- A text reconstruction task: English text given; French translation of text is all broken up in randomly arranged chunks. Students to re-arrange them in the correct order. - A pre-puzzle warm-up to prepare the students for the puzzle through consolidation of its language content

A very detailed list of vocab to describe clothes and tasks to drill them in

Four narrow reading tasks on various topics, including films and career plans

A reading-to-write sequence I have designed for my year 7s top set, starting off with a narrow reading tasks set and ending up with a writing tasks. Tasks include: gap-fills, match up. translation. The sequence is carefully scaffolded and graded to enable the students to carry out the task without external help. Lots of recycling of the same syntactic patterns and chunks.

Consolidation of useful linguistic features

A vocab builder on the topic of Internet/Mobile phones with a range of useful sentences

Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win. I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.

A text in the present tense which includes vocabulary on daily routine and hobbies and four reading comprehension activities, one chunk-based.

Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win. I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.

A wide range of fun and challenging activities from a book I co-authored.

Final stages revision activities to drill in model sentences.

Listening-as-modelling (sentence builder), Speaking, Reading and Vocab building activities

Two worksheets with same narrow reading texts but with different comprehensions tasks.

A sentence builder to illustrate the structure with various verb types and a range of activities to practise it. Recommended sequence: 1. Make up sentences and utter them to the class (students to translate them on miniboard whilst sentence builder is on display on screen) 2. Ask students to work out the rulese governing the structure. Clarify if necessary how it actually works 3. On miniboards students translate sentences you will have picked out from activity one list 4. Students to do activities 2 to 5 in pairs as you go around the classroom monitoring 5. Communicative oral drills (not included here) 4.

A sentence builder to present and drill in the target material through listening and translation as well as a consolidation sheet.

Pool of resources on the teaching of negatives in French Lesson plan can be found here : https://gianfrancoconti.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/based-on-mars-a-sample-instructional-sequence-on-the-french-negatives/

A word builder with word lists and exercises

Vocab builder on HEALTH

A sentence builder, narrow reading texts on talking about movies, oral drills and a translation task that refers to the material in the sentence builder

Writing mats I use to scaffold talking through three tenses with my year 8s