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

Consolidation sheets to drill in perfect tense of verbs with AVOIR

Consolidation sheet for GCSE students. Solutions to all exercises provided in separate sheet

Five oral tasks to do in pairs designed to practise talking in the past in the first person singular and all other persons. This is the order I recommend. Please note: there should be plenty of vocabulary and receptive pre-communicative practice prior to staging the activities below, 1. Find your match 2. Find someone who 3. Communicative drills 4. Picture card drills 5. Mini-interviews

A revision quickie covering key vocabulary with answers on separate sheet

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

Vocab consolidation sheet on things to do stay healthy

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

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

7 narrow reading texts recycling to death talking about oneself . Used it with year 5s and worked very well

Listening-as-modelling activity using sentence builder + writing and translation tasks

Consolidation sheet on adjectives with irregular feminine form and preceding nouns

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

Two documents: student and teacher versions

A consolidation sheet with answer key cover a lot of high frequency and highly transferrable language

A set of 5 translations covering a very comprehensive range of vocabulary

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

A sentence builder and a consolidation sheet

Translation practice practising school life and daily routine in the perfect tense