A worksheet to practise the present and near future tenses in French, with some simple match-up and translation sentences.

A full lesson to introduce breakfast items and for students to be able to talk about what they eat and drink for breakfast. Includes a range of activities starting from introducing word-level vocabulary to being able to produce sentences orally and in written form to talk about what they eat and drink for breakfast. Includes a sentence builder, faulty translation activity and whole-class naughts and crosses game. Complete with support and extension for more able students.

A complete lesson used for an observation for a Year 8 class to describe a visit to Paris using the perfect tense with regular -er verbs. Includes a range of differentiated tasks including translations on mini-whiteboards and a battleships game for students to play in pairs. Also includes a sentence builder for students to use to add opinions and verbs in the 3rd person, and to support them writing the paragraph. I have also included the lesson plan. I hope you find it useful!

A reading comprehension (with support) and a short translation activity afterwards to consolidate learning from Module 1 (family, friends and relationships) of the Studio French GCSE textbook.

A reading comprehension (with support) and a short translation activity afterwards to consolidate learning from Module 2 (free time) of the Studio French GCSE textbook.

An interactive lesson which begins by revising places in a town, with a match up activity, then it moves on to ‘on peut’ with what you can do in different places in a town. It involves the teaching of how to say ‘at the’ in French (au, a la, aux), with interactive resources, a ‘sequence the words to make a sentence’ activity, a ‘power learning’ activity with 2 minute timer, gap-fill activity, and opportunities for extension. Each task is differentiated. Ideal for an observed lesson on this topic.

A lesson for students in year 7 or year 8 French (or a low ability GCSE class), to begin to talk about where they live, and to begin to describe their local area. Includes a range of activities, including words to cut up into envelopes for the students to make sentences (ideal for pair work). Differentiated activities throughout… Ideal for an observed lesson.

Introducing sports in French with Je joue. Includes a Battleships game for students to play in pairs to consolidate and practise speaking, a writing activity to extend learning which requires dice, and a match-up starter activity. Includes opportunities for extension, and differentiated tasks. Perfect for an observed lesson.

Worksheet to practise verbs with ‘avoir’ and ‘être’. It builds up from a ‘bronze’ unjumbling the sentences activity to ‘gold’ translation. I used it with Y8 to revise module 2 of Studio 2 textbook but could also be used with lower ability GCSE students as revision. Also includes a powerpoint to go through the answers afterwards.

Resources for two lessons to teach ‘Mon petit boulot’ (pages 140 and 141 of the Studio vert GCSE book). The lessons include match-up activities, a gap-fill activity, a whole-class jeopardy game which could be done as a plenary (splitting the class into two teams), a speaking activity to be done in pairs, translations, mini-whiteboard activities and a sentence builder for support (which can be printed from slide 22).

A full lesson to go with Pages 32 and 33 of Dynamo 1 (En classe). Includes a translation activity with support.

Two lessons to teach the topic of work experience (mon stage), to go with pages 142 and 143 of Studio GCSE vert textbook. Includes a Quiz-Quiz-Trade activity, translation activities and some reading and listening exam questions from the ‘world of work’ topic taken from past AQA GCSE papers.

A lesson to practise GCSE listening skills, studying the song ‘La Pluie’ by Orelsan. Interactive and engaging activities including listening for key words, gap-fill activity, practice of listening for key sounds and pronunciation, and a speaking activity to be done in pairs. A lesson which will also help to embed key GCSE vocabulary.

Two lessons to introduce learning of ‘Voici ma salle de classe’ from Dynamo 1, module 1. Also includes a battleships game to be played in pairs, and a whole-class 0’s and X’s game. Introduces students to ‘je pense que’ ‘je dirais que’ and ‘a mon avis’ as ways of giving opinions about items in the classroom. The key words in the yellow boxes at the start of each lesson is for the register. Students each choose one of the words to say in French and English when their name is called on the register. They can guess which word the teacher has written down to add competition.

3 lessons on sports in French - one to introduce the words for sports with ‘je joue’ and ‘je fais’, the next lesson is to add opinions with sports, and the 3rd lesson for consolidation. Includes a sentence builder, 0’s and X’s game, translation race, and a running dictation activity. Has lots of challenge for higher ability students,

A lesson to introduce the Là où j’habite topic in Studio 1. Includes an introduction to places in a town, and il y a / il n’y a pas de. There is also a sentence builder which helps students give opinions on a town, a 0’s and X’s game, battleships game, and translation activities for mini-whiteboards and in their books.

A reading comprehension (with support) and a short translation activity afterwards to consolidate learning from Module 2 (free time) of the Studio French GCSE textbook.

A lesson to consolidate learning of the perfect tense in French, with ‘avoir’ verbs, and an introduction on how to negate sentences in the perfect tense with ‘avoir’. Differentiated tasks and activities, with differentiated reading comprehensions and mini-whiteboards activity. Ideal for an observed lesson.

Two engaging lessons to teach pages 44 and 45 of Dynamo 1 (Module 2 Unit 5); Un college super cool! Includes a range of interactive activities and resources to teach students how to describe their school and answer questions about school.

Two lessons to cover the content from pages 34 and 35 of Dynamo 1, Module 2 : Point de depart. Telling the time in French. Includes a range of interactive activities.