A reading comprehension using authentic materials adapted from an online forum for adolescents. Quite challenging. Hot Potatoes pre-reading activities enclosed. The wordbuilder can be used to reinforce the vocabulary in the reading comprehension.

A wide range of activities on the topic

A link to a video and a basic writing and listening activity focusing on places in town. A very clearly spoken and easy to understand presentational video with useful vocabulary.

Students are given cards with name, town and weather and then do two activities: 1. Must go around under timed conditions and find what the weather is on the different towns listed; 2. Must find out which town has the weather listed in the questions. for both activities, the three people to finish first get rewarded.

Activity designed to elicit use of the imperfect tense of the third person of Etre and adjectives. Instructions: 1.students are grouped in teams of three and given one mini board per group; 2. under time constraints they must come up with one or more adjectives to describe the famous (dead) person on teach given slide; 3. One point is awarded to the best description; 5. Students cannot use the same adjective more than once; 6 The team with the highest score wins.

A challenging vocabulary builder on 'talking about one's town&'

A worksheet to consolidate talking about one's town or neighborhood in the imperfect tense. Quite challenging. I have used it successfully with my yr 9 top and middle set.

Comprehension and vocab-building activities on the famous song by Jean-Jacques Goldman.

two pages of exercise to recap age, dates, animals, colours, basic questions, etc.

consolidation activities on adjectives

Reading comprehension on how to revise.

Another vocabulary builder to consolidate idiomatic phrases for A level to use to reinforce my other resource on the same topic I posted while ago.

A reading comprehension / vocabulary builder on a highly informative article from the internet. Very good range of vocabulary with some challenging and useful phrase. As a follow-up activity students maybe asked to draft their own CV in French incorporating the tips included in the article.

A reading comprehension on a collage of forum posts on the theme 'croyez-vous a l'amour a vie?'

Challenging definitions game on food aimed at a good KS4 group. Instructions: each team call out the case they want to claim and match it to the correct definition. The first team to claim three cases of the same colour win.

Two revision sheets covering most of the core GCSE food-related vocabulary.

Vocabulary builder on common adverbs

Students to take turns, in teams of two or three (possibly with miniboards) to translate the English words in the grey column using the relevant bits in the table.

Comprehension and vocabulary building activities on the famous classic by Cabrel.

A range of vocabulary builders on the topic of home and local environment.