A collection of 12 Polaroid photos to get your students to manipulate the language. Most of the sentences given can be followed by a noun and a verb in French.

After the Great Success! of The Unicorn Talking Mat, I would like to share with you today The Amazing Grammar Snake. It is a one-page PDF document with interactive links that you can share with your students. The blue links point to online grammar notes. The green links point to easy online application exercises (from languagesonline.co.uk and a couple of BBC Bitesize) The gold links point to more complex exercises from colanguage.com That covers all the grammar points to GCSE, and can be used from Year 7 to Year 11, possibly beyond.

This package will help your students practise for the AQA French GCSE Conversation. I found that my students’ first hindrance when it comes to speaking was actually understanding the questions that I was asking them, so I prepared this package. This is how it works: Students have access to 254 .mp3 recordings of possible conversation questions, taken from my pack of 120 Photocards available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/120-high-quality-french-gcse-photocards-for-aqa-photo-cards-11994167 They can copy these recordings onto their computer, Mac or PC, or on their Android phone. These files are also compatible with IOS devices (installed through iTunes) even though I am not able to offer any support regarding this. Using their favourite media player (I suggest using VLC Media Player for simplicity), the student can practice the area of their choice, by either using recordings related to a sub-topic or a whole theme. These can be played in order, or randomly. I recorded these questions speaking slowly and clearly; please feel free to have a look at the video preview to see for yourself: https://youtu.be/ZxrV2WMqF3Y These questions double as the possible unknown questions for the photo cards, which provide a solid and comprehensive base for the Conversation.

Here are some checklists with examples that I give to my students in order to motivate them to attempt higher level of writing (also works for speaking). Tenses, structures are in categories and include examples. I also added some GCSE levels as an indication of complexity. Best of all, it’s a free gift to you all for supporting my work.

Today I would like to share a little tip with you that could potentially save you hours, money and headaches. If you need your students to type in either French or Spanish, you will soon realise that learning the ALT codes is really cumbersome, slowing them down, and not ideal for the classroom. There is an alternative on PC, which is to change the keyboard language to either French or Spanish, and place a few stickers on some keys to have a fully-working(*) foreign keyboard at no cost.

In this pack, you will find 16 high quality role-plays for the new AQA French GCSE on one of the 3 themes covered by the syllabus: Theme 3: Current and future study and employment There are 2 Foundation and 2 Higher role-plays on one of the 4 topics that make this theme, and each of the teacher cards clearly states which topic and subtopic the candidate’s card refers to. This way, you may start practising with these right at the beginning of the course, or you may decide to target one topic and/or subtopic in particular. The questions on the cards have been finely balanced, and like in the real examination, they offer opportunities to use a range of tenses and timeframes. I am a French native speaker, and I put a lot of care to ensure that there are no mistakes in the French, the variety of questions that I used, and in the overall quality of this set. The licensing terms are extremely simple. You may use these cards as you see fit. You may reproduce them, pass them to you colleagues in other schools and encourage them to buy their own license if they decide to use them too. You may not however translate them, resell them in whole or in part, or include them in some of your work that you intend to sell. You may be interested in the whole pack of 48 role-plays available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/48-role-plays-for-aqa-gcse-french-speaking-12094951

In this pack, you will find 16 high quality role-plays for the new AQA French GCSE on one of the 3 themes covered by the syllabus: Theme 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest There are 2 Foundation and 2 Higher role-plays on one of the 4 topics that make this theme, and each of the teacher cards clearly states which topic and subtopic the candidate’s card refers to. This way, you may start practising with these right at the beginning of the course, or you may decide to target one topic and/or subtopic in particular. The questions on the cards have been finely balanced, and like in the real examination, they offer opportunities to use a range of tenses and timeframes. I am a French native speaker, and I put a lot of care to ensure that there are no mistakes in the French, the variety of questions that I used, and in the overall quality of this set. The licensing terms are extremely simple. You may use these cards as you see fit. You may reproduce them, pass them to you colleagues in other schools and encourage them to buy their own license if they decide to use them too. You may not however translate them, resell them in whole or in part, or include them in some of your work that you intend to sell. You may be interested in the whole pack of 48 role-plays available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/48-role-plays-for-aqa-gcse-french-speaking-12094951

