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Teacher of French and Spanish (French native) at Secondary level. Teaching towards real life, through GCSE Edexcel. What to expect: -> Quality lessons ->Scaffolded activity, increasing in challenge ->Differentiated activities within the lesson -> KS4: a Higher / Foundation lesson -> Spiral learning to support retrieval -> Dual coding to support memorisation -> exam skills with past papers where applicable Check out the French lesson on Jobs (free) to see an example of what to expect!

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Teacher of French and Spanish (French native) at Secondary level. Teaching towards real life, through GCSE Edexcel. What to expect: -> Quality lessons ->Scaffolded activity, increasing in challenge ->Differentiated activities within the lesson -> KS4: a Higher / Foundation lesson -> Spiral learning to support retrieval -> Dual coding to support memorisation -> exam skills with past papers where applicable Check out the French lesson on Jobs (free) to see an example of what to expect!
Theme 2_Ma ville + Directions
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Aimed at Yr10 Higher Sets. 3 lessons of 50 min/ 1 hour each covering what there is(n’t) in a city and directions. Lesson 1: What there is and isn’t in your city (+ un/une/des or negative + de) Lesson 2: Direction practice Lesson 3: Grammar point: the imperative + speaking practice/game on directions.
Theme 2_Renseignement (tourist information centre)
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Theme 2_Renseignement (tourist information centre)

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Aimed at Yr10s Higher set. 4 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour covering information to have a conversation in a visitor information center. Lesson 1: basic new vocabulary (open/close…) and writing out sentences using je voudrais/ j’aimerais etc… Lesson 2: Higher version of I would like “je ne veux pas manquer/ je tiens à visiter…” and text (listening first) study to practice the new vocabulary. Lesson 3: Asking questions (grammar point) and listening practice of conversations. Lesson 4: Speaking practice based on ads (basis for this lesson found on TES). Some of the slides have been found on TES from other users and have been adapted to this lesson.
Theme 2_Renseignement (tourist centre)_Foundation
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Theme 2_Renseignement (tourist centre)_Foundation

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Aimed at Yr10s Foundation/Bottom set. 3 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour covering information to have a conversation in a visitor information center. Lesson 1: basic new vocabulary (open/close…) and writing out sentences using je voudrais/ j’aimerais etc… Lesson 2: Asking questions (grammar point) and listening practice of conversations. Lesson 3: Speaking practice based on ads (basis for this lesson found on TES). Some of the slides have been found on TES from other users and have been adapted to this lesson.
Theme 2_Ma ville + Directions_Foundation
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Theme 2_Ma ville + Directions_Foundation

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Aimed at Yr10 Foundation/Bottom Sets. 3 lessons of 50 min/ 1 hour each covering what there is(n’t) in a city and directions. Lesson 1: What there is and isn’t in your city (+ un/une/des or negative + de) Lesson 2: Direction practice Lesson 3: Grammar point: the imperative + speaking practice/game on directions.
Theme 2_City Disadvantages + imperfect
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Theme 2_City Disadvantages + imperfect

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Aimed at Yr10 Higher set. This lesson covers the advantages and disadvantages, with before / after comparison. 3 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour: Lesson 1: introduction of basic vocab and practicing it through increasingly challenging reading + Higher negative sentences Lesson 2: What there is in the city (nightclubs, young people, unemployement…) + chunks of imperfect tense and first practice of “before it was ___ but now it is ___”. Lesson 3: Further practice of Before / After
Theme 1 French_ Past present and future practice
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Theme 1 French_ Past present and future practice

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Aimed at Yr9s Based on the Studio lesson “Une sortie” to make a practice lesson on the 3 tenses (present, perfect tense, near future). 4 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour each. Lesson 1: Revision of text (perfect tense) seen in previous lessons on which the 3 tenses practice will be based. Lesson 2: Analysis of the text rewritten in present tense and near future. Finding the differences (time markers, verbs…) Lesson 3: Guided writing: (If not done already, write a sentence in the past tense). Rewrite your past tense sentence in the present tense and near future tense + how to improve your sentence. Lesson 4: Practice of the 3 tenses then free writing.
French wall of connectives - Display
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French wall of connectives - Display

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Wall of connectives, each connective goes on a brick of a different size. You can modify the bricks to add in your own connectives (other words or other language!) Student use connectives to “build” their paragraph. Check out the “hedge of intensifier”: intensifiers are what students used to make the paragraph that they have built pretty ! It is designed to go on top of the wall of connectives.
Spanish Hedge of intensifiers - Display
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Spanish Hedge of intensifiers - Display

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Hedge of Intensifiers, each intensifier goes on a brick of a different size. You can modify the hedges to add in your own intensifiers (other words or other language!) Student use connectives to make the paragraph that they have built pretty ! Check out the “Wall of connectives”: student use connectives to “build” their paragraph. Both resources are designed to be displayed together.
Spanish Wall of connectives - Display
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Spanish Wall of connectives - Display

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Wall of connectives, each connective goes on a brick of a different size. You can modify the bricks to add in your own connectives (other words or other language!) Student use connectives to “build” their paragraph. Check out the “hedge of intensifiers”: intensifiers are what students used to make the paragraph that they have built pretty ! It is designed to go on top of the wall of connectives.
French Display - Connectives and intensifiers
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French Display - Connectives and intensifiers

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A wall of connectives for students to build their paragraph, and a hedge of intensifiers for them to embellish their paragraph ! Resources can be modified to add / remove / change the connectives and intensifiers.
French tenses - Grammar Display
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French tenses - Grammar Display

