This is a short lesson to present French and try and engage pupils. It contains a few slides on words that pupils already know because the English language has borrowed them from French. It ends with a drawing/poster activity. This lesson is ideal for primary/elementary students and for Y7. Also ideal for SEND.

Qu’est-ce qu’il faut acheter pour ta fete ? This lesson includes a starter on foods and partitive articles to get the pupils settled and warmed up. It continues with an explanation of how to use il faut + infinitives, with a detailed recap on what are infinitives and how to recognise them. It moves on to a mini whiteboard task to check for pupil understanding, before moving on to a reading/sorting out exercise which is also a model for a final writing task.

This lesson gives helpful tips to prepare for the GCSE photo description task. It also helps students describe a picture by giving them scaffolding and support.

This lesson includes a full recap of how to form comparatives, and also of adjectives. It then moves on to how to form superlatives. There’s plenty of tasks including reading comprehension (true or false); match-up tasks; complete the sentences; unjumble and translate tasks; make comparative sentences into superlative sentences. The PowerPoint is quite plain hence it’s more ideal for older students (Year 9 onwards). Also ideal for private tutoring.

A lesson based on shops vocabulary. The lesson includes a starter task, shops vocabulary presentation with mini quizzes to break down the repetition, a flippity game, a reading comprehension task, and a writing task that can also be made a speaking task as needed.

This lesson is based on clothes vocabulary and on verb ‘porter’. The objective is to describe what you are wearing, what you like to wear, what you do not like to wear, what one wears on particular occasions. The lesson includes presentation of clothes vocabulary with mini quizzes to break down the repetition, the conjugation of verb ‘porter’, and some slides on colours and opinions. Activities include other mini quizzes, some associating tasks, some fill the gap tasks, a beat the teacher / slap the board slide, some speaking activities (could be made into writing tasks if needed), and a fun scrabble game. There is enough material to complete 1 long session or 2 shorter sessions.

A short lesson on verbs ‘pouvoir’ and ‘devoir’ in the present tense. The lesson includes a reading/match-up task introducing these verbs in the context of activities + why we can’t do these activities; an explanation of modal verbs and the conjugations of ‘vouloir’, ‘pouvoir’, ‘devoir’; a simple mini whiteboard task; a fill the gap task; and a fun noughts and crosses game to end the lesson.

A full lesson for Y7 or Y8 based on creating a dialogue inviting others to activities and making excuses. The lesson begins with a recap of activities based on a match-up exercise (match-up questions and answers). It moves on to a revision of common expressions related to answering propositions. Follows a speaking trapdoor game to get the pupils talking and practicing the expressions they’ve revised. Following this is a presentation of activities that can be used to make excuses when invited somewhere (eg. sorry, I have to wash the car; sorry, I have to walk the dog, etc.). This presentation is broken down with and followed by quizzes to help with memorisation and retainment. Finally, pupils can practiced these conversations with the help of a well scaffolded slide, before moving on to writing their own dialogue.

A lesson based around food & eating out. The lesson begins with recap activities on food+diet vocabulary and sentences. It continues with a reading activity on restaurants and a listening activity based on a dialogue (ordering food in a restaurant). This last activity also serves as a model for the following speaking activities, where pupils will be recreating the dialogue to order their own food at the restaurant.

A lesson based around revising past tense endings and describing a special day. The lesson also focuses on teaching students how to appropriately use a dictionary, and it includes a useful slides with tips. Activities include a match-up, a fill the gap / mini whiteboard task, a looking up words in the dictionary task, and a translation task.

A full lesson based on festivals and traditions of different cultures. The lesson focuses on revising/refreshing the present and past tense of regular verbs. Activities include reading, translation and listening tasks, a fill the gap task, and a fun speaking task (trapdoor game).

A lesson based around Dia de Muertos and other traditional festivals of the Spanish speaking world. It includes a fun and captivating video on Dia de Muertos, a listening+reading task based on it, and a super engaging running dictation again based on Dia de Muertos! My class loved this running dictation and even the challenging pupils took part and tried their best. For the running dictation text, open the Word document, print it as many times as needed, and display it around the classroom allowing for enough space so the pupils need to get up and walk towards it to read it - it won’t work well if they can read it from their desks. Other slides include another listening+reading task about curious Spanish festivals - this task is a good revision for the present tense (focusing on ‘nosotros’ y ‘ellos/as’.

