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Students use these slides to help them write a ‘for sale’ paragraph about a sibling or friend. It practises personality words and physical descriptions.
I use this sheet either at the end of each half-term (after assessments) or at the start of the following half-term.
Pupils fill in their self-assessment of their own progress over the half-term, including what they found most challenging and their personal targets for the following half-term.
As they enter the room, give pupils a random mood card. Whenever they speak in the target language, they must do so in the mood on the card. Other pupils then have to guess that mood.
Just a different way to get them speaking in the target language!
I use this sheet either at the end of each half-term (after assessments) or at the start of the following half-term.
Pupils fill in their self-assessment of their own progress over the half-term, including what they found most challenging and their personal targets for the following half-term.
Practise colours using this PPT, based on colours brain training.
Going through each slide quickly, pupils must say the colour of the word, not the actual word.
Pupils have a set of these cards in pairs and pick up a TV show card (image), an opinion card (emoji) and (for example) ‘je les trouve’ card, followed by ‘Par contre’ to make sentences. J’adore les dessins animés. Je les trouve très amusants. Par contre, je n’aime pas les documentaires. Je les trouve ennuyeux.
There are images of various clothes and pupils must raise the correct hand when you, as the teacher, says one of the articles of clothing in French.
Instructions are in the notes section of the PPT.
On the first slide, in line with the GCSE speaking photo card, pupils give sentences about the picture. This is an introduction to the topic of the advantages and disadvantages of social media.
On the following slide, phrases have been taken from a text about social media. Students decide whether the statements are advantages or disadvantages.
Students then use mini whiteboards to recap the vocab.
To finish, students challenge each other for the next lesson. They all write a phrase from this lesson on a Post-It and stick it to the back wall. These are then randomly given out to the students as a starter in the following lesson to be translated.
This PPT introduces the simple future to students, including of course verb endings, but also the most common irregular simple future verbs.
It finished with a mini whiteboard activity. Pupils write the correct translation of the phrases on their boards.
Use the PPT to introduce family members in German.
Print and copy the family tree from the presentation, so pupils can follow and make notes.
Pupils then use the clues (e.g. my dad’s brother) to identify the family member.
Use this PPT to introduce daily routine vocab to pupils.
It starts by introducing the vocab, then pupils have to choose between the two options in French.
Then, they must identify the phrases with the vowels missing.
Finally, play a game of Blockbusters with the class to practise the new vocab.
Use this PPT to introduce pupils to both the simple future and the conditional in French. As they are quite similar, it seems sensible to introduce them both together. This is really better suited to higher ability pupils.