In this pack, you will find 16 high quality role-plays for the new AQA French GCSE on one of the 3 themes covered by the syllabus: Theme 1: Identity and culture There are 2 Foundation and 2 Higher role-plays on one of the 4 topics that make this theme, and each of the teacher cards clearly states which topic and subtopic the candidate’s card refers to. This way, you may start practising with these right at the beginning of the course, or you may decide to target one topic and/or subtopic in particular. The questions on the cards have been finely balanced, and like in the real examination, they offer opportunities to use a range of tenses and timeframes. I am a French native speaker, and I put a lot of care to ensure that there are no mistakes in the French, the variety of questions that I used, and in the overall quality of this set. The licensing terms are extremely simple. You may use these cards as you see fit. You may reproduce them, pass them to you colleagues in other schools and encourage them to buy their own license if they decide to use them too. You may not however translate them, resell them in whole or in part, or include them in some of your work that you intend to sell. You may be interested in the whole pack of 48 role-plays available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/48-role-plays-for-aqa-gcse-french-speaking-12094951

In this pack, you will find 48 high quality role-plays for the new AQA French GCSE on all the 12 topics covered by the syllabus. There are 2 Foundation and 2 Higher role-plays on each of the 12 topics, and each of the teacher cards clearly states which topic and subtopic the candidate’s card refers to. This way, you may start practising with these right at the beginning of the course, or you may decide to target one topic and/or subtopic in particular. The questions on the cards have been finely balanced, and like in the real examination, they offer opportunities to use a range of tenses and timeframes. I am a French native speaker, and I put a lot of care to ensure that there are no mistakes in the French, the variety of questions that I used, and in the overall quality of this set. The licensing terms are extremely simple. You may use these cards as you see fit. You may reproduce them, pass them to you colleagues in other schools and encourage them to buy their own license if they decide to use them too. You may not however translate them, resell them in whole or in part, or include them in some of your work that you intend to sell.

I designed this beautiful unicorn speaking mat for my GCSE students in order to bring a little bit of magic into their examination. The aim of this mat is to help students answer the first question: “Qu’est-ce qu’il y a sur la photo”. There are four stages, which will help students of all abilities to speak for 40-60 seconds on this question alone. As this is the very first question, answering well usually gives them a bit of a confidence boost. This is the unicorn magic. The template needs printing in A3 in colour from Powerpoint. Students then need to fold it, so that only one section shows at one time. I found it particularly useful with less able students who prefer to have less writing in front of them. This is now a free resource. Kindly leave some feedback if you decide to use it with your students.

Have you ever wondered how to get your students to improve their cultural understanding of the French-speaking world? How to allow them to work independently - yet at their own pace, while sharing and discussing their findings with their peers? How to ensure that they go beyond the facts, and target the top band of the assessment criteria by showing their ability to analyse the information that they have uncovered in their research? But maybe more importantly that they do not give up halfway through and that they feel completely prepared for the speaking examination? To further my work on the 72 speaking cards for the AQA A-Level speaking examination in French which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/72-cards-for-the-aqa-a-levels-speaking-examination-in-french-paper-3-all-themes-12011519 , I prepared for my students a 36-page reading guide, covering all the sub-sub themes (I call them granular themes) for the speaking part of their test. Each page consists of the following, for every single granular theme studied: 2 recent (2015-2018) web links to sites providing factual information, in a paragraph form, forming the base for a three-tiered reading comprehension activity. 5 further demanding questions on the granular theme, the answers to which require a demonstration of analysis. each worksheet can be set for homework, peer or teacher assessment, classroom presentation or a combination of any of these. What you are getting there is a lot more than the sum of its parts: it’s a complete system to get your students to read around the subject independently, something that you can plan with them months in advance and review with them when the time is right.

