My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
Welcome to the fifth installment of places in the town, which is about being at the castle
First of all, go through the vocabulary of being at the castle and the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ in the second person plural, as well as the use of ‘on peut’ and ‘il y a’ and then complete the quiz.
Read the story next to the children. There are differentiated levels of the story, but choose whichever level the children feel most comfortable with. After each picture, ask the children the subsequent questions.
There is also a differentiated workbook. Get the children to colour in the vocabulary and the words. Be sure that they colour the masculine words in blue ad the feminine words in pink. Also, they can complete the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ and ‘on peut’ and ‘il y a’. Following the story, there are subsequent activities that the children can complete.
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the fourth installment of places in the town, which is about being at the cinema
First of all, go through the vocabulary of being at the cinema and the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ in the third person plural, as well as ‘je’ and ‘tu’ form of the verb ‘regarder’ and then complete the quiz.
Read the story next to the children. Introduce examples of the ‘y’ pronoun when reading the story. There are examples which the children could do in the attached differentiated workbook. There are differentiated levels of the story, but choose whichever level the children feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated workbook. Get the children to colour in the vocabulary and the words. Be sure that they colour the masculine words in blue ad the feminine words in pink. Also, they can complete the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ and ‘regarder’. Following the story, there are subsequent activities that the children can complete.
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the third installment of places in the town, which is about being at the swimming pool
First of all, go through the vocabulary of being at the swimming pool and the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ in the first person plural, as well as ‘je’ and ‘tu’ form of the verb ‘avoir’ and then complete the quiz.
Read the story next to the children. There are differentiated levels of the story, but choose whichever level the children feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated workbook. Get the children to colour in the vocabulary and the words. Be sure that they colour the masculine words in blue ad the feminine words in pink. Also, they can complete the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ and ‘avoir’. Following the story, there are subsequent activities that the children can complete.
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the second installment of places in the town, which is about food and drink at the coffee shop.
First of all, go through the vocabulary of the food and drink and the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ in the third person singular. Go over ‘je’ and ‘tu’ from the previous installment. Also introduce ‘je voudrais’ and ‘tu voudrais’ and then complete the quiz.
Read the story next to the children. There are differentiated levels of the story, but choose whichever level the children feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated workbook. Get the children to colour in the food and drink and the words. Be sure that they colour the masculine words in blue ad the feminine words in pink. Also, they can complete the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ and ‘vouloir’. Following the story, there are subsequent activities that the children can complete.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers from 110+ in French. This is also the very final installment of the series.
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which are above ‘cent dix’. Some famous people, best known for their longevity are also mentioned, as an example of ages above 110 such as Jeanne Louise Calment, Lucile Randon, Kane Tanaka, Sarah Knauss and Emma Morano!
This resource also looks at expressing age and the use of the third person plural form of the verb ‘avoir’. The lower level looks at numbers, age, using ‘avoir’ in the ‘ils’ and ‘elles’ form and the use of the possessive adjective ‘leur/leurs’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘ils’ and ‘elles’, the possessive adjectives ‘leur/leurs’ and adjectival agreement. There is also extra more complex material for the more able students and in particular, the gifted and talented as it also explores as to whether one is a centenarian or a supercentenarian. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated follow-up quiz. Play the quiz with the students.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading a bundle for all the series starting from numbers in the 20s. Feel free to look out for it!
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the first installment of places in the town, which is about shopping for clothes at the department store.
First of all, go through the vocabulary of the clothes and the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ and ‘acheter’ and then complete the quiz.
Read the story next to the children. There are differentiated levels of the story, but choose whichever level the children feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated workbook. Get the children to colour in the clothes and the words. Also, they can complete the conjugation of the verbs ‘aller’ and ‘acheter’. Following the story, there are subsequent activities that the children can complete.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers from 100-109 in French.
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘cent’. Ask the children as to why 100 is named as ‘cent’ in French and then ask them what words in English have the prefix ‘cent’ and what do they mean?
This resource also looks at expressing age and the use of the third person plural form of the verb ‘avoir’. The lower level looks at numbers, age, using ‘avoir’ in the ‘ils’ form and the use of the possessive adjective ‘votre/vos’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘ils’, the possessive adjectives ‘votre/vos’ and adjectival agreement. There is also extra more complex material for the more able students and in particular, the gifted and talented as it also explores as to whether one is in their early, mid or late nineties. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated follow-up quiz. Play the quiz with the students.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading the final resource for numbers in the 110s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 90s in French.
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘quatre-vingt-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all usually have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word, however ‘91’ is an exception to this rule. Ask the children why they think ‘90’ is called ‘quatre-vingt-dix’.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the use of the third person singular form of the verb ‘avoir’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and using ‘avoir’ in the ‘nous’ form. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘nous’ and adjectival agreement. It also incorporates the use of possessive adjectives for ‘nous’ such as ‘notre/nos’. There is also extra more complex material for the more able students and in particular, the gifted and talented as it also explores as to whether one is in their early, mid or late nineties. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated follow-up quiz. Play the quiz with the students.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 100s and 110s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 80s in French.
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘quatre-vingt-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all usually have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word, however ‘81’ is an exception to this rule. Ask the children why they think ‘80’ is called ‘quatre-vingts’.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the use of the third person singular form of the verb ‘avoir’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘il’ and ‘elle’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘il’ or ‘elle’ and adjectival agreement. It also incorporates the use of possessive adjectives for ‘il’ and ‘elle’ such as ‘son/sa/ses’. There is also extra more complex material for the more able students and in particular, the gifted and talented as it also explores as to whether one is in their early, mid or late eighties. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated follow-up quiz. Play the quiz with the students.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 90s, 100s and 110s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
Thank you very much for taking your time to look at this wonderful bundle!
