<p>Kick off the new school year with confidence using this comprehensive Y9 French First Lesson PowerPoint Presentation! Designed to take the stress out of planning, this resource ensures your first lesson sets the perfect tone for success.<br /> What’s Inside?</p> <ul> <li>Welcome Slide: Engage your students with a fun mini translation/cognate activity to break the ice.</li> <li>Classroom Expectations: Clear guidelines for entering and exiting the classroom to create a positive learning environment.</li> <li>Exercise Book Setup: Step-by-step instructions on setting up and maintaining high standards for presentation (RISE).</li> <li>Starter Activity: Get students thinking with prompts that spark curiosity and discussion.</li> <li>Half-Term at a Glance: An overview of what’s ahead to keep students on track.</li> <li>Reading Activity: Revise key Y7/Y8 content with a comprehension task to refresh and reinforce knowledge.</li> <li>Think, Pair, Share: Encourage collaboration and critical thinking with a writing task.</li> <li>Seprate Knowledge Organiser &amp; RISE Standards woksheet: Print-ready resources for exercise book marking that set clear expectations.</li> <li></li> </ul> <p>Fully editable to suit your unique half-term plan and school expectations, this presentation covers all the bases to make your first lesson a success. Start the year off right—set the stage for a productive, positive classroom from day one!</p>

<p>A comprehensive French Edexcel Speaking Booklet tailored for the 2024 specification. This meticulously crafted resource is designed to support teachers and students as they navigate the updated speaking exam requirements. It includes everything needed to effectively prepare students for success and is editable to suit your needs.</p> <p>Inside, you’ll find a thorough explanation of the new exam format, presented in a clear and student-friendly manner, alongside a simplified mark scheme to help students understand how they will be assessed. The booklet is packed with fresh and relevant tasks for both Foundation and Higher levels, including brand new read-aloud exercises, original role-plays set in diverse settings, engaging picture tasks, and a wide range of conversation questions covering all 3 tenses. Each section is designed to challenge students and encourage deeper thinking, making this an essential tool for mastering the speaking exam.</p> <p>With ample space provided for note-taking, this booklet serves as an invaluable resource for classwork, homework, and revision. Whether you’re introducing the new specification in Year 10 or reinforcing knowledge down the lane in Year 11, this guide is perfect for helping students excel in their speaking exams. Make sure your students are fully prepared with this all-encompassing, easy-to-use resource!</p>

<p>This resource is a double lesson covering pp. 16-17 of Dynamo 3: starters/plenaries, extension tasks, revision of clothes/colours, near future tense explanation + grammar exercises, adjective agreement, translation task, revision of intensifiers, introduction of complex opinions, role-play task as per GCSE format, etc.</p>

<p>This resource is a double lesson covering the use of the perfect tense with ‘avoir’ and ‘être’, grammar exercises, vocab about birthday celebrations, listening comprehension, sequencers, role play and games. J</p>

<p>In Dynamo 3, this resource covers pp. 34-35 about further education plans and jobs. The ppt is a double lesson and includes starters, L.O, plenty of tasks (matching up exercises, explanation of ‘vouloir’ + grammar exercises, negative sentences formation, complex opinions explanation, translation task, role-play) and plenaries.</p>

<p>This is covering pp 12-13 of the Dynamo 3 Year 9 textbook - a double lesson to cover the double page, relevant grammar and skill based tasks. It starts we a recap of the vocab to describe someone physically, revision of ‘avoir/etre’ with Conti style exercises (gapped/split sentences and translation task), ‘boggle’ game task, photocard tips and tasks, in-depth listening focus and sentence builder. Includes starters and plenaries for both lessons.</p>

<p>This resource covers the pp. 36-37 of Dynamo 3. It includes 2 whole lessons with starters, L.O, pleanaries and a wide range of tasks (introduction of the future tense + grammar exercises + irregular verbs+ time phrases + translations + speaking activity + mosaic translation + key question words slide and task + reading and writing task to include intensifiers/sequencers/time phrases/negatives/etc.).</p>

<p>This is to cover the double pp40-41 of Dynamo 3. It includes 2 lessons complete with starters, L.O and plenaries. You’ll find a photo description, a recap on how to ask questions in French, key question words, matching-up, speaking activity, interactive wheels for questioning, tenses differentiation task (past/present/future), time phrases activity, tick and cross reading activity, etc.</p>

<p>This is a great resource covering all 4 skills (inlcuding a listening) to introduce photocard description. It also includes a chatty mat with all the key vocab needed to describe a picture in French. I have used it my KS3 students but also in Y10 at the start of the year and with Foundation students during booster sessions.</p>

<p>This is a resources that covers the start of Module 2 in Dynamo 3 on pp. 32-33. It is a double lesson, 2 hours worth. It includes starters, objectives and plenaries. In the first lesson, you’ll find a language presentation with emphasis on useful verbs, an explanation of modal verbs with ‘pouvoir/devoir’, mini whiteboards practice, then further practice with dedicated grammar exercises and diagram on complex opinions. In the second lesson, further consolidation of the vocab, language presentation on new vocab of what to buy and save for, a range of tasks including roles-plays and gapped parallel translation.</p>

<p>This is a comprehensive double lesson that covers the pp. 38-39 of Dynamo 3. It has starters/plenaries/differentiated objectives and a range of tasks to cover this topic (mosaic writing, matching ups, language presentation, complex opinions in the future tense, speaking task, tenses recognition task, translation, questioning, sentence builder, etc.).</p>

<p>This is to accompany pp56-57 of Dynamo 3. The resource is made up of a ppt that focuses on developing reading strategies and its accompanying worksheet. It focuses on the theme of music with a grammar focus on direct object pronouns (starter/L.Os/ photo description: find the errors/narrow reading/grammar slide/short grammar task/speaking task/plenary).</p>

<p>This is a ppt that covers unit 1 pp 10-11 for a total of 2 lessons of one hour. It covers frequency adverbs and time phrases, transcript work from the listening, questioning practise, introduction of the role-play as per GCSE model, linking knowledge starter in the second lesson, mind-mapping on forming negative sentences, reading strategies overview, etc.</p>

<p>This is a resource that covers the first few pages of the brand new Pearson textbook for French: Dynamo 3. It covers a little over 3 lessons starting with a quiz to get to know the textbook, followed by a revision of the present tense of -er verbs and covering ‘Point de depart’ on pp 8-9. All four skills are covered, all activities with extended work for higher achievers, matching ups, sentence builders, a great focus on listening with use of transcript, questioning, photo description task, a few games, etc.</p> <p>I will be creating the resources as I go along, make sure you visit my page for updated content.</p>

<p>This is a great ppt to introduce the photocard description. You will find 2 chatty mats to decsribe a picture in details. It covers all four skills, including a listening activity embedded in the ppt. This resource has worked really well with my German classes to introduce the photocard in KS3 but also at the start of Y10 and to revise during booster sessions - especially with Foundation students. It covers a whole lesson or can be used at 5 tasks spread over a sequence of lessons.</p>