Final revision resource for AQA French GCSE Writing, listing Grade 9 vocabulary, complex grammatic structures, and common errors such as accents. Memorise a few of your favourite phrases from each section, or use this as a writing guide of what to include in your writing to allow you to access top bands. Contents: Connectives Reasons Opinions Infinitive Phrases Subordinate clauses Adverbs Negatives Tenses + time phrases Subjunctive Other phrases (idioms, connective phrases, metaphors and similes, rhetorical questions etc.) Tips (things to make sure to include to achieve advanced writing) Verbs (for when you get writer’s block) Direct Object Pronouns Indirect Object Pronouns Verbs that are followed by *à * Different ways to say “in” (e.g in + town vs in + country etc.) Verbs that use etre as the auxiliary Si phrases Health idioms/phrases Advice specific to Question 1 Advice specific to Question 2

This biography is a PDF English summary revision resource of the life of the last French queen, Marie Antoinette, for KS2, KS3 and GCSE and A Levels. This is suitable for both French and English-speaking students to improve comprehension and understanding of the roots of French Culture today. Teachers can use this biography as a foundation for comprehension questions, as key phrases and dates are in bold, or as classroom decor with an eye-catching blue background and portraits of the queen and her family to assist. The contents of the pdf track the life of Marie Antoinette from birth to death, focusing on her marriage and family life, as well as personal life and impact on France. I originally made this biography pdf after my first discovery of the extraordinary and strange life of Marie Antoinette, and hope it will help other language learners to immerse themselves in culture and curiosity too!

Worksheet to teach the conjugation of the French verb être (to be) in present tense. Provides information and a list of the conjugation in French and its English translation, as well as three short tasks. Task 1: Translate French conjugation into English Task 2: Complete the conjugation (pronoun given in French, complete in French) Task 3: Translate English into French This could be used to introduce the être to beginners, or as a revision/recap/warmup resource for more familiar learners. Particularly useful before teaching the perfect tense!

A workbook/ lesson support for KS2/KS3 students explaining the basics of the French Education System, with comprehensive notes and activities including a colouring page, simple translation and opinion phrases and conjugation table, as well as blank space to make individual notes. This workbook can be used in assistance with teaching - using page headlines as prompts to explain and explore le college and lycée from the comfort of your own classroom. Students of all ability, but particularly those new to the French System and familiar with the UK System, can use prompts in the notebook to stimulate their own understanding and curiosity. The pages are decorative throughout with graphics to engage students, with clear text on each page, linking the french and english systems together to make them more understandable.

PowerPoint slideshow with an overview of art movements in France, with images, facts and quotes . Includes: Romanticism Impressionism Surrealism Orphism Biography of Sonia Delaunay Links to YouTube videos The artwork of Delaunay can be used as inspiration for a painting activity for students interested in engaging with French Culture and art/crafts. Trace around a spherical object such as a glue stick or a small bowl, or use a compass and ruler, to draw overlapping circles split into sections. Each section can be painted or coloured with a range of colours, with the optional aim of ensuring no adjacent sections are the same colour.

Resource containing table of short words/ abbreviations with translations for students to use to design letter-bead bracelets as a fun french-related activity! Includes a short text about using .e or (e) to indicate an adjective can be made feminine if needed. You could adapt this material into a end-of-term quiz by covering the translations, or use this to make themed holiday cards, painting a given word on the front. I found the bracelet-making concept was very effective and enjoyed particularly by students in lower KS3, to engage with “slang” terminology and words with higher casual frequency to what they typically learn in formal education.

Key quotes in French from and related to the 1875 Opera, Carmen by Georges Bizet. Sorted by theme: Les thèmes féministes / les rôles de genre La désobéissance La mort L’ambiguïté morale L’ethnicité Useful material as a baseline for IRPs or other French/music research projects.

Award-winning analytical essay on the French novel L’amant by Marguerite Duras. This essay, written in English with French quotes, aims to discuss the presentation of themes of identity and internal conflict explored in the novel, in sight of the author’s context. This essay could be read alongside the novel to spark ideas from the seemingly simple language of the original novel, or could be used as a summary of key ideas before reading.

Sanctuaire de Notre-Dame de Lourdes Summary of key facts about the world-famous French pilgrimage site. Notes are in bullet points, followed by a full essay suitable for presentation. At the end of the document are links for references, as well as a slideshow that pairs with the essay, with images and videos. Suitable for A Level French revision about La Patrimoine (heritage), or for general French culture lessons.

Slideshow with brief summary of Le Réveillon (New Year’s Eve) to introduce to students, with supporting images. At the end, I have also attached a French tongue-twisters YouTube video, some 1jour1actu games, and a Kahoot, suitable for a fun, end-of-term French lesson for KS2, KS3 or KS4. Le Réveillon is an important cultural French celebration, the day before Christmas (24th December), where gifts are put out, and sometimes even opened, and the day is spent with family, with an evening meal. This slideshow is useful for self-study, teaching others, or perhaps just personal entertainment. The slides are animated so the next line is revealed after each click. The cracker on slide 7 has a big red cross over it to indicate that Christmas Crackers are not common in French culture and cannot easily be bought, unlike the UK, where they are literally everywhere. The information is written in French: it can be verbally translated by the teacher to the students so to expose them to the language despite potential gaps in vocabulary or knowledge, or can be assigned to be translated by the students themselves to develop Festival vocabulary.