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Paul Smith (Teacher of French & German KS3 - 5)

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In amongst the madness that is modern-day teaching, I still find time (somehow) and enjoy creating my own resources, from Key Stage 3 worksheets and PowerPoint presentations to Key Stage 5 model A-Level French & German essays, and everything in between. PLEASE leave an honest review if you purchase any of my resources! Thanks, Paul

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In amongst the madness that is modern-day teaching, I still find time (somehow) and enjoy creating my own resources, from Key Stage 3 worksheets and PowerPoint presentations to Key Stage 5 model A-Level French & German essays, and everything in between. PLEASE leave an honest review if you purchase any of my resources! Thanks, Paul
La Haine A2 French Speaking Exam Practice Task
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La Haine A2 French Speaking Exam Practice Task

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Paired speaking task. Pupils ask each other the questions on their resource about La Haine and pupils to then peer-assess using the AQA A2 marks scheme. This can easily be adapted to use any part of the mark scheme & include different questions to suit what has been taught. This enables students to identify areas upon which to focus revision.
GCSE German - Talking About School Uniform
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GCSE German - Talking About School Uniform

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A useful reading comprehension worksheet which includes a GCSE-level paragraph on school uniform and three exercises, including vocabulary finder, reading comprehension questions in English and a grammar identification task. Also serves as a good model for written work.
GCSE German - Past school trip parallel text gap-fill
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GCSE German - Past school trip parallel text gap-fill

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A longer text about a past school trip with a parallel gap-fill text to test pupils' comprehension of German text. This can be accessed in a variety of ways and serves as a useful model for Controlled Assessment Speaking and/or Writing preparation.
A2 FRENCH - Le Silence de La Mer - Speaking exam preparation - Dice game
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A2 FRENCH - Le Silence de La Mer - Speaking exam preparation - Dice game

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36 questions on Le Silence de La Mer set out in 6 categories; Analysis & literary comparisons, characters, story & context, intentions of the author, personal reaction and themes in the form of a dice game. Pupils work in pairs and require a dice and a copy of the A2 speaking marks scheme along with this list of questions. Pupils take it in turn to roll the dice twice, once to determine the category and a second time to determine the question to answer. The other pupil uses the A2 mark scheme to rate their partner on a pre-determined aspect of the marks scheme (i.e. fluency, interaction, pronunciation) and awards a mark for each questions response. At the end of the task, pupils award each other an overall accuracy mark. This acts as a sort of tie-breaker! This task gets pupils talking and enables them to gain a better understanding of the marks scheme.
A-LEVEL FRENCH  La Haine - Examinez les similarités et les différences entre Saïd, Vinz et Hubert
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A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine - Examinez les similarités et les différences entre Saïd, Vinz et Hubert

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A comprehensive 926-word model essay on the new AQA AS French Paper 2 writing title on La Haine "Examinez les similarités et les différences entre Saïd, Vinz et Hubert dans La Haine." The essay covers every one of the suggested bulletpoints and can be exploited in a variety of ways, and also includes a vocabulary list with key expressions and vocabulary used throughout the essay.
GCSE German - Talking about school uniform
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GCSE German - Talking about school uniform

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Reading comprhension worksheet with vocabulary finder task, reading comprehension questions and a grammar identification task. The paragraph gives a good model for pupils preparing a response to part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.
GCSE German - Sport
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GCSE German - Sport

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A model text with three reading comprehension tasks about previous and current sporting activities/physical exercise habits with examples of perfect, imperfect, present and future tenses. The exercises include reading comprehension questions, a vocabulary finder and an adaptation task whereby pupils use language in the model text to create new ideas. Pupils can subsequently use the model text as inspiration for their own written piece.
GCSE German - Sport & Food (Past & Present)
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GCSE German - Sport & Food (Past & Present)

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A grammar/reading comprehension resource with five exercises for pupils to tackle, including adaptation, verb-tense identification and a sentence writing task contrasting previous and current eating and exercise habits.
A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine Les thèmes principaux (1 lesson PowerPoint)
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A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine Les thèmes principaux (1 lesson PowerPoint)

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PowerPoint presentation and supporting resource which introduces the main themes of La Haine. By this stage, pupils will already have built up a knowledge of the plot/storyline. Activities include a short translation starter, a match-up task which can be done in small groups, diamond 9 speaking task, a reading comprehension match-up task requiring students to match examples of specific events in film to specific themes, a synonym finder task, a short writing task to pen own examples from film and matching them to specific themes covered and a speaking task plenary to get pupils thinking about the importance and representation of the themes, as well as the director’s intentions.
GCSE German - Perfect Tense worksheet & Perfect Tense summary
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GCSE German - Perfect Tense worksheet & Perfect Tense summary

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I created this resource for my Year 9 group who are studying die Medien und Freizeit. This is a reading comprehension worksheet with two tasks. The first is an identification task of the auxiliary verb and past participle & the second requires pupils to work back from the past participle to the infinitive whilst identifying the auxiliary verb. The latter exercise can be completed with the support of the summary sheet. Sentences can then be adapted as a written task.
Aimez-vous écouter de la musique de Stromae? Phonic focus lesson SSC é (-er, -ez, - é)
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Aimez-vous écouter de la musique de Stromae? Phonic focus lesson SSC é (-er, -ez, - é)

