An imaginative activity in French: pupils read the recipe for a good teacher (subject knowledge, sense of humour, etc) and then use this as scaffolding to create their own recipes for other things like a good party.

A quick task to put the words for the weather in French into the correct order to form short sentences, including some adverbs of frequency. Makes a good starter. Easy to photocopy: 10 sets fit on one page of A4.

A worksheet for using 'on ne peut pas' and 'il faut' with school rules. Easily adaptable to your own school rules: the vocab is on a separate page. Easy to photocopy with 2 worksheets & 4 sets of vocab on one page of A4. Two exercises to practise sentence structure, then a more open-ended task to create 'fantasy' school rules.

A detailed but fairly straightforward text in French about Christmas Day, all in present tense. Use it for a reading comprehension, get pupils to ask each other questions about it to check each other's understanding. Could use for reading aloud, or adapt to create own description of the day.

A set of 10 pairwork cards with role plays to practise giving personal information and using perfect tense. One partner can see English prompts only (the 'test' side); the other can see the French script to complete the dialogue, including some unprepared questions.

A set of 10 different pairwork cards for role plays about arranging to go out. One partner's card has prompts in English (the 'test' side); the other partner has the French script to complete the role play, including an unprepared question.

A "cluedo" style task, could be used as a starter: one pupil chooses a person, a house and a detail from the list and the others (whole class/small group) must say different combinations of the vocab until they work out which one was chosen. Make it more complicated with a system to say if any of the guesses have any correct elements ("un/deux points") or give no clues, which just makes everyone get more practise at the phrases!

A grid suggesting a sentence structure to describe the weather in French in the different seasons, in your part of the country. This version encourages pupils to include adverbs of frequency and connectives to extend their sentences. Could use as a true/false activity, or I went to market -style task.

A simple list of sports in French (the answers to my "sports phrases" activity). Use as a prompt for all kinds of pair work, e.g. charades, spelling test, hangman. Easy to photocopy 9 lists on a page of A4.

A list of phrases containing French sports: pupils must complete the spellings of the sports correctly. Easy to photocopy 4 lists on a page of A4.

A 2-sided worksheet which introduces French reflexive verbs in the present tense with grammar notes and task, then a reading comprehension and writing task.

A worksheet with several tasks to practise the present tense of faire, aller, lire and sortir. Starting with a task to complete the English for the conjugations, then a sentence gapfill exercise and finally a more open-ended writing task.

A set of spellings are shown for lire, sortir, aller and faire in the present tense: pupils can give the correct subject for each conjugation and spot the deliberate mistakes. Easy to extend by insisting on full sentences.

French worksheet with short and simple texts about presents (birthday/Christmas etc). Each short text is followed by a few reading comprehension questions.

French worksheet with several tasks, gradually building in difficulty, to practise telling the time. The final task uses the context of the school day to say what time lessons start and end. You could adapt this to your own school day (or ask the pupils to!).

A set of short sentences in French about the school day, using regular -er verbs. All spaces and punctuation have been removed, so pupils have to re-write the sentences accurately. You could then ask pupils to extend the sentences, e.g. with times, opinions or other details.

A set of sentences in French about the school day, chopped in half for pupils to match starts and ends. This sheet is photocopiable and would suit pairwork: I keep the starts of the sentences together and chop up the endings so pupils can move them around.

A short French text giving simple information about school subjects. Use as a starter for a quick comprehension Q&A/reading aloud/adapt to different information.

This French worksheet has grammar notes on the formation of regular -er verbs, then has a task to correctly conjugate regular -er verbs which are in sentences on the topic of school.

A worksheet to practise the French vocab for places in town: label the pictures, a reading comprehension with prepositions and sentence-building task.