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I have over 25 years language teaching experience in UK secondary schools and 12 years as a Curriculum Leader. I was also a GCSE examiner for many years. I love languages and have enjoyed creating these resources. I am working on lots of resources for the GCSE new specifications.

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I have over 25 years language teaching experience in UK secondary schools and 12 years as a Curriculum Leader. I was also a GCSE examiner for many years. I love languages and have enjoyed creating these resources. I am working on lots of resources for the GCSE new specifications.
The Conditional Tense in French - a complete guide
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The Conditional Tense in French - a complete guide

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The PowerPoint gives a step by step guide to understanding and forming the conditional tense. The PowerPoint can be used for pupils to copy from in order to form accurate grammar/ resource notes in their books, which they can then refer back to when working individually to form the conditional tense. On the PowerPoint, there is a whole range of different exercises to complete to allow lots of practice and also to check comprehension. There is a worksheet that accompanies the PowerPoint. The second worksheet has over 30 questions in French for pupils to answer by using the conditional tense and can promote lots of speaking activities in the classroom.
French – Sports / Leisure Activities. Les Sports et Loisirs.
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French – Sports / Leisure Activities. Les Sports et Loisirs.

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This is a set of resources to introduce and practice 30 different sports/ leisure activities. The PowerPoint initially introduces the sports/ leisure activities with practice exercises. It includes grammar notes about the verbs jouer and faire, the use of au, du, de la, de l’ etc. There are also grammar notes about the negative form of the verb. There is a wide range of activities including match-ups, gap-fills, reading comprehensions, translations into English and French, a listening exercise, choosing the grammatically correct sentence, writing activities including one describing photos. The resource is easily adaptable. To accompany the PowerPoint there is a worksheet for all the activities, which are easily editable. Pupils will gain a good knowledge of a wide range of sports and leisure activities, and will be able to recognise and use them in a range of situations. The work in this pack of resources will certainly cover several lessons.
French  Jobs,  Professions & Places of Work. Les métiers / où on travaille.
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French Jobs, Professions & Places of Work. Les métiers / où on travaille.

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This is a set of resources to introduce and practice 36 different jobs/ professions, more than 15 places of work and lots more. The PowerPoint initially introduces jobs/ professions in 3 sections, 12 jobs per section, each with practice exercises. The resource is easily adaptable if you want to introduce less. There is a wide range of activities on the PowerPoint and on an accompanying worksheet. The omission of an article when saying one’s job is introduced and practised. The PowerPoint introduces the places of work with practice exercises. The PowerPoint goes on to practice working hours, full/part-time, activities in a job, liking/disliking a job and so on. The wide range of activities includes match-ups, gap-fills, reading comprehensions, translations, choosing the grammatically correct sentence and describing photos. Pupils will gain a good knowledge of a wide range of jobs and places of work, and will be able to recognise and use them in a range of situations. The work in this pack of resources will certainly cover several lessons.
Reflexive Verbs in the Present Tense in French - A Complete Guide.
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Reflexive Verbs in the Present Tense in French - A Complete Guide.

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This resource pack will ensure students have a full understanding of recognising and conjugating reflexive verbs in the present tense. The first PowerPoint introduces pupils to reflexives verbs, in the infinitive and then demonstrates how to form the present tense of reflexive verbs, using a step-by-step method. The slides contain grammar notes that students can note in their exercise books and use as a reference for all future work using these verbs. There are a range of exercises to complete, as well as a reading comprehension and a writing task. There is a worksheet that accompanies the PowerPoint. The second PowerPoint contains pictures of daily routine activities with the appropriate phrases, in the first person, and then moves on to tasks to complete using all subject pronouns with a wide range of reflexive verbs. This is a tried and tested method to ensure comprehension and the ability to confidently form the present tense with reflexive verbs.
Essential French Grammar - Pack 2.
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Essential French Grammar - Pack 2.

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A bundle of 3 resource packs which cover a range of important grammatical terms, essential for students studying the new GCSE or AS level. This bundle includes: 1) Prepositions, 2) Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns, 3) Pronouns y & en. Each resource pack contains a lengthy PowerPoint, with grammar notes that pupils can record in their exercise books and use as a reference for all future work using these grammar points. Each resource pack has a worksheet that accompanies each PowerPoint. Essential grammar to progress independent learning.
French GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications - Speaking Exam - Role Plays, Photo Cards, General Conversation.
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French GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications - Speaking Exam - Role Plays, Photo Cards, General Conversation.

