Revision resource for French GCSE Tricky words, including false friends and misleading words. Very useful to avoid the traps in the Reading/ Listening exam.
This bundle on Comparatives and Superlatives include 3 resources.
_a PPT with tutorials and practice exercises on the uses of the comparatives and superlatives in French.
It consists of 28 slides and proved clear explanation and useful practice on this tricky grammar point. this is suitable both for GCSE and A Level students.
_ A PPT comparing 2 French speaking countries, France & Canada
_ A word document with a recap of the rules and 4 stimulating exercises
It is suitable both for GCSE and A Level students
This bundle of 12 resources ia aimed to practice for the New GCSE Oral exam, so all resources follow the exam format.
It consists of 4 Powerpoint presentations with interactive role play situations on the following topics:
_Holidays
_Shopping
_Booking
_School
_ 4 pdf docs with a range of 10 Role Plays on various topics. Examiner’s card is included in a separate doc
_ A list of 40 possible Role Play questions (with translation) with answers categorized by topics.
_ A worksheet with 6 exercises to practise Role-Play Sentences
_ 2 mats for picture description for Foundation & Higher Level with a range of pictures based around the 5 main topics.
_ A list of questions for the General Conversation
This is a comprehensive Powerpoint presentation made of 64 slides which recaps most of the topics covered at Primary Level.
Topics include: Greetings, Days and Months, Giving personal information,Numbers up to 31 Answering basic questions, Towns and countries and Classroom language.
The presentation is interactive and fun. This is a suitable for Year 4, 5 and 6, and can be used at the end of term for general revision or at the beginner of term for a refresher.
Two worksheets on Prepositions in French, one with countries and nationalities and another one to practise the following prepositions:
du ; de la ; des ; à ; au ; aux ; en ; sous ; sur ; dans ; avec ; de et pour .
It is suitable for KS3 and KS4 students, but could be used as a refresher at As Level.
Comprehensive and interactive PPT presentation (90 slides!) on the topic School. It includes a tutorial with some activities on the following sub-topics:
_ School subjects
_Opinions on subjects, teachers, school uniform, homework
_ Extra-curricular activities
_ Routine activities at school
_ Time and timetable
_ School equipment
_School system in France
This can be used for KS3 and 4 for a whole lesson either to reintroduce or reinforce this important GCSE topic.
Attached is also a worksheet to practise the structures of opinions on school-related matters
This is a comprehensive and interactive PPT with 42 slides on greetings and personal information. The first part goes through the various ways of greetings, both formal and informal.
The second part looks at how to ask and respond to a range of personal information: name, age, phone number, date of birth, where I live and come from, nationality, job, where you work.
It is followed by some practice and a who’s who game with pictures of famous people.
It is suitable for KS3 students but I also found it very useful for KS4 students in preparation for the role-plays, as they often forget how to ask and respond properly to basic questions.
This bundle consists of 10 PPT tutorials with practice, each resource covering a different grammar points. The points covered are:
_ the main tenses in French ( Present, Perfect, Imperfect, Future and Conditional, all with irregular verbs)
_ Adjectives
_ articles
_ Comparatives
_ Pronouns
_ Prepositions
+ An editable booklet to revise all these points
This bundle contains a collection of 16 Cultural and linguistic PPT quizzes on France and French language for KS 3 and 4 students, depending on the resource.
Most of them are in French but a few for KS3 are in English. The length of each quiz varies between 15 and 45mn . The
Most of theses Quizzes are interactive PPT and can be displayed on whiteboard and are fully editable. The other ones are Word docs. The title indicates the targeted audience.
These quizzes are best used either at the end of term or for starters/plenaries.
These quizzes are covering grammar and vocab but also a very wide range of cultural topics about France : medias, geography, history, famous people.
Fun way to revise and consolidate your French knowledge
This is a video with worksheets, transcription and answers about the attraction of France for foreign tourists. It fits well with the A Level topic "Le Patrimoine".
