I am a French native speaker, really enthusiastic about teaching my language and sharing resources. I spent all my childhood in France. I moved to England eight years ago to do a Masters in Education and Modern Foreign Languages. I then did my teacher training (PGCE) in Modern Foreign languages, at King's College, in London and was in charge of the French department in a London private school for many years. I now teach and work as a Housemistress in a British school, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I am a French native speaker, really enthusiastic about teaching my language and sharing resources. I spent all my childhood in France. I moved to England eight years ago to do a Masters in Education and Modern Foreign Languages. I then did my teacher training (PGCE) in Modern Foreign languages, at King's College, in London and was in charge of the French department in a London private school for many years. I now teach and work as a Housemistress in a British school, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A lesson with two editable worksheets and a power-point (10-15 slides each on average).
Please remember to read the teaching tips under some slides :-)
- A starter activity with a challenge
- Clear learning objectives
- Homework ideas
- Several listening comprehension activities with a worksheet
- Challenge tasks throughout the lesson
- Vocabulary building activities
- Grammar explanation 'on peut + infinitive' and other grammar revision
- A worksheet which games to practise the vocabulary
LESSON 1 is FREE here so you can check the standard of my resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-free-allez-1-unit-5-1-deux-les-editable-11593802
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
All the lessons with editable worksheets and power-points (10-15 slides each on average) for Unit 4 Allez 1
UNIT 4 - A table!
5 whole lessons + all the worksheets
- Starter activities for each lesson + learning objectives + challenge activities throughout the power-point
- Vocabulary games and worksheet with challenge activities
- Grammar explanation on negative forms and verbs of opinion
- Several writing activities about your favorite restaurant
- Survey activity on likes and dislikes
- Translation exercises
- A writing activity to use longer sentences and verbs of opinion + infinitive
- Homework to follow up what has been seen in the lesson
- Grammar explanation on the partitive with worksheets to practise
- Homework ideas to follow up what has been seen in the lesson
- Grammar explanation on infinitives and conjugating -er verbs
- A lesson on infinitives and how to conjugate -er verbs
- A worksheet explaining the steps of conjugating an -er verb
- A fun mime the verb game
- A mini-whiteboard game to practise conjugating -er verbs
- Grammar explanation on numbers and quantities
- Learn high numbers to be able to give prices and quantities
- Mini-whiteboard activities about numbers and quantities
- Games with prices
- Dialogue worksheets to build up to role-play activity
- A number worksheet
- Put the dialogue back in order worksheet to help with role-play activity
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
A lesson with worksheets, a lesson plan and a power-point to cover the vocabulary and a grammar point on environment.
Do not forget to read teaching tips under slides.
The objectives of the lesson are:
To learn new opinion phrases.
To learn how to say “we must” and “we should” in French.
- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power-point
- A full lesson plan
- Vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities
- Homework ideas to follow up what has been seen in the lesson
- A lesson on opinions and model verbs
- A reading comprehension worksheet
- A fun teacher vs pupils vocabulary game
- A mini-whiteboard game to practise conjugating -er verbs
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
All the lessons with editable worksheets and power-points (10-15 slides each on average) for Unit 1 Allez 1
UNIT 1 - Je parle de moi
5 whole lessons + 1 FREE lesson + end of unit test
- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power-point
- Vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities
- Speaking and writing activities to be able to talk about yourself (age, name, family)
- Learn this alphabet (link to songs on the power-point)
- Countries + game on flags
- Talk about your nationality (gender and adjective agreement)
- Definite and indefinite articles (le/la/les - un/une/des)
- Say where you live and where you used to live (survey activity with editable worksheet)
- Work on formulating simple questions in French
- Avoir with a dice game and grammar activities to practise this irregular verb
- Numbers up to 31 + months + seasons + birthday + date
- Talk about your favorite object
- Colours + adjective agreement
- A worksheet to accompany each power-point
- A revision worksheet to practise the vocabulary and grammar points seen in the unit
- Writing end of unit test + a vocabulary test
- Mon autoportrait (description of your hair and eyes) (lesson 4 FREE - link below)
LESSON 4 is FREE here so you can check the standard of my resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-free-allez-1-unit-1-3-mon-autoportrait-editable-11250669
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
LESSON 1 - UNIT 2 - La télé, ma réalité
A power-point with plenty of activities and nice resources to teach this lesson.
- Learn the vocabulary linked to TV programs
- Give your opinion about TV programs
- Revise the plural of nouns and adjectives
- Direct Object pronouns explained clearly and progressively to KS3 pupils
- Written and spoken exercises to practise using direct object pronouns
- A role play on direct object pronouns
- A worksheet with a dialogue to practise the speaking
- Homework to practise the work done
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on the rules or the activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
{Noël/Christmas} - JOYEUX NOEL - Etude du film {KS4 - KS5} - CHRISTMAS movie
A perfect movie to study before Christmas and enough resources for a week or two of teaching on the movie and the first world war.
