In amongst the madness that is modern-day teaching, I still find time (somehow) and enjoy creating my own resources, from Key Stage 3 worksheets and PowerPoint presentations to Key Stage 5 model A-Level French & German essays, and everything in between. PLEASE leave an honest review if you purchase any of my resources! Thanks, Paul
In amongst the madness that is modern-day teaching, I still find time (somehow) and enjoy creating my own resources, from Key Stage 3 worksheets and PowerPoint presentations to Key Stage 5 model A-Level French & German essays, and everything in between. PLEASE leave an honest review if you purchase any of my resources! Thanks, Paul
A self-made speaking mat which includes phonetics and PowerPoint presentation so that pupils of all ability ranges at GCSE can create extended answers to questions about smoking, drugs and alcohol. Suitable for all GCSE speaking and even writing preparation on the topic of Healthy Living/Lifestyle.
A self-made PowerPoint on Negative Constructions covering ne...pas, ne…guère, ne…jamais, ne…plus, ne…que, ne…personne and ne…rien. It includes examples and explanations of how each one works and has a translation exercise at the end to incorporate ideas presented in previous slides. The slides make a useful handout for students.
This is a list of generic essay phrases that I have used in my many model essays on La Haine which I give to my students at the start of the year and encourage them to use when writing their own essays on the film.
In this way, students are "trained" to write their essays in a structured fashion, following the Point-Evidence-Evaluation model. I call this the bones of the essay, and the meat on those bones comes from their own planning and ideas.
I also encourage my pupils to add to this list should they come across any expressions that they like/use that aren't already on the list.
Although students obviously aren't allowed any aid in the exam with them, by the final exam, some of these phrases will be embedded in their work by force of repetition. Students will naturally develop "favourites" and provided that these are used in the correct context, it will enable them to focus more on the content, i.e. gaining more marks for the critical analysis of the ideas they put forward.
A 700-word model essay response to the 2019 Paper 2 question from the AQA French A-level exam “Analysez dans quelle mesure la phrase « la haine attire la haine » résume tout ce qui se passe dans ce film.”
Useful for dissecting for structure, getting pupils to highlight Point, Evidence, Evaluation sections and also pinching useful vocabulary and ideas.
A 4-page document offering essay writing phrases specific to writing responses to Kiffe Kiffe Demain essays at AS and A-level French. These are tailored around the book by Faiza Guene and is divided into sections, including introductory phrases, Introducing / structuring points in main paragraphs, presenting evidence, presenting evaluation, being more specific, making conclusions.
I allow and actively encourage my students to write essays using this framework, up to and including timed essay attempts, in order to familiarise themselves with phrases which will enable them to produce a structured piece with varied language.
This has proven very successful and popular with students, whose results have developed by using this resource.
A detailed booklet of 22 themes and page-referenced quotes/examples for each which corresponds to the edition by the publisher Livre de Poche Jeunesse
(ISBN: 9782012490185). My AS and A-level students have found this to be a really useful resource when looking for evidence to include in essay responses.
This is not a workbook with activities, but a booklet with categorised examples whose purpose it is to be accessed a crutch when completing or when preparing for AS and A-level essays on the Kiffe Kiffe Demain novel.
A 762-word model essay in response to the AQA A-level French Paper 2 question on Faiza Guene’s Kiffe Kiffe Demain with the title “Analysez les rapports entre les personnages féminins et les personnages masculins dans ce roman.”
The model essay is accompanied by 6 exercises, including a synonym finder task, a grammar gap-fill based on adjectival agreement, a verb formation gap-fill task, a diamond 9 speaking task based on relationships between characters, an English summary task to show understanding of model essay’s structure and content (Point-Evidence-Evaluation) and the final task which requires pupils to choose the relationships they wish to analyse and to offer their thoughts to each one.
This resource could be used over the course of 2 lessons and serves as an excellent model to support less confident pupils, but also contains a wealth of vocabulary and structures in order to inspire the more able.
1) A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine French Model Essay - Main themes of film director and reaction
My response to the A-level essay question Analysez les principaux thèmes ou les principales idées du metteur en scène que vous avez étudié. Comment avez-vous réagi à ces thèmes ou à ces idées ? which is relevant for either the legacy or the new-style A-level courses. This is a great model resource to discuss the importance of structure and to access for vocabulary and essay-writing phrases. We discuss the importance of the PEE model (Point-Evidence-Evaluation) and sometimes get pupils to do group work whereby each group evaluates a paragraph and explains PEE in each to other groups. ***NOW INCLUDES ASSOCIATED EXERCISES FOR PUPILS, INCLUDING PHRASE-FINDER AND TRANSLATION OF EXPRESSIONS WITHIN ESSAY***
"I think this essay will be helpful to any students struggling to get to grips with the demands of the challenge of writing a target language essay on a cultural topic. It would serve as a sound model for how to structure a sufficiently well-argued response, and demonstrates effectively how details should be adduced to explain and justify the points raised."
2) A2 FRENCH La Haine A2 Model Essay - Points positifs et aspects qu'on pourrait critiquer + exercises
A model essay on La Haine for the A2 French cultural studies essay writing question "Quels aspects de l’œuvre du metteur en scène que vous avez etudié est-ce que vous trouvez plutôt positifs ? Est-ce qu’il y a des aspects de l’œuvre que vous critiqueriez ? Expliquez pourquoi."
This resource includes a 732-word model essay with a variety of points, vocabulary and grammatical structures and also 3 exercises for pupils to complete, including a vocabulary finder task, a reading comprehension and target language response task, and a third task which invites pupils to think of further positives and criticisms of La Haine.