A full lesson based around foods introducing the passive form. The lesson includes a recap slide to get the pupils thinking about food vocabulary and quantities while the class settles. It continues with a fun video on traditional Spanish food; the students have to answer 3 questions based on the video. Following is a slide on tips for tackling reading tasks, and a reading tasks that the pupils will work on independently on in pairs. This text includes the passive form which is then clearly explained in the next slides, including a recap of the present tense of ser and how to form past participles. Now that the pupils should be able to recognise the passive form, they are asked to do so with the previous reading task’s text. Following this, they will tackle some Spanish to English translations (and an English to Spanish one for higher achievers) to put their skills to the test. The finally activity is a speaking/writing task to get the pupils talking about their favourite food without mentioning the name; the classmates will have to guess which food it is.

A full lesson that includes a revision of food vocabulary (including a slide on Hispanic/Latino traditional food) and an intro to quantities. Activities include a slap the board/beat the teacher slide, a match-up task to get the pupils thinking of which quantities they recognise in Spanish, a reading task, and two well scaffolded speaking and writing tasks.

A full lesson based around holidays, with a clear and complete recap of how to form the pretérito of regular verbs + a list of irregular verbs. The activities include: -a starter settling task where pupils sort out which activities can be done in different holiday destinations -conjugations of regular and irregular verbs -a translation match-up task -a fill the gap task that also serves as a model for the speaking activity -a well scaffolded speaking activity with a printable model/scaffold sheet

A few slides that can be added to a lesson on music instruments with an explanation of how to use ‘‘prefiero a’’. Activities include a fill the gap task, a text translation task, a well scaffolded speaking task, and a quiz.

A full lesson on films, mejor/peor, and discussing whether it’s better to watch films at home (peli y manta) or go to the cinema. The lesson begins with an odd-one-out settling task, where pupils have to identify words that they might already know, or use a dictionary, and choose the one that doesn’t belong in the group. Once the pupils are settled and concentrated, the lesson moves on to a vocabulary presentation on film genres, with breaking-up tasks to help the pupils memorise these new words. Following is a match-up task on adjectives that are commonly used to talk about films. Again, the pupils can use a dictionary if needed or try to work out the translations independently or in pairs. The pupils can then complete a reading and matching-up task, where they will encounter even more adjectives and have to find the correct translation. Following this, there is a brief grammar presentation of mejor/peor, lo mejor/lo peor, and an unjumble the sentences (with a challenge) exercise so the pupils can apply their new knowledge. Finally, there is a cultural tip slide on the concept of peli y manta, and a slide to allow for a class discussion of peli y manta VS cinema.

The final lesson of passé composé includes a recap of passé composé with auxiliary ‘avoir’ and a full explanation of passé composé with auxiliary ‘etre’, with the SAP construction rule and the Mrs Vandertramp (verbs of movement or state of being) list. Activities include: a word snake game to use a starter, to settle the class and get them thinking a mini whiteboard task with challenges for higher achievers an unjumble the sentences task a final quiz to test the pupils’ understanding of passé composé

A full lesson on passé composé with auxiliary avoir. It includes a complete recap of passé composé with ‘avoir’ (as seen in lesson 1 and 2) and an explanation of passé composé with irregular past participles. Activities include: the same noughts and crosses game as lesson 2 to use a starter to check for retainment and understanding (feel free to change the questions inside) a mini-whiteboard task that includes irregular verbs a translation task a delayed dictation task to use as a plenary (find the sentences in the slide’s notes or make up your own).

A really effective lesson to consolidate the students’ knowledge of passé composé with auxiliary avoir. The lesson is also good as a first presentation of passé composé with auxiliary avoir, as it includes the whole grammar explanation. Activities include: an initial word snake game that is an ideal starter to settle the pupils and get them thinking a reading task to recognise the passé composé in a text (and to work on general text comprehension skills) mini-whiteboard task with the challenge of extending into full sentences for higher achievers an English to French translation task a fun noughts and crosses game to check for understanding and retainment.