I am a Teacher of MFL in an inner city school which over the last five years has achieved outstanding results in MFL.
My shop includes a collection of my resources including for GCSE French and the innovative projects created for the Y7 project based curriculum such as Les Monsieurs-Madames.
Please note that the money I make from my sales goes to support my son who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy a life limiting condition to get the equipment and treatment abroad that he needs.
I am a Teacher of MFL in an inner city school which over the last five years has achieved outstanding results in MFL.
My shop includes a collection of my resources including for GCSE French and the innovative projects created for the Y7 project based curriculum such as Les Monsieurs-Madames.
Please note that the money I make from my sales goes to support my son who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy a life limiting condition to get the equipment and treatment abroad that he needs.
This power point introduces students to the topic of TV so that they can talk about what they watch in 3 tenses. There is a grammar focus on negatives.
The powerpoint includes:
-A holding slide for when students enter with a flippity matching game link
-KO
-negative exercises (grammar -ne…pas/ ne…plus/ ne…jamais)
-Types of TV programmes with a focus on phonics
-A sentence builder (present tense)
-Pyramid translations (higher and foundation)
-The Pyramid translations can also be used as a WAGOL if you wanted too.
This resource includes:
-A KO
-Holding slides whilst students enter the live lesson
-guess the French titles activity
-genres of books in French
-a battleships
-translation tasks from French to English which act as a WAGOL for writing too.
-a sentence builder
This knowledge organiser supports students in talking about the importance of languages.
It includes:
-a verb table
-opinion phrases
-success and impress sentences
-common exam questions on the topic
-phonetic/pronunciation advice
Here is a retrieval starter that I have made for my Y7 class who are just learning how to talk about themselves.
It contains:
a phonics exercise
an exercise on capital letters and months.
a spelling exercise on numbers
an adjectival agreement task.
Match the sentence task.
a self quizzing task or vocabulary learner on the back based on the key verbs that we have covered.
The answers for all of the exercises are provided.
This resource includes:
-2 powerpoints which introduce greetings and introductions in Spanish
-There are notes on the introductions slide on how to use some slides for activities.
-An activity workbooklet which includes (a vocabulary learner, a beetle drive game and a one pen one dice game)
-A voiced video of the lesson that can be used for homeschooling or for a cover lesson.
Ideal for learning as a family or to use in class.
So enjoy and have fun learning the lingo!
A five a day retrieval starter on the topic of where you live/local area/town.
Can be done as a do now task or used to chcek understanding as the activites include:
list, spell, translate, grow, correct and change
A set of six quick vocabulary and grammar based activities to revise vocabulary used when talking about your holidays. Great for a Do Now Task/ Retrieval practice or to check understanding.
A translation game to consolidate, retrieve or check understanding of greetings and talking about how you feel. Instructions are included and there are several conversations to translate.
Included is:
-a vocab learner/ a self quiz sheet
-a crack the code activity
-a mixed activity task sheet looking at the conditional tense of weather and ideal holidays and also time phrases.
Could be used at KS3 and or KS4 with a foundation class.
A range of answers that students might need in the role play part of the exam.
Students have to rebuild the sentences using the letters from the missing cells below.
Students can then translate the phrases back into English.
Students can then match them to the bullet point that they would go with.
Answers are provided making it an ideal resource for cover too.
Two worksheets to support students in booking into a hotel and to review their stay in a hotel.
Exercises include:
-match the start and ends of sentences
-unjumble sentences
-pyramid translations
-GCSE foundation reading style exercises (gap fill and which hotel)
-Role plays -foundation GCSE style
-pyramid spelling
An ideal resource for either: revision, consolidation or cover.
This resource is ideal for revision purposes and consolidation on the topic of buying a train ticket:
Match the questions -starts and ends
Match the questions to the English
Jumbled sentences
Self quiz table and pyramid spelling
Gap fill of a conversation
Two sample GCSE role plays (AQA/Edexcel) which are in the style of
This is a worksheet to allow students to revise booking a hotel room at GCSE.
It includes revision of:
-question words
-key phrases
-two sample role-play tasks based on examples from AQA/Edexcel
-a self quiz sheet
-a reading comprehension task
It is perfect for revision and cover.
This resource is great for a consolidation activity and can also be used for cover. It is self explanatory with the majority of vocab needed for the activities being on the sheet. It includes:
a tick or cross activity based on a reading task
find the correct sentence ending
find a synonym for
a self quiz verb and vocab table
an unjumble and translate the sentences
verb table to complete
a tangled translation
a writing task where students give their own answer to the question about what they do at the weekend.
The sheet will probably take 30-40 minutes to complete.
The puzzle requires students to find the Spanish for the English words in the puzzle. A good starter activity and a solution sheet is provided of where the words are hidden.
Jean Pierre Bond must save the day again!
The Bond criminals are plotting to steal the Mona Lisa! The criminals live in the French speaking world. Jean Pierre Bond must find them and work with other secret agents to stop them.
Lesson 1 language - Naming French speaking countries
Lesson 1 culture- Where are these countries? what are they like ?
Lesson 2 language - types of houses and rooms in a house - designing a safe house.
Lesson 2 culture -Flags of the French speaking countries and les Jeux de la Francophonie.
Lesson 3 language - Preparing for an assessment on everything learnt so far.
Lesson 3 Culture - the SOE and links to BOND - pictures have been removed but i have referenced the sources.
This is a project that I made some years ago around 2009 to motivate boys especially to enjoy French more. I updated it last year and included some cultural based lessons too as there were many non specialists that taught French in my department last year.
Please note that on the map reading task in week 2 I have left the information but deleted the maps.
The lessons are based around teaching - countries and where I live, types of houses and rooms in the house.
I am currently updating the second part of the lessons that include time, numbers and activities such as watching TV. These will be available soon.
These are a series of learning mats / knowledge organisors that I have made for my French GCSE class. They are differentiated between foundation and higher tier students.
This bundle includes the following resources
A worksheet to consolidate the weather and that links in to activities.
A powerpoint on where you live and what you can do with a worksheet to consolidate key structures and vocabulary.
A power point on the benefits of living in the town or countryside for a mixed tier class.
A mixed tier powerpoint on directions and places in town (town pictures will need to be added again due to copyright).
A interchangeable dialogue sheet on directions
A power point and worksheet on problems in town
Knowledge organisers for all of the units listed above.
A DIRT powerpoint based on improving students 90 word marks with a new 90 word task based on town and local area.