This bundle contains all of the twelve installments containing the months of the year, weather and seasons for January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December aimed at Key Stage 2 level.
The vocabulary contained in this pack is widely diverse and well differentiated and there are a wide range of resources available, such as colouring in worksheets, cutting and sticking activities, homework sheets and powerpoints.
The vocabulary contained in this pack is as follows:
January: Il fait froid, il neige, il fait mauvais, l’hiver
Differentiation: Il est neigeux
February: Il fait froid, il y a du gel, il neige, il fait mauvais, l’hiver
March: Il fait beau, il fait du vent, il fait plus chaud, le printemps
Differentiation: Il est venteux, il commence a faire chaud, il fait un beau temps
April: Il pleut, il fait doux, il y a un arc-en-ciel, le printemps
Differentiation: Il est pluvieux
May: le printemps, il fait très doux, il fait du soleil, il fait un temps superb.
Differentiation: Il ne fait plus froid, il fait un très beau temps, Il est ensoleillé
June: l’été, il fait chaud, il y a du foudre, il fait du soleil
Differentiation: Il y a du tonnerre, Il est ensoleillé
July: l’été, il fait très chaud, il fait un temps superb, il fait du soleil
Differentiation: Il est ensoleillé, il fait un très beau temps, il fait énormément, le ciel est tout bleu
August: l’été, il fait très chaud, il fait un temps superb, il fait du soleil
Differentiation: Il est ensoleillé, il fait un très beau temps, il fait énormément, il y a une secheresse
September: l’automne, il fait toujours chaud, il y a des nuages, il fait des éclaircies
Differentiation: Il est nuageux
Octobre: l’automne, il fait plus froid, il y a un orage, il y a une tornade
Differentiation: Il est orageux, il ne fait plus chaud, il y a une inondation
Novembre: l’automne, il fait froid, il grele, il fait du brouillard
Differentiation: C’est la moisson
Decembre: l’hiver. il gèle, il y a de la glace, il y a une tempete de neige
Differentiation: Il est glacial
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the twelfth and the very final installment of months of the year, weather and seasons! This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of December and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-31 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in December. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ décembre’.
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il est glacial’.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the winter picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also differentiated homework which revises the weather vocabulary from January to December.
Please do have a look at my bundle where you can buy all these resources from January right up to December, that’s right all twelve months of the year, at a discounted price!!!
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the eleventh installment of months of the year, weather and seasons. This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of November and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-30 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in November. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ novembre’.
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘c’est la moisson’.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the autumn picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also differentiated homework which revises the weather vocabulary from January to November.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 70s in French.
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘soixante-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word. Explain to the children that they also require to know the numbers in the tens when forming numbers in the 70s.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the use of the third person singular form of the verb ‘avoir’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘il’ and ‘elle’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘il’ or ‘elle’ and adjectival agreement. It also incorporates the use of possessive adjectives for ‘je’ and ‘tu’ such as ‘mon/ma/ton/ta’. There is also extra more complex material for the more able students and in particular, the gifted and talented as it also explores as to whether one is in their early, mid or late seventies. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated follow-up quiz. Play the quiz with the students.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 80s, 90s and 100s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the tenth installment of months of the year, weather and seasons. This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of September and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-31 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in October. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ octobre’.
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il ne fait plus chaud’, ‘il est orageux’ and ‘il y a une inondation’.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the autumn picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also differentiated homework which revises the weather vocabulary from January to October.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 60s in French.
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘soixante-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the use of the third person singular form of the verb ‘avoir’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘il’ and ‘elle’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘il’ or ‘elle’ and adjectival agreement. There is also extra more complex material for the more able students and in particular, the gifted and talented as it also explores as to whether one is in their early, mid or late sixties. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated follow-up quiz. Play the quiz with the students.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 50s in French.
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘cinquante-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the difference between ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘tu’ or ‘vous’ and adjectival agreement. There is also extra more complex material for the more able students and in particular, the gifted and talented as it also explores as to whether one is in their early, mid or late fifties. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated follow-up quiz. Play the quiz with the students.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource explicitly explores the use of the passive voice in the past, which is introduced towards the end of the IGCSE programme and prepares students for the A-Level programme.
In this resource, get students to look at the differences between the active voice and the passive voice on slides 2-10.
Next, get the students to read the speech bubbles in the cartoons and after each example, get them to answer the questions using both the active and the passive voice. Feel free to provide extra support for those who are less able.
After the story, get the students to practise forming the passive voice by conjugating the sample verb ‘etre vu’ and then they can select any activity that they feel most comfortable with. I would recommend the gifted and talented to attempt activity 4, whereas the less able students should attempt activity 1.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 40s in French.
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘quarante-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the difference between ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘tu’ or ‘vous’ and adjectival agreement. There is also extra more complex material for the more able students and in particular, the gifted and talented as it also explores as to whether one is in their early, mid or late fourties. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated follow-up quiz. Play the quiz with the students.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 50, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 20s in French
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘vingt-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the difference between ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘tu’ or ‘vous’ and adjectival agreement. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated quiz which follows.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 30s, 40s, 50, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 30s in French
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘trente-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the difference between ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘tu’ or ‘vous’ and adjectival agreement. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 40s, 50, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
