Each pupil has a card. Pupils should move around the classroom and describe their card to other pupils, until they find a person who has an identical card. This activity is great to get the kids talking, and it also develops their listening skills. They are also usually very excited when they have found their partner! This particular acitivity is related to daily routine, but can be adapted for virtually any topic and any class. Great game!

Worksheet to practise telling the time in French. Can be used as an assessment of a practice exercise. There is a listening task and 2 writing tasks. The listening task can be used as pair-work: one pupil tells the time, the other draws the hands on the clock. Good for peer assessment.

PowerPoint presentation to revise the future with aller + infinitive, along with taking about your plans after you finish GCSE. Reading activities as well as grammar exercises.

End of topic reading assessment for food, drink and healthy eating. Feedback welcome.

PowerPoint presentation to introduce quantities and food, followed by a gap fill exercise to practise du, de la, des, and de. Speaking activity at the end.

This PowerPoint introduces/revises modal verbs + infinitive and introduce the subjunctive (only in the 3rd person singular). Feedback welcome.

Introducing school rules with modal verbs. Vocabulary build-up activity followed with work on modal verbs. Lesson finishes with a written production.

I did this worksheet to revise the main grammar points covered in the unit but it can also be set as a cover lesson. Grammar covered is the partitive article and the past tense.

JP Gaultier's biography with comprehension questions and IB-type grammar/vocabulary exercices. IB French B, standard level.

Reading activity to recap chores and to introduce new idiomatic vocabulary. Followed by True/False questions and a translation exercise. Feedback welcome.

3 songs with a different approach on the environment. Clips can be found on YouTube. I love working with songs as it makes language learning more 'real&'. The first of the 2 songs was a big hit at the time it came out and I believe is still quite popular in France.

An IB/A-level resource on trash reality TV in France, seen by the band Tryo. I have used this song to talk about slang and verlan and as an opportunity to revise the pronoun 'en'. There is a translation exercise for students to practise the vocabulary from the song, as well as a gap-fill exercise to practise listening comprehension. Finally, I have put together a few questions to form the basis of a discussion.

I created this worksheet to encourage my Yr 10 pupils to use time words and frequencers to make their coursework more interesting and to help them write more complex sentences

Compilation of different sources, all on the topic of racism in France. I have also uploaded the link to the radio report of the racist incident during a football match that goes with one of the activities.

Presentation introducing reasons for/against smoking. Vocabulary build-up and introduction of new grammar structures. Worksheet recapping different reasons for/against smoking attached.

Work on 2 songs about friendship. The first one, 'Les Copains d'abord', by Brassens, is available on YouTube. The second, by Bénabar is harder to find on the net so I downloaded it. In this lesson, I worked in particular on familiar and colloquial language. IB French B.

Presentation and worksheet to revise the weather in 3 different tenses. I used it when studying the topic of holidays.

Gap-fill listening activity to revise/expand vocabulary related to food and practise the partitive article with this great song by Nino Ferrer. Several months later, I still catch my pupils humming it... The two worksheets are differentiated.

This PowerPoint presentation introduces/revises items of clothes and practises adjective agreements. It is followed by activities to practise giving your opinion about the school uniform.

I’ve prepared this PowerPoint for my Yr8 and Yr9 classed to commemorate Remembrance Day. It contains new vocabulary, as well as activities to keep them busy for a whole lesson!