Secondary French teacher, rated Ofsted 'Outstanding' at KS3, KS4 and KS5.
PGCE and NQT mentor. Regular CPD/Professional Learning leader. State and private sector experience.
Secondary French teacher, rated Ofsted 'Outstanding' at KS3, KS4 and KS5.
PGCE and NQT mentor. Regular CPD/Professional Learning leader. State and private sector experience.
Excellent lesson, graded outstanding, introducing different sports to learners and basic opinions and reasons to express their thoughts.
Fully animated with all answers and instructions for each activity in Notes section of slides. A huge time saver and great fun to teach!
Lesson links to London 2012 Olympics and features Paralympians and Olympic athletes. Lesson begins with YouTube montage hook, set to Emilie Sandé's cover of Imagine by John Lennon. Students asked to consider why they are watching video.
Starter asks students to think of how to say two numbers and why these might be important in context of Olympics (number of medals won at London 2012 by Team GB). Students then complete table with French and English for 9 different sports, using cognates and near-cognates to support.
Next activity is a repetition of the different sports (with actions) to practice pronunciation, followed by a game of 'Splat' to consolidate knowledge. Students are then asked to read an iPhone text message conversation (created on classtools.net) and answer questions about sports preferences. Listening activity follows, fully differentiated, followed by a speaking activity, whereby students roll dice and create sentences about the sport that the number rolled corresponds to. Final activity is to respond to a friend texting them about their sports preferences, and to write their own messages in reply.
Pictionary game as plenary!
First lesson on sport in series of three. Please see other resources.
A great resource, linked to oral practice at KS5 for the topic of 'Les vacances'.
Six slides in total, including three slides of questions that can be used in any number of ways as speaking preparation. Presentation also includes a starter and a plenary to engage students and encourage them to warm-up with useful vocabulary for the topic.
Can also be used with HA KS4.
A huge time-saver!
Excellent resource, fully differentiated, focusing on French New Year customs and traditions. Text is taken from an article online (link on document) and has been simplified and split into six paragraphs for ease of translation and discussion.
Fully differentiated with a Challenge extension question to extend HA learners - further researching 'La Galette des Rois'. Over a page of vocabulary, split into paragraphs to support LA.
A series of questions in English link to the article, with paragraph numbers in brackets to direct learners who require support to the right paragraph. Can easily be deleted to extend challenge if required.
Suitable for HA KS3 and KS4. Great fun to teach!
Excellent resource, perfect as a first lesson back after the holidays. Two-page article (link included on document) exploring French New Year traditions and presenting lots of opportunities for cultural discussion. Article is split into sections for ease of reading and discussion.
Examples of cultural interest include the French tradition of sending New Year greeting cards, the annual televised French presidential address on 31 December, the change in date of the first day of the new year over the centuries, and the significance of 'l’Épiphanie' and 'la galette des rois'.
Worksheet asks students to draw out synonyms from text for specific vocabulary (e.g. 'les moufles' - 'les gants'), and to respond to six questions in French related to these customs.
Fully differentiated for LA learners with a vocabulary table and sections of the text signposted in brackets to support with answering the questions. These can easily be deleted for HA learners. Questions can be extended with reference to the subjunctive and other grammatical elements of the text. Students could also be asked to summarise in 100 words the main differences between traditional French New Year celebrations and those of their home country.
Great lesson, based on Expo 3 (Rouge) spread of 'Ça ne va pas'. Builds on prior knowledge of illnesses and injuries in the present tense, and works on using reflexive verbs with être in the perfect tense to describe problems with the body.
Lesson begins with a re-cap of various body parts, then moves on to ask students to match the first and second half of sentences describing injuries in the past tense to five images. Reading, mini whiteboard translation and writing activities follow, with 'être' song to re-cap verb in present tense if teacher wishes. Splat game to review learning at the end of the lesson.
Fully differentiated with 'Want support' and 'Challenge options'. Fully animated with all answers and notes for teachers underneath slides if helpful. Worksheet and full lesson PowerPoint in bundle.
Interactive and great fun to teach!
Three pages of French vocabulary for classroom objects. Size 50 text and neatly arranged into boxes to print, laminate and blu-tack to different areas of classroom.
Excellent for support during lessons that are taught in target language (provides reference for example for the request 'Ferme la porte s'il te plaît'), and also broadens linguistic horizons of learners being surrounded by TL in normal classroom.
Can also be used as an activity for younger learners. Students in pairs or in small groups are given five minutes to translate and categorise words (lots of possibilities - by gender, by objects that touch the floor etc.). Excellent to generate discussion regarding articles and difference between French and English. Students then timed to carefully and silently blu-tack correct label (without referring to translation) to correct part of classroom.
Each team starts on 10 points. 5 points awarded for each correct, careful and silent placement of word. 30 bonus points awarded for the quietest and most sensible team. Share points system and Success Criteria, and ask students to generate their own rules to manage game before beginning (for example remember to walk not run).
Excellent cultural bundle, focusing on French Easter traditions and vocabulary.
Differentiated, fully animated, colourful and interactive.
