Here is a bundle of various reading and writing tasks to practise French numbers 1 to 60. I have created these tasks to keep my lower ability pupils busy. These don’t require a great amount of writing but help them learn their French numbers in a creative way. You will find a couple of puzzle tasks (match the digit with the words), a colour matching task, ‘spot the correct spelling’ task, a battle-ship task and a writing task with plenty of support.

A powerpoint to introduce or recap colour of hair and colour of eyes (with Disney characters, Harry Potter and famous portraits). I added other details e.g. j’ai des lunettes, une moustache, une barbe, un chapeau. I have also attached a couple of snakes and ladders to practise this topic.

Two Powerpoint presentations (one with an audio recording by a native French speaker and one without) to help you teach and practise the Halloween vocabulary. You will also find two diffrentiated worksheets to practise reading and writing skills. I have also included a slide on some French phonemes.

Few worksheets with differentiated tasks to practise using adjectives to describe ourselves. I used resources from Bruno Guillemin to introduce some of the vocabulary. These worksheets would suit well primary aged children (year 3 to year 6) and lower ability secondary children (year 7).

Here is a powerpoint I created for my primary children to recap the weather and the days of the week. The third slide gives the opportunity to practise reading and writing skills as the children have to spot the correct sentence. I have used pictures pictures of famous towns and places in France. The worksheets have various differentiated tasks

Here are three listening tasks (two on the 2018 World Cup and one on 2022 World Cup). I have copied and pasted the Youtube link. This is an authentic resource made by the Federation Francaise de Foot. It gives the opportunity to engage pupils’ interest especially the boys’. The pupils will be able to see listen and see some famous players getting their lunch while doing this comprehension task. It offers opportunity to recap previous learning on food and greetings.

Here is another worksheet I have created around the World Cup 2022. There is wordsearch with the names of the countries in French. There is a grammar task (sorting them into masculin, feminin and pluriel category and using the correct article). Finally there is a task around colours as the pupils have to colour the flags and write down the country in French. I have attached the answer sheet.

Speaking-task on opinions and fruits. This battle-ship game is ideal to get children to practise opinions and fruits. It caters for lower ability children that need written support but you can delete the words to challenge more confident children. I use it with my year 6 pupils.

A worksheet activity to work on reading and writing prices using euros and cents. It is also a nice opportunity to show popular French sweets and typical French food.

Here is a worksheet to practise your present tense with various verbs. The sentences are all related to identity and culture. I often try to model authentic French sentences that students can use in their own writing and speaking practice. You will find the answer sheet.

Here are various resources (a powerpoint presentation, an A4 sheet to laminate in order to draw correct number of candles to say the age, snap cards to practise counting, some bingo cards and a snake and ladder board to practise saying j’ai…ans). I started to teach French to SEN year 7 and year 8 and made these resources to support the pupils with speaking and listening tasks.

Based on French sentence builders (primary part 1, the Language Gym), here is a very simplified powerpoint to recap feelings and adjectives. For each slide pupils have to choose the sentence that matches the pictures. They can write their answer on their mini-whiteboard or say it orally. I made this powerpoint for my lower ability group who struggle to write in the target language. The last slide can be used to recap all the vocabulary. Tell them an English sentence and pupils write the translation using numbers and letters. To go alongside the powerpoint is a worksheet to working on writing and reading skills.

I created this support matt to work on basics conversation. It can be used for group or pair work. It covers the following topics: greetings, introducing yourself and your family, asking and saying your age or someone’s age, physical descriptions, describing your school uniform, saying the date, talking about your school subjects and giving opinions, talking about your classroom, hobbies, sports and and connectives.

Here is a very lengthy powerpoint presentation that can be used over two or three lessons. It gives the pupils plenty of opportunities (orally or in writing) to use the correct ending for each pronoun. I tried to use it with free time and hobbies (to model possible answers for speaking exams). I have also included few board game (5 in a row class work or pair work) and some blockbuster games. Powerpoint overview: Slides 1 and 2 understanding pronouns. Slide 3 : understanding infinitives Slide 4: what is the present tense? Slide 6: endings for each pronoun Slides 7 and 8: Je and Tu endings Slide 9: il and elle ending Slides 10 to 19: which sentence is correct?# Slide 20: pair work (choose an action to go with each pronouns, guess your partner’s choices) Slides 21 to 25: write or say a sentence for each picture. Slide 26: write sentences Slide 27: add adverbs Slide 28: add frequency expressions Slide 29: use the negative Slides 30 and 31: Blockbuster (boys vs girls) translations Slide 32 : write sentences using adverbs Slide 33: nous and vous forms Slide 34: ils and elles forms Slides 35 to 49: which sentence is correct. Slides 50 to 52: Translation Slides 53 to 55: French culture quiz

Here is powerpoint I have made to recap the different uses of verb avoir with ‘basic vocabulary’ e.g. age, pets, colour of hair, colour of eyes, school timetable, classrooms, being hot, being hungry…etc. You can get the pupils to give you the answers verbally or in writing (from slides 34 to 62). Each slide has the correct answer. The last two slides can be used as visual prompt. The pupils have to tell what students have (stationery, clothes, hair) or what there is in the classroom.

Here is card game I created to use as a translation game. One student reads the English or the French sentence, the others have to translate it in the other language. It aims at practising passe compose with (je, tu , il and elle forms) and various hobbies.

Here is a support I have created to encourage students to talk about themselves.

Here is an assessment I have created to assess my primary children on their first unit of French. The powerpoint matches the assessment worksheets. It includes some writing tasks (1 short task: writing your name and age, 2nd task: writing name, age and how you feel using clues with support, 3rd task writing name, age and feelings without support), a listening task (using alphabet to spell name), another listening task on name, age and feelings.

Here is an assessment (worksheets and presentation) I made to assess my primary age children on pets and colour.

These worksheets contain various activities (short writing task to start with, followed by a reading task and finishing with a longer reading task paired with by a true or false task). These worksheets aim at motivating lower ability that are interested in football. There is also a powerpoint to teach months of the year (with French celebrations) and numbers up to 31 to teach how to say when our birthday is. I have put the pictures from the worksheet in order to do one as a model with them and to correct them after.