10 French Target Language Posters for your classroom In this file you will find 10 target language posters for your classroom. Print them on A3 in full colour, have them laminated and you are good to go.

10 Spanish Target Language Posters for your classroom In this file you will find 10 target language posters for your classroom. Print them on A3 in full colour, have them laminated and you are good to go.

10 German Target Language Posters for your classroom In this file you will find 10 target language posters for your classroom. Print them on A3 in full colour, have them laminated and you are good to go.

I give this one to my students at the beginning of a unit of work so that they have a place to record the good vocab and structures that they encounter in their learning. Some of my classes are allowed to re-use the worksheet for the end of unit assessment in writing. Over the years, they create their own collection of complexity that they can memorise and re-use in examinations.

One-page activity to get your AS / A-Level students to talk to each other after holidays.

This is one my student’s favourite activity. You start on the smiley face, and climb on the family tree until you find the person described. For example: La fille de la fille de la mère de mon père It’s always easier to start backwards (you may want to tell your students about this): **Start with yourself, find your dad, his mother (your grandmother), her daughter (you aunt), and finally her daughter: your female cousin. **

This is a great game to play with your students from any years in order to practise numbers in French. You may want to print the last page, which is a nice reference about French numbers. This money sharing game is based on the concept of game theory, which is the study of mathematical models of strategic interaction between rational decision-makers. All the instructions are included on the worksheet in the target language, and you can have a look at a sample worksheet filled in for your reference. The instructions are very simple, and yet I am sure that your students will thoroughly enjoy this.

Here I am sharing with you a set of 3 lessons that lead to speaking peer assessment on parts of the body. The first lesson revises parts of the body in French with some great funny videos from Thomas. I encourage you to share these links with your students who can watch them again at home in order to complete the parts of the body worksheet that I included in the pack. The second lesson sets up a complex speaking roleplay between a doctor and a patient. The idea behind this is that there will be unpredictable elements, as doctors and patients take it in turns to initiate the exchange. There is groupwork involved as all the doctors will be working together to prepare their script, and so will be the patients. The unprectictable elements come from the fact that the doctors will not know what the patients will say and vice-versa. The roleplay is scripted into 11 exchanges, for which I included some suggested vocabulary (in the order of the roleplay) The last lesson is when the teacher pairs a random doctor and patient, who will perform the roleplay that they have prepared independently. The rest of the class will assess their performance with GCSE-style criteria on the worksheet provided. My students love this type of activities.

In this pack, you will find 18 high quality discussion cards for the new AQA French A-Levels based on one of the 4 themes covered by the syllabus. The theme covered in this pack is: Theme 4 -Aspects of political life in the French-speaking world Like in the actual examination, every card lists the relevant themes and sub-themes; I added a third category called “Granular theme” which lists the sub-sub theme of the card. This is extremely useful if you use these cards regularly to revise specific granular themes, with the foreign language assistant for instance. This pack contains 2 different cards on 1 theme x 3 sub-themes x 3 granular themes = 18 cards in total. I have extensive experience of the AQA A-Level examinations: the difficulty on these cards is finely balanced, and the vocabulary that I deemed too difficult was adapted to match the expectations of the A-Level specifications. Just like in the real examination, the format of the overall majority of the cards is very similar, but from time to time, one might have a slightly modified format. This will help your students adapt to a new situation that they have never encountered before. I am a French native speaker, and I put a lot of care to ensure that there are no mistakes in the French, the variety of questions that I used, and in the overall quality of this set. The licensing terms are extremely simple. You may use these cards as you see fit. You may reproduce them, pass them to you colleagues in other schools and encourage them to buy their own license if they decide to use them too. You may not however translate them, resell them in whole or in part, or include them in some of your work that you intend to sell. You may want to consider buying the full pack of 72 cards covering all the required themes: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/72-cards-for-the-aqa-a-levels-speaking-examination-in-french-paper-3-all-themes-12011519 In addition to a generous discount, this pack gives you free access to the original Word files too!