All the theme 1 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).

Listening, Reading and Writing exercises from Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included) sorted per theme. 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).

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 !

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

Aimed at Yr11 Higher sets covering jobs and how to say what you would like to be. The activities are differentiated. 2 lessons of 1 hour each. Lesson 1: Starts with conjugation of travailler in all tenses, with “je”, “on” and “ils” line. Then reading to cover the vocabulary of jobs and what each person does “policier - j’arrête les criminels”. Grammar: feminine and masculine of jobs. Lesson 2: Starter contains past paper questions revising Theme 1. The lesson covers qualities for each job (travailleur/euse, courageux/euse) and the type of job (varied, manuel, with good prospects…) with a sentence builder and a writing/speaking activity. Reading activity introduces higher sentence starters (my dream job would be, I don’t know what to do when I’m older but,…). Leads up to a writing. Check up my other resources if you like this one, especially the next lesson: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12915678

Aimed at Yr11 Foundation sets covering jobs and how to say what you would like to be. The activities are differentiated. 2 lessons of 1 hour each. Lesson 1: Starts with conjugation of travailler in all tenses, with “je”, “on” and “ils” line. Then reading to cover the vocabulary of jobs and what each person does “policier - j’arrête les criminels”. Grammar: feminine and masculine of jobs. Lesson 2: Starter contains past paper questions revising Theme 1. The lesson covers qualities for each job (travailleur/euse, courageux/euse) and the type of job (varied, manuel, with good prospects…) with a sentence builder and a writing/speaking activity. Reading activity introduces higher sentence starters (my dream job would be, I don’t know what to do when I’m older but,…). Leads up to a writing. Check up my other resources if you like this one !

A one hour lesson covering the vocabulary of part time jobs and chores, as well as earnings. Aimed at a lower set of Yr11s. Starter: picture description (theme 4). Language presentation: match up the French and the image with the help of the infinitive verbs given to the students for each picture (extension: conjugate each action in the perfect tense). Practice through a past paper listening (Theme 4 - 2021). Reading to expose to more complex material. Listening based on the reading just done and adding earnings. Translation from a past paper (Theme 4 - 2021).

A two hour lesson covering the vocabulary of part time jobs and chores, as well as earnings. Aimed at a higher set of Yr11s. Lesson 1: Starter: picture description (theme 4). Language presentation: match up the French and the image (extension: conjugate each action in the perfect tense, then the imperfect tense). Practice through a listening. Authentic material used: survey from 2008 discussing which gender does the chores at home. Used in a reading (with frequency added). Writing with sentences starters: is this still the case? Why (not)? Lesson 2: Starter: picture description (theme 4). Past paper exercises on theme 4 (2 listening, 1 reading, 1 writing -28 mark- with writing frame).

Set of language presentation and activities to introduce and practice the negative sentence / negation in French. I teach it with the negative glasses that you put around the verb (the nose). You will find: A Yr7 Grammar point for a first ever introduction with listening practice and writing practice (grammar exercise). Covering ne pas/ ne jamais / ne plus A review aimed at year 10s on Theme 4 - My city (advantages and disadvantages), reviewing the grammar point and practising it with a grammar exercise. Covering ne pas / ne jamais / ne plus / ne jamais plus / ne rien. Adding adverbs (ne jamais assez / ne plus beaucoup). A review aimed at year 9s on food and drinks, reviewing the grammar point and practising it with a grammar exercise. Covering ne pas / ne jamais / ne plus / ne rien. Adding adverbs (ne jamais assez / ne plus beaucoup).

Lesson aimed at a higher set of Yr7s (and including differentiation both to adapt to different levels and to differentiate within the class), covering the vocabulary of cardinal points as well as geographical features (by the sea-side, in the countryside,…). Also includes 4 weather expressions as a stretch. Based on the new GCSE (Edexcel). A two-hour lesson. Lesson 1: Introduces “j’habite” as a basis, and stretches with “je voudrais habiter” as well as opinion + habiter. Language presentation through listening of the cardinal points. Follows another listening at sentence level with the cardinal points and a map of France with cities (differentiated activity depending on the level of the class). Speaking activity in pairs / groups: trapdoor. Lesson 2: Language presentation of geographical features (à la campagne, à la montagne, en ville,…). Practice through a reading. Further practice through a guided writing. Leads to a dictation with sentences grouping all the knowledge seen over the last two lessons.