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A display to support your explicit teaching of French tenses (endings, how to form it, common irregular verbs). Colour coded and with time markers. You will find The imperfect tense The pluperfect The perfect tense The present tense The near future The simple future The conditional Provided with this resource: the powerpoint and the PDF version (to make sure things don’t shift around). I printed mine on A3 paper, laminated and cut the extra space to make it like a “strip” for each tense on my wall (borders matching on the side). I left the bottom border at the end of the last sheet.
European Day of Languages Assembly
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European Day of Languages Assembly

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A 15-minute assembly designed for Yr9s to celebrate Languages for European Day of Languages (26th September), including Careers and Benefit of Languages. As my school is a church of England school, you will aslo find a reflection and a prayer at the end. You will find A first slide with an animation of 36 translation of “European Foreign Languages”, looping as the students come in. Stops when you go the next slide. Quick hand up quiz about number of countries / languages Raise awarness that languages gravitates around us and that we deal with more languages that we realised (mothertongue, fluent, learning, know words of, would like to learn, like the sound of…) Introduction of Language ID as a whole school Initiative Why EDL? Objectives of the day Careers in languages Introduction of MFL club with Secret agent Language handbook (from EDL resources website https://edl.ecml.at/) Benefits of a language (on the brain and salary - hand up quiz) Reflection and prayer.
Theme 2_ Weather + Si clauses (near future) _ Foundation
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Theme 2_ Weather + Si clauses (near future) _ Foundation

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Aimed at a class of Yr10 Foundation/Bottom sets. Lessons revising weather and using it to create Si clauses sentences using the near future tense. 4 lessons of 50 min / 1 hour divided in: Lesson 1: Revision of weather in the present tense. Lesson 2: Practice of weather expression in games, and listening (weather forecast) / reading / writing task. Lesson 3: Revision of activities in the infinitive, leads up to near future revisions. Lesson 4: Si clauses practice and guided writing.
European Day of Languages Language ID
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European Day of Languages Language ID

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Objective: raise awarness about all the languages that gravitates around us, and that there is no such thing as “I only speak English” A language ID for students to fill in that includes: Their mother Tongue Language they are fluent in Language they speak well Language they understand well Language they are learning Language they know words of Language they hear a lot Language they would like to learn Language they like the sound of (To be) launched in Assembly for European Day of Languages 2023! Check it out: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12909684
European Day of Languages Assembly + Language ID
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European Day of Languages Assembly + Language ID

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Assembly to celebrate European Day of Languages 2023, with the launch of a whole school initiative through the creation of a “Language ID”. A language ID for students to fill in that includes: Their mother Tongue Language they are fluent in Language they speak well Language they understand well Language they are learning Language they know words of Language they hear a lot Language they would like to learn Language they like the sound of The assembly includes: A first slide with an animation of 36 translation of “European Foreign Languages”, looping as the students come in. Stops when you go the next slide. Quick hand up quiz about number of countries / languages Raise awarness that languages gravitates around us and that we deal with more languages that we realised (mothertongue, fluent, learning, know words of, would like to learn, like the sound of…) Introduction of Language ID as a whole school Initiative Why EDL? Objectives of the day Careers in languages Introduction of MFL club with Secret agent Language handbook (from EDL resources website https://edl.ecml.at/) Benefits of a language (on the brain and salary - hand up quiz) Reflection and prayer.
Risk assessment - field trip (half a day)
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Risk assessment - field trip (half a day)

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Risk assessment written to take 60 Yr8s students, via coach, to a nearby city where a French market was being held. Ideal for any field trip with coach travel and going into town / interactions with people. RA includes: Sites and environment Group / Special needs / Safeguarding Down time Leader and activity arrangements Transport First aid arrangements Other factors Alternative plans Also find a template for cards to fill in with your school’s phone number and to laminate. This is for students to carry with them on the day, would they get lost.
Theme 4 French_Future plans (Higher and Foundation)
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Theme 4 French_Future plans (Higher and Foundation)

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1 hour lesson designed for Yr11 classes, covering the topic of future plans. Foundation covers sentences in the present tense + infinitive that have value of future (j’espère, je veux,…) and recaps on the simple future. Higher, on top of that, covers the perfect infinitive (après avoir voyagé…) as well as the subjunctive (optional for the lesson). Both lessons lead to a guided writing at the end, involving tenses and sequencers
Theme 4 French_Future plans (Subjunctive, perfect infinitive, simple future) (Higher)
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Theme 4 French_Future plans (Subjunctive, perfect infinitive, simple future) (Higher)

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Lesson on future plans designed for a higher group of Yr11s. Explores the subjunctive (optional), imperfect infinitive (après avoir…) and recaps the simple future. See below for details. Lesson on future plans, designed for a lower set Yr11. Lesson of 1 hour that contains: Reading: starts with vocab presentation through a reading (finds synonym, helped with cognates and context to actively engage with the meaning of the vocabulary. Use of present tense sentences with value of future (J’espère + infinitive, J’ai envie de, je veux, j’ai l’intention de…) Reading: more complex reading, practicing the new vocab and exploring sequencers and introducing imperfect infinitives (après avoir fait… avant d’aller…) Grammar point (differentiated - more detail on PPT): Main point: perfect infinitive. Lower Prior Attainment + lower ability in the (top set) class: first revision of perfect tense through a worksheet that leads them to the practice of the perfect infinitive. Medium Prior Attainment + middle ability (in the top set class): practice of the perfect infinitive after the language presentation. Higher Prior Attainment + stretch (optional): after the language presentation on the perfect infinitives, language presentation on the subjunctive, first practice through questioning. Grammar point practice with mini-whiteboards (perfect infinitive + simple future OR perfect infinitive + subjunctive). Writing: Leads to a guided writing using sequencers and mix of tenses.