I am putting here Activities that I have found made by La Poste. It includes a French teacher pack to guide teacher towards writing a letter and teaching culture. It also has a PowerPoint with the links towards drawing activities to be sent to children in hospitals, recipes in French, a Christmas tale, sleep countdown, folding “une cocotte” with sentences about Chritsmas history and traditions that students can fold and use to present them to other people. Lesson to write and send a Christmas letter to Santa Claus: Lettre au Père Noël l

Concept of the booklet: The concept of this Conversation booklet (Edexcel) is straightforward - Simple questions, Complex answers. The aim of this speaking booklet is to enhance students’ results by removing (as much as possible) the first layer of difficulty when it comes to the conversation task: understanding the question. To do this, the 9 questions per theme follow the pattern below: Parle-moi de… present tense (x2) Qu’est-ce que tu penses de… Opinion (x3) ___ dernier/dernière, … past tense (x2) _____ prochain / prochaine,… future tense (x2) Opinion questions: you can also ask them a closed question always starting with « tu aimes…? » and coach them to develop their answers. Eg: « tu aimes le foot? » rather than «Qu’est-ce que tu penses du foot? » The booklet also contains: Presentation of the conversation task (what, timings, themes and topics) Presentation of the top band markscheme for Higher and Foundation. Language elements to meet each requirement of the markscheme. One minute presentation: writing frame (designed by a colleague of mine) for Higher and Foundation + space to write. 5 themes that each includes: –> A list of what is included in the theme –> Model answers (WAGOLL), divided in “Grade 3”, “Grade 4/5”, “Grade 6+”, translated and with a paragraph explaining why it’s a good answer against the markscheme. This is being done for a question asking for present tense, for an opinion, for past tenses and for future tenses, for each theme (a total of 20 models analysed against the mark scheme). –> 9 questions as detailed above –> Elements to stretch their answers. Click here for full conversation booklet

Pearson’s poster “See yourself as…”. Great posters of different jobs that you can do with languages, a variety of ethnic background. Straight to the point, they give the main information through a big title to cath the attention then more details once you get closer. Took me a while to find online and here they are for you to download and display! Also included is a banner to display on top of your board !

Lesson aimed for a set 2 Year 8 and differentiated for a set 5. Objective: give your opinion about different music genres and justify it. This lesson contains activities designed by a colleague that I have used and adapted in my lesson. Lesson 1: Revision of basic opinion in Spanish + introduction of music genres in Spanish (activities from a colleague adapted) Lesson 2: Practice of opinion + music genre in differentiated readings (mix of my resources and my colleague’s). Lesson 3: Writing with a writing frame (differentiated, pushing set 2 a lot further) whilst listening to music (Spanish / French / English). (My resources, except Plenary).

Aimed at Yr11 Foundation sets covering jobs and how to say what you would like to be. The activities are differentiated. 2 lessons of 1 hour each. Lesson 1: Starts with conjugation of travailler in all tenses, with “je”, “on” and “ils” line. Then reading to cover the vocabulary of jobs and what each person does “policier - j’arrête les criminels”. Grammar: feminine and masculine of jobs. Lesson 2: Starter contains past paper questions revising Theme 1. The lesson covers qualities for each job (travailleur/euse, courageux/euse) and the type of job (varied, manuel, with good prospects…) with a sentence builder and a writing/speaking activity. Reading activity introduces higher sentence starters (my dream job would be, I don’t know what to do when I’m older but,…). Leads up to a writing. Check up my other resources if you like this one !

Aimed at Yr11 Higher sets covering jobs and how to say what you would like to be. The activities are differentiated. 2 lessons of 1 hour each. Lesson 1: Starts with conjugation of travailler in all tenses, with “je”, “on” and “ils” line. Then reading to cover the vocabulary of jobs and what each person does “policier - j’arrête les criminels”. Grammar: feminine and masculine of jobs. Lesson 2: Starter contains past paper questions revising Theme 1. The lesson covers qualities for each job (travailleur/euse, courageux/euse) and the type of job (varied, manuel, with good prospects…) with a sentence builder and a writing/speaking activity. Reading activity introduces higher sentence starters (my dream job would be, I don’t know what to do when I’m older but,…). Leads up to a writing. Check up my other resources if you like this one, especially the next lesson: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12915678

3 posters “20 things you didn’t know about Languages” + their broken down version to print bigger! Posters were downloaded for free from https://edl.ecml.at/ Part of a set up for a treasure hunt: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12909687

All the theme 1 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).

Lesson covering what makes student “tick”, what subject matters to them (family, friends, studies, health…) as well as the grammar point ce qui vs ce que as a translation for “what”. A one hour lesson. Introduction of the vocabulary with an unjumbling exercise (translation to unjumble), followed by a study of possible justification of what matters for them with a sentence builder, consolidated by a cloze writing exercise as well as a pair speaking activity (stolen sentences), leading towards a listening and a complex translation into French.

A one hour lesson covering the vocabulary of part time jobs and chores, as well as earnings. Aimed at a lower set of Yr11s. Starter: picture description (theme 4). Language presentation: match up the French and the image with the help of the infinitive verbs given to the students for each picture (extension: conjugate each action in the perfect tense). Practice through a past paper listening (Theme 4 - 2021). Reading to expose to more complex material. Listening based on the reading just done and adding earnings. Translation from a past paper (Theme 4 - 2021).

Two lessons of 50 min / an hour each Lesson 1: revision of question word + questions that will be used to prepare the Role play (from lesson On se retrouve où?) Lesson 2: introduction of Speaking exam + what a Role play looks like + practice of a role play. Edit: 12/02/2024 Lesson two now contains a peer-assessment grid, including pronunciation and flow (useful to train for the picture task and conversation).

Objective: raise awarness about all the languages that gravitates around us, and that there is no such thing as “I only speak English” A language ID for students to fill in that includes: Their mother Tongue Language they are fluent in Language they speak well Language they understand well Language they are learning Language they know words of Language they hear a lot Language they would like to learn Language they like the sound of (To be) launched in Assembly for European Day of Languages 2023! Check it out: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12909684

Display with the longest words in several languages, created for European Day of Languages. Created from https://edl.ecml.at/Fun/Longestwords/tabid/3114/language/Default.aspx Part of a set up for a Treasure Hunt, check it out: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12909687

All the theme 2 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).

All the theme 5 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).

All the theme 4 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).

All the theme 3 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).

All the theme 1 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).

All the theme 5 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).

All the theme 4 exercises in the following skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. From Edexcel past papers from 2018 to 2023 (included). Included: transcript and answers. Included: in the note under the side, you will see the year of the paper (that way you can plan around the papers you are going to use for MOCKs).