Nandos Takeaway Menu, linked to researching education in a Francophone country. Fully differentiated with Lemon & Herb (least challenging), Mild, Hot and Extra Hot (most challenging) tasks. Tasks link to 'Basic information, Climate and Geography', 'History, Culture and People', 'Environmental Issues, Human Rights and Government' and 'Education' respectively, with three sub-topics under each bracket. The 'Mild' tasks for example (on History, Culture and People) sub-divide into: Key historical events, Diet, religion and recreation and Ethnic groups, gender roles and family relationships. Can be set as an individual research task, for pair or group work over one lesson or a series of lessons as a project. Students can present research in target language or in English, and as a PowerPoint, handout or poster. Template is easily adaptable if required. Excellent cross-curricular links to History, Geography, Religion, Ethics and Politics. Learning Objective and task information read as follows: Researching Education in a French Speaking Community. LO: To be able to improve my Social, Spiritual, Moral and Cultural understanding of a French-speaking community. Your task is to research information, specifically linked to Education, about a French-speaking country, region or city of your choice. You should complete at least six tasks, including two Extra Hot pieces of research. You should present your research as a PowerPoint presentation. You may work individually or in pairs. Want support? Start by completing the Lemon & Herb tasks to warm up. Could you research one of these places: Algeria, Mauritius, Quebec, Haiti or Madagascar? Want more? Complete a combination of Extra Hot and Hot Tasks. Can you complete more than six research areas? What other French-speaking areas could you research?

Excellent starter double-pack, easily amended for use time and time again with any year group. Learners are asked to form as many infinitives as they can in a given time limit using the Scrabble tiles in the first starter. Differentiated through forming the highest or lowest-scoring infinitive, through finding modal verbs, and through teacher support for the first examples and first letter of several other infinitives if necessary. Easily adapted to link to any area of the curriculum (not just verbs), and a great individual or pair whiteboard warm-up. Learners can work together, compete against each-other in groups, and can also be trained to think of their own objective (for example colours, French regions or connectives) using letters that they provide. Students also really enjoy 'beat the teacher' at this game - playing against you in the same time limit with letters that they have provided! The word octagon, based on the popular daily puzzle in The Times newspaper, asks learners to find the two adjectives within the shape, using the letter at the centre for each one and every other letter no more than once. Fabulous for engaging higher-order thinking skills. There are two octagons with two adjectives in on this slide. Again, very simply adapted.

Bundle of three resources. The first resource asks learners complete a table using past participles, work out why some are marked (être verbs), and identify the rule for forming them. The second resource asks learners to translate question words, and the third to un-scramble past participles of avoir and être. All useful grammar starters or consolidation activities at KS3 / KS4, either linked to topic of study or as a whistle-stop review to draw out any questions or uncertainties. Fully animated and all answers on slides.

Fantastic double-sided table of French classroom language. Huge time-saver and incredibly useful to encourage use of the target-language in lessons. Really helpful to introduce at the start of the year (or at any stage as a 'I think you're ready for this now...'). Can be printed as a big display poster, as A4 or A5 sheets and laminated as a reference point for students on classroom tables, or as an individual sheet to refer to. As well as classroom language, sheet also includes Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Numbers (overview of 1 - 1,000,000), Articles and Useful words (who, what, where, why etc. and connectives). Huge time saver! Useful with any age.

Excellent resource, introducing the near future tense through the 'aller' song, with a clear table to demonstrate formation. Text message conversation between Simon and Carly of The Inbetweeners engages students and asks them to answer a series of questions designed to test their understanding of the tense. HA stretched through identification and translations of colloquialisms such as 'ma biche'. Mini-whiteboard translation activity follows to gauge understanding, and a plenary with 12 sentences to translate is the last slide. This can be printed, cut up, and used in a box as a 'Pass-the-Parcel' style game, learners could throw die to determine the phrase that they translate to their partner, or in any number of different ways. LA supported through use of lesson worksheet (print table on first slide for learners to complete), HA through extension with colloquialisms and perfect tense. Excellent for introduction at KS3 and for revision / review at KS4.