This resource consists of a bundle of activities on the topic for the A Level topic La famille en voie de changement :
_ A comprehensive PPT presentation 32 slides to introduce the various types of families, the PACS, and graphs to describe the evolution of the family unit.
_ A Gap-fill timeline of the major changes since the 50’s WITH ANSWERS.
_ A video activity about the evolution of family
_ 5 Reading activities
_ 2 Translations, one French to English and another English to French
_ An extensive Vocab worksheet with 5 activities
The Word document for the video consists of an extensive questionnaire with global and detailed comprehension activities and independent work to be done at home .Answers are provided along with transcript, links and further information on the evolution of family. It is suggested to spend at least 45 mn on this activity.T he video file is provided.
The Word doc with the reading activities help to introduce and practice the vocab on the various types of family; it can be done in class or at home and takes around 1 hour to complete.
Comprehensive and interactive multi choice grammar quiz (72 slides) to revise a range of grammar points: tenses, adjectives, gender etc …in a fun way.
Also included is a 15 slides PPT with gap-fill tasks to practice conjugation and adjectival agreement.
Both PPT are Suitable for As and A2 students, this is a very effective resource to revise a range of grammar points in 30mn.
This is a bundle of 10 resources to introduce and practice the subjunctive at various levels in different ways. There are 3 PTT with tutorials, practice activities in Word docs and also pictures and boardgame for speaking practice.
You can pick and choose the resources that suit your students best.
The board game is especially popular and efficient with A Level students.
Here is a fun ressource by a Youtuber about the challenges of new technologies faced by the people over 50’s.
Cyprien’s video has subtitles, so it helps understanding. The attached comprehension exercise is suitable for A Level students and can be a starting point for generating a devbate on the advantages and disadvantages of new technology.
PPT presentation to learn and practice the conjugation of "Prendre/Mettre/ Faire" in the Present Tense. It gives a comprehensive list of expressions with these verbs.
Students have the opportunity to practice these three verbs along with the possessive adjectives through a range of interactive exercises in context.
My students find the activities very helpful for sentence building.
Comprehensive tutorial with some practice on the present tense. This interactive presentation shows the various patterns of the regular and irregular verbs, including reflexive verbs.
It aims to consolidate and extend students' knowledge of irregular verbs. Students are encouraged to participate by providing the answers for each different pattern and then they get some conjugation practice with three exercises.
Also attached are 3 word docs on the present tense: 2 tests and a worksheet
My A Level students found it very useful to revise and memorize the irregular forms but it can be adapted to GCSE levels.
I noticed that students are often confused with the grammatical terminology in French and make mistakes such as useing adjectives instead of adverbs. Hence this interactive PPT presentation on Prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs in French will clarify the function of each category and will help them with sentence building . Some gap-filling exercises provide students with practice.
This is suitable for intermediate and advanced learners of French.
Interactive PPT with Tutorial and Activities on Places and Directions with more than 100 slides.
It is divided into 3 parts:
_ a comprehensive list of public places and shops. Students guess the name of the place on the picture on each slide and answer is then provided with the appropriate article gender.
_ How to use the verbe Aller in present tense + preposition
_ How to ask and give Directions with lots of practice in group or in pairs
It is suitable for KS3 and 4 students. You can spend the whole lesson on this. 3 useful worksheets on places and a game in Word docs are also provided.
This a bundle of 15 resources about Christmas is aimed at Intermediate Students ( KS3 and GCSE students).
It comprises a wide range of activities:
_two PPT Presentation to introduce the vocab
_ Games ( dominoes and Loto), a conversation about Christmas holidays ( to be done in January!),
_ Reading and Listening Comprehensions for KS3 and GCSE students .
_ 5 worksheets with various vocab and grammar activities around Christmas such as a Role Play about shopping for Xmas, a gap filling activity with a letter to Pere Noel, a multiple choice vocab activity and a Worksheet to practise Prepositions.
_ a Visual Dictionary of Christmas Vocab
_ Matching up Vocab
_ Video questionaires
Joyeux Noel!