Bronze / Silver / Gold differentiated revision board games, covering: -self -family -where you live/come from -jobs -leisure activities -TV -excuses (with je dois) -opinions -perfect tense -places in town

Reading focusing on use of 3 tenses

Text to introduce a class who are already familiar with the perfect tense of regular and irregular verbs with avoir to the idea of verbs which use etre as the auxiliary. Used as a challenging lesson for top set Y8 but would be suitable for KS4. 1) Reading for gist - give each paragraph a title (EXT: Come up with your own title for the last line as this doesn't have one provided). 2) Categorise verbs into avoir aux and etre verb (EXT: Identify the 2 types of verb that use etre - movement and reflexives) 3) True or false Qs.

Perfect tense with avoir. Regular and irregular verbs. Settling starter worksheet.

Hand out grids - pupils mustn't show partner. Use question 'Qu&'est-ce que ton pere/ta mere fait dans la vie?' and answer with 'il/elle est...' based on grid. When finished, compare grids in pairs to check answers.

Exercises to practise correct use of negatives with verbs in the perfect tense.

Secondary assembly aiming to combat bullying of minority pupils. Focus on positive contributions of immigration, and celebrating what we have in common alongside the ways we are different. Main theme is the Jo Cox quote "We are more united and have more in common than that which divides us" - pupils will need some context providing.

Pupils work out new vocab using cognates and process of elimination. Then checked answers via powerpoint or Taskmagic game. Later in lesson gave list of French vocab for them to fill in English (recording vocab but also a test of what they've learned).

Simple lesson to revise/introduce personality. Designed for a cover lesson, to ensure classes whose teacher is absent will have covered the same content.

Starter worksheet to recap job titles

Foundation level reading activity. Account of a weekend. Perfect tense. Leisure activities, cinema.

Used with high/middle set Y10 classes. Some mistakes should be obvious enough for all to spot (eg: infinitive instead of past participle) whilst others are more challenging.

Reading task aimed at a middle ability Y8 group who have been doing Spanish once per week since September but are in their 2nd year learning French. In the topic of house/home, this was their 2nd lesson on infinitives so I threw this at them as a bit of a challenge.

Could be suitable for cover work. 1) Recognise and underline food items - grammar, recognising nouns. 2) True or false. 3) Match pictures to countries.

Reference material for high ability KS4 groups. I am giving this to my groups quite early on and teaching them to use the verb tables in the middle of the dictionary. So whilst at the moment they haven't covered the imperfect or conditional in much detail (and haven't done the A* tenses at all) some should be able to use their initiative and go beyond what they have been taught, with this guide to help them.

Messaging dialogue making arrangements to go out. Find the French activity and comprehension questions.

Reading task based on Expo 2 Vert p62 but extended (I have added an extra text and broken down the activities more). \n\nThis is for a low ability group so begins with the basics - recognising food words they have done and underlining them.\nThen they have to identify which person mentions which foods, and there are some extension questions for the more able in the group to move onto.

Simple true or false quiz on topic of the Occupation. Used as extension work for a few pupils in a Y9 class watching Au revoir les enfants but equally could be used as starter/plenary.

3 different tasks so includes extension work for more able. Texts about what people eat for lunch and why, focusing on reasons for eating at canteen/sandwiches/home - can link in with cultural aspects about school meals in France. Task 1 - very basic, vocab recognition. Task 2 - comprehension. Task 3 - identifying reasons/arguments for and against.

To recap job titles, agreements, and how to say what job someone does.