Bonjour, I have been a Fench and Spanish teacher for 22 years now, and I truly enjoy making engaging and colourful resources for my classes. I wanted to share some with you to save you time (we all know that teachers never get enough time!). Feel free to adapt and change anything to your taste and teaching style.
Bonjour, I have been a Fench and Spanish teacher for 22 years now, and I truly enjoy making engaging and colourful resources for my classes. I wanted to share some with you to save you time (we all know that teachers never get enough time!). Feel free to adapt and change anything to your taste and teaching style.
-Powerpoint: slides with A Level speaking grade criteria for task 1 (simplified)
-Great for peer-assessment feedback (can be printed on card).
-I use this online or printed out to allow students to listen to each other and be critical about the performance.
-x1 Powerpoint with several slides, exploring many ways to debate on a topic.
-It can be amended for any debate title.
-Each slide has a different bank of expressions (from basic to much harder).
-I use these with my Year 9 classes onwards, and they love arguing their side.
-Great way to reinforce some core structures!
-A series of photos with questions and prompts for each theme of the IGCSE speaking examination photo task.
-2 photos per theme: one slide has the questions in English with prompts in French, the next has the questions in French only (to spark pair-work discussion).
-Powerpoint with progressive slides: each show a prompting card with supporting elements (4 stages for an extending answer, various verbs in 3 tenses, original adjectives).
-I use this with my Year10-11 to help them extending every answer beyond the obvious. This card also encourages them to use a different tense within the answer.
-Using this as a routine from the start, pupils stop needing the card.
-I laminated the basic and more developed slides, depending on my pupils, using these during our speaking sessions, but also in class for pair-work activities with spontaneous speaking.
-Powerpoint: slides with bubble speeches, containing questions, from beginner level to pre-GCSE.
-5 slides with 6 questions, followed by model answers.
-Powerpoint slide with peer-assessment feedback sheet
-Word document with peer-assessment feedback sheet
-I use these online or printed out to spark pair-work and spontaneous talk
-Great for formative assessment, but done by a peer (pairs must listen to each other and justify their grading)
-With Year 7, 8 and 9, great warm-up task, preparing them for the GCSE conversation, as questions could be asked in random order.
-Powerpoint: prompting cards with supporting elements (5 stages for an extending answer, various complex structures to enhance the answer, such as subjunctive, verb with prepositions, if sentences…).
-I use this with my Year 12-13 to help them extend every answer beyond the obvious. This card also encourages them to react, evidence their point and mention an impact on French culture/society).
-Using this as a routine from the start, students stop needing the card.
-I laminated it (both sides), using this during our speaking sessions, but also in class for pair-work activities with spontaneous speaking.
-Powerpoint: slides with bubble speeches, containing questions, from beginner level to pre-GCSE.
-5 slides with 6 questions, followed by model answers.
-Powerpoint slide with peer-assessment feedback sheet
-Word document with peer-assessment feedback sheet
-I use these online or printed out to spark pair-work and spontaneous talk
-Great for formative assessment, but done by a peer (pairs must listen to each other and justify their grading)
-With Year 7, 8 and 9, great warm-up task, preparing them for the GCSE conversation, as questions could be asked in random order.
-1x Powerpoint: tips to introduce pupils to the GCSE - IGCSE exam papers in listening and reading (fake friends, traps…).
-I designed it to support my pupils, being introduced to the real exam papers.
-Great for pre-exam period too, as a retrieval of exam strategies.
-1x Powerpoint: tips and explanation for the IGCSE speaking - reading - writing.
-A series of photos with questions and prompts for each theme of the GCSE speaking examination picture based talk.
-2 powerpoints: one Foundation and one Higher.
-2 photos per theme: one slide has the questions in English with prompts in French, the next has the questions in French only (to spark pair-work discussion).
-2 powerpoints: foundation and higher, with 10 role plays each (exploring every theme), with support box (key words for candidates).
-2 word documents: foundation and higher, with the answers of each role play.
-I printed role plays on a laminated card (both sides with a different role play), and made a booklet of the answers (one booklet per level). Great for pair-work activities!
-Powerpoint: extending an answer in 4 steps for the conversation task, support card.
-Powerpoint: practice photos with questions and prompts, covering each theme.
-2x Powerpoints: one for Y7 and 8, the other one for Y9. Various photos with questions and support box.
-Great for pair-work activity, as a starter or plenary, no need to print, a single slide is enough.
-I made this to prepare my KS3 pupils for the GCSE photo and conversation tasks.
-3 stories about events and legends from France in English (Le Mont Saint Michel, le Débarquement, Jacques Mesrine) - 76 slides - part 4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-Powerpoint with explanation, cards and prompts to spark speaking or writing (pair-work competition).
-Cards to be printed, laminated and separated in envelopes: 4 different sections with 12 expressions (time phrases, verbs, connectives, adjectives).
-Prompts: 13 slides with a different theme, to prompt pupils to write or say a sentence, using all 4 words picked from each category (verbs must be conjugated correctly, depending on the time phrase picked).
-Great pair-work activity, pupils compete against each other and must justify why their sentence is better than their partner (accuracy, length, additional details…).
-You could make it a timed competition.
-The idea comes from a CPD that I went to, I then designed my own activity around this idea.
-My pupils enjoy having a break from their computers and it encourages kinesthetic learning, as well as writing / speaking in a spontaneous way.
-2x Powerpoints: one for Y7 and 8, the other one for Y9. Various photos with questions and support box.
-Great for pair-work activity, as a starter or plenary, no need to print, a single slide is enough.
-I made this to prepare my KS3 pupils for the GCSE photo and conversation tasks.
-19 Powerpoints, 1 per sub-unit (i.e. 1A / 1B / 1C…)
-Each Powerpoint has several pictures with questions to spark conversation and photo description (questions vary between several tenses).
-Each slide follows a double page content from the Pearson iGCSE book.
-I made these to use as starters or plenary for my iGCSE class, and my pupils enjoy the freedom to talk openly about a topic.
-It can be used as speaking or writing prompts (for homework, for example).
-1x Powerpoint: multiple slides with questions on each A Level theme (Edexcel).
-1x Powerpoint: answer format card + key structures to be used with the questions (if needed. You can print these back to back).
-I use these as a warm up at the beginning of each lesson. I display one slide and distribute an answer card (printed and laminated to be used over and over again!) to each student.
-Great to boost class talk and prepare students for the conversation + stimulus tasks for the speaking examination.
-6 stories about events and legends from France, in English (Nostradamus, Toulouse Lautrec, Marthe Robin, le Père La Chaise, les Catacombes de Paris, la Joconde) - 106 slides - part 3/4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-10 stories in English about events, facts and legends from France, with website links at the end to prove each story existence(L’inconnue de la Seine, la bête du Gévaudan, l’auberge rouge, la Résistance, le masque de fer, Jeanne D’Arc, la Tour Eiffel, le soldat inconnu, la révolution française…) - 97 slides -part 1/4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-Powerpoint: slides with photos and prompts with a support box to encourage pupils to speak with more spontaneity and to revisit certain grammar rules.
-Powerpoint: slides with questions with model answers to spark conversation, prompting pupils to listen to their peers and answer accurately.
-Feedback sheet for peer-assessment.
