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I am an MFL teacher with fifteen years of classroom experience, from primary to sixth form. I specialize in French teaching resources, bespoke language curriculum design and language CPD to support individual teachers and schools.
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I am an MFL teacher with fifteen years of classroom experience, from primary to sixth form. I specialize in French teaching resources, bespoke language curriculum design and language CPD to support individual teachers and schools.
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How old are you?
Numbers 1 -10, asking and answering the question about age. Revising exchanging greetings.
Birthday months vocabulary mat
Key vocabulary to practice asking and answering a question about birthdays.
La domotique/La maison intelligente.
A complete lesson for A level on the subject of home automation in the context of new technologies focusing on listening, reading,writing skills.
Students watch a short video clip explaining what la domotique is and how it works. They follow with the provided transcript then answer questions in English.
This is followed by a written text discussing the advantages and disadvantages of home automation. Students complete vocabulary, true/false/not mentioned, and L1-L2/L2-L1 translation exercises. All answers are provided.
Could be followed up with a discussion on the advantages/disadvantages of la domotique.
International Women's Day 2021 French A level.
A lesson comprising reading comprehension exercises based upon a short text giving background information of the origin of International Women’s Day, women in the Covid world, Covid and increasing violence against women.
Students then watch and listen to a video clip in French about the evolution of women’s rights in France over the last century ( transcript provided) and complete exercises including true/false, translation into French, Translation into English. Answers provided.
Covid et la précarité.
A lesson resource aimed at A level French students focusing on listening,reading,writing through use of authentic source, comprehension questions and translations L1-L2/L2-L1.All answers and transcripts provided.
The work is based around a video report from the French current affairs programme Sept à huit. It follows the impact of C-19 on the livelihood and living conditions of Séverine, a French baker in a French ski resort.The lesson is split into two parts and transcripts are provided for both so that students can follow as they listen.
Section one:
The introduction is a matching phrases to their definitions in French, followed by listening to the first part of the report then completing gapped sentences in French and translating these into English.Pupils finish the first section by answering comprehension questions in French.
Section 2:
Pupils listen to the second part of the report, following with the transcript if needed, then identify the four correct sentences out of a choice of eight.They then translate sentences into French and complete with the translation of a paragraph into English.
Easter in France phonics focus.
This lesson is focused on pupils mastering the key phonemes EU/CH/IN/OU/ER through language specific to the theme of Easter.The lesson contains a Power Point with embedded sound files, instructions on each slide and answers that appear upon clicking.There is also a core language mat with the phonetic pronunciation. Pupils identify and practise the key sounds, are able to match words containing these to images for meaning then build spoken sentences through language retrieval, repetition and extension.They move on to writing the core language correctly by making sound-spelling links that enable them to insert the correct phonemes into each of the core words.Pupils watch a cartoon clip in French that contains some familiar language and use their detective skills to identify further words containing the phoneme OU.At the same time they learn about the Easter tradition in France and give a spoken summary of what they have understood.They practise writing the core vocabulary in Easter shapes to fix the sound-spelling links.
There is also a link to an extra intercultural understanding activity on Euroclub schools
Nicolas Sarkozy et la justice.
A reading comprehension which revisits the present, past,future, pluperfect and passive tenses.Background information about Nicolas Sarkozy and information concerning the three judicial inquiries that he is targeted by.
Decoding a text, comprehension questions, dictionary work and translation into English/French.Answer sheet attached.
Alphabet in French
Lesson pack of Power Point with embedded sound files, a phonetic pronunciation in French mat for each letter of the alphabet and alphabet bingo cards.A range of activities to begin recognizing sounds, and establish sound and spelling connections.
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Applying word order and adjectival agreement using days,nouns for clothes,colour adjectives.
A bundle comprising four lesson packs that would work over 4 to 6 lessons.Each pack has Power Point with embedded sound files and lesson instructions on the slides, a core language mat and pupil worksheets where relevant.There are also links to relevant songs and stories.
Begin with the days of the week lesson, then colour adjectives. Continue with clothes possessive adjectives,and finish with descriptive sentences using nouns for clothes and colour adjectives.After learning the days,pupils understand and apply simple word order with colour after noun in French, and use charts showing how the colour adjectives change depending on the gender of the noun, and whether it is in a plural form, to create descriptive sentences in speaking and writing.They begin to extend these using the conjunction et/and.
French descriptive sentence using nouns for clothes and colour adjectives.
A lesson pack comprising Power Point with embedded sound files and instructions on slides, core language mat to check spelling and meaning, and quiz quiz trade card set for speaking.
At the start of the lesson pupils recap days, colours, clothing nouns learned previously.There is a grammar recap for word order, then pupils translate descriptive sentences into English using the core language mat.They practice replacing words in French in the correct order to reinforce word order, and complete several speaking activities including roll the dice and quiz quiz trade.*The quiz quiz trade cards need to be cut up: each has a word /phrase or sentence in French, the phonetic pronunciation of this in brackets underneath, followed by the meaning in English.
Pupils move on to completing descriptive sentences in writing, then onto extending these using the conjunction et.They then move to creating extended sentences using days, nouns for clothes and colour adjectives independently using their core language mat and a bilingual dictionary.
French clothes possessive adjectives.
Lesson pack comprising a Power Point with embedded sound files and a core language mat to support spelling and meaning.
The lesson focus is to use the correct form of the possessive adjective MY in French with masculine,feminine and plural nouns for clothes.
