A sentence builder to use as a Listening-as-modelling activity

Find someone who with cards, two sets of Narrow reading tasks, Sentence builder, and Micro-listening enhancers on present of Habiter, Adjectives to say why you like/dislike your town and some prepositions.

Consolidation sheet on reflexive verbs in present tense

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

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

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.

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

1. Talking mats (10 questions about tv habits) + narrow reading including three tenses 2. Oral ping pong translation

A pool on resources on cinema

A sentence builder, a translation board game and some consolidation drills on -ER verbs + hobbies

Revision of name, age, birthday, siblings, pets, days of the week, animals, colours, house

A reading-to-write sequence I have designed for my year 7s top set, starting off with a narrow reading tasks set and ending up with a writing tasks. Tasks include: gap-fills, match up. translation. The sequence is carefully scaffolded and graded to enable the students to carry out the task without external help. Lots of recycling of the same syntactic patterns and chunks.

Fairly challenging texts with two pages of tasks. A very good vocabulary range

A massive collection of resources on hobbies

An intensive verb builder designed to drill in the present of these key verbs

Telling someone your name,age and birthday : 3 sentence builders one modelling first person, one modelling third person sing use and one covering all persons of AVOIR and possessive adjectives 3 vocab building worksheets consolidating all the vocabulary + the verb AVOIR in all persons Speaking game: Find someone who (cards to cut up and cards) Speaking game: Oral ping pong to practise all forms of AVOIR + age Reading : 2 narrow reading texts wih relative tasks focusing on meaning, grammar accuracy and spelling

A set of six narrow reading texts and relative tasks on the theme of pollution. This resource would be used at the beginning of an instructional sequence on talking about issues in one’s town/region. Lots of recycling of the same key patterns. Ideal for homework, cover work but can also be used for consolidation, as a pre-listening activity or before engaging the students in a basic writing task

Two sheets of activities practising the use of relatives, apres + past infinitive + imperfect vs perfect tense, irregular adjectives and other structures in the context of holidays. The first in a series of worksheets aiming to recycle key structures over and over again across a wide range of topics and linguistic contexts