A revision quickie

Typical Cont-style resources on the Irregular perfect tense

Revision sheets with key vocab covering key terms and imparting model sentences

A sentence builder to introduce the comparatives.

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.

Consolidation sheet with answer key

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.

Old school drills + board game

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 quickie on health

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