Great fun to teach! A huge time saver!
A brilliant bundle, encouraging higher-order thinking skills and independent learning.
Lessons are fabulous to teach and enourage students to identify mystery TL-speaking countries from a series of activities and clues (food, geography, music etc.).
Nandos Takeaway Menu asks students to pick their own mini topics from a series of increasingly challenging options, giving them ownership.
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Fantastic and very comprehensive resource covering all aspects of present tense formation with er, ir and re verbs. All animations and formatting ready to go. A huge time-saver!
Powerpoint is 27 slides and can be adapted to suit all learners. Includes clear and concise explanations of conjugation of each verb type and questions to gauge understanding. Perfect for mini-whiteboard activities. Differentiated to help LA access translation questions.
Excellent for introduction at KS2 / KS3 to conjugation and for revision and further practice at KS4.
A great resource, clearly explaining the topics studied over the course of the German GCSE and the format of the upcoming exams with a detailed breakdown for the Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing papers.
Information includes the length of each exam, the question styles and number of marks available. The GCSE qualifications from 1-9 are also explained in a user-friendly format.
Colourful pictures of Germany, easy to read and informative! A great time-saver!
Perfect for students and parents.
Comprehensive grammar bundle, suitable for HA KS2 - KS4. All formatting, animations and answers in place. Templates (tables, whiteboard activities) easily adaptable, huge time-saver! Designed to be used to explain concepts alongside other exercises in class.
1. Adjectives - 11 slides - Emphasis on describing teachers (School and Education module) although easily adapted. Introduces concept of masculine and feminine, adjectives before the noun (BAGS) and includes differentiated whiteboard activity.
2. Adverbs - 5 slides - Introduces concept in English and in French through celebrity 'Twitter' feeds (classtools.net). Matching table exercise and word fan task on last slides.
3. Après avoir + Après être - 3 slides - Introduces après avoir and après être. Example sentences and translations. Excellent 'A*' GCSE phrase, also great to extend HA KS3. 'Jeu de furet' (Pass the Parcel) game at end.
4. Asking questions - 3 slides - Linked to school and education but easily adapted. Introduces the three ways to ask questions in French, with an oral exercise as the last task.
Excellent grammar bundle, covering KS4 and KS5 key grammar topics. Also great for HA KS3. Differentiated with clear explanations and student translation activities. Easily adaptable to suit group, very time-saving!
1. Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns - 6 slides - Very comprehensive explanation of DOP and IDOPs, with lots of examples and practice for students.
2. Dont - 1 slide - Clear and concise explanation, giving students example sentences and asking them to work on how it is translated.
3. Impersonal verbs - 2 slides - Clear and concise explanation over full slide of impersonal verbs. Full slide of questions for students to translate, great as a printed worksheet or as a whiteboard activity.
4. Indirect Object Pronound (AS) - 4 slides - A deeper explanation of IDOP, suitable for KS5 learners or high-ability KS4 learners. Includes prounoun flag.
Excellent grammar bundle covering key concepts of KS3 and KS4 syllabi. All animations, formatting and answers ready to go. Easily adaptable for any year group. A real time saver!
1. Common infinitives - 3 slides - Covers key verbs in French and past participles of both avoir and être. Asks students to categorise verbs and to work out rules for endings in perfect tense.
2. Comparatives - 9 slides - Uses films to introduce concept of 'plus/moins/aussi...que'. Example sentences and translation. Whiteboard activity, differentiated to support LA with key words at top of slides. Task linked to watching of 'Minions' film trailer in French. Students asked to use language in own sentences following trailer.
3. Depuis and ça fait que - 7 slides - Comprehensive explanation of two conjunctions and whiteboard activity across six slides, differentiated to help LA learners with key words at top of slide. Students must decide which phrase to use and why,
4. Depuis - 4 slides - Precedes activity with 'ça fait que'. Explanation of when to use and mini-whiteboard translation. Easily adaptable and suitable for all ages.
A bundle of five slides, linked to the Work and Education module of the GCSE course.
The first slide is a poster of rules from a French school. Students are asked to translate as many as possible a given time limit. Challenge is to think of any others that are not mentioned that students would expect to see in their own school. Forms a good basis for cultural discussion (for example in terms of uniform or how rules are phrased).
The second slide presents two tables (24 items of vocabulary), drawing links between rules and uniform. The conditional tense is introduced alongside negatives and could easily be extended to forming the conditional and other negative forms.
The third slide introduces positive and negative opinions about uniform, asking students to translate and categorise those given before forming their own for a debate / discussion on the fourth slide.
The fifth slide lists excuses regarding household chores, asking students to translate those given and think of their own.
Great lesson building on Sport 1 (recognising different sports + opinions) and Sport 2 (jouer + definite article). Fully differentiated and animated, with directions for each activity in Notes section for teachers. 37 slides in total. Can easily be split into two lessons if best for group.
Slide 1: Date, title, learning objective, starter (adding in the right definite article for sports with jouer and translation).
