A colourful grid to complete on your board with the French masculine colours provided; pupils must add the feminine spellings and English. Accompanied by 2 differentiated grids for pupils to complete independently.

French worksheet with short and simple texts about presents (birthday/Christmas etc). Each short text is followed by a few reading comprehension questions.

A worksheet with several tasks to practise the present tense of faire, aller, lire and sortir. Starting with a task to complete the English for the conjugations, then a sentence gapfill exercise and finally a more open-ended writing task.

A set of sentences in present tense for pupils to sort into school day or weekend. Each daily routine sentence is written with a time it would happen on a school day, and again with a time it could happen on a weekend. Sentences are listed together in pairs, but you could make it harder by jumbling them, or printing out and chopping up. Pupils could write their own sentences about a school day or the weekend, using these as prompts.

A long text to read about local area, one version slightly more detailed than the other. Set of comprehension questions which work for both texts, answers provided on separate sheet. All present tense, includes local building, shops, transports and several opinions with reasons.

A photo-copiable sheet of 32 dominoes to practise French numbers up to 40. Cut up along the lines shown to create a set which works well in a small group.

A "cluedo" style task, could be used as a starter: one pupil chooses a person, a house and a detail from the list and the others (whole class/small group) must say different combinations of the vocab until they work out which one was chosen. Make it more complicated with a system to say if any of the guesses have any correct elements ("un/deux points") or give no clues, which just makes everyone get more practise at the phrases!

French worksheet which builds up in stages, ready to construct the near future tense: write the English for some time markers, some infinitives and finally some phrases which could complete sentences. You would then practise using the aller paradigm to put it all together.

A set of 8 sentences in French about "where I live", for pupils to translate into English. Opinions and perfect tense included. Could be a homework task or revision activity. Make into a pair work game or team competition with numbers 1-8 on the board for pupils to choose as a lottery, set a timer and challenge pupils to translate as much of a sentence as they can in a limited amount of time.

A skeleton for a piece of writing or speaking about holidays. Sentences are started, for pupils to finish with their own information. Clearly presented with visuals and related sentences grouped together. Includes sentences in present, perfect, imperfect, near future and future tenses. Easy to differentiate by giving pupils a maximum number of sentences to produce, or challenge pupils to include certain random words of your own choice.

A French activity to practise using imperfect and perfect tense in the same sentence (I was ... when ...). There are 3 examples in French and English, then a set of phrases in each tense with visuals to match. Pupils can create their own sentences, some more likely to be true than others. Could be used as whole class or small group speaking work, leads into written work.

A list of about 30 foods and drinks in French with space for pupils to write the English. Easy to photocopy, with 2 lists per side of A4. Use as a dictionary exercise, a vocab test or revision task. Easy to extend by asking pupils to add more of their own vocab, or to classify the vocab into categories (different meals/food groups/preferences, etc).

A French worksheet with brief information about 2 famous people, followed by sentences in French which pupils must complete themselves with details taken from the information above. Leads in to further work such as pupils creating their own sets of information plus sentences, or that of other famous people.

A straightforward matching task with a list of 25 French foods and drinks which pupils must match to the English vocab which is jumbled in a second list.

French list of vocab to match to the English, which is provided. All parts of sentences to do with healthy living, present tense. Would make a good starter, pair work or revision task. Could also lead on to pupils building their own sentences from the vocab provided.

A task for pupils to sort a long list of short French weather sentences into present or past tense. The past tense sentences are all imperfect tense. Each weather is in both tenses and listed together in a pair - you could make this harder by separating the pairs of weathers and jumbling them up more. A good introduction to the imperfect tense for weather, as pupils see the repetition of il faisait and il y avait.

A crossword puzzle using French vocab on the theme of Christmas. Saved in excel, answers included.

A quick activity where pupils have to choose the correct words to complete the gaps in the two short texts. The first text is missing its past participles or imperfect tense, the second is missing a variety of words. Each text has the missing words listed beneath it. Could be extended by asking pupils to create their own text, then removing words for a partner to work out how to fill the gaps.

This French worksheet has grammar notes on the formation of regular -er verbs, then has a task to correctly conjugate regular -er verbs which are in sentences on the topic of school.

A grid suggesting a sentence structure to describe the weather in French in the different seasons, in your part of the country. This version encourages pupils to include adverbs of frequency and connectives to extend their sentences. Could use as a true/false activity, or I went to market -style task.