I have also attached the link of the movie in French with English subtitles on the power-point.
Age rating: 12 (I would say it is more suitable for KS4 and KS5)
When you can play this movie and complete this study guide:
- Co-curricular with History
- A good film to study if you visit the battlefields in the East of France
- It is also a very good end of term Christmas movie
I have also attached the links of all the French booklets I used to help me create these resources.
In this bundle, you will find a power-point to accompany the worksheets I created to study this period of History and the film.
You will also find a Quiz and a worksheet on the main characters of the movie, an article on the main battles and a reading comprehension to develop their vocabulary range on the topic of war. A summary of the film with a worksheet to complete. A slide on the influences and everything that inspired Christian Carion as well as a task for the students to complete. A Quiz on the first world war to allow them to make independent research on the topic.
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
ESSAY WRITING - Le subjonctif - Use it in essay writing - based on No et moi - A-level - FRENCH
A complete study guide to the use of subjunctive in essays, this lesson is based on the novel No et moi but could easily be adapted to other books. Ideal to teach your students how to get extra marks in the writing section of the New A-level.
This resource includes:
A power-point with plenty of questions to guide your students through the use of the subjunctive
An editable worksheet to teach subjunctive structures to your students and sentence building
A lesson that will help your students to understand how they can improve their essay writing
For reference, I use the No et moi, Le Livre de Poche which costs £6.30 on Amazon.
For the entire book study:
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
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All my resources contain a starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power-points + vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities
Learn how to use possessive adjectives with clothes
Revise adjective agreement with colors and clothes
A weather forecast project and speaking activity
Learn weather phrases in French with one direction
A reading and writing activity about the weather in France
Learn how to pronounce clothes with different activities
Revise colors and learn about textures
A speaking activity on clothes and time phrases
A first introduction to the verb ‘porter’
A fun reading and writing activity on clothes and style
Learn how to pronounce activities you do during the week
Revise the verbs ‘jouer’ and ‘faire’ in the present tense + preposition
Plenty of speaking exercises and games on activities and sport
Grammar explanation on jouer + preposition
Learn how to pronounce the time and daily routine reflexive verbs
Learn how to tell the time in French and write it
Learn how to use reflexive verbs in the present tense
Plenty of mini-whiteboard activities to practise the time
A worksheet to practise the use of reflexive verbs and write using them
Les vacances vocabulary build up with infinitive activities
Le futur proche with grammar lesson
Types of accommodation to go on holidays
What I take with me on holiday - In my suitcase activity
Sentence building activity with opinions
Countries - activities with flags
Reading activity in the present and near future
The near future tense - talk about your ideal holiday - grammar point with plenty of activities to practise
Translation exercises
Mini-whiteboard activities to practise writing in the near future and past tenses
Listening activity on the past tense (email me if you would like it)
Use of time phrases in the past
Vocabulary building activities to learn verbs and phrases about holiday activities
J’aimerais/je voudrais - talk about your ideal holiday
jouer à + ball sport (grammar rule + a range of activities and worksheets to stretch your students)
Some speaking activities with mini-whiteboards to practise using time phrases
Faire du/de la/des/de l’ + other sports
Rule on the negative form (ne…pas and ne…jamais)
A writing activity on the sports they play and do
A kinesthetic activity on winter and summer sport with attached sheets
A fun speaking game to practise complex structures with rules and explanation
A listening activity on winter and summer sports (need the textbook and Allez 1 audio files)
A sample of a role-play on sport (practise in class and adapt it)
Using the conditional with extreme sports to stretch their vocabulary
A listening activity on the sports they would like to do (need the textbook and Allez 1 audio files)
A writing activity using the present and conditional
Learn new vocabulary on illnesses such as (j’ai une migraine, j’ai un rhume, je me suis cassé la jambe…) to stretch your class on the topic.
A power-point on the past tense with avoir and être
Plenty of mini-whiteboard activities using the past tense
A dictionary activity on irregular past participle
Several writing activities in the past tense
Translation activities to practise using the past tense
Some speaking activities with mini-whiteboards to practise using time phrases
Speaking game to practise the near future tense and phrases on volunteering
Grammar point on the near future tense (revision)
Vocabulary building activities to learn new phrases on volunteering
Grammar points with plenty of activities to practise reflexive verbs in the past tense
Mini-whiteboard activity to revise the time and reflexive verbs
Vocabulary building activities on daily routine activities
Listening activity on time + daily routine activities (you will need access to Allez 1 audio files)
Grammar points with plenty of activities to practise the comparative
Kineasthetic activity on comparatives
Plenty of FREE lessons in my shop so you can check the standard of my resources!
