Card sort to introduce food quantities and containers. Pupils have to match starts and ends of phrases (eg: une bouteille... ...d'eau, une canette... ...de coca) based on what makes most sense. There is more than one right answer to some. Works best if you print each sheet on a different colour of card, then swap the top and bottom half of the grid around so you have 2 different colours in each envelope - quicker for pupils to see which are the starts and ends of phrases that way.

Reading activity suitable for KS4 or high ability Y9. For my mixed ability Y9 class I added paragraph numbers and references for each question on some copies, which helped a bit, but was still too challenging really so I'd save it for top set if you have one! Pupils identify tenses (I did this first, then went through answers before moving on to comprehension) then answer questions about the text. Extension task to extend vocabulary for more able.

Used with an Asset Spanish class, so is fairly basic. Would probably be OK for KS3 or a Foundation GCSE group. Read descriptions of people's jobs/where they work, and match with job titles previously learned.

Reading text suitable for Y9 or KS4. Description of primary school (c’était, il y avait) and ideal school (ce serait, il y aurait) plus other verbs in the imperfect and conditional tenses. Could lead to practice of these structures and students producing their own written work.

Simple lesson to revise/introduce personality. Designed for a cover lesson, to ensure classes whose teacher is absent will have covered the same content.

A few lessons for a Y8 class. Using TV genres, telling the time, and introducing the past tense with one verb ready for doing the past tense in a bit more detail next lesson.

Reading task - problem solving. -Present food groups. -Categorise vocab into 6 groups. -Reading - guess the food item from description, then write own version for the class to guess.

2-3 lessons on the weather and activities in the near future tense for a weak KS3 group. 1st lesson - presenting the vocabulary, recording on a sheet, understanding sentences about weather in different locations. 2nd lesson - listening from Mira 1, then near future tense linked with weather (plans for the weekend).

A worksheet aimed at preparing a very low ability (Y11 SEN) class for the FCSE Reading papers on the topic of Holidays. Covers key vocabulary needed for the paper that they won't necessarily have covered before as the FCSE papers can be a bit random.

A short text to print out and give to pupils to find and correct errors. Most mistakes are tenses and articles but some are simple spelling mistakes. I ended up going round underlining mistakes for the least able pupils during the lesson, so they just had to correct it, so you could do some copies already underlined for your class if needed.

I know Buffalo Grill isn't exactly an authentic French experience, but the American theming (and lots of cognates) makes using a whole website in French more accessible so pupils can pick out other details from context. A mixture of questions and &'find the French&'; tasks to extend vocabulary and check understanding.

Reading task to revise the perfect tense with Y9 after teaching illness with 'j'ai mal au...'. Pupils match 2 halves of sentences and work out which illness would result from which activity. As extension, I set 'find the French' on various time phrases and connectives used in the speech bubbles.

Goes with Expo 2 - Module 1 - Unit 1 (Mon album de famille). Starter - matching 3rd person sentences to characters. Key 3rd person phrases. Presentation and practice of -ER verbs. Work on pronunciation. Writing descriptions of family members. Donner/garder les points game to finish.

Perfect tense with avoir. Regular and irregular verbs. Settling starter worksheet.

Hand out grids - pupils mustn't show partner. Use question 'Qu&'est-ce que ton pere/ta mere fait dans la vie?' and answer with 'il/elle est...' based on grid. When finished, compare grids in pairs to check answers.

Various activities used as starters or plenaries during topic on hobbies, sport and the weather. Includes - 3 in a row (girls vs. boys - pupils must say phrase correctly based on picture to claim the square), gapfill, find the mistakes, settling match-up in books starters, and a game for plenary.

Pupils fill in a hobby/activity they do on different days of the week (can be made up). Don't show partner. Then interview partner to find out what they do, and fill in 2nd column. At end can compare grids to check they understood/assess success in speaking activity.

Pupils work out new vocab using cognates and process of elimination. Then checked answers via powerpoint or Taskmagic game. Later in lesson gave list of French vocab for them to fill in English (recording vocab but also a test of what they've learned).

Simple lesson to revise/introduce personality. Designed for a cover lesson, to ensure classes whose teacher is absent will have covered the same content.

These word loops are intended for retrieval practice of vocabulary from the AQA GCSE Specification. They can be used in class for self-quizzing in the following ways: -Have the loop running as the class comes into the room. Students aim to shout out the English meaning of each word before it appears on the board. -Paired competition - in pairs, aim to be quicker than their partner to say the answer. Give a tally to whoever answers correctly each time. -Self-quiz memory challenge - students silently try to recall the English meaning of each word before it appears. If they are correct, give themselves a tally point. Total up at the end. Then repeat and aim for a new personal best. My aim is to have these produced for all units and drop them into lessons throughout the year so students are reminded of language from previous topics.