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. I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.

A sentence builder on morning routine. You can also find this resources in my collection of sentence builders entitled ‘Massive collection of 50+ sentence builders’

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)

Two worksheets, one with a vocab builder and the other one for French to English translation recycling high frequency chunks

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

- A text reconstruction task: English text given; French translation of text is all broken up in randomly arranged chunks. Students to re-arrange them in the correct order. - A pre-puzzle warm-up to prepare the students for the puzzle through consolidation of its language content

A very detailed list of vocab to describe clothes and tasks to drill them in

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.

Consolidation of useful linguistic features

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. I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.

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. I do a round in writing (students write on miniwhiteboards or iPads) then one or two orally changing partners each time. Students love it but adequate prep essential.

Final stages revision activities to drill in model sentences.

Listening-as-modelling (sentence builder), Speaking, Reading and Vocab building activities

A sentence builder to illustrate the structure with various verb types and a range of activities to practise it. Recommended sequence: 1. Make up sentences and utter them to the class (students to translate them on miniboard whilst sentence builder is on display on screen) 2. Ask students to work out the rulese governing the structure. Clarify if necessary how it actually works 3. On miniboards students translate sentences you will have picked out from activity one list 4. Students to do activities 2 to 5 in pairs as you go around the classroom monitoring 5. Communicative oral drills (not included here) 4.

A sentence builder to present and drill in the target material through listening and translation as well as a consolidation sheet.

Pool of resources on the teaching of negatives in French Lesson plan can be found here : https://gianfrancoconti.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/based-on-mars-a-sample-instructional-sequence-on-the-french-negatives/

Vocab builder on HEALTH

A sentence builder, narrow reading texts on talking about movies, oral drills and a translation task that refers to the material in the sentence builder

Writing mats I use to scaffold talking through three tenses with my year 8s