Looking for a song about animals, with some fun animal noises ? Here you are - the French version of Old MacDonald. Another MFL Sunderland taster - have a look at the website for 24 more songs.

I usually get my students to repeat the personal pronouns in English and in French to a rhythm (pat pat clap clap) to get them to remember what they are and the order they are in. However my Y8 this year have no sense of rhythm and it was a disaster. One of them, though, said Miss, you should record it. So blame him ! The lyrics are (unsurprisingly) I you he she we you they, Je tu il elle nous vous ils elles The idea is that they listen and then repeat. This is my first attempt at something like this - hope you like it !

These are the key phrases from the Edexcel role-plays for French and Spanish (mainly the A role-plays) Print’em out and stick’em up. Who knows, it might just work ! I originally did them in Publisher but have PDFed them to avoid common Publisher problems.

A short PowerPoint containing short texts which give information about the current legislation concerning smoking in France. The second resource is the vocabulary list to go with it.

Lots of practice of the Simple Future tense and the Future tense, ideal for leaving for a cover lesson.

During the summer holidays elskeffington posted this amusing skit song in French from Flight of the Conchords. We liked it and the challenge, once we tracked down the lyrics, has been to use it in the classroom. Here is a little starter. Pupils fill in the missing words or phrases in the lyrics without knowing what it’s all about - it looks like just a random list of French. Then play them the song to see if they’re right. The second resource is a copy of the complete lyrics.

A PowerPoint presentation where a new French family is introduced to Springfield. Students are invited to act as interpreters for the non-French speaking Simpson family. You could put the presentation on a timer, show it to the students, and then give them a copy of the French slides so that they can work on the translation. They could then either dub or subtitle the presentation.

A starter or consolidation exercise for KS2 or KS3. Cut them up and see if they can reassemble the square by putting the pieces together correctly. If you want to make it easier, tippex out the words around the edge, as they’re red herrings.

This is an example of a unit of a KS4 French Scheme of Work. It is designed for the AQA Linear GCSE, but the format can be easily adapted for other qualifications and other boards.

For lower ability pupils, to help them to prepare their conversation questions on a basic level.

A series of PowerPoint presentations to help pupils to answer their questions on a basic level. More able pupils will want (and need !) to embellish these answers. The presentations are designed either for pupils to use by themselves or for the teacher to use with a whole class.

A PowerPoint to introduce pupils to some Halloween vocabulary, to practise quantities and to enable them to write their own magic potion recipes. Give pupils a copy of the first slide and spell out the vocabulary. Use the subsequent slides to check if they’re correct. Then dictate some quantities on the next slide for pupils to write down. Finally, there is some vocabulary to enable pupils to write their own.

A good way to consolidate the formation of the Passé Composé in French. Just write 4 past participles of your choice (I usually do one -ER, one -IR, one -RE and one irregular) in the boxes down the side, and away you go ! Excellent pair game. Each player has a sheet and uses the first grid to record their own ships (we usually have 8) and the second grid to record their hits and misses. Can be adapted for lots of other grammatical points as well.

Lots of core vocabulary, including question words. All you have to do is cut out the ones you want and mount them.

Lots of core Vocabulary, including Question Words. For Display or as Flashcards.

All the Spanish adverbs your classes will need to enrich and enhance their written work ! Cut them out and then mount them however you like.

All the adverbs your classes will ever need to enrich and enhance their written work ! Cut them out and then mount them however you like.

This is a timed PowerPoint presentation featuring basic geographical information about France. It’s best suited as a starter activity that can be used with KS2 or KS3 (mainly Y7), either to introduce the basic geography of France or to revise a previous session. I have used it with Y6 and Y7 following a lesson where they had labelled their own map of France (the same map as is used in the presentation) as I wanted to see how much of the information they had retained. The pupils number 1-14 and write down vrai or faux for each slide as they watch the presentation. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. Negative comments such as too simple and very boring are hurtful when someone has taken the trouble to upload something that they have taken the time to create and are making it available for free. Especially when they have tried and tested it with several classes and so know it is useful and that it works. Surely a more constructive response would be to create your own resource, post it on the Resource Bank and give us all the link so that we can see how it should be done.