Slide 2: YouTube video montage of London 2012 Olympics highlights. Students encouraged to think about one main difference between the sports that they are watching. Draw out that some use balls (jouer) and some don't (faire).
Slide 3: Students re-cap names of different sports, naming as many as they can from 12 images on slide in given time limit.
Slides 4 - 15: Students repeat (with actions if wished) sports that use faire, picking out the definite article each time.
Slides 16 - 18: Students complete table of sports that use faire.
Slides 19 - 23: Points game, guessing the hidden sports, to consolidate vocabulary.
Slides 24 - 25: Students note down grammar rule for definite article and how it combines with faire.
Slides 26 - 28: Students spot use of faire + definite article in reading text (Twitter feeds created using classtools.net) and answer questions.
Slides 29 - 35: Students translate sentences with faire on mini whiteboards.
Slide 36: Writing activity. Clear Success Criteria given.
Slide 37: 'Big Wheel' plenary to finish.
Nandos Takeaway Menu, linked to researching education in a Francophone country.
Fully differentiated with Lemon & Herb (least challenging), Mild, Hot and Extra Hot (most challenging) tasks. Tasks link to 'Basic information, Climate and Geography', 'History, Culture and People', 'Environmental Issues, Human Rights and Government' and 'Education' respectively, with three sub-topics under each bracket. The 'Mild' tasks for example (on History, Culture and People) sub-divide into: Key historical events, Diet, religion and recreation and Ethnic groups, gender roles and family relationships.
Can be set as an individual research task, for pair or group work over one lesson or a series of lessons as a project. Students can present research in target language or in English, and as a PowerPoint, handout or poster. Template is easily adaptable if required.
Excellent cross-curricular links to History, Geography, Religion, Ethics and Politics.
Learning Objective and task information read as follows:
Researching Education in a French Speaking Community.
LO: To be able to improve my Social, Spiritual, Moral and Cultural understanding of a French-speaking community.
Your task is to research information, specifically linked to Education, about a French-speaking country, region or city of your choice. You should complete at least six tasks, including two Extra Hot pieces of research. You should present your research as a PowerPoint presentation. You may work individually or in pairs.
Want support? Start by completing the Lemon & Herb tasks to warm up. Could you research one of these places: Algeria, Mauritius, Quebec, Haiti or Madagascar?
Want more? Complete a combination of Extra Hot and Hot Tasks. Can you complete more than six research areas? What other French-speaking areas could you research?
Excellent starter double-pack, easily amended for use time and time again with any year group.
Learners are asked to form as many infinitives as they can in a given time limit using the Scrabble tiles in the first starter. Differentiated through forming the highest or lowest-scoring infinitive, through finding modal verbs, and through teacher support for the first examples and first letter of several other infinitives if necessary.
Easily adapted to link to any area of the curriculum (not just verbs), and a great individual or pair whiteboard warm-up. Learners can work together, compete against each-other in groups, and can also be trained to think of their own objective (for example colours, French regions or connectives) using letters that they provide. Students also really enjoy 'beat the teacher' at this game - playing against you in the same time limit with letters that they have provided!
The word octagon, based on the popular daily puzzle in The Times newspaper, asks learners to find the two adjectives within the shape, using the letter at the centre for each one and every other letter no more than once. Fabulous for engaging higher-order thinking skills. There are two octagons with two adjectives in on this slide. Again, very simply adapted.
Bundle of three resources.
The first resource asks learners complete a table using past participles, work out why some are marked (être verbs), and identify the rule for forming them.
The second resource asks learners to translate question words, and the third to un-scramble past participles of avoir and être.
All useful grammar starters or consolidation activities at KS3 / KS4, either linked to topic of study or as a whistle-stop review to draw out any questions or uncertainties. Fully animated and all answers on slides.
Fantastic double-sided table of French classroom language. Huge time-saver and incredibly useful to encourage use of the target-language in lessons. Really helpful to introduce at the start of the year (or at any stage as a 'I think you're ready for this now...').
Can be printed as a big display poster, as A4 or A5 sheets and laminated as a reference point for students on classroom tables, or as an individual sheet to refer to.
As well as classroom language, sheet also includes Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Numbers (overview of 1 - 1,000,000), Articles and Useful words (who, what, where, why etc. and connectives).
Huge time saver! Useful with any age.
A great resource, outlining the new AQA Italian GCSE as a simple Factsheet. Very useful for students as an introduction to the course. Also used with excellent feedback at Open Evenings to provide further information (from the AQA website) for students, Parents and Carers, and for staff within the department alongside the new Specification.
Suitable for Foundation and Higher tiers. A huge time-saver!
The Factsheet provides information about the advantages of studying Italian at GCSE level, alongside answers to the following questions:
1. What will I study? (Core themes and sub-topics.)
2. How will I be assessed? (Information on the four exam papers, the length of the exams, the marks awarded and the types of questions.)
3. When will I take my exams?
4. How do GCSE grades 1-9 work?
The Factsheet is attractively and simply presented with photographs and images.
A space for Student reflection is provided at the end of the document, as well as the link to the AQA Specification at a Glance for further information.