A straight-forward grid to complete, to practise forming the first person of the future conditional tense. Pupils are asked for the English for the infinitives listed, then the future conditional (irregulars verbs and the first regular verbs are already done), followed by the English. Could be used as a starter task or revision.
A French text with detailed descriptions of meals, almost all in the present tense. Reading comprehension task and 'find the French for...' task beneath. Fits on a sheet of A4. Varied sentence structure and many different foods and drinks included.
A 2-sided worksheet which introduces French reflexive verbs in the present tense with grammar notes and task, then a reading comprehension and writing task.
A detailed but fairly straightforward text in French about Christmas Day, all in present tense. Use it for a reading comprehension, get pupils to ask each other questions about it to check each other's understanding. Could use for reading aloud, or adapt to create own description of the day.
A long text to read about local area, one version slightly more detailed than the other. Set of comprehension questions which work for both texts, answers provided on separate sheet. All present tense, includes local building, shops, transports and several opinions with reasons.
A worksheets which builds up from vocab matching, via sentence translation into English, to pupils writing their own sentences in French to give justified opinions of school subjects.
This worksheet suits y7 upwards: revise regular and irregular present tense French verbs with the exercises, then complete the verbs to tell the simple story.
A set of cards in French for pupils to sort into categories (time marker, near future tense, details). This builds up into sentences which describe plans for a trip to Paris in the future. Can be extended by adding own information and more details. Also works as a vocab-learning task in pairs or small groups. The cards fit on one side of A4 and there's a grid to place the cards on if your pupils like visual sorting grids like this.
A list of 16 French TV programmes and film genres with the English vocab in a jumbled list alongside. Use as a worksheet for a vocab test or revision task, or put on your screen for a lesson starter: one pupil gives a matching pair, another pupil says if it's correct or not. Could be extended by asking pupils to give opinions of each thing.
A French worksheet about holidays, with five short texts written in the first person and using three time frames. Pupils are asked to complete a grid in French to show they can identify the location of each holiday, the type of accommodation and any other details they can.
A task for pupils to sort a long list of short French weather sentences into present or past tense. The past tense sentences are all imperfect tense. Each weather is in both tenses and listed together in a pair - you could make this harder by separating the pairs of weathers and jumbling them up more. A good introduction to the imperfect tense for weather, as pupils see the repetition of il faisait and il y avait.
A quick activity where pupils have to choose the correct words to complete the gaps in the two short texts. The first text is missing its past participles or imperfect tense, the second is missing a variety of words. Each text has the missing words listed beneath it. Could be extended by asking pupils to create their own text, then removing words for a partner to work out how to fill the gaps.
Pupils read a description of what someone wore last week to different events. They have to fill in the gaps in the diary by listening to the teacher/their partner reading the full text (provided on second page), then complete the summary in French to show the main points. Next there is a 'Find the French For' task, and finally pupils are asked to write their own diary in a similar way.
This wordsearch has a set of food and drink vocab written in English; pupils find the German translations hidden in the wordsearch grid. There are 25 words to search for. This is an Excel spreadsheet, set up so you can print two copies per A4 sheet. Answers are provided on sheet 2.
A short worksheet with 10 sentences in German for pupils to insert the correct word for “who” or “which”. All possible spellings of “who/which” are shown at the start , in nominative, accusative and dative cases. All 3 cases are covered in the sentences and pupils must decide which case to use each time. Answers are provided on page 2. Two copies of the worksheet fit on one page of A4.
A set of 30 sentences written in German perfect tense, a range of subjects and verbs used, including some questions. None of the sentences have spaces between the words, so pupils must write them out correctly with spaces in. They must also translate the sentences into English. Some English translations are given below the sentences, to provide assistance. The first page has capital letters on the nouns, making it slightly easier. The second page has no capitals - you could also remove the English assistance on this page to make it harder again. Answers are provided on the third page. This is a straightforward and fairly simple task, suitable for those just learning the perfect tense, or needing a quick revision task.
Could be used as an example text to be adapted, or for a simple reading comprehension. Suitable for a starter activity: you could block out some words or ask questions about it.