INSTRUCTIONS - The students work in pairs. They have a sheet with two sets of English sentences to translate into French, but Partner A has the French translation of first set, whereas Partner B has the translation of second set. It is called 'Oral ping-pong translation' because they do it orally, Partner A challenging Partner B with a sentence and showing the correct answer to provide them with feedback and to award points (3 for perfect sentence, 2 for one mistake only, 1 if there are mistakes but at least the verb is correctly formed). I give them a time limit (10 minutes); when the time is up the person with the higher score wins. Best to have people of similar ability in each pair. As a follow-up, students to make a note of the most serious mistakes they made in their books so that I have an idea of what their problem areas are. Differentiation opportunities are obvious: different sets of sheets for groups of different ability

Two revision quickies which focus on micro-writing skills

A reading comp meant for my year 7s but can be used with year 8 too. Loosely based on Expo 2 rouge

A sentence builder, a survey, a board game and a vocabulary builder all recycling the same chunks of language

Losely based on Expo 1 module 4, a good range of oral / aural activities

A sentence builder, An oral scaffold A set of narrow reading texts and tasks 2 vocab builders

A range of scaffolds with and model answers (bilingual version) for conversations on a variety of topics, including: future plans television a past holiday family relationships x 2 school myself general conversation (myself, parents’ jobs, place where I live, etc.) health

A wide range of resources for GCSE FRench revision

Four narrow reading tasks on various topics, including films and career plans

Two pages of texts and tasks on talking about leisure/daily life in the past

Revision of perfect tense of irregular verbs

sentence builder, narrow reading, sentence builder, survey, sentence stealer and one pen one dice

Sentence builder + Find someone who + Oral communicative drills + One pen one dice + Written consolidation Note: same chunks of language recycled over and over again across all resources included

A sentence builder with consolidation exercises to do prior engaging in oral pairwork. It models telling your age and that of your siblings

GCSE FRENCH - Environmntal issues (sentence builder + consolidation)

Narrow reading texts with reading comp and vocab building tasks

A sentence builder, reading and vocab building resources

Oral scaffold, Oral Transl. game and Narrow reading all recycling exactly the same chunks of language

4 chunk-based revision quickies on the topic ‘Family’ recycling the same chunks over and over again

A sentence builder, a vocab builder and narrow reading texts with two pages of tasks to exploit them