A set of general questions for year 8

Recognising breakfast items. Can be used to present or practice and repetitions.

Flashcards with questions words and some activities to be displayed in the classroom used as support or used as flashcards for questioning session.

The PowerPoint that accompanies the Guess who? Work sheet for a whole class moving around the classroom reading activity.

A news article from Le Monde 16/09/2020. Les mignonnes is a topical cultural subject on cinema that should interest A level students. With my class we read the whole article together and see what we know about the topic without delving too much into the details of the language as this is for the question paper. Working in pairs students answer questions that support them working out meaning through context a verbal and a written translation and some comprehension questions. Depending on the level of your group or individuals further support can be given by the teacher where necessary and a follow up or homework activity set. The question sheet includes the answers to save you time. I hope that you find this useful and that your students enjoy the tasks. Any feedback is welcome!

Au restaurant is a writing frame designed to guide students written work to include a variety of linguistic features necessary for GCSE. The support phrases are in both French and English, you could leave this as cover work or give as homework or revision in preparation for the written or the spoken exam. I have used this with a top year 9 group as a challenge and they wrote some interesting pieces or with a year 10 or 11 group especially those who need more encouragement.

A celebration menu with pictures and questions with answers on it. Can be used to show the kind of menu you might find in a French restaurant. Students with some knowledge of French.

An information sheet about French holidays and festivals.

Presentation of cinema genres and giving opinions and reasons. Can be used with all year groups from junior and beginners to KS4 as a refresher presentation.

This worksheet uses the topical theme of Pancake day to practice using il faut + the infinitive, it has activities including a gap-fill, recognition of words and sentence structure, translation, grammar guidance and find the French. There are extra tasks to keep those students who work through it at a faster pace, or you may wish to use the extra tasks for differentiation. I have used this with year 8 students for cover work and also for when I am assessing spoken French as students can work independently through the tasks with minimum guidance. I have included the answer sheet for self/peer checking.

St Valentine activity sheet is a fun worksheet to do with students who have some level of French, I made it for my year 8 students and they enjoyed it. Includes word recognition exercises, translation, grammar and extra tasks. Answer sheet included for self/peer/cover supervisor correction.

Gifts - Des cadeaux is a writing frame designed to guide and support students' written work to include a variety of linguistic features necessary for GCSE. The questions and the support phrases are in both French and English, you could leave this as cover work or give as homework or revision in preparation for the written or the spoken exam. I have used this with a top year 9 group as a challenge and they wrote some interesting pieces or with a year 10 or 11 group especially those who need more encouragement.

Gifts - writing frame is a support sheet for creative writing designed to help students become independent in their writing, good practice for GCSE writing examinations it could also be used a a prompt for speaking practice.

Here is a list of extra tasks and a powerpoint to help presenting the activities. Created using the great resources for the Euro 16 French and Spanish created by colleagues on this site.

Developing reading skills. Preparation for an in class activity. Each student completes the form they are then either swapped with another class or collected in by the teacher for display the next lesson. During the next lesson the students go around the class reading and decide who they would like to correspond with/who wrote the description. See the PowerPoint for full instructions. Enjoy!

A letter to year 7 parents inviting them to an MFL support evening.

A power point introducing where you live, compass points and country (within the UK) and who with.

This was shared by a colleague in the department. There is a list of food and the image is covered with squares that dissappear with each guess of what is underneath to reveal the picture. Good for practising vocabulary.

Description of pets using adjectives and masculine/feminine endings. Good for junior or year 7 students to support writing in French.

This was shared by a colleague in the department. There is a list of Activities and the image is covered with squares that dissappear with each guess of what is underneath to reveal the picture. Good for practising vocabulary.