Great reading tasks for students to develop vocab and arguments to say whether they prefer to stay or go abroad on holidays and why. 4 reading tasks and match up, translation, speaking, writing exercises.

Great activity to push student’s writing across KS3 or GCSE. Students are journalist for a gossip magazine and must use a range of vocab, adjectives, adverbs, opinion phrases with reason (simple or complex) This sheet can be adapted for any tense (present or past) and levels (I used it with my year 9 and GCSE classes for instance)

Exercises to push speaking. Context: at the commercial centre. Lots of useful vocab and 3 speaking situations to practise in class.

Worksheet to build up vocab and sentences through 5 exercises of match up and translation exercises focusing on: 1. vocab of facilities 2. advanced adjectives to describe them 3. what you can do in the facilities using “on peut” + infinitive 4. using higher features to describe the school such as si clause, conditional, conectives, adverbs. The aim is for them to be able to produce a paragraph (or in speaking) on their school.

Full lesson with worksheet to recap the use of articles le, l’, la, les and quantifiers du, de l’, de la, des through a series of activities: dictionary skills, gap fill, translations, match up. Great for KS3 but can also be used in KS4.

Comprehension exercise on the short film included in Paris je t’aime.

Great article to make students reflect on the preservation of a UNESCO site and whether we should rebuild or preserve a destruction of one of them. A series of exam-based exercises: vocab search, translation into English, summary and questions to practise the speaking part of the exam.

Worksheet to match the name of festivals in France with their definition.

Translation to use VOULOIR properly with an infinitive verb after.

Presentation with ideas and key questions on the topic of “l’autorité” in the film Au Revoir Les Enfants by Louis Malle.

Listening activity on what Unions, how they act, who for, etc. Introduction of the main vocab that ends with discussions and students writing their own definitions with key words.

Lesson on the voting age in France “Faut-il accorder le droit de vote dès 16 ans?” with speaking and writing tasks.

Lesson on the A-level French topics: Les ados et l’engagement politique - motivés ou démotivés with listening (video), speaking, writing exercises drawing from actual examples that were in the news.

Lessons on the A-level topic of politics “L’Union Européenne a-t-elle un avenir?” with 2 videos, speaking and writing activities.

Introductory lessons to explain how the French mentality is built on the power of the people and rebellion - through history, art, institutions.

3 sets of questions about the A-level topic of manifestation to prepare students for the speaking exams. The lesson is based on 2 listening (videos) activities on the example of the company GOODYEAR.

Listening activity based on a video on leisure and French people. Prompts for discussion.

Powerpoint on the technical aspect of the film La Haine by Matthieu Kasovitz.

La culture urbaine dans le film La Haine de Matthieu Kasovitz