A very simple, low-prep listening task for French - once pupils are quite familiar with the vocab on prepositions, rooms in the house and items of furniture, you can do this fun sorting task. You can either prepare a list of vocab in advance or just do it off the cuff as I do - read out a short list of vocab items that fit into one of the categories, and pupils write the number in the correct column. eg. if you say ‘Numero 1, la buanderie’ pupils write ‘1’ under ‘places in the house’ etc. you could then do a recall task after marking it where pupils have to make a list of the words in French that were mentioned in each category!

Worksheet matching two halves of sentences to describe bedroom, and missing letters gap-fill on the prepositions. Answers included.

A 2-page text of bullet points in Spanish regarding the context of Julieta by Almodovar. You could read the text aloud in class and do some oral questions for comprehension, or give it as homework for students to study / translate parts of / summarise in Spanish in their own words.

See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180 A sentence builder with a worksheet and list of teaching ideas and activities (listening, speaking, translation) to teach the future tense. Answers for worksheet included. It is within the topic of les loisirs / le temps libre / free time / hobbies. There is enough material for several lessons on this.

A very simple reading or listening activity for learning about the pros and cons of living in the town / country. Pupils will need to be familiar with most of the vocab in these sentences before doing this activity. You can either project some of the sentences onto the board and have students read them aloud in pairs, then say whether it’s a pro or con, or you can do it as a listening - select perhaps 8-10 of the sentences. Say each one in a random order, and pupils note on miniboards / scrap paper if i’ts a pro or a con. You could follow up with a ‘vocab hunt’ - write a list of English words on the board that appear in these sentences and pupils have to find the vocab.

See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180 Sentence builder and listening comprehension for my area / là où j’habite topic. Worksheet with variety of activities and link to a site that explains how to use sentence builders if you’re not entirely familiar with them.

A selection of interactive vocab activities to completed orally in pairs, answers included. For talking about the transport in your town.

A visual handout to demonstrate time phrases used in French - a good scaffold for help in translations.

A worksheet of vocab activities and short reading comprehension on topic of school system in France. Answers included.

A vocab-sorting task on vocab for types of TV shows, opinion phrases and justifications - display on the board, students read each phrase in pairs and decide which column it goes under. A ‘sondage’ survey speaking task - display the corrected vocab in the columns on the board from the first activity, and the students complete the sondage with people going round the room, using the vocab on the board to help.

An easy French listening comprehension exercise for talking about weekend activities and giving basic positive and negative opinions and justifications. Audio included.

Some basic flashcards that you can use for call and response style activities to model pronunciation. You can then go back every few slides to test recall of previous slides as the text will only appear when you click. You can then go through the blank ones and do ‘THIS OR THAT’ - give TWO options in French for the image, one correct and one incorrect - pupils have to repeat back the correct one. Then, there is a section on present participle phrases. You can create sentences using the vocab students have learned and adding a short present participle phrase - students can translate these on mini whiteboards / do them as dictation.

A model answer with activities for a GCSE writing question on TV to help introduce students to how to write a good answer.

A worksheet with a few teacher-led activities to learn and consolidate vocab for giving positive and negative opinions on hobbies. Answers and instructions included.

A short activity where students must read the boxes and put the phrase under the correct column - you can project this onto the board, tell students to read each phrase aloud in pairs and decide which column it goes in.

An anagrams worksheet with spaces for each letter to help students practise spelling them. Can be used as a starter or short activity.

A short gap-fill task to practise vocab on the topic of school systems.

A short speaking activity to practise the vocab for saying which school subjects you like/dislike and why. Students have to unjumble the sentences orally in pairs. Uses a variety of different opinion phrases and adjectives.