Risk assessment written to take 30 Yr10s students, via minibus, to a nearby restaurant where French food was being served by waiting staff who spoke French. Ideal for any trip to a restaurant, or any trip that involves a restaurant. RA includes: Road crossing points Public access to area Young group Inexperienced group (never been to the location before) Minibuses Allergies No first aid support on site

All the theme 2 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).

Aimed at Yr9s Based on La personne que j’admire + other TES resources that I have adapted. Three lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each. Lesson 1: Introduction and practice of sentence starters to talk about someone. Lesson 2: Revision of adjectives and adjectives agreement. Lesson 3: Study of texts about role models.

Lesson talking about what you can do in your region. Aimed at Yr10s Higher set. 4 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each. Lesson 1: Text study of people talking about their region (revising prior knowledge on: activities, cardinal points, geographical features). Lesson 2: Listening of people talking about their region, explicit use of listening strategies. Introduction and practice of “y” (there). Lesson 3: Superlatives study and practice. Lesson 4: Activities leading to writing a paragraph.

Aimed at Yr10 Foundation/bottom set revising geographical features and the weather. 3 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each. Lesson 1: Types of house / geographical features + activites linked with it with “on peut” Lesson 2: Revision of conjugation for ER verbs in the present tense. Weather. Lesson 3: Revision of “on peut” + infinitives. Leading up to the production of a paragraph and a speaking activity answering questions.

Aimed at a Yr10s Higher set. Lesson that goes through higher level expression in the present tense and the simple future (il pleuvra,…) 5 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour: Lesson 1: quick revision of known weather and parallel with simple future version of the expression + practice. Lesson 2: Listening practice and study of weather in the simple future. Lesson 3: Activities in the simple future + full conjugation of the simple future. Lesson 4: Si clauses practice with simple future. Lesson 5: Speaking practice with prompt cards.

Lesson covering the vocabulary of tasks done during Work Experience (WEX), and opinion using “c’était”, as well as a recap of perfect tense (passé composé). Aimed at a lower set of Yr11s. Two-hour lesson Lesson 1 : Language presentation of WEX tasks in the passé composé with a match up exercise (dual coded to help with memory.) Listening and translation: sentences on the board, I say the translated version (or part of it) and they have to tell me (on their mwb) with sentence it is. Listening: fill in a table in English (opinion added) with the required details. Translation: translate into French (3 sentences with increasing difficulty). Lesson 2: Starter: picture description Language presentation: recap of passé composé + common irregulars + je suis allé(e) Independent practice with first person singular Whole class AfL with MWB Writing: students are asked to write their own report using the passé composé, giving justified opinions and using time markers.

Lesson aimed at a lower set of Yr11s and covering the problems that can happen on holidays (dirty hotel, lost items, broken limbs…) and what they had to do. A four-hour lesson. Lesson 1: Practice of ER verbs at the first person singular in the perfect tense, present tense, near future, future. Leads to mwb activity and a translation involving several tenses. Lesson 2: Introduction of various problem that happened during the holidays through reading (with reading / translation strategies). Practice through listening / translation. Lesson 3: Practice of previously introduced sentences (j’ai perdu mon passport) in a translation (extension: writing) and listening. Quick look into the imperfect tense to describe (c’était, il y avait…), then focus on vocabulary related to problems in a hotel (with recap of prior hotel vocab). Lesson 4: Vocab recap through translation game. Leads to a guided writing that includes vocabulary and tenses of the whole lesson. Leads to an open question writing.

Lettre au Père Noël Lesson aimed at a class of Year 9s, recapping the perfect tense, to write a letter to Father Christmas to say why you have been good this, what you did in school, at home, etc… With the website https://pere-noel.laposte.fr/ , students get to send their letter to La Poste to get an answer ! (Whilst I have taught this lesson, I have not received answers yet as it has been taught recently – dec 2023) 2 hour lesson. **Lesson 1 ** Recap and practice of the perfect tense. Study of a model of a letter. Lesson 2 Writing prep using vocab and verbs needed for the letter. Writing of the letter How to post it online to get a response Extra: send a drawing to a child in hopsital in France, with a note!

Lesson covering vocabulary related to TV shows as well as higher opinions, with adjective agreement eg: ça m’intéresserait de regarder les émissions de télé-réalité parce qu’elles sont amusantes. Lesson 1: Recap of TV shows from Yr8, recaping and adding higher opinions. Lesson 2: Study of adjective agreements in the context of justified opinions. Lesson 3: Leads to a guided writing where students use higher opinions and adjective agreement to describe tastes in TV shows. Lesson 4: Speaking practice mixing present tense, opinion + infinitive and past tense.

Lesson aimed at a high set of Year 7s and covering the vocabulary of physical and mental description. Based on new Edexcel GCSE vocab and content. A two hour lesson. Lesson 1: physical description Language presentation of height, then eye colours and hair colours (with sentence starters and word order). Practice through a reading (true or false? correct the sentence). Trapdoor activity that serves as a basis for a writing. Lesson 2: mental description. Introduction and practice of être (based on their prior knowledge of subject pronouns). Introduction of some adjectives (dual coded with English + images to support memory). Practice of adjective agreement and word order. Leads to a writing.

Lesson covering what makes student “tick”, what subject matters to them (family, friends, studies, health…) as well as the grammar point ce qui vs ce que as a translation for “what”. A two hour lesson. Lesson 1: introduction of the vocabulary with an unjumbling exercise (translation to unjumble), followed by a study of possible justification of what matters through them with a sentence builder and finishing with a listening exercise. Lesson 2: starts with how to manipulate the sentences “ce qui est important pour moi c’est…” and “ce qui m’inquiète c’est…”, using their own knowledge, by respectively changing the adjective and the verb. Follows on a “turn and talk” activity where students share their manipulated sentence with their partner then follow on with sharing their partner’s sentence to the class ("ce qui est important pour lui/elle…). Follows a study of the grammar point ce qui vs ce que that leads to a complex translation into French.

All the theme 4 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).

2 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each discussing activities you do / are going to do with your friends. Lesson 1: revision of Yr7 activities in the present tense + practice of time markers. Lesson 2: practice of near future with the same activities.

Lesson aimed for a set 2 Year 8 and differentiated for a set 5. Objective: give your opinion about different music genres and justify it. This lesson contains activities designed by a colleague that I have used and adapted in my lesson. Lesson 1: Revision of basic opinion in Spanish + introduction of music genres in Spanish (activities from a colleague adapted) Lesson 2: Practice of opinion + music genre in differentiated readings (mix of my resources and my colleague’s). Lesson 3: Writing with a writing frame (differentiated, pushing set 2 a lot further) whilst listening to music (Spanish / French / English). (My resources, except Plenary).

3 posters “20 things you didn’t know about Languages” + their broken down version to print bigger! Posters were downloaded for free from https://edl.ecml.at/ Part of a set up for a treasure hunt: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12909687

Pearson’s poster “See yourself as…”. Great posters of different jobs that you can do with languages, a variety of ethnic background. Straight to the point, they give the main information through a big title to cath the attention then more details once you get closer. Took me a while to find online and here they are for you to download and display! Also included is a banner to display on top of your board !