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Phonics-focused lesson geared towards GCSE-level pupils on the topic of Music. Includes a retrieval practice starter which can easily be adapted to suit prior learning/topics. Activity based around a Stromae song which includes examples of the phonics. There are then some modelling and repetition of vocab from the topic of Music, TV & Cinema from the AQA spec, as well as a differentiated listening and transcribing task with answers and suggested WWW/EBIs.
French knowledge organiser A5 booklet
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French knowledge organiser A5 booklet

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A 28- page French helping hand booklet, which can be used from Year 7 right up to those struggling in Sixth Form. Contents include;  Foundation level GCSE key verbs  Higher level GCSE key verbs – 8-9 stuff  Articles & Genders of nouns  Connectives and conjunctions  Opinion phrases – 8-9 stuff  Tenses  Qualifiers  Fancy adjectives – 8-9 stuff  Time phrases  Sequencers  Relative clauses – 8-9 stuff  Comparisons and superlatives  Infinitive phrases  Idioms – 8-9 stuff  Photo Card language  Phonics Response from pupils and colleagues has been very positive, and this can be tailored by simply removing pages to suit KS3.
A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine essay: Analysez les aspects qui expliquent pourquoi La Haine reste pertinent
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A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine essay: Analysez les aspects qui expliquent pourquoi La Haine reste pertinent

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This 545-word essay is a strong model in response to the French A-Level AQA Paper 2 November 2020 question “Analysez les aspects du film qui expliquent pourquoi La Haine reste pertinent en 2020.” It includes a list of 7 possible points/ideas in English that pupils could use to base paragraphs in their main body on. It is useful to exploit in detail in conjunction with my La Haine essay writing framework to draw out key structural expressions and also to delve into the use of synonyms to avoid repetition.
La Haine - A2 Exemplar Speaking Exam Questions
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La Haine - A2 Exemplar Speaking Exam Questions

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A booklet of approx. 40 questions suitable for the French A2 speaking exam on various aspects of the film La Haine. Pupils can annotate the pages and add/build their ideas they acquire throughout the teaching of the Guided Study Option. I have reviewed and lowered the price following feedback. The questions we set have been thoroughly successful and our centre attained 100% A*-C in the A2 speaking exams in the last two years these questions have been used as a basis for discussion. A small number of the questions are intentionally similar to suit candidates of varying ability.
AS GERMAN - Warum gibt es oft Konflikte zwischen den Generationen? MODEL ESSAY
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AS GERMAN - Warum gibt es oft Konflikte zwischen den Generationen? MODEL ESSAY

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A model response I wrote for my AS German group in response to the Jan 2012 AQA GERM1 Q12 writing question "Warum gibt es oft Konflikte zwischen den Generationen? Wie kann man solche Konflikte lösen?". I asked pupils to read this firstly and look up and annotate any unknown vocabulary, before ticking separate points which were relevant to either part of the essay title. This enabled pupils to see the number of points being made relevant to title. Then I asked them to look at the various grammatical structures I used and you may wish to go as far as getting the AS German grammar spec and ticking off what is covered in essay.
GCSE FRENCH Health / Healthy Living CAW Controlled Assessment Writing / Speaking Preparation Booklet
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GCSE FRENCH Health / Healthy Living CAW Controlled Assessment Writing / Speaking Preparation Booklet

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This is a very thorough resource that will enable pupils to prepare fully for either a GCSE Writing or Speaking assessment on the topic of Healthy Living. This includes wide-ranging reading comprehension tasks, verb manipulation tasks and model texts on following aspects: - Past & current eating habits (Present, Imperfect) - Past & current exercise habits (Present, Imperfect, Perfect) - Comparisons between past & current habits (Connectives & Present, Imperfect) - Advice for leading a healthy lifestyle (Modals in Present and Conditional) - Things which are harmful for your health (Cigarettes, Alcohol, Drugs - Expressing Opinions) - Leading a healthy life in the future (Future & Near Future Tenses) - What you would do for your health if you were rich/lived abroad (Conditional & si clauses) All exercises have supporting colourful & easy-to-understand verb-tense summaries.
A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine - Le contexte général, social, cinématographique et biographique (3 lessons)
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A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine - Le contexte général, social, cinématographique et biographique (3 lessons)

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A 31-slide PowerPoint which includes at least 3 lessons worth of materials and activities enabling pupils to build a greater knowledge of the general, social, cinematographic and biographical contexts of the film La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz. Activities include timed gap-fill tasks, reading comprehension tasks, grammar tasks, speaking tasks, research-based 70-word reading summary tasks and translation tasks.
A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine - Le scénario et les événements importants  (1 lesson PPoint & handout)
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A-LEVEL FRENCH La Haine - Le scénario et les événements importants (1 lesson PPoint & handout)

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A PowerPoint and supporting Word document which will provide at least one lesson aimed at improving student's knowledge of the plot and order of events in La Haine, which is so often rusty even after viewing the film for the first few times. Tasks include matching summaries of key events to clips from the film, ordering events that take place in the film and writing a short summary against the clock to present verbally in pairs/to class. Key/tricky vocabulary in the summaries have also been highlighted, and pupils can be encouraged to use the context of what they have already understood and asked to build an understanding of these expressions.
Ma ville autrefois
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Ma ville autrefois

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Reading comprehension worksheet with vocabulary finder task and comprehension questions. Pupils can also texts as models for their own responses, which are ideal for GCSE speaking and writing preparation. The sentence building task is using phrases and ideas from the reading comprehension worksheet and along with the support column, pupils translate the English sentences into French to form an extended paragraph about how a town used to be.