A range of narrow reading tasks + a pre-reading vocab building task

TOPICS; daily routine, school, health and lifestyle, family relationships and my 'universals' Research shows clearly that teaching vocabulary through patterns and collocations is a much more effective way than teaching single words. Although I have always endeavoured to teach words in context and phrases, this collection of quickies is more au fait with current vocab research. As a result, here is a new set of GCSE revision quickies that are chunk-based and focus on collocation and lexical priming. These new quickies complement the ones I have previously created beautifully in my opinion. Why you should use them: they reflect the way humans learn languages - through chunks and lexical patterns rather than single words. So the focus here is on developing a repertoire of ready-to-use phrases recycled over and over again.

I give it to my students before we do IGCSE written or oral practice. They find it useful.

Final stages revision activities to drill in model sentences.

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

For higher ability classes.

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.

Two pages of vocab building activities on the topic of drugs. Part of a booklet I am in the process of writing on the topic.

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.

Another sheet in the GCSE revision quickie

Reading comprehension/vocab builder based on an article on love amongst adolescents from: http://l-amour-et-les-sentiments.jimdo.com/chez-les-jeunes/