Presentation to work on the essay title “Quelles SONT la représentation et l’importance du milieu social dans LE FILM « Au Revoir Les Enfants? »” 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.

Powerpoint presentation to make people reflect on the “Le rôle et l’importance des femmes dans Au Revoir Les Enfants de Louis Malle” Loads of ideas for students to take and write an essay on the topic.

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)

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)

Gap fill activity on song “La semaine prochaine” Great for culture and revise simple future tense.

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

Translation to use VOULOIR properly with an infinitive verb after.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Example of an IRP presentation for the speaking A-level exams. Great to give students before they write their own to guide them and show them how we can use high structures and facts in a concise presentation. Students assess the presentations and can discuss in pair and in class with the teacher.

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.

Worksheet to develop students’ answer on their daily routine at school. It includes 4 exercises: gap fill activity to conjugate verbs in present tense, vocab search, speaking activity with typical GCSE questions, writing task. Great to develop vocab and ideas.

Les différences entre le système scolaire français et britannique - worksheet to search independently differences between the French and British system and to develop opinion with a range of vocab and structures.