmas-halloween-anniversaire-birthday-12194458 More exam style practice questions (question + 4 options) available here : https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-reading-four-options-revision-exam-practice-questions-12194816 The worksheet includes: Some reading skills students need to keep in mind Vocabulary search with most distractors from the reading A reading on Halloween (past tense mostly) Exam style questions (4 options) Vocabuary used in this reading task is from the Sentence Builders that is also attached. Great to revise tenses, complex structures, specific vocabulary for Halloween. answers are provided