<p>Full lesson on practising months, numbers, and learning how to say the date of your birthday. Includes a link to a song for them to sing. Includes a class birthday survey and a match-up task with famous French figures for a bit of fun. Finishes with a challenging sentence un-scramble.<br /> This could easily be split into 2 lessons, depending on timing.</p>

<p>For Year 7s beginning to describe personalities. Used for my Year 7s who had previously covered physical descriptions.<br /> PowerPoint begins with retrieval of avoir, age, physical appearance.<br /> Then introduction to personality adjectives - sound-symbol correspondence at first using images. Fun listening comprehension activities such as slap the board, Beat the Teacher, the picture slides can be used for various activities like this.<br /> Vocab match-up and explicit masculine/feminine grammar focus at end.</p>

<p>PowerPoint recapping the conjugation of <em>avoir</em> in the present-tense, leading to explicit instruction of forming* le passé composé* with regular verbs. Starter is matching up translations relevant to the topic of <em>la technologie</em> and <em>les reseaux sociaux.</em><br /> Then, a quickfire mini-whiteboard quiz on the conjugations of <em>avoir</em> (good for AfL).<br /> Followed by explanation of the ‘formula’ for the past tense, then a noughts and crosses game for students to produce language.<br /> Concludes with a gap-fill reading activity written ‘from the POV of Mbappé’ for a bit of fun.<br /> Homework consolidation task is to write their own short paragraph describing what they did last weekend.</p> <p>I used this with my Year 10 group, but it can be adapted to suit different classes!</p>

<p>Lesson slides I used with my Year 7s to consolidate knowledge of personality and body descriptions.</p>

<p>Each slide has learning purposes and teaching instructions.<br /> Full lesson on writing an invitation to a friend in French. Used with my Year 10 French for Business group, but these slides are useful for any group.<br /> Whiteboard translation races and ‘write the word that disappears’ activities, which are great for getting the students into a habit of reading for precision.<br /> Features a fun ‘Where is Mbappé?’ translation square game.</p>