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.

Gapfill activity to consolidate imperfect tense (with contrast with present tense). This version is the one with clues (first letter of some words) for less able, but can be deleted to make it more challenging. Part of healthy living topic - used whilst preparing for writing a problem page letter.

Match-up sheet for computer room lesson: -Match-up phrases to recap 3rd person. -Research a sports personality and fill in profile (basic answers, not full sentences) then type up in neat, produce a poster. Reading activity as preparation for writing a profile of a famous sports person as part of end of module assessment.

Disclaimer: adapted from a teacher at my placement school, not entirely my own work. First pupils do card-sort activity - match reasons for jobs in French and English. When they finish, start filling in the grid. As extension or homework - fill in the 3rd column with a job title (in French) that goes with the reason - there is more than one possible answer for this.

Writing assessment for Y9 topic of Healthy Living. Style of paper is based on the new AQA specification. Primarily Foundation but includes a Higher style translation and opportunity for pupils to complete the main writing task at either Foundation (90 words) or Higher (150 words) level of detail.

Cover lesson worksheet for a low ability Year 8 class. A series of tasks to work through to build up from learning the vocab to using it in a sentence. Not very exciting, but thought it might save someone a bit of time.

2 resources for studying the film Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopatre with a mixed ability Y9 group. Nothing too heavy going as it's an end of term treat after working really hard with lots of grammar for the past few months. 1st lesson = introduction. What is Astérix? What are bande dessinée? Pupils research online to complete worksheet. Then watch trailer. 2nd lesson = character info match-up starter, then watching the film for a good chunk of the lesson, then true or false quiz.

Recognition of differences between perfect and present tenses (a basis for discussion/questioning when going through answers). Extension gets pupils to apply this knowledge and use the perfect tense.

Cover lesson on Jobs. Aimed at Y8 Set 3. They had already completed Linguascope vocab sheets for cover last lesson so had done a lot of words but nothing towards building up sentences. Translation. 3rd person. Answer sheet included for cover teacher.

Starter worksheet to recap job titles

Pupils had covered perfect tense during module on hobbies/leisure in the previous term but had had a bit of a break from it. Used quiz to get them thinking about it again and prepare to apply it to the current topic. Could use to test how much they remember, or let them use their exercise books (opportunity for them to evaluate how good their note-taking is and if their books will help them revise).

A cover lesson introducing language for the photo card at AQA GCSE (for the 4-sentences writing task, and as a starting point for the speaking exam). This is for a low ability Y9 group. Covers: -il y a + nouns -il/elle est + height/build -il/elle a + hair description -il/elle a + basic clothing 4 pictures for students to describe.

Powerpoints aimed at very high ability KS4 working towards a controlled assessment on Healthy Living.I will add each week's resources as I get to them. -Week 1 - present tense, advanced negatives, pronouns y and en.-Week 2 - food groups, nutrition, describing different foods (EXT: bien que + subjunctive).-Week 3 - sports and exercise - using jouer and faire in a range of tenses (+ time phrases)-Week 4 - imperfect tense. How your lifestyle differed in the past - Week 4b - Mauvaises habitudes. Opinions of smoking and alcohol.-Week 5 - Giving advice for a healthy lifestyle (with il faut, on doit, il est important de) (EXT: il faut que + subjunctive)-Week 6 - Your future plans for a healthy lifestyleI have added a checklist for pupils to self assess when preparing their draft (C grade and A grade version).The documents entitled "Revision" are helpsheets for pupils to refer to when producing written work.

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.

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

EDIT 24/06/14 - Added some more lessons to Powerpoint and a couple more worksheets.\n\nFor Year 8 groups on Expo 2 Module 5. \n\nFirst couple of lessons - countries, nationalities, saying where you usually go and where you went last year. \nPuzzle sheet and link to consolidate on a Friday afternoon.\n\nMore lessons will be added as I go along.

Used with an Asset Spanish class, so is fairly basic. Would probably be OK for KS3 or a Foundation GCSE group. Read descriptions of people's jobs/where they work, and match with job titles previously learned.

A reading task about the real figure behind the character of 'Pere Jean&' in the film &';Au revoir les enfants' (information taken from wikipedia). I have a mixed ability class, so gave some pupils the version with line numbers as clues to help them cope with the text which is fairly challenging for Y9. Pupils seemed really interested and shocked by the fact that it was a real-life story, so I hope it works well for you too.

Updated 25/3 - More lessons for Vert added.\n\nResources for the first few lessons on this module with 2 different classes. Covers similar ground but more quickly for Rouge (they have fewer lessons) and with tenses. \n\nReferences to reading tasks may be other files I have uploaded here. \n\nI have taken a few slides (mostly typed up textbook resources) from other resources found on TES so thanks if that was you!

5 weeks worth of lessons on the topic of school, prior to task-setting for a written controlled assessment.\n\n-Audit of prior knowledge (basic vocab)\n-Giving opinions (basic and GCSE)\n-Talking about compulsory and optional subjects in England and France.\n-The school day in England and France (revising telling the time)\n-School uniform\n-Direct object pronouns\n-School rules\n-Future plans in the near future tense, future tense, and with si clauses.