Basic flashcards with simplegreetings

Year 7 resources to help students write about their height and personality

Simple display of words and phrases that students and teachers can use in the classroom.

Battleships grid for prepositions and furniture.

Dans ma chambre is a lesson plan and set of support materials from a lesson that was graded as OFSTED Outstanding. There is the presentation powerpoint of furniture, 2 versions of the powerpoint on prepositions including a thinking skills starter, the lesson plan, a preparation and self-assessment document and support sheets with breifing notes for your Learning Support Assistant for SEN and EAL. I have used it with all abilities in year 7 but it could be used with junior school students who have some knowledge of French. A fun lesson, enjoy!

Places around town starters include a gap-fill with missing vowels and a word snake there is a full vocabulary in French and English and answer slides.

Verbs-etre is a worksheet designed to allow students to repeatedly go over the verb in the present tense. Activities include completing the verb table, translation and completing sentences. Students can fold over the completed verb to allow them to work from memory or look at the table if they need to. The completed table can be glued into students workbook or grammar book for reference. I have also included an answer sheet for self/peer correction.

Au match de foot is a writing frame designed to guide students written work to include a variety of linguistic features necessary for GCSE. The questions and the support phrases are in both French and English, you could leave this as cover work or give as homework or revision in preparation for the written or the spoken exam. Year 10 or 11 group especially those who need more encouragement.

Au cinema is a writing frame designed to guide students written work to include a variety of linguistic features necessary for GCSE. The support phrases are in both French and English, you could leave this as cover work or give as homework or revision in preparation for the written or the spoken exam. I have used this with a top year 9 group as a challenge and they wrote some interesting pieces or with a year 10 or 11 group especially those who need more encouragement and guidance.

Useful infinitives is a resource to help students vary their written and spoken French by using a variety of infinitive structures which , when learnt, are fairly straightforward to remember and add variety. Includes an explanation of infinitives with examples, 7 ways to use infinitives, questions and tasks, with answers, on infinitives. I have used it with students of French from year 8 to year 11. I hope your students find it useful.

The French calendar resource has 3 sheets. The calendar with the French holidays highlighted, information about French holidays and questions on the French holidays. I have done this with students as a memory test, talking about the year and the various holidays then giving them the calendar and the questions on it to see how much they remember, could also be done as a team or pair game. Good for getting students to understand some of the cultural similarities and differences.

This worksheet practices using opinion phrases followed by infinitive verbs, grammar recognition, gap fill and support for writing own sentences. Answer sheet included for self/peer assessment or , if left for cover work the supervisor can use it to support learning.

This resource is designed for beginners in French, junior school and year 7 pupils. It presents the numbers 1-10. Good for introducing and practicing language, students could create their own poster or flash card games. I have included a power point version for teachers or supervisors who don't know French as it has the English translation of the slide in the notes.

This resource is designed for beginners in French, junior school and year 7 pupils. It presents the numbers 11-21. Good for practicing language and then leading to more independent practice, students could create their own poster or flash card games. I have included a power point version for teachers or supervisors who don't know French as it has the English translation of the slide in the notes.

This resource is designed for beginners in French, junior school and year 7 pupils. It presents the numbers 21-31. Good for practicing language and then leading to more independent practice, students could create their own poster or flash card games. I have included a power point version for teachers or supervisors who don't know French as it has the English translation of the slide in the notes.

This resource is designed to get students to use a variety of perfect tense irregular verbs to create a short paragraph, building from the basic j'ai vu to create longer sentences and then joining them together with a range of connectives.

This resource is designed for beginners in French, junior school and year 7 pupils. It presents the question “When is your birthday?” and some example answers. Good for practicing language and then leading to more independent practice and role-play, students could create their own poster or flash card games. I have included a power point version for teachers or supervisors who don't know French as it has the English translation of the slide in the notes.

This presentation explains the perfect tense with avoir and uses Christmas as a theme to introduce 12 sentences with different verbs. It shows how to link them together to create a paragraph. This can be used with students who have not seen the perfect tense before as an introduction, I have used this with year 7 students at the end of their first year or students with some experience of the perfect tense as a revision lesson.

This resource presents the near future, how to form it, 12 sentence suggestions, practice with use of the verb aller, translations and support on how to structure a short paragraph from your sentences, using Christmas as a theme. Complete with a starter and a plenary activity. Could be used with a year 7 or 8 class, end of first or second year of learning French. I hope that you find it useful and your students enjoy it!

Days of the week-Les jours de la semaine, This resource is designed for beginners in French, junior school and year 7 pupils. It presents the question “What day is it?” and the different days of the week. Good for practicing language and then leading to more independent speaking, pupils could make their own flash cards/revision games.