Series of articles on tourism in France and how the weather may affect it. Good for A-level studies on heritage/tourism to prompt discussion.

Great vocab activity to spot patterns to be able to change word category.

Powerpoint presentation used to have students reflect on if young people should be granted the right to vote at 16 and talk about the absentation rate among young people. This presentation is design to work along the Oxford textbook AQA French Year 2 but can used independently. (“pour ou contre le droit de vote” and “Les ados et l’engagement politique - motivés ou démotivés?”) Reading, listening, writing, translation, speaking exercises. Worth 4/5 hours of lessons (29 slides)

Assessment with translations, open writing and questions on the political life in France. Great for an end of unit test.

Presentation/lesson on “Analysez l’importance du film Au Revoir Les Enfants” The presentation contains many questions to develop students’ ideas and key points to develop and analyse this topic. Also, it prompts students to organise ideas in a well-structured essay.

Presentation to foster students’ thinking on the topic of collaboration in the film Au Revoir Les Enfants by Louis Malle. The presentation contains a wealth of ideas and discussions to prompt students’ reflexion and have them come up with an essay plan.

Presentation/lesson with key questions, ideas, scenes, quotes on the topic of secondary characters in Au Revoir Les Enfants of Louis Malle.

Presentation/lesson/ideas on the topic of Resistance in the film. Lots of ideas, key scenes and quotes about the topic so that students should be able to come up with an essay plan by the end.

3 different activities to push Year12/13 (A-level) students to use idiom to raise their levels in their speaking or writing. Students have to work on a range of useful idioms, finding their meaning and using them in writing and speaking.

Work on youth crime from the song “Petit Frère” (easily found on youtube) Several exercises: Fill in the gaps True or false Comprehension Discussion questions Summary (exam style)

Worksheet to give student essential facts about volunteering in France. From this, students have to do an exam type summary and have some questions to answer (either in writing or speaking) to practise for the speaking exam (the card part)

Text to give students an example of production on the topic of “my town” with 4 exercises: reading comprehension, vocabulary, translation and written/oral production. Excellent for KS3 or GCSE.

Les vacances - questions dans tous les temps à préparer à l’écrit ou à l’oral pour l’unité GCSE “Holidays”

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.