Welcome to my shop! I teach French and Spanish in the North West and I'm passionate about helping students to access and enjoy communicating in MFL! Expert in linguistics and phonics.
Welcome to my shop! I teach French and Spanish in the North West and I'm passionate about helping students to access and enjoy communicating in MFL! Expert in linguistics and phonics.
Practice listening skills and the topic of jobs/work with Stromae’s song ‘Santé’
Add a culture boost to your lessons!
complete transcript
find the French for
find the synonyms
identify key jobs mentioned
true or false
inference questions to think about the meaning of the song
Ideal for GCSE or high ability KS3
Develop translation skills into French - worksheet
Perfect for French GCSE writing exam (current/old spec).
Build grammatical awareness
Scaffolded examples
Independent examples
Great for after-school revision/intervention sessions
Practice pre or post mocks to improve this skills and boost confidence
Editable version included - you can use the template for other topics if desired
**Call My Bluff style Quiz to practice false friends in French **
Includes tricky vocab that often comes up in the GCSE papers
With images and a multiple choice answers on each slide - will you be fooled?
Ideal for end of term educational fun!
Includes answers, and follow up worksheets (with different levels of scaffolding/challenge) to reinforce vocabulary knowledge.
A resource to help with planning in MFL - fast.
Lists activity ideas (taken from lots of different places) for each stage of the EPI cycle - choose a couple of activities per section and work through the sections across a few lessons.
Ideal for trainee teachers and ECTs, or anyone looking to speed up their planning and thinking of clear, well sequenced, and varied activities.
These are ideas that work well for me and my department. A blank, editable, template copy is also included for you to develop your own. I do not take credit for originally coming up with any of these activities.
Read my blog post about this resource and how it was developed here: https://bethlingual.blogspot.com/2024/12/how-to-plan-great-lesson-fast.html
Develop students’ self-efficacy and resilience by guiding them through reflecting on their past year.
This sheet asks questions to help students look back and feel grateful, proud, and motivated.
Eye-catching and easy to use - a lovely end of year pastoral/tutor time activity or for use in PSHE lessons.
Can also be a discussion starter to develop oracy and talking about their year in review.
French Christmas Quiz for all years with 3 rounds.
Multiple choice questions about traditions
Pointless-style vocab translation task (into English)
Listen to a Christmas song and complete the gaps in the transcript
Answers included
Fun cultural lesson for end of term!
French worksheet for KS3 or 4 - cover, revision, homework, consolidation
Recap, practice, and consolidate how to form the passé composé past tense with regular -er verbs and all parts of avoir, with EPI-style activities.
ALL VOCAB MATCHED TO THE NEW FRENCH GCSE
Match up
Fill in the missing letters
Identify and tick the past tense
Write the past participle
Find the French for
Highlight and correct the mistakes
Positive or negative (relevant prior learning recap)
Complete the grid with the correct forms of the verb
First letters translation
Free translation
The first question of each task is done as an example. Challenge task included.
Great for last minute cover work, revision leading up to a test, or for retrieval and consolidation of learning over the last few topics.
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French GCSE Knowledge Organiser to help focus students’ revision for the writing and speaking exam (current/old spec). Great for answering any type of question spontaneously (writing bullet points/ speaking unseen questions).
High frequency vocab that can be used across many topics.
Time phrases
Verbs in 3 time frames
Infinitives and phrases to use with them
Giving opinions
Describing photocards
Understanding question words
GCSE French Conversation Jeopardy
Jeopardy style game - students choose their topic and level of difficulty, and answer the corresponding question.
Works well as a team game or more independently.
Great for practicing the general conversation AND dealing unseen questions.
Slides can include a WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) as an example to support if needed.]
Slides are fully editable and easy to navigate.
Whole school activity to celebrate European Day of Languages and boost the profile of languages!
Display the words for ‘hello’ in many languages around school.
Students take a quiz sheet and copy how to say hello and where each language can be found. (Remember to note which room you hid each one in on a master copy when setting up!)
Editable word copy of quiz included so you can make the quiz as long or short as you like depending on the size of your school.
Booklet on language links between English and French -using cognates, accents and morphology. Encourages using knowledge of English to help with reading and vocab skills in French, can incorporate dictionary use.
French worksheet to practice conjugations of regular -er verbs in the present tense.
Ideal for consolidation, cover, homework or revision for a test. EPI style activities.
4 page booklet plus answers sheet included.
Clear explanation with lots of examples. Vocab suited to the NEW GCSE.
Includes a fun parallel text story to put knowledge into context.
Identify pronouns
Highlight correct form of the verb
Manipulate infinitives
Translations
Parallel text story to complete
Challenge task: write a story
French revision worksheet recapping the past and future tense together.
With EPI-style activities. (Passé composé and futur proche).
Ideal for cover, revision & consolidation, homework etc.
Could be used with GCSE classes, A-level transition and recap, high ability KS3.
Fill in missing letters
Match up vocab
Verb anagrams
Reordering sentences
Choose correct pronoun
Spot and add missing word
Add the spaces
Likely or unlikely
Multiple choice translation
Model text to read and answer questions in English
Could be completed as a retrieval activity or with a dictionary to support, depending on pupils. Topics and vocab based on GCSE AQA French.
The first sentence of each task has been done as an example.
With a suggested ‘challenge task’ extension at the end.
French GCSE revision sessions to help students develop key skills for the writing and speaking exams
3 PPTs broken down into vocab/building sentences/developing paragraphs
Can be used over multiple revision sessions or used for independent revision
All 3 themes included (current/old GCSE spec)
Activities include:
LCWC with lots of vocab and template to create your own
missing letters
choose best translations
inital letters translations
manipulating sentences - changing tenses, adding opinions, details etc
gapfill
substituting chunks
reordering chunks