2 slide PowerPoint includes clear and concise explanations of conjugation of each of the three modal verbs and questions differentiated into four boxes on Slide 2 to gauge understanding. Perfect for mini-whiteboard activities. Excellent for introduction at KS2 / KS3 to conjugation and for revision and further practice at KS4.

Differentiated number-challenge starter (one slide), presenting learners with three levels of puzzle increasing in difficulty. Students are given a number at the start of each puzzle and asked to work out a series of sums (all in French) to end up with the final answer. Puzzles very similar to daily 'Brain Trainer' challenge in The Times. All animations and answers on slide. Puzzles use double and triple-figure numbers, therefore most suitable for HA KS3 / KS4. Excellent numeracy and cross-curricular links between MFL and maths. A great time saver, took an hour make and format! Can be adapted and used over and over again with different ages. 'Challenge' option asks students to research the difference between 'chiffre', 'nombre' and 'numéro'.

Comprehensive resource, building from Places in town 1 (see other resources), asking students to recognise places in town and use them with the conjunction 'près de' + correct article. Learning objectives: 1. To be able to understand how to say ‘a’ and ‘the’ in French. 2. To be able to say what I live close to. Lesson includes: Starter activity, finding places linked to town in a grid (for example 'une boulangerie'); a dice speaking game to practice pronunciation and translation (offering a good basis for discussion on how to build sentences); whiteboard work practising the correct articles for masculine, feminine and plural nouns; a reading activity based on a Facebook profile to draw out the rule for 'près de' and a writing task. Scaffold provided for LA. Fully animated with all answers. A great time saver!

Very comprehensive, structured resource building on introduction of free-time activities into full sentences with opinions and reasons. Full Success Criteria given at start of lesson, along with 'My Learning Journey' arrow to encourage students to reflect on their own progress. Review table also at end of lesson for students to self-complete. Speaking, reading and writing activities, with scaffolds for those learners that need. 'Twitter' feeds used to give celebrity opinions on different activities. Treasure Hunt game at end to consolidate learning. Fully animated with explanations of each activity on slides in 'Notes' section for teachers.

Great lesson, covering all rooms and levels of the house, introducing them and culminating in students writing their own paragraph to describe their house or an imaginary house. Learning objective: To be able to recognise rooms in the house and describe my or an imaginary house. Lesson includes: Starter activity, un-scrambling sentences that increase in difficulty; repetition of rooms of the house vocabulary with text and images; table to fill in with rooms of the house; Splat game; Listening activity grid (teacher makes up listening text to link to ability of class); images linking to different levels of the house and whiteboard activity; writing activity with paragraph scaffold for LA; Super Splat game to finish! Lesson is fully animated with all answers and teacher instructions for each activity. A huge time saver!

Paralympic Games Assembly, linked to values. Suitable for Primary and Secondary. Fully animated with links in 'Notes' section for assembly giver. 10 slides in total, referencing the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, the London 2012 Paralympic Games and the Rio 2016 Paralympic games. Easily adapted if required. The assembly begins by asking students to draw link between seven images - the official Paralympic mascots and logos for each of the games listed above, and the official logo for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic games. Slide 2 explains who each of the mascots are to students, and asks students to consider which values each of these mascots have been designed to represent and how the artist has achieved this. With older year groups, students could be invited to reflect on a wider ranger of issues - do these mascots achieve their aims? If not, why not? Who are the mascots designed to appeal to and why? How could they be more effective if students consider that they are not currently? A little more information is then given about each mascot and the values they were designed to exemplify. Slides 3 and 4 link to Channel 4 Rio 2016 Paralympic Games trailer and ask students to consider which qualities they see represented in the trailer. Trailer is signed and subtitled. Slides 5 - 9 feature two embedded videos and questions / discussion points for interviews with Matt Stuzman (Team USA Archery, also known as the 'Armless Archer'), and an interview with Ibrahim Hamato (Team Egypt Table Tennis, the competitor that plays with his mouth). Slide 10 asks students what they can learn from assembly, whether they have been inspired in any way, and how they may incorporate one or more of the values they have seen embodied in clips into their days.

