Contains all the topics studied in the Autumn Term ( Ma vie sociale d'ado ) with learning objectives, outcomes, suggested activities and suggestions for differentiation and homework.

This will be the first part of the lessons on the endings for the present form for regular and irregular verbs in French. This contains a power point to be used as a guide and lesson plan, a starter sheet : students can use it and fill it in either looking at the clues at the back or they may choose to ignore the clues. There are opportunities for assessment highlighted on the power point, using mini whiteboards and I have also highlighted opportunities for questioning on some slides. The text the students will use to re write using the they form is from a textbook ( Studio ) so I have not used it but it can be created. The attached text called mes copains will support students for a class reading activities and there are two grids on the power point to help questioning. I have now updated this mini pack by adding the full lesson plan with differentiation highlighted on it if you wanted to use it or integrate in your own SOLS.

Extended reading passage to support students identifying and using the construction with Il faut + infinitive. Translations activities and extensions provided to get familiar with IL FAUT in other tenses. The error correcting activities proved useful too.

To be able to master a regular verb using all the pronouns to prepare to write an extended description of use of social media. Can be used in class or as a learning homeowrk

This text is used as support for a running translation. The text can be studied in details either before or after the running translation. Sheet 2 has a series of sentences from the text. They are meant to be cut out and laminated and given to students who work in groups ( 4 works well ). They find the sentence, must bring it to the teacher, with all spellings and grammar correct. Any errors, the slip gets returned for students to think again, if correct, the students receive the next slip etc.. The first team to have translated the full set wins. Extension : ask students to extend on the phrases they translated. Good for spellings, grammar and memory

i used this differentiated sheet with a year 7 group. It offers various levels of support to write and prepare for speaking. based on studio 1

designed to be used with year 8 , this is to help prepare students to make a presentation on their favourite hobby/ sporting activity. The reading activity from Echo 2 is really great !

Some ideas that students will find useful, especially the advice given on memorising and retaining information.

This is to help students recognising patterns and using the infinitive when using more than one verb in a sentence. Highlighted the patterns both in French and in English to support

.. with opportunities to sequence and develop sentences.

Use this to get students to guess which vowels are missing. Can work in pairs in order to practise sounds/ spellings connections. Gradually remove the support by asking the students to hide the English

This is to help students with pronouncing and recognising various sounds , which they may find hard. Parts are highlighted to support students in recognising patterns. My year 8 enjoyed this, even year 10, dead simple, but works. Tried and tested !

The ideas for consolidation are on the very last slide. They contain tips on activities I have tried with all ages and ranges of abilities and some have a competitive elements. The first slides explain the pitfalls of the word order and try to pre-empt errors such as word order, questions that should not be asked and issues of little words that often get forgotten about as students become concerned with handling more complex language.

I have made up a full text and attached various activities to keep you and students going. I have also added teachers' notes for ideas of how to exploit the text.

You will find the script on the French site called 1 jour 1 actu. It contains short clip with key words in authentic French. It goes quite fast, hence all the resources attached to support students through the study of authentic resources and texts, particularly for the new GCSE MFL and A Level ( 2016 ). All feedback welcome and appreciated as usual. I will add more resources as I go along on this topic, which should engage most learners.

Here you will find examples of some of my favourite starters that I use with all the year groups I teach. Once down loaded, you may just adapt these to your topics. They have proved effective and also once you have the idea and the template, you get minimum preparation for maximised learning and consolidation. Feedback appreciated as always. Thank you

Building blocks to show students how to add. Refers to a style of writing/style and students could be encouraged to use another tense. This includes mini review with mini whiteboard, opportunities for peer assessment.

I have designed this to support my year 7 in developing reading/ writing / translating skills. I started with the text ( pair work competition : each pupil has a different colour pen, the first to circle the translation in French in the text wins the point and it is quite visual at the end who is fastest . Great fro competition The other activities involve finding translations, matching up for lower ability and extending sentences from the given text. The last slide on the Power Point contains a writing list of bullet points ( goes with Studio 1 ’ il est hypercool’ but can be adapted for other courses. I owe Rachel Hawkes a big thank you for inspiring the Power Point slides offering differentiation when sentence building on mini whiteboards. I hope it is useful.

This resource fits in any module, covering the topic of jobs and plans for the future for KS4 French, but could also be used for students in higher ability groups in Year 9. It contains a Power point and a full lesson plan, as well as resources for differentiation which can be tweaked and amended as necessary. The lesson was observed and judged ' outstanding' so I hope it is useful to colleagues.

You need to access 1 Jour 1 actu website first. Visit Informations animées from there, clip from 03/12/2015. Use the attached pack of resources with the clip. Quite humorous vocabulary but not rude and will certainly will keep you class engaged and teach them much relevant vocabulary on the topic of protecting the planet. You may use a follow up to my free resource on the COP 21.