French Holidays (Vacances) Starters, Speaking, Translations

These tasks are quite short, but they do have more complicated French structures and tenses.
So, they are appropriate for more able students in Year 9 onwards. A couple of the tasks are definitely aimed at Higher Tier GCSE.

Information about tasks is given on each document, but details are also below:

Task 1: French texts for Dictation and / or Translation (I read to class and they wrote the French and then self-corrected. I asked questions about grammar, tenses etc to deepen thinking).

Could also be used as a Translation task and also enlarged and given to groups or put up around room for students to highlight / annotate (present / past / future verbs, connectives, opinions etc).

Task 2: Class Speaking Activity (you may need to change number of sentence pairs according to number in class – there are 30 here)

Cut up each of the 2 sentences and give one slip to each student.
Students stand up and one reads his/her English first. Person with French translation stands and reads that.
Then, that same pupil reads English for the next person to read out the French translation and so on….
Once students have read both of their English and French, they sit down.
If done correctly (print a spare copy off so you can follow!) the final person to translate and sit down should be the person who started the activity 

Task 3: Holidays Starter task
2 of the same gap-fill Starter task on this page.
Challenge / Extension can be to translate sentences afterwards and/or adapt French sentences with new details.

Task 4 - Starter HIGHER TIER GCSE – more complex structures and tenses.
Categorise sentences into tense boxes.
Then, translate each sentence into English.
Can also adapt these sentences as an extra challenge.

I hope you will find these reources useful.