Did it with my students after two lessons on direct/indirect object and disjunctive pronouns. Quite challenging if done under time conditions. I also gave the students the effective contributor self-assessment and peer-assessment sheet enclosed.

A ‘No snakes no ladders’ + an ‘Oral Ping-Pong’ + a ‘Pyramid Translation’ game on the perfect tense of ‘Aller’ + places in town. It also contains a set of Communicative drills with solution. All intended for the STRUCTURED PRODUCTION PHASE in the MARS EARS sequence

An oral ping-pong game (pairwork) on perfect tense of verbs requiring ETRE (English to French)

Laminate (possibly) then cut up and give to teams of two or three students to do under timed conditions. One point per square used correctly. if don't want to cut up you can use mini boards.

Students, working in teams and equipped with mini boards need to spot the antonyms and answer (on the mini-boards) the metalinguistic questions. One point for each pair of antonyms spotted and as many bonus points as the stars in each case if the answers to the questions are 100% correct. The teams take turns in calling out the cases. The winning team is the one who scores the most points or completes the first column in the table.

Challenging definitions game on food aimed at a good KS4 group. Instructions: each team call out the case they want to claim and match it to the correct definition. The first team to claim three cases of the same colour win.

A challenging metalinguistic quiz on (mostly) irregular adjectives. An effective starter/plenary.

Activities on Sophie Tith's hit 'T&'es beau'.

Vocab builder and gap-fill activity to drill in phrases useful in discussing problems

Students to evaluate correctness of a series of sentences involving the use of negatives. Challenging.

Comprehension and vocab-building activities on the famous song by Jean-Jacques Goldman.

A reading comprehension / vocabulary builder on a highly informative article from the internet. Very good range of vocabulary with some challenging and useful phrase. As a follow-up activity students maybe asked to draft their own CV in French incorporating the tips included in the article.

Reading comprehension on the 'chagrin d&'amour&'; in adolescents.

A very uplifting song by Tal about adolescents going through a rough (emotional) time. Great range of vocabulary. Catchy modern tune.

KS4 -5 tutorials on drugs with lots of vocab building and reading comprehension activities.

Students are divided into teams; the teacher and/or one or more students will be the judge(s). The challenge consists in paraphrasing, explaining and providing supporting examples for the proverbs in the table (either projected on the screen or blown up on an A3). Fluency and intelligibility of student output are more important than grammatical accuracy.

Listening and reading comprehension activities on the very beautiful song by S-Kyz. excellent range of vocab and tenses.

Worksheer on pages 12-13 Expo 2

An easy and catchy modern tune that can be used with any year group and is bound to strike a chord with any student because of its subject matter: maman...

Vocabulary building and reading comprehension activities on page 6 module 2 Expo2 rouge