All the GCSE topics covered

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

Suitable for year 7 end-of-year revision. Six narrow reading texts recycling family, school, hobbies, food and area I live in (IN PRESENT TENSE ONLY) . Lots of high frequency vocabulary. Texts were designed in such a way as to contain highly patterned input, with lots of repetitions and contextual cues. Comprehension questions are on separate sheet and are designed to practise a range of reading micro-skills.

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.

Four pages of activities recycling the same vocabulary including: a sentence builder a set of vocabulary (chunk based) building tasks two sets of narrow reading texts with respective tasks A sentence builder modelling use of connectives and useful sentence stems

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

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

A collection of more than 50 sentence builders on a very wide range of topics some new some old

A set of communicative oral translation drills to practise French adjectives with bilingual word lists

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

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.

A vocab builder on the topic of Internet/Mobile phones with a range of useful sentences

A very comprehensive sentence builders which includes -a wide range expressions to convey what one is looking for in a job - adjectives - jobs All of the above is translated in English in brackets Three vocabulary builders to consolidate all of the above WITH SOLUTION

A vocab builder to drill in some useful phrases for essay writing at A-level. Quite challenging.

Speaking activity for absolute beginners to practise places in town and the expression 'il y a&'. Students are given the cards on the first sheet and must go around in an attempt to find someone who lives near the places listed. The first three students to complete the list get a reward/merit.

Vocab consolidation worksheet on town

Vocabulary consolidation on reading - fairly challenging