A set of useful phrases to teach GCSE level students for talking about the future in French.

A listening exercise on the topic of holidays where pupils have to listen and correct their transcript with the errors.

A table to help students practise writing on the topic of money for the Q2 on the CIE IGCSE writing paper.

A short worksheet matching up personal qualities with definitions to build vocab.

A worksheet to accompany a YouTube clip containing a dialogue from Ice Age 4 -a short listening gap-fill exercise followed by some mini grammar - a few short grammar tasks based on some aspects of the transcript.

A selection of activities based on the song dernière danse by Kyo. A listening comprehension gap-fill followed by several mini grammar activities on different points.

A quick oral translation activity for students to do in pairs to practise conjugation verbs in the perfect tense in French - very similar sentences are used firstly from L2 to L1, then the other way round.

This could be a starter but could also take up a whole lesson - students are encouraged to compare Julieta’s two male partners and consider how they contrast. You can give them pointers to help them eg. physical appearance, qualities, type of job, background etc. and get them to consider who Julieta was better off with and why, what the director wants us to think of each of them and the overall messages.

A sentence builder and translation activity on the topic of physical descriptions / describing family members in French to answer the question ‘comment sont-ils physiquement?’ See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180 Sentence builder for learning how to give opinions on your hobbies hobbies / free time activities with a range of activity ideas

A sentence builder on the topic of describing someone’s personality - may be useful within the topics of family or friends / le caractère / la personnalité / la famille / les amis / descriptions. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180 A sentence builder frame to help students learn to answer the question how did you celebrate your birthday in French - perfect tense and key vocab

A sentence builder on the topic of health to answer the question ‘¿Qué haces para mantenerte en forma?’ along with a short listening ‘faulty transcript’ exercise and some translations / jumbled sentences. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

A set of 3 x sentence builders to help pupils structure their answers and vary their vocab for the card discussion in the speaking exam for AQA. Quizlet links for studying the vocab are included in the document. Pupils can use this document as a scaffold when preparing answers to speaking cards.

A 3-page worksheet to introduce the use of the pronoun ‘en’ in different set phrases for talking about food. Very little prior knowledge is assumed other than some basic opinions on food items, and some time phrases like souvent and jamais, so this lesson should appear in a sequence after pupils have acquired those. It is practised mainly in the present tense, but extension tasks are provided in other tenses, Activities include a match-up, grammar explanation, teacher-led listening, translation into English, sentence unjumbling task and a short, guided sentence-writing task. Answers included.

A 3-page worksheet / activity sequence explaining how to use the pronouns en and y in set phrases for the topic of free time / hobbies / les loisirs / le temps libre. Ideal for helping pupils to integrate these into their writing to score higher marks for complexity / use of ‘complex structures’. The principles for how en and y work are briefly explained, but the pronouns are mostly practised in the context of useful phrases on the topic, including with negatives and time phrases. There is also a stage combining them with the present tense with depuis to enhance the complexity of students’ sentences. Activities include a brief grammar explanation to read, a matching task, a teacher-led listening, multiple-choice, translations and a writing task. All answers included. Suitable for KS4 French or very able KS3 pupils as extension work. See below a similar resource for using ‘en’ in the topic of school, but this time the practice is purely translations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12967353

A selection of 3 detailed sentence builders for KS4 or KS3 French for talking about le temps / la météo. Includes how to talk about the weather in three tenses, past present and future, and how to combine weather with your favourite saison - quelle est ta saison préférée, and examples of how to link it to free time activities. See ideas for how to exploit sentence builders at this link below https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12281180 or at my blog.

A worksheet explaining in detail how to use the pronoun ‘en’ in the context of the topic of school / my studies / mon école/mon lycée. Ideal for helping pupils to integrate these into their writing to score higher marks for complexity / use of ‘complex structures’. The principles for how en works are explained and several different examples are given, and then there is a 10-sentence translation task with Fr-En and En-Fr translation. Answers included. Suitable for KS4 French or very able KS3 pupils as extension work. See below a more detailed resource with more activities to practise ‘en’ and ‘y’ in the topic of free time: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12967317

A sentence builder modelling plenty of examples of how to explain cause and consequences in in the past in French across different topics. Ideal for encouraging pupils to incorporate more complex grammar and structures into their work by scaffolding extended sentences with causal markers, as well as containing lots of verb + infinitive structures and complex opinion phases. In addition to the sentence builder, there is a list of 24 example sentences that can be exploited as a quiz quiz trade activity, or you could use them in other ways eg. oral translation into English, or as a teacher-led listening - read some of the sentences and pupils translate on mini whiteboards using the sentence builder.

A 3-page worksheet or activity sequence introducing a range of higher-level adjectives and focusing on the principles of adjective agreement within context of personality / le caractère / la personnalité / descriptions of people. Activities: Matching task for vocab short dictation of the verb être beat the teacher inductive grammar task grammar table exercise to focus on endings short listening correct or incorrect task All answers included. Activities could easily be extended by doing translations both ways on mini whiteboards to consolidate all language at any point.