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.

This resource is designed for beginners in French, junior school and year 7 pupils. It presents the numbers in tens. 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 practise using modal verbs. The first sheet is a list of pronouns and the part of the modal verb with options to choose infinitives and finally the end of the sentence. The second sheet gives instructions and suggestions for uses. I have found this useful with year 8 students who have already had a lesson on the structure and used this as a revision/consolidation. I hope you find it useful.

I created this to get the students to look around them at the displays in my classroom, I added a few basic cultural questions. My new year 7 sudents enjoyed this and it works well as an icebreaker if you put them in pairs.

This quiz is designed as a fun way to test or revise students knowledge of topics covered in years 7 and 8. It can be worked on as a whole class activity or as a paired or group challenge, can be left as a cover lesson for students to work on independently.

This worksheet was created from a current news article published in Le Monde. Making students of French aware of current affairs that they may have heard about in the English news from another view. Taking the article and creating questions that help with student comprehension. Aimed at a good level GCSE class or beginner A level students it includes activities to support understanding of the use of verbs, working out meaning from content, a short translation activity, answering questions on content in English, using English and context to help work out new words/phrases. The answer sheet is included allowing the teacher to enable students to work independently and mark their own work.

Months-Les mois is a calendar with a different verb for each month, allows students to practise verb conjugations and then write sentences, research other verbs and revise months.

Hobbies-Mes passe-temps is designed to practise using infinitive constructions, j'aime+infinitive verb. Starting with sentence structure and building to translation and a writing task along with useful connectives and time phrases.

En ville-Places around town is a slide show presentation of places in a town used to introduce the nouns with the articles.

This worksheet practices the near future tense "je vais" + infinitive and hobbies. Grammar recognition, gap-fill and writing practice with support. Answer sheet included for peer or self assessment or use by cover supervisor if you leave it for cover work. I have used this with year 8 students and year 9.

Verbs-avoir 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.

French speaking day is a work sheet designed to inform students about the many countries where French is spoken, give an insight into the new words that are added to the French language, possibilities for geographical research, questions and a word search with answers.

Les saisons-Seasons bookmarks is a sheet of bookmarks used to teach the weather, students complete the weather types to the seasons, can then be used as bookmarks or display.

This is an exemplar Lesson Plan for an OFSTED Good lesson, I used it to teach a group of year 10 student the near future tense. It shows the planning for variety of activities and learning checks throughout the lesson for a mixed ability group. The pdf of the starter accompanies this. I hope you find it useful.

What should my year 7 Spanish students know by the end of year 7? I asked this question and made a list of all the topics covered over the year. There is also a writing task/project and a support sheet to help students to review and revise thier first year of learning Spanish. This is a helpful end of year consolidation task which allows you to assess where your students are and diagnose where they need support to be prepared for year 8.

A day trip is a work book for year 6- 8 students to use during a day trip to France. It has a variety of questions that will encourage students to read and write in French to answer them as well as ask questions to French people. All these activities can be completed on the day and filled into the workbook directly for reviewing/follow-up in a lesson. I have left spaces for you to add your own school logo and the logo of the town as well as a map of the town to indicate the main places and the meeting point

Pocket money is a reading activity with several exercises to check comprehension. Questions are designed to encourage the student to read the text and look for detail they include translation, tense recognition and gap-fill. I have used this with year 9 and above as revision of the topic and as a cover lesson as students can get on with the tasks with little or no support. The answers are included for self/peer or teacher marking.

Les saisons introduces the seasons with On peut + the infinitive verb and various activities that you can do in the season. The power-point version has the images entering on the touch to help with recognition and useful for practicing the phrases. I have used this with year 6 and year 7 students.