Bonjour, I have been a Fench and Spanish teacher for 22 years now, and I truly enjoy making engaging and colourful resources for my classes. I wanted to share some with you to save you time (we all know that teachers never get enough time!). Feel free to adapt and change anything to your taste and teaching style.
Bonjour, I have been a Fench and Spanish teacher for 22 years now, and I truly enjoy making engaging and colourful resources for my classes. I wanted to share some with you to save you time (we all know that teachers never get enough time!). Feel free to adapt and change anything to your taste and teaching style.
-6 stories about events and legends from France, in English (Nostradamus, Toulouse Lautrec, Marthe Robin, le Père La Chaise, les Catacombes de Paris, la Joconde) - 106 slides - part 3/4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-A series of photos with questions and prompts for each theme of the GCSE speaking examination picture based talk.
-2 powerpoints: one Foundation and one Higher.
-2 photos per theme: one slide has the questions in English with prompts in French, the next has the questions in French only (to spark pair-work discussion).
-Powerpoint: slides with bubble speeches, containing questions, from beginner level to pre-GCSE.
-5 slides with 6 questions, followed by model answers.
-Powerpoint slide with peer-assessment feedback sheet
-Word document with peer-assessment feedback sheet
-I use these online or printed out to spark pair-work and spontaneous talk
-Great for formative assessment, but done by a peer (pairs must listen to each other and justify their grading)
-With Year 7, 8 and 9, great warm-up task, preparing them for the GCSE conversation, as questions could be asked in random order.
-10 stories in English about events, facts and legends from France, with website links at the end to prove each story existence(L’inconnue de la Seine, la bête du Gévaudan, l’auberge rouge, la Résistance, le masque de fer, Jeanne D’Arc, la Tour Eiffel, le soldat inconnu, la révolution française…) - 97 slides -part 1/4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-A series of photos with questions and prompts for each theme of the IGCSE speaking examination photo task.
-2 photos per theme: one slide has the questions in English with prompts in French, the next has the questions in French only (to spark pair-work discussion).
-2 powerpoints: foundation and higher, with 10 role plays each (exploring every theme), with support box (key words for candidates).
-2 word documents: foundation and higher, with the answers of each role play.
-I printed role plays on a laminated card (both sides with a different role play), and made a booklet of the answers (one booklet per level). Great for pair-work activities!
-Powerpoint: prompting cards with supporting elements (5 stages for an extending answer, various complex structures to enhance the answer, such as subjunctive, verb with prepositions, if sentences…).
-I use this with my Year 12-13 to help them extend every answer beyond the obvious. This card also encourages them to react, evidence their point and mention an impact on French culture/society).
-Using this as a routine from the start, students stop needing the card.
-I laminated it (both sides), using this during our speaking sessions, but also in class for pair-work activities with spontaneous speaking.
-Powerpoint with progressive slides: each show a prompting card with supporting elements (4 stages for an extending answer, various verbs in 3 tenses, original adjectives).
-I use this with my Year10-11 to help them extending every answer beyond the obvious. This card also encourages them to use a different tense within the answer.
-Using this as a routine from the start, pupils stop needing the card.
-I laminated the basic and more developed slides, depending on my pupils, using these during our speaking sessions, but also in class for pair-work activities with spontaneous speaking.
-Over 20 stories about events and legends from France, in English-over 300 slides - parts 1 to 4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-Powerpoint: extending an answer in 4 steps for the conversation task, support card.
-Powerpoint: practice photos with questions and prompts, covering each theme.
-Powerpoint: extending an answer in 4 steps for the conversation task, support card.
-Powerpoint: practice photos with questions and prompts, covering each theme. 2 Powerpoints, one per tier.
-Powerpoint and Word: 10 practice role plays with answers. 2 Powerpoints, one per tier.
-2x Powerpoints: one for Y7 and 8, the other one for Y9. Various photos with questions and support box.
-Great for pair-work activity, as a starter or plenary, no need to print, a single slide is enough.
-I made this to prepare my KS3 pupils for the GCSE photo and conversation tasks.
-Powerpoint: slides with photos and prompts with a support box to encourage pupils to speak with more spontaneity and to revisit certain grammar rules.
-Powerpoint: slides with questions with model answers to spark conversation, prompting pupils to listen to their peers and answer accurately.
-Feedback sheet for peer-assessment.
-Powerpoint A Level: slides for each theme, with 4 blank squares to annotate key expressions (to support specific vocabulary, verbs and facts).
-Powerpoint IGCSE: slides for each of the Edexcel IGCSE themes, 2 slides with key translations in both languages to retrieve key concepts, followed by 1 slide to add personal notes.
-Powerpoint KS3: slides with blank sections to add any specific words, verbs, adjectives from a particular module.
Complete GCSE core grammar / translation practice materials.
-5x powerpoints: one per GCSE theme (who am I / culture / daily routine / local area / tourism). Slides explore key grammar rules / structures, followed by texts to translate, final slides offer sentences to translate both way, with targeted key structures.
-5x handouts: targeted texts to translate.
-I designed these to help my Year 10 and 11 review complex structures/ grammar rules and encourage pair-share (progressive learning when powerpoints are used slide by slide).
-6 stories about events and legends from France in English (Napoléon, Notre-Dame de Paris, les 3 mousquetaires, le fantôme de l’Opéra, Vincent Van Gogh, le chevalier d’Eon) - 101 slides - part 2/4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-3 stories about events and legends from France in English (Le Mont Saint Michel, le Débarquement, Jacques Mesrine) - 76 slides - part 4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-Powerpoint with explanation, cards and prompts to spark speaking or writing (pair-work competition).
-Cards to be printed, laminated and separated in envelopes: 4 different sections with 12 expressions (time phrases, verbs, connectives, adjectives).
-Prompts: 13 slides with a different theme, to prompt pupils to write or say a sentence, using all 4 words picked from each category (verbs must be conjugated correctly, depending on the time phrase picked).
-Great pair-work activity, pupils compete against each other and must justify why their sentence is better than their partner (accuracy, length, additional details…).
-You could make it a timed competition.
-The idea comes from a CPD that I went to, I then designed my own activity around this idea.
-My pupils enjoy having a break from their computers and it encourages kinesthetic learning, as well as writing / speaking in a spontaneous way.
-1x Powerpoint: tips to introduce pupils to the GCSE - IGCSE exam papers in listening and reading (fake friends, traps…).
-I designed it to support my pupils, being introduced to the real exam papers.
-Great for pre-exam period too, as a retrieval of exam strategies.
-1x Powerpoint: tips and explanation for the IGCSE speaking - reading - writing.
-Powerpoint: slides with bubble speeches, containing questions, from beginner level to pre-GCSE.
-5 slides with 6 questions, followed by model answers.
-Powerpoint slide with peer-assessment feedback sheet
-Word document with peer-assessment feedback sheet
-I use these online or printed out to spark pair-work and spontaneous talk
-Great for formative assessment, but done by a peer (pairs must listen to each other and justify their grading)
-With Year 7, 8 and 9, great warm-up task, preparing them for the GCSE conversation, as questions could be asked in random order.
