Lesson slides I used with my Year 7s to consolidate knowledge of personality and body descriptions.

Each slide has learning purposes and teaching instructions. Full lesson on writing an invitation to a friend in French. Used with my Year 10 French for Business group, but these slides are useful for any group. Whiteboard translation races and ‘write the word that disappears’ activities, which are great for getting the students into a habit of reading for precision. Features a fun ‘Where is Mbappé?’ translation square game.

Full lesson on practising months, numbers, and learning how to say the date of your birthday. Includes a link to a song for them to sing. Includes a class birthday survey and a match-up task with famous French figures for a bit of fun. Finishes with a challenging sentence un-scramble. This could easily be split into 2 lessons, depending on timing.

For Year 7s beginning to describe personalities. Used for my Year 7s who had previously covered physical descriptions. PowerPoint begins with retrieval of avoir, age, physical appearance. Then introduction to personality adjectives - sound-symbol correspondence at first using images. Fun listening comprehension activities such as slap the board, Beat the Teacher, the picture slides can be used for various activities like this. Vocab match-up and explicit masculine/feminine grammar focus at end.

PowerPoint recapping the conjugation of avoir in the present-tense, leading to explicit instruction of forming* le passé composé* with regular verbs. Starter is matching up translations relevant to the topic of la technologie and les reseaux sociaux. Then, a quickfire mini-whiteboard quiz on the conjugations of avoir (good for AfL). Followed by explanation of the ‘formula’ for the past tense, then a noughts and crosses game for students to produce language. Concludes with a gap-fill reading activity written ‘from the POV of Mbappé’ for a bit of fun. Homework consolidation task is to write their own short paragraph describing what they did last weekend. I used this with my Year 10 group, but it can be adapted to suit different classes!