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This bundle contains everything for the French GCSE New Specifications Speaking Exam: 1. A Complete Set of 90 Role-Plays, covering Themes 1, 2 and 3. Foundation and higher tier role-plays and teacher’s packs for all. All complied by studying exemplar materials given by all exam boards. 2. 40 different photo cards, all have 5 questions and there are a wide range of questions to cover both foundation and higher tiers. The cards cover all 3 themes and all 12 topics/ sub-themes. 3. This is a booklet that can be printed for each student and contains approximately 200 general conversation questions. These questions have put together by researching all exam boards specifications. The questions are in themes and in the 12 topics/sub-themes. They have also been classified into tenses so that pupils can be clear of the tense they need to use to answer the relevant question.
French GCSE A Complete Guide to Theme 1, Topic 4 – Customs & festivals in French-speaking countries
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French GCSE A Complete Guide to Theme 1, Topic 4 – Customs & festivals in French-speaking countries

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Easily adaptable for home learning. This covers the whole of Theme 1, Topic 4 – ‘Customs & festivals in French-speaking countries/ communities’. The PowerPoint is very lengthy (57 slides) and contains work for six or seven lessons. The PowerPoint is broken down into four sections: 1) Grammar; 2) Listening; 3) Reading and Writing; and 4) Speaking. There are several different worksheets to accompany exercises on the PowerPoint, as well as a transcript for the listening and answer sheets also appear on the PowerPoint. The exercises include: vocabulary match-ups; verb and tenses exercises; a listening comprehension with different tasks; several reading comprehensions with different types of exercises to complete; translations in English and into French; photo stimuli for written tasks; blog writing tasks (foundation and higher); two role-play cards (foundation and higher); five photo cards for speaking activities and finally questions related to the general conversation section of the speaking exam.
French – Describing People – Physical Descriptions & Characteristics.
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French – Describing People – Physical Descriptions & Characteristics.

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Easily adaptable for home learning. This is a set of resources to introduce describing others and oneself. There is a lengthy PowerPoint (79 slides) that goes through describing height, build, hair and eyes with reinforcement activities, match up activities, gap fills, translations and a reading comprehension. It then goes on to introduce 16 characteristics with listening activities, match ups, snake sentences and reading comprehensions. The final activity is the creation of a wanted poster for students to complete. There is an 8-page worksheet that accompanies the PowerPoint. These resources are enough for several lessons and start for the introduction through to pupils confidently using all of the new language, creating whole descriptions of themselves and others.
French Classroom Vocabulary Displays
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French Classroom Vocabulary Displays

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This resource has 88 printable displays for your French classroom. They are all on a PowerPoint, therefore very easy to print, laminate and display in your classroom. These sets of words will encourage your students to improve and vary their written and spoken work; as well as learning vocabulary, just by seeing it regularly. Each set of words has a different display background and different colour fonts; and each display shows the words in French and in English. The display categories are: 1. Connectives (16 words/ phrases) 2. Intensifiers (12 words/ phrases) 3. Time Phrases (28 words/ phrases) 4. Opinion Phrases (16 words/ phrases) 5. Adverbs (10 words/ phrases)
German – Conversation Cards – Questions and Answers.
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German – Conversation Cards – Questions and Answers.

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This is a set of 28 question cards and 28 answer cards to get your pupils speaking to each other in German and great to use as starters for target language practice. They include questions about name age, likes, favourites, preferences, family, daily routine, and many more. These fun colourful cards can be printed and cut into individual question and answer cards to be used in several different ways, depending on the ability and confidence of your students: Both question and answer cards can be given to students in pairs to practice a conversation. (Easier level) Question cards only given to pairs to practice a conversation. Students will need to form their own answers. (Middle level) Students are only given the answer cards and need to use these to form the relevant questions. (Harder level) It is essential that pupils can ask questions (not just answer them). Regular practice of these question and answer sessions will allow them to get used to asking questions and be able to formulate further questions independently.
French GCSE (9 - 1) Essential Revision Vocabulary
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French GCSE (9 - 1) Essential Revision Vocabulary

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This is a PowerPoint of over 650 words, essential vocabulary for GCSE. There are 64 slides of vocabulary and 12 words/phrases per slide. Each word/phrase comes on to the screen one at a time and all vocabulary is in French only. The vocabulary in quite a random order, as it would be to pupils when they hear or read texts in the listening and/or reading exams. It is really useful to recap what vocabulary they know, and then get pupils to record vocabulary that is new to them. You can then go back next lesson to those slides to confirm what they have retained. It can also be use in a competitive way, in teams to see which team knows the most vocabulary. However you use it, it covers a very wide range of essential vocabulary, a key to successful revision at GCSE level.
French GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications - Role Plays - Theme 2.
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French GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications - Role Plays - Theme 2.

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This is a set of 30 role-plays in a printable format to use for mock/ preparation/ class practice for speaking exams. These are all based on Theme 2 – Local, national international and global areas of interest. They have been compiled by studying exemplar materials given by all exam boards. There are 15 foundation tier and 15 higher tier role-plays. There is a teacher’s pack for each set of role-plays, giving the teacher’s part for each conversation. There are also two Power Points, one for the foundation role-plays, one for the higher set. Each PowerPoint starts with an explanation of the role play section of the exam and then shows each role play card, followed by showing the (!) unknown question so that students can also prepare for that/ start to predict what the unknown question could be.
French Easter Resources - Joyeuses Pâques!
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French Easter Resources - Joyeuses Pâques!