Eight tables set up for verb conjugation in present, perfect, imperfect and simple future tenses. First two slides are blank templates, second two have all of the answers. Tables animated to appear one-by-one on answer slides, but can be easily adapted to suit teaching and learning needs. A real time saver! Verbs are those that are key at GCSE. Also useful for HA KS3, and support at KS5. Avoir, Être, Faire, Aller, Dire, Prendre, Pouvoir, Devoir.

Excellent activity or starter for KS2 / KS3 learners. Uses all days of the week and months of the year. Fully animated with all answers.

A comprehensive resource, suitable for introduction to the perfect tense with both auxiliary verbs at KS3 and revision at KS4. Over 30 slides of explanation, questions, whiteboard activities and games to help consolidate learning.

Excellent cultural resource, working on Le Tour de France. Text outlines the competition, the history of the competition and the course that the cyclists follow. Support LA learners with vocabulary sheet if required and stretch HA learners with a ‘Challenge’ extension activity - a mini research project into the significance of the different jerseys. A French website is suggested as a first access point. A brilliant lesson that can branch off in to many different areas (researching winners, the different regions that the course crosses, anti-doping etc.) depending on level of group.

Great resource to encourage target-language understanding and use in the classroom. Fourteen commands with clip-art. Clear text. A great time-saver!

Excellent resource, based on the popular BBC show 'Only Connect'. Works well as a starter, plenary or as a game to review learning. Students are asked to apply critical thinking skills to make links between fourteen different French verbs or phrases in each game. The first game focuses on infinitives and present tense conjugations, the second on infinitives and infinitive constructions, and the third on the perfect and imperfect tenses. Instructions for teachers on each slide, fully animated with all answers and hyperlinks. Fully differentiated. Slides at the end of the PowerPoint are set up to input own vocabulary too. Can be used in lots of different ways! Always great fun!

Excellent time-saver, a full Scheme of Learning linked to the 'Amici' Italian Edexcel textbook. Designed for year 8 as a second year programme of study. Links to the Year 7 Scheme of Learning which is also available.

Excellent first lesson of the year, comprehensively covering slide-by-slide all that you need your new class to know in an accessible and fun way. Helps you to get to know your students, and helps them to get to know each-other too, setting them up for some great learning. Also gets you off to a brilliant start with your expectations through a whole-class ‘Partnership Agreement’ that they create and sign. I use this template every year with every class that I teach and it always works brilliantly. They have a lot of fun, as do you, and you also get all of the bits sorted that you need to without missing anything out (an overview of the year, books, seating plan etc.) which is easily done at the start of a busy term. Recommended especially for new teachers. Clear instructions on each slide and places for you to insert your own information. 15 slides in total: 1. Resources you need for the lesson. 2. Space to insert your seating plan. 3. Date, title, LO, starter slide. 4. Our Partnership Agreement slide. 5. Expectations / building on slide before. 6. Exercise book slide. 7. Getting to know each other - The two truths game. 8. As above - teacher’s answers. 9. My promise to you (what you will do as a teacher to help their learning). 10. Raffle tickets and how they work, if you decide to use to reinforce positive behaviour. 11. Our lessons - overview of the number of lessons each week, report and Parents’ Evening dates and topics. 12. Help me to understand your learning activity. 13. Examples of feedback from activity above. 14. As before. 15. Bingo game!

Great resource, providing a template in the shape of a jigsaw piece for students to introduce themselves. Jigsaw pieces can be decorated as teacher sees fit (with photographs or coloured in for example) and displayed, or simply used as a worksheet. Students asked to complete sentences to provide basic information about themselves including their name, age, nationality, birthday, family, favourite colour and sport. Template can be amended as teacher wishes. Makes a brilliant display for the start of term, simple and very personal to students. Helps them to get to know each other too!