A set of narrow reading texts on food with a comprehension activity

Another oral ping-pong translation INSTRUCTIONS - The students work in pairs. They have a sheet with the same English sentences to translate into French, but Partner A has the translation of sentences 1 to10, whereas Partner B has the translation of sentences 11 to 20. I call it '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. Here is an example: I made for a very able year 11 of mine. Obviously the activity can be done in writing too. As a follow-up, I get the 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

A sentence builder I use to present new vocabulary along with old + a sheet to consolidate it

quickie with answer key on world of work

A quickie covering key irregular verbs . Answer key provided on separate sheet

Oral pairwork - translation

A revision quickie

Includes: - bilingual translation task - revision quickies based on sentence builder with SOLUTION - a very comprehensive sentence builder

A bilingual version of 20 model sentences covering key structures and vocabulary

14 model sentences of increasing complexity in French and English on separate sheets and a pre-reading set of activities practising the vocab in the translation

A challenging consolidation sheet for A-level students covering key vocabulary

A sentence builder on activities and times A translation based on the sentence builder

A very comprehensive sentence builders which includes -a wide range expressions to convey what one is looking for in a job - adjectives - jobs All of the above is translated in English in brackets Three vocabulary builders to consolidate all of the above WITH SOLUTION

A set of twenty model sentences covering key vocabulary and sentence structures. French translation provided on separate page

Revision sheets with key vocab covering key terms and imparting model sentences

- A sentence builder to introduce je vais acheter/je veux acheter / j'ai acheté with translation activities to go with it - A find-someone-who with cards to practise the target vocabulary receptively - A set of communicative drills to recycle the same language orally

Covers all sort of small function words students of this level find troublesome (prepositions, demonstratives, relatives and others)