Spelling Bee PowerPoint and lesson plan to cover one or two lessons. In our school we celebrate the Euro Day of Langs with a Spelling Bee for Year 7 of words from French, Spanish, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Croatian. This would need adapting to your school but is a suggested outline of how to conduct a year group-wide spelling bee.

High ability GCSE resource explaining direct object pronouns and agreement of past participle. Includes exercises, some of which are adapted from Steve Smith's Frenchteacher.net. Examples go with describing a house topic area from Encore Tricolore 4 and was part of a unit where students had to pretend to be estate agents.

The first page is a transcript of a YouTube clip about the modern family as seen through the past two 'first families&' of France (Sarkozys and Hollandes). The SECOND AND THIRD PAGES are the student worksheets. Quite challenging for Year 12 but do-able and interesting!

This worksheet has an explanation and some exercises on using the pronoun 'y' in French.

Worksheet and link to YouTUbe clip of the song 'Je suis une pizza&'. Can be used to practise DU / DE LA / DES or food vocab. Maddeningly catchy! Kids love it.

YouTube video listening comprehension leading to a ranking activity for speaking. This worked very well with my Year 12 French class. It gave them lots of reasons to encourage people to do sport and it also led to some useful discussions about word families: la perte / perdre, for example.

Sorting activity for 6th form. Students decided whether a statement is a cause, consequence or solution of unemployment. Good basis for a discursive essay (Edexcel A2) on le chomage.

Introduction to Nominative and accusative cases via classroom objects vocab. Also includes haben. Translation exercises. For beginners.

This is a resource for S3/Y8/Y9 French to practise reading and writing about ‘La personne que j’admire’ (Studio AQA Textbook) and films and TV. It can of course be adapted to suit the phrases you want them to practise. I will use it with mini-whiteboards and as a basis for preparing for a writing test. Credit to Gianfranco Conti for the mosaic writing: his CPD and blog are where I got the idea.

Listening activity requiring use of iPads or smartphones. Each of the QR codes in this document links to me talking about a TV programme. Stick the QR codes separately around the room. Students must scan the code using a QR code scanner app on their phone or on an iPad, which will then link to the website containing the audio file. Students must listen to each soundbite (encourage them to use headphones) and complete the gap-fill. This works excellently when students work in pairs. Collaborative, independent listening! A winner.

This powerpoint introduces the perfect tense, based on Echo 2. It was made following a CPD course I attended by Gianfranco Conti, and is intended for use with his style of mini-whiteboard listening and reading comprehension exercises for phonics and vocab introduction. The following slides then draw pupils’ attention to the language patterns and can be completed orally or in writing.

To practise au / a la / aux and du / de la / des - partitive. Eg. Au tabac j'achete des timbres. Goes with Encore Tricolore 2 Unit 1. Translation exercises.

GCSE reading activity on description of a town - in this case, Montréal. Comprehension and vocabulary-building. Could also be used as a model text for students' own writing pieces.

A difficult text about alternative energies and other solutions to global warming, with different vocab / verb conjugation activities embedded into it. For use with Sixth Form classes in environment topic.

Exercises on identifying nominative, accusative and dative, then adding adjective endings accordingly.

Negation using kein - food and drink - explanation and exercises.

Zum Fruehstueck esse ich...Simple reading activity - good for homework

Buying food using quantities and DE. Includes vocab and dialogue prompts

Song by Aldebert about l'amitié - ordering and gap fill with answers. Qu&'est-ce qu&';un bon ami? To fit with Edexcel AS Youth Culture - Relations topic

Explanation of negative formation and translation exercises using ne...pas and ne...plus. Created for Encore Tricolore 2 Unit 1

Web-based research activity for Sixth Formers. They must use French Wikipedia to complete a gap-fill worksheet and fill in an overview of the Education system in France.