3) La Haine A2 FRENCH Model Essay - Le facteur le plus important pour le succès du film
Another model essay in response to an A2 essay writing question from the AQA FREN3 June 2013 Q14b. This can be accessed in a variety of ways in order to help pupils make progress with their essay writing.
4) La Haine A2 Model Essay - How does the film's director seek to provoke strong emotions among viewers
A model A2 French essay on the film La Haine and on how Kassovitz seeks to provoke strong emotions among viewers.
5) La Haine A2 Model Essay - Influences of director
An exemplar model A2 French essay I wrote on the film La Haine about the influences of the film's director Mathieu Kassovitz. It has a few comprehension exercises thereafter.
5* "Thank you very much for this essay. I really like the exercises at the end too." Mlle Pierre
5* "Excellent - very useful resource. I am not teaching La Haine but it has still provided some valuable inspiration to help support my students on the film we are studying" afyvvmc
6) La Haine A2 Model Essay - To what extent does originality play a role in the film's success
A model A2 French essay on the film La Haine. Pupils could be asked to pick out key vocabulary, identify structures used, adapt ideas or even pick out key points made, evidence presented or evaluation made.
Extent originality contributes to success
Some of the essays have accompanying exercises. Bundle price 18% cheaper than buying essays individually.
A 34 slide PowerPoint with at least 4 lessons worth of activities for students to become more familiar with the novel Kiffe Kiffe Demain by Faïza Guène, specifically the context and the storyline of the work.
The lessons based around the book's context include activities on the author herself, as well as it's literary milieu as a celebrated piece of littérature beur. There is also a lesson based around gaining a greater understanding of the history of immigration in France .
The storyline lessons build knowledge of the key events in the book, culminating in a task requiring pupils to match summary titles to each "chapter" from the book, complete with page number references. This will enable pupils to build a useful table to refer back to, when looking for evidence of particular aspects of the storyline when writing A-level essays.
The PowerPoint includes gap-fill tasks, reading and listening comprehension tasks, summary tasks, phrase finder tasks, as well as translation and grammar activities, with answers to facilitate self- and peer assessment of activities.
I designed a lesson for my able Year 8 French group which could also be suited to GCSE students based around a past disasterous visit to a fictitious French restaurant. The lesson revolves around a differentiated reading comprehension task based on reviews of people’s experiences at La Bouffe restaurant. This culminates in students being asked to write their own restaurant reviews about a visit. Some may wish to use an online voice recorder, such as Vocaroo to record and submit their restaurant reviews.
A 598-word model essay based on the 2018 A-Level French AQA Paper 2 title : “Analysez comment les différents aspects de l’amour sont présentés dans Kiffe Kiffe Demain”. This includes an introduction, three main paragrapghs using point evidence and analysis as well as a conclusion to definitively answer the question. This can be exploited in a variety of ways with students to explore structure, new vocabulary, grammar and so on.
A self-made PowerPoint on adjectives and adjectival agreements. Includes regular and irregular adjectives, as well as various adjectival patterns and adjectives which change meaning depending on whether they come before and after the noun. Includes examples of each as well as exercises on certain slides. Slides also make a useful handout for pupils.
The accompanying word document is a list of useful adjectives to describe personality which can be used as an extension to PowerPoint in getting pupils to agree adjectives to describe someone in their family or a friend.
A reading comprehension worksheet with a model text and 2 comprehension tasks, including a "richtig, falsch, nicht im Text" task and a vocabulary identification task. The text provides a useful model for pupils preparing a response as part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.
Pupils to recognise whether phrases in grid are positive or negative. They can then read model text and complete vocabulary finder and reading comprehension tasks before writing their own using the model for inspiration. This is a useful resource for preparing pupils for GCSE writing or speaking tasks.
Le Silence de la Mer Questions & Ideas - Some exemplar speaking questions based around the story chapter by chapter with model answers.
Le Silence de la Mer Discussion webs - Pupils read the statement in the middle and then to skim through novel to find relevant quotes or section to back up statement. E.g. "Werner aime le silence"
Commentez le rôle de l’oncle et son importance dans « le Silence de la Mer » - Model plan in English to respond to an A2 essay writing question.
LE SILENCE DE LA MER Questions for entire novel: Questions with gaps for pupils to jot down their own answers for subsequent discussion in class. This allows a structured step-by-step approach to covering the Guided Study Topic.
My own model response to the new-style AQA A-level Paper2 question "Wie ändert sich das Leben für Alex nach dem Fall der Mauer? Inwiefern wird alles besser für ihn?". The essay also includes a comprehensive vocabulary list which has been drawn from the essay itself. Many of these phrases and expressions are generic and could be used for other essays.
The essay can be accessed in many ways, including:
- Asking pupils to highlight the Point, Evidence and Evaluation in each of the main body's paragraphs. They could summarise these in English which is a useful precursor from them to write their own plan in English following the Point, Evidence and Evaluation model.
- Highlighting certain sections, phrases or passages for translation to consolidate on grammar structures which may have already been taught.
- Asking pupils to read the essay and then consulting the mark scheme they could give the essay a mark and then justify why they chose the mark when discussing with peers. This would help to familiarise pupils with what is needed in order to score the higher marks.
I hope you find this resource useful!
Paul
With translation an increasingly important part of the new GCSE, I developed a short translation assessment for my Y9 French class to complete at the end of the unit on Home Town & Region.
A research activity in which pupils use the internet or their smartphones using school WIFI to research the other films, apart from La Haine, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and complete the grid. This enables pupils to establish common themes and includes links to 3 of Kassovitz's short films, and can lead to subsequent target language discussion in which pupils offer opinions.
Here is a list of exemplar speaking questions for the 6 AQA AS German topics. These could be used as follow-up questions to any speaking card stimulus.