Pupils learn to say the nouns correctly in a phrase using je mets+ mon/ma/mes+noun. Memory tasks including a quiz and choosing the correct form of the possessive adjective reinforce this.Pupils understand when to use mon,ma or mes and begin writing the phrase with the correct form of mon/ma/mes.
There is an extra task based on the story book Je m’habille et je te croque by
Bénédicte Guettier .It is a short story of a wolf getting dressed, using the same structure as practised in the lesson : je mets+mon/ma/mes+noun.
Pupils can adapt this to create their own storyboard, look up new clothing nouns in a bilingual dictionary and write the phrase for each image they create, in French.They can then tell their version of the story in French or make a video clip of their story.
La Saint Valentin
This lesson( Power Point with embedded sound files and student task sheets) has a phonic focus and is based around a poem by Nathalie Bonneau on You Tube called “Une histoire de coeurs”.Pupils learn the names of some animals in French and practice the key sounds of the graphemes they contain. They make sound-spelling links by hearing new words that contain the sounds, and identify these from a list. They then listen to and repeat the poem to reinforce the key sounds. Pupils use a bilingual/online dictionary to translate the poem into English, then adapt parts of it to create their own.
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French word order using nouns and colour adjectives.
A series of three lessons each with a Power Point, embedded sound files and core language mats to support meaning and spelling of new language.
Lesson 1 -nouns for parts of the body in French. Pupils develop accurate pronunciation, make sound-spelling links and understand the masculine,feminine, plural forms pf the definite article in French.They play various memory games such as Jacques a dit/Simon says and what is missing.
Lesson 2-Color adjectives. This lesson focuses on key graphemes in color adjectives and that color adjectives follow the noun in French.A range of activities for pupils to apply this.
Lesson 3-Apply correct word order. Begin to familiarize with adjectival agreement.Pupils revise nouns for parts of the body and color adjectives in French then begin to apply correct word order by combining these in speaking and writing activities. This culminates in them adapting descriptive phrases to create their own in order to create a description of a monster.
*If you can purchase the following story books, these complement the above lesson unit:
Va t’en grand monstre vert by Ed Kimberley and Toutes les couleurs by Alex Sanders.
French apply word order and create a monster.
A lesson unit, comprising a Power Point with embedded sound files and a core language mat, to learn how to apply word order correctly in French using nouns for parts of the body and color adjectives.Pupils revise colors and nouns for parts of the body in French through song. They learn where to place the color adjective in a phrase, with plenty of speaking activities to apply this: guess my sentence, roll the dice.Pupils use the core language mat to help with translations between the two languages, draw and color a monster from reading descriptive phrases in French, then adapt phrases to create their own monster description. Opportunity to extend by using a bilingual dictionary.
The core language mat indicates how the ending of some color adjectives change in the feminine and plural forms.
If you can buy a copy of the book Va t’en grand monstre vert by Ed Kimberley, or Toutes les couleurs by Alex Sanders, this would support this work on word order wonderfully.
La Chandeleur French pancake day.Remote learning.
An easy to follow lesson for remote learning/independent use, based around a children’s cartoon video in French of how to make pancakes.
Instructions are on each slide as to which part of the video to follow and answers to questions appear upon clicking. Pupils will use a bilingual dictionary or an on line one to find the meaning of ingredients, learn how to make pancakes then have the choice to create a dream pancake with fillings, label in French, or make pancakes at home with an adult.
French colour adjectives.
This lesson focuses on these key sounds in French: an/ou/eu/oi.Pupils learn how to pronounce the sounds for these, then learn how to say the colour adjectives.A song reinforces the key sounds.Speaking activities include recalling the words for the colour images, a memory game, listening and showing the colours heard. Pupils begin to write the colour adjectives, making sound-spelling links. There is an art activity(The Snail by Matisse), and a poem which are opportunities to use a bilingual dictionary: to find more colours for the art activity,and new nouns to adapt a poem.Sound files are embedded in the Power Point and there is a core language mat to support meaning and spelling.Can be used for independent learning or in class.
French parts of the body.
A lesson unit comprising Power Point, core language mat and body bingo cards. The Power Point has sound files embedded for independent learning, teacher as co-learner.Answers appear on slides upon clicking to check progress. Pupils learn how to pronoun the words for parts of the body in French. Activities to reinforce include a quiz, what’s missing , Simon says,bingo,and how to write the nouns accurately in French with the correct article. The core language mat supports meaning and spelling.Pupils learn the forms of the definite article in French (the) and how it changes depending on whether the noun is masculine,feminine, starts with a vowel or is in the plural form.
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French Getting Started About Me.
Four lesson packs which can be used in the following order to learn enough French to exchange greetings and feelings, learn numbers 1-11 and say age, learn the days and months, how to ask for and give information about birthdays. All have core language mats. All contain embedded sound files for independent learning, teacher as co-learner and answers appear on slides upon clicking to check progress.
French months and birthdays
A lesson pack that would work well over two lessons. A Power Point with embedded sound files, instructions on the slides, answers upon clicking and a core language mat to support spelling/meaning for writing.
Pupils revisit days of the week then learn how to say the months of the year in French.They are introduced to the birthday question and recap the months through a song, then conduct a survey to practice asking and answering a question about birthdays.Pupils use the core language mat to extend the phrase to include a number and month and complete translations between two languages. Suggestions for further practice and a key dates research task.