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 aimed at a high set of Year 7s and covering family members vocabulary as introducing them with qui s’appelle(nt), qui a/ont … ans. Also covers the grammar point of “my” and “I don’t have any”. Based on new Edexcel GCSE vocab and content. Two lessons of an hour each. First lesson: Starts with a practice around the structures “I have a / two / three” and “I don’t have any”, with repetition of the vocab brother and sister. Moves on with an introduction of a family tree and practice of the structure “whose name is…” “who is… yo”. Leads to a guided writing. Second lesson: Recap of vocabulary which leads to more practice through listening and translation. Introduction of the grammar point “my”. Leads to a writing (not guided).

Lesson aimed at a mixed ability group of Year 10s (mainly middle and higher attainers with some low attainers). It covers a writing frame and strategies to describe a picture, looks at the markscheme (original + simplified version) and ends on a peer assessed speaking activity. Based on a past paper. Included is a pack to print and give out to students with the writing frame and useful vocab. A three to four hour lesson (heavily based on modeling and “I do, we do, you do” model). Lesson 1: Introduction of the picture description with a description to correct (using the vocab from the pack). Based on the study of this model, students write their own description of another picture. Lesson 2: Study of the bullet points (translation + match the sentence that would answer each bullet points - with odd ones out). Study of the original markscheme and introduction of a simplified one for the students to use. Lesson 3: Marking of the answers from the previous activity based on the simplified mark scheme. Modeling (you can write your own using the thinking aloud technique then reveal the answers written already or go straight to the answers already written). Once the model for each question has been studied / discussed, only the sentence starters remain on the board. Students write their own answer. 5 to 7 minutes to learn them in silence (could be done in a new lesson or as homework). ** Lesson 4:** Students re write their answers on a new piece of paper (with or without sentence starters). They are allowed two questions per student, materialised by joker cards on their worksheet (you cross the card once they have asked you their question). Presentation of the peer assessed activity (looking at a teacher picture card task and prompting). Peer assessment using the simplified mark scheme.

This lesson is aimed at a higher set of Yr7 students, introducing the different types of houses (with BAGS adjectives - the adjectives that comes before the noun in French), then looking at rooms in the house. This lesson has been made with the New GCSE in mind (Edexcel). The lesson contains differentiated worksheets. This is a three hour lesson. Lesson 1: use of a Sentence Builder to practice sentence structures but also to practice liaison and pronunciation. Study of BAGS adjectives and review of adjective agreements. Lesson 2: looking at rooms in the house (with floors). SB to support independent practice. Study of a text around, first, the correct use of le/la/les then looking at the meaning through comprehension questions and replacing rooms on a drawing. Leads to a writing. Lesson 3: recap of rooms. Didactisation of a video (FLE) of one teenager taking another friend on a tour of her flat. Prediction activities and comprehension questions to support completion and success in this activity.

A lesson covering the issues trigged by climate change and who caused them and why, starting with the weather (useful for extreme weather due to climate change). A three hour lesson. Lesson 1: recap of the weather in the simple future tense. Practice of the weather through a (made up) weather forecast report. Finishes with a past paper talking about the weather in the past tense (can they identify weather expressions in another tense)? Lesson 2: introduction of issues and students have to sort them into categories: caused by mankind vs natural disaster. Leads onto a speaking task where students have to argue their choice in French. Lesson 3: students start with a challenging reading exercise where they have to match up the environmental issue with a the corresponding paragraph explaining why it’s the biggest issue, according to the person talking. Leads to a listening to correct the exercise and ends with a writing bringing the three lessons together.