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This fun Easter resource gives lots of information about Easter traditions in France in English. It then goes on to introduce 10 Easter related words in French, followed with a match-up activity, anagrams and a word search. Pupils are then asked to make a French Easter card, with lots of examples and there are 5 templates that can be printed and used. Each template has ‘Joyeuses Pâques’ and an Easter picture to colour. There are also two further Easter pictures to colour. The resource finishes with a quiz (and answers included) about what they have learnt from the PowerPoint. Happy Easter!
French GCSE – Une histoire mystérieuse – imperfect, perfect and pluperfect tenses.
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French GCSE – Une histoire mystérieuse – imperfect, perfect and pluperfect tenses.

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This resource is to actively practise and use the 3 past tenses – imperfect, perfect and pluperfect. It goes through a revision of each tense with exercises to check comprehension for each tense and an accompanying worksheet. Then the main text is introduced which is part of a ‘mysterious story’. This is first as a listening activity with two different exercises to complete and a worksheet. The text is then used as a reading comprehension with a range of questions, grammar and writing activities to complete. The final writing activity involves creative writing, as students need to provide their own ending to the mystery. Answers to activities are on the PowerPoint. This should certainly take two – three lessons.
FRENCH GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications - Role-Plays.
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FRENCH GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications - Role-Plays.

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This bundle – A Complete Set of 90 Role-Plays, covering Themes 1, 2 and 3. Foundation and higher tier role-plays and teacher’s packs for all. All complied by studying exemplar materials given by all exam boards. A good reduction by buying all three packs at once.
German GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications Translation Exercises.
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German GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications Translation Exercises.

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This document is in the format of worksheets/ a booklet that can be given to all GCSE students. It is broken down into themes and then into the topics within each theme. For each topic there are 10 translation exercises, as on the Reading Exam. It is contains in total 120 translations of varying lengths and levels of challenge. The translations have been created carefully and are in line with exam board exemplar materials. This could be used by pupils at the end of teaching each topic/ sub-theme in order to test/ check understanding and to practise translation skills or used for wider translation purposes.
French Colours - Les Couleurs.
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French Colours - Les Couleurs.

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Easily adaptable for home learning. This PowerPoint introduces 11 colours (rouge, rose, orange, jaune, bleu, vert, blanc, noir, gris, violet, brun) and there are lots of practice activities. The colours are introduced with the words and then there are lots of practice activities without the words. Slides 31 – 33 can be printed as these are colour by number activities. There are match up exercises, find the missing colours, unjumble the words, fill in the missing letters, very short sentences to copy and complete and so on. There is also a separate word search document.
French GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications - Translations into French and English.
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French GCSE 9 - 1 Specifications - Translations into French and English.

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Easily adaptable for home learning. This document is in the format of worksheets/ a booklet that can be given to all GCSE students. It is broken down into themes and then into the topics within each theme. For each topic there are translation exercises both into English, as on the Reading Exams and into French, as the Writing Exams. It is 36 pages in length and contains 120 translations of varying lengths and levels of challenge. The translations have been created carefully and are in line with exam board exemplar materials. This could be used by pupils at the end of teaching each topic/ sub-theme in order to test/ check understanding and to practise translation skills or used for wider translation purposes.
French GCSE (9 - 1)- Translations, Exam Rubrics, Core Vocabulary.
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French GCSE (9 - 1)- Translations, Exam Rubrics, Core Vocabulary.

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This bundle contains three resource packs – all specifically designed for the GCSE New Specifications: 1. Translations. This document is in the format of worksheets/ a booklet that can be given to all GCSE students. It is broken down into themes and then into the 12 topics within each theme. For each topic there are translation exercises both into English, as on the Reading Exams and into French, as the Writing Exams. It is 36 pages in length and contains 120 translations of varying lengths and levels of challenge. 2. For the new GCSE exams, pupils will be expected to understand all French exam rubrics. This PowerPoint goes through all rubrics needed, starting with understanding the main verbs, commonly used words and then through to whole instructions in French. There are plenty of exercises for pupils to complete and a worksheet that accompanies the PowerPoint. 3. GCSE Vocabulary. This is a 29 page document which contains AQA French GCSE vocabulary. The vocabulary is categorised in to sections – including themes and topics within themes. It is easy to use these sections or even break down the sections to set regular vocabulary learning homework. This ensures that over the two-year GCSE course, students have been exposed to all essential vocabulary. There are vocabulary extras, particularly in the topics of: technology, social issues and global issues.
French – School Equipment / L’Equipment Scolaire.
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French – School Equipment / L’Equipment Scolaire.

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This is a set of resources to introduce and practice 20 items of school equipment. The PowerPoint initially 10 items with practice exercises and then goes on to introduce and practice a further 10. The resource is easily adaptable if you want to introduce less. Articles and gender are also introduced and there is some practice of changing from un/une/ des to le/ la/ les/ l’ with grammar explanations. There is a range of activities on the PowerPoint and on an accompanying worksheet. The activities include speaking practice and repetition, match-ups, gap-fills, anagrams, a listening comprehension, grammar activities and writing opportunities. Answers for all exercises appear on the PowerPoint. Pupils will have a good knowledge of these school equipment items, and will be able to recognise and use them readily in the classroom.