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
Allez 1 - Unit 7.4 - Un tour du monde - 7.4 - holiday - past tense with avoir - Mrs Vandertramp - irregular past participles in the past - KS3 French
This resource includes a worksheet and a power-point (about 30 slides) on the topic of holidays and the past tense with avoir and être. 3 hours worth of teaching material and content.
Fully editable power-point (do not forget to read the teaching tips and links under some slides)
Worksheet to accompany the power-point
The past tense - talk about what you did in your last holiday - grammar point with plenty of activities to practise
Writing and translation exercises
Grammar exercises to build confidence using the past tense
Grammar explanation slides so it is clear for your students
Listening activity on the past tense (email me if you would like it)
Starter activities + plenary + challenge tasks for the most able
Reading activities (need access to the textbook)
Speaking games to practise the pronounciation of the verbs in the past
Mini-whiteboard activities to practise writing in the past tense with irregular verbs and Mrs Vandertramp verbs
Use of time phrases in the past
Vocabulary building activities to learn verbs and phrases about holiday activities
If you would like to check the standard of my resources, you can download unit 7.3 of the same chapter for FREE, in my shop.
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
Allez 2 - Unit 4.3 - les ados et les pressions - pressures - imperative - KS3 French
This resource includes two worksheets and a power-point on the topic of pressures that face teenagers. There is also a grammar explanation and practice on the imperative.
Fully editable power-point
Worksheets to accompany the power-point
Grammar points with plenty of activities to practise the imperative
Survey to do around the class
Reading and listening activity (Kerboodle needed)
Vocabulary building activities on pressures faced by teenagers
A starter activity + plenary + challenge tasks for the most able
If you would like to check the standard of my resources, you can download FREE lessons on Allez 1 and 2, in my shop.
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
All my resources contain a starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power-points + vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities.
Grammar points with activities on phrasal verbs, modal verbs and verbs of opinion + infinitive
Grammar point with activities on impersonal structures and the negative form
Formal and informal sentences
Develop arguments for and against new technologies
Grammar points with plenty of activities to practise the imperative
Grammar points with plenty of activities to practise the imperfect
Grammar points with plenty of activities to practise modal verbs
Grammar points with plenty of activities to practise direct object pronouns
Grammar points with activities on irregular adjectives
Grammar point on verbs of preferences + opinions
Grammar points with plenty of activities to practise the past tense
Grammar explanation on adjective agreement
Revise the plural of nouns and adjectives
Direct Object pronouns explained clearly and progressively to KS3 pupils
Written and spoken exercises to practise using direct object pronouns
A role play on direct object pronouns
Grammar points with plenty of activities to practise faire + inf. and rendre + adj.
Sentence building activity on comparatives
A lesson on comparatives to build up the vocabulary range of your students
Fill the gaps activity on the perfect tense (revision of the perfect tense)
Vocabulary building activities on pressures faced by teenagers
Vocabulary building activities on new technologies
Vocabulary building activities on what people used to do compared to what they do now
Vocabulary building activities on house chores, numbers and modal verbs
Give your opinion on music
Vocabulary building activities on types of music
Research work on music
Time phrases activity and vocabulary building
Give your opinion on books
Vocabulary building activities on types of books
Learn the vocabulary linked to TV programs
Give your opinion about TV programs
Writing activities on a French cartoon character and a famous French character
A fun Kinesthetic game on the differences between France and Great Britain
Quizzes on French famous characters and French cartoons
Reading activity on dates
Vocabulary worksheets to be able to give complex opinions
Mini-whiteboard competition on imperfect verb endings
Speaking game to build sentences with opinions in the imperfect tense
A trancript and activity linked to a listening exercise on the imperfect that I created (please email me so I can forward the audio file to you)
Revise high numbers with plenty of games + use of mini-whiteboards
Surveys to do around the class
Translation activities with mini-whiteboards
Speaking activity on cinema and opinion about movies
How to formulate questions and answer in the third person
Writing activity on cinema and past tense
Writing activity on relationships
Homework : creative writing task/create poster in groups
Homework task on the imperfect tense
An adjective agreement game to do in class with all the students (see explanation under the slide)
Reading activity on French geography (comparisons)
Role-play activities
Plickers activity (see website to use it)
Plenty of FREE lessons in my shop so you can check the standard of my resources!
