Theme 1 on the AQA GCSE specification. Tried and tested lesson on “Quels sports aimes-tu” including: Printable Do Now activity: multiple choice with a bottomless challenge. Opening slide with a suggested lesson sequence. Three sentence builders for choral chanting / mini whiteboard tasks: One using, ‘j’aime jouer’ + time phrase One using, ‘jaime faire’ + time phrase One combining both together. A listen and fill the gaps worksheet (choices to choose from on the slide) A reading comprehension task based on the listening gap fill ( same worksheet as above). A challenge following the reading comprehension task to extend learning. A writing task with connectives and higher tier phrases/idioms to include to improve students’ writing. All answers included! Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Theme 1 on the AQA GCSE specification. Tried and tested lesson on “Les avantages et désavantages des réseaux sociaux" including: Printable Do Now activity: multiple choice with a bottomless challenge. Opening slide with a suggested lesson sequence. Printable slides to match up advantages and disadvantages. Last survivor game: students choose a sentence, stand up and sit down when they hear theirs. Voleur des phrases (battleships with French sentences) speaking activity: students write down a couple of numbers between 1 - 7 and they take it in turns to guess each-others’ Trapdoor speaking task: used to model writing task. A writing task with connectives and higher tier phrases/idioms to include to improve students’ writing. The task includes a YouTube link to a debate to motivate studnts. Students present their answers (writing pieces) and the rest of the class decide which was best based on a criterion set by the classroom teacher. All answers included! Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Theme 1 on the AQA GCSE specification. Tried and tested lesson on “Les sports: Three time frames" including: Printable Do Now activity: multiple choice with a bottomless challenge. Opening slide with a suggested lesson sequence. A listen and fill the gaps worksheet (choices to choose from on the slide) A reading comprehension task based on the listening gap fill ( same worksheet as above). A challenge following the reading comprehension task to extend learning. A tangled translation worksheet (in the style of the Tri Coleur flag! A writing task with connectives and higher tier phrases/idioms to include to improve students’ writing. A formative speaking assessment based on the lesson. All answers included! Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Theme 1 on the AQA GCSE specification. All images have been removed due to copyright. Tried and tested lesson on “Free time activities: near future, simple future and conditional tense" including: Printable Do Now activity: multiple choice with a bottomless challenge. Opening slide with a suggested lesson sequence. Multiple choice mini-whiteboard tasks: teacher says a statement in English in either the near future, simple future or conditional tense and students write it down. (18 slides!) Tangled translation: students write down the 5 sentences in French only. Listening dictation: students listen and write down the 5 sentences. Four similar reading texts with three accompanying tasks. Tangled translation (students write the French and the English to consolidate the near future and the simple future distinctions / formation) as a scaffold before a writing task. A writing task with connectives to include to improve students’ writing. All answers included! Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Theme 1 on the AQA GCSE specification. Tried and tested lesson on “Une sortie avec mes amis” with a heavy grammar focus including: Do now multiple choice worksheet with a challenge for early finishers. Mini whiteboard breakdown tasks on the formation of the passé composé: avoir and etre with a range of verbs (including common irregular verbs.) Consolidation task on passé composé (match-up) with a challenge. Listening task (that can be done as a grammar gapfill for more able students.) Tangled translation passé composé task as a scaffold before independent writing task. Independent writing task with connectives to include to improve students’ writing. All answers included! Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Theme 3 on the AQA GCSE specification. Tried and tested lesson on “ma matière moins/plus préférée” including: Do now activity to re-cap subjects and giving opinions of them. Do Now activity includes an extension task that is accessible to all students. Fill in the grid based on the subjects they do / don’t study: students will categorise different school subjects (mostly cognates) according to what they do / don’t study in school. Mini whiteboard translation task: students will have to assemble the words in French from the screen into the right order so that it matches the English sentence. Complete the phrases / antonynms in English: this task helps students consider the opposite of what they may wish to say in their writing and helps them access more complex phrases in a simple way. A challenge is included in this task which shadows the final writing task. A short writing task x2 sentences to describe what students’ most and least favourite school subjects are including the complex phrases from the previous slide. In addition, there are some idioms which students can use in their writing along with connectives that will help them write contrasting statements e.g. “De l’autre coté”. Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Theme 2 on the AQA GCSE specification. Tried and tested lesson on “s’il fait beau, je voudrais” [If the weather is good, I would like to] including: Do Now activity to be printed: multiple choice and an accessible challenge. A 5 word vocabulary test of key verbs across the GCSE which are relevant to this topic. Consolidation of different type of weather [add your own images - I can’t add them here due to copyright] A writing task where students have to decide what the weather is across various cities in France. A sentence builder in the format: If the weather is …, I would like to go to… and … with my friend. I think it would be … The last survivor listening game. Listen and fill in the gaps to form a reading comprehension task. A reading comprehension task which requires translation of key language. A scaffolded writing task including key phrases to include, connectives and idioms for higher tier writing. 4, 3, 2 speaking task: a task designed to help students commit the writing piece they just produced to memory by performing it 3 times within a short allotted period of time. Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Theme 3 on the AQA GCSE specification. Tried and tested lesson on Direct object pronouns with which school subjects you like / dislike and why including: Do now activity to re-cap subjects, lesson times and giving opinions of subjects. Do Now activity includes an extension task that is accessible to all students. Explicit explanation of what direct object pronouns are A slide demonstrating the formation of direct object pronouns: colour coded and presented in a way which helps students associate the rule to the correct form of the direct object pronouns. Mini whiteboard practice to consolidate this rule e.g. ‘I like French’ becomes, ‘I like it.’ There are seven examples for students to complete with a range of different school subjects so that they have a range of practice. Faulty echo reading activity: teacher reads text and says some of the words wrong / changes the words; students have to read and shout out the correct word according to the text. Reading comprehension: true or false based on the faulty echo task. Two accessible extension tasks included on the comprehension task to help students build on top of their knowledge. Writing task based on the reading task which scaffolds students’ learning so that they can write a similar text to the reading comprehension: there are some idioms on this slide which students can use in their writing along with connectives that will help them write contrasting statements e.g. “De l’autre côté" Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Theme 1 on the AQA GCSE specification. Tried and tested lesson on “Je m’entends bien avec” including: Consolidation of masculine / feminine adjectival agreement Key structures to be used throughout the lesson A worksheet (I recommend printing x3 A5 slides to x1 A4 page: this allows students to stick it in their books on the blank A5 page.) A sentence builder to be used with a mini whiteboard task. Parallel translations (writing the French and the English simultaneously) Four similar reading texts with three accompanying tasks. A reading task slide that can be printed seperately. A writing task with connectives to include to improve students’ writing. Thank-you for choosing my resource!

To be printed and displayed in a classroom or at the front of students’ books. I recommend: Size A3/A2 laminated for a display Size A5 for student books You will have to add your own images due to copyright. I recommend icons from Google Images. Thank-you for choosing my resource!

To be printed and displayed in a classroom or at the front of students’ books. I recommend: Size A3/A2 laminated for a display Size A5 for student books You will have to add your own images due to copyright. I recommend icons from Google Images. Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Powerpoint that can be used for GCSE and A-Level. Both the actual and literal translation is provided for each of the 18 idioms; this is to make language stick! Simply add images (I recommend icons from google images) and print off to make a fantastic classroom display that will give studnents access to higher tier language. I recommend printing them A3 and laminte them. Also, these can be printed into a booklet: this is a must have for students aiming between a grade 6-9. Thank-you for choosing my resource!

Powerpoint that can be used for GCSE and A-Level. Both the actual and literal translation is provided for each of the 17 idioms; this is to make language stick! Simply add images (I recommend icons from google images) and print off to make a fantastic classroom display that will give studnents access to higher tier language. I recommend printing them A3 and laminte them. Also, these can be printed into a booklet: this is a must have for students aiming between a grade 6-9. Thank-you for choosing my resource!