A quickie embeddin practice in Perfect Tense in the topic of school life

Another GCSE revision quickie

Covers main connectives and some adverbs of place and time

Covers all sort of small function words students of this level find troublesome (prepositions, demonstratives, relatives and others)

- A sentence builder to introduce je vais acheter/je veux acheter / j'ai acheté with translation activities to go with it - A find-someone-who with cards to practise the target vocabulary receptively - A set of communicative drills to recycle the same language orally

A set of twenty model sentences covering key vocabulary and sentence structures. French translation provided on separate page

A sentence builder on activities and times A translation based on the sentence builder

A bilingual version of 20 model sentences covering key structures and vocabulary

Includes: - bilingual translation task - revision quickies based on sentence builder with SOLUTION - a very comprehensive sentence builder

14 model sentences of increasing complexity in French and English on separate sheets and a pre-reading set of activities practising the vocab in the translation

A challenging consolidation sheet for A-level students covering key vocabulary

Oral pairwork - translation

A quickie covering key irregular verbs . Answer key provided on separate sheet

quickie with answer key on world of work

A set of narrow reading texts on food with a comprehension activity

First part of a booklet on talking about leisure in the present tense. 14 pages of activities including sentence builders, narrow reading, oral communicative drills and lots more drilling in jouer a / faire du + sport . Vocab includes a wide range of nouns and adjectives, recycled and drilled in over and over again throughout the booklet across all four skills.

(1) A sentence builder modelling the use of two sentences (perfect tense and present tense) to say when and what you eat/ate with present and past time markers (2) A set of oral drills with scaffold aside, to practise the material in the sentence builder orally (3) narrow reading texts recycling the same chunks of language (4) a vocab consolidation sheet

INSTRUCTIONS - The students work in pairs. They have a sheet with the same English sentences to translate into French, but Partner A has the translation of sentences 1 to10, whereas Partner B has the translation of sentences 11 to 20. I call it 'Oral ping-pong translation' because they do it orally, Partner A challenging Partner B with a sentence and showing the correct answer to provide them with feedback and to award points (3 for perfect sentence, 2 for one mistake only, 1 if there are mistakes but at least the verb is correctly formed). I give them a time limit (10 minutes); when the time is up the person with the higher score wins. Best to have people of similar ability in each pair. Here is an example: I made for a very able year 11 of mine. Obviously the activity can be done in writing too. As a follow-up, I get the students to make a note of the most serious mistakes they made in their books so that I have an idea of what their problem areas are. Differentiation opportunities are obvious: different sets of sheets for groups of different ability

Instructions: In groups of three students (2 player + 1 referee) or five (2 teams of two players and one referee), players take turn in casting the dice. Whichever case the player/team reach based on their dice score, they will have 30 seconds to translate the relative sentence(s) into French orally. The referee will then tell the players (with the help of the answer sheet) if their translation is correct. If the translation is correct they will have another go and casting the dice and will advance to the next case where they will have to translate the next sentence and so on. However, if their translation isn’t correct, the referee will read to them the right version twice in order for the players to attempt to memorize it for the next round when they will have another go. After the opponents’ turn the player will have another chance at casting the dice; if they answer the question they originally got wrong correct. The person who is closer to the finishing line ten minutes into the game will win.

A sentence builder to present the vocab (subjects, opinions, things one does around school) and a few receptive tasks to recycle it through listening and reading