Using the phrases from Sentence Builder Intermediate book Unit 8: Describing a Typical School Day Students translate under a time constraint in a game setting.

This is a game that can be used in class, adapted from the games4esl template. The game is called Sleeping Penguins. Students work in groups, and close their eyes unless their number is called. They memorise the word they see. After all 4 words have been revealed, all students work together to write the correct phrase on their mini whiteboard and place it in the air.

1 pen 1 dice worksheets in Fre-Eng / Eng-Fre for Sentence Builder Primary French books, Unit 3 - Saying how you are feeling, Unit 4 Birthdays and unit 7 Saying where I come from and languages I speak.

Tangled Translation, Oral Ping Pong, 1 pen 1 die, printable worksheets on Hobbies to support the MARSEARS / EPI French Sentence Builder beginner book, Unit 14 supported writing.

Chain Reaction - Self Introductions based on the Sentence Builder primary units vocabulary from the Language Gym units 1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 (Name, Age, Feelings, Birthday, Saying where you are from). The final slides are modified for lower ability groups.

’Hobbies’ Oral Ping Pong from Unit 14 Beginner French Sentence Builders book to use as a class speaking activity once vocabulary has been modelled and processed.

MARSEARS/EPI ppt activity for the routinisation and spontaineity section of the sequence. 2 slides with content that can be used for work on a disastrous holiday. Vocabulary has been modelled from a Sentence Builder based off Dynamo 2, module 1 and also a You tube video “Year 9 French. 4.4 Les vacances désastreuses” used to model and process the content.