Work on youth crime from the song “Petit Frère” (easily found on youtube) Several exercises: Fill in the gaps True or false Comprehension Discussion questions Summary (exam style)

Worksheet to give student essential facts about volunteering in France. From this, students have to do an exam type summary and have some questions to answer (either in writing or speaking) to practise for the speaking exam (the card part)

Text to give students an example of production on the topic of “my town” with 4 exercises: reading comprehension, vocabulary, translation and written/oral production. Excellent for KS3 or GCSE.

Les vacances - questions dans tous les temps à préparer à l’écrit ou à l’oral pour l’unité GCSE “Holidays”

Great reading tasks for students to develop vocab and arguments to say whether they prefer to stay or go abroad on holidays and why. 4 reading tasks and match up, translation, speaking, writing exercises.

Great activity to push student’s writing across KS3 or GCSE. Students are journalist for a gossip magazine and must use a range of vocab, adjectives, adverbs, opinion phrases with reason (simple or complex) This sheet can be adapted for any tense (present or past) and levels (I used it with my year 9 and GCSE classes for instance)

Exercises to push speaking. Context: at the commercial centre. Lots of useful vocab and 3 speaking situations to practise in class.

Worksheet to build up vocab and sentences through 5 exercises of match up and translation exercises focusing on: 1. vocab of facilities 2. advanced adjectives to describe them 3. what you can do in the facilities using “on peut” + infinitive 4. using higher features to describe the school such as si clause, conditional, conectives, adverbs. The aim is for them to be able to produce a paragraph (or in speaking) on their school.

Full lesson with worksheet to recap the use of articles le, l’, la, les and quantifiers du, de l’, de la, des through a series of activities: dictionary skills, gap fill, translations, match up. Great for KS3 but can also be used in KS4.

Comprehension exercise on the short film included in Paris je t’aime.

Great article to make students reflect on the preservation of a UNESCO site and whether we should rebuild or preserve a destruction of one of them. A series of exam-based exercises: vocab search, translation into English, summary and questions to practise the speaking part of the exam.

Great readings with many tasks for students to deduce the formation and use of the simple future. From a reading, students will develop their writing and speaking skills through 6 distinct exercises: spotting verbs in a reading, finding out the formation, vocab search, conjugation of irregular verbs, translation and a writing task (that can be used as a speaking task) to reuse the future tense in a personal context.

Reading comprehension on school life in the past tense. It includes: rvocabulary exercise, gap fill past tense exercise, translation, speaking/writing GCSE questions. The text is great to use as a frame for writing with the use of verbs in the past and connectives.

Worksheet to match the name of festivals in France with their definition.

Translation to use VOULOIR properly with an infinitive verb after.

Presentation to work on the essay title “Où se passe l’action de l’œuvre que vous avez étudiée ? Croyez-vous que cet aspect de l’œuvre soit bien illustré par l’auteur ou le directeur ? Justifiez votre réponse.” This is worth a full lesson. Several activities to have students discuss the importance of social class in the film, give students ideas with concrete scenes and examples, and have them come up with an essay/essay plan by the end of the lesson.

Presentation / lesson on the topic of division in the film. The presentation contains a lot of questions and ideas that lead to an essay plan. Great to foster students’ reflection.

Presentation with ideas and key questions on the topic of “l’autorité” in the film Au Revoir Les Enfants by Louis Malle.

This is a fun activity to revise each and every unit studied in the new French A-level program. It contains essential questions. Students have to speak for at least 1 minute on each question with high order structures. I have put those questions on a separate document if you want to have them prepare them in advance or at home. Once downloaded, questions can be altered to suit your teaching.