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
All the lessons with editable worksheets and power-points (10-15 slides each on average) for Unit 4 Allez 1
UNIT 5 - Mon quartier
5 whole lessons + all the worksheets
Please do not forget to read the teaching tips under some slides :-)
- A starter activity with a challenge
- Vocabulary build up with worksheets
- Challenge tasks throughout the lesson
- Homework ideas for each lesson
- Editable power-points
- Fun and challenging writing activities
- Speaking activities on town
- A grammar explanation of ‘il y a’ and ‘il n’y a pas’
- Several listening comprehension activities with a worksheet
- Grammar explanation ‘on peut + infinitive’ and other grammar revision
- A song with lyrics created and sang by me with a link to the Youtube video
- Vocabulary building activities to teach directions
- A grammar explanation on the imperative with exercises to practice
- A grammar worksheet on the imperative in French
- Role-play activity
- An iPhone activity
- A grammar explanation on modal verbs
- A grammar explanation of prepositions with ‘de’ and exercises to practice
- A grammar worksheet on prepositions in French
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
A lesson with two worksheets and a power-point (10-15 slides each on average).
Please remember to read the teaching tips under most slides :-)
- A starter activity with a challenge
- Clear learning objectives
- Homework ideas
- A listening comprehension activity with a worksheet
- Challenge tasks throughout the lesson
- Vocabulary building activities to teach activities students want to do
- Worksheets to practise the vocabulary
- Role-play activity
- An iPhone activity
- A grammar explanation on modal verbs
- A grammar worksheet to accompany the power-point
LESSON 1 is FREE here so you can check the standard of my resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-free-allez-1-unit-5-1-deux-les-editable-11593802
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
A lesson with an editable worksheet and a power-point (10-15 slides each on average).
- Numbers up to 31
- Months
- Seasons
- Birthday
- Date
- A revision worksheet to practise the vocabulary
LESSON 4 is FREE here so you can check the standard of my resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-free-allez-1-unit-1-3-mon-autoportrait-editable-11250669
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
Two lessons with editable worksheets and power-points (10-15 slides each on average).
- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power-point
- Vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities
- Speaking and writing activities to be able to talk about yourself (age, name, family)
- Learn this alphabet (link to songs on the power-point)
- Say where you live and where you used to live (survey activity with editable worksheet)
- Work on formulating simple questions in French
- Vocabulary test
LESSON 4 is FREE here so you can check the standard of my resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-free-allez-1-unit-1-3-mon-autoportrait-editable-11250669
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
An introduction lesson and the first two lessons of theme 3 to help you teach the new French specification.
- introduction of the theme with an interactive quiz and activities
- plenty of questions to generate discussion on this new topic
- a lot of activities to develop skills for the examination
- speaking, listening, reading and writing activities
- how to give figures in French about voluntary work
- homework activities (written homework)
- the future tense
- connectives
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on the activities, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would advise you to get the Oxford AQA French textbook as well as Kerboodle and all the new ZigZag booklets. See details under the slides.
I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
All the lessons with editable power-points (10-15 slides each on average) for Unit 6, Allez 1
UNIT 6 - C’est mon truc - KS3
5 whole lessons + all the worksheets
Please do not forget to read the teaching tips under some slides :-)
Learn how to use possessive adjectives with clothes
Revise adjective agreement with colors and clothes
A weather forecast project and speaking activity
Learn weather phrases in French with one direction
A reading and writing activity about the weather in France
Learn how to pronounce clothes with different activities
Revise colors and learn about textures
A speaking activity on clothes and time phrases
A first introduction to the verb ‘porter’
A fun reading and writing activity on clothes and style
Learn how to pronounce activities you do during the week
Revise the verbs ‘jouer’ and ‘faire’ in the present tense + preposition
Plenty of speaking exercises and games on activities and sport
Grammar explanation on jouer + preposition
A worksheet to build up vocabulary
Homework to consolidate the topic
Learn how to pronounce the time and daily routine reflexive verbs
Learn how to tell the time in French and write it
Learn how to use reflexive verbs in the present tense
Plenty of mini-whiteboard activities to practise the time
A worksheet to practise the use of reflexive verbs and write using them
Plenty of challenge activities for your most able students
No et moi - Le jeu de Poursuite - Revision of the entire book!!!
I created this game for my students so they could revise everything we saw in two years.
It is a nice game to finish the year and check their understanding.
In this game, students will be able to revise:
the main characters (Lou, No, Lucas)
the other characters (Lou’s parents, Mr Marin…)
Themes
Context and language
It is a very complete revision game and a nice way to make them revise! Enjoy!
For the full book study, please follow this link (this game is included in it!!):
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/no-et-moi-etude-des-chapitres-1-55-the-entire-book-study-worth-more-than-pounds-66-more-than-pounds-24-of-offered-resources-11886329
Also, do not hesitate to check my FREE resources on No et moi available in my shop!
Here is Chapter 47 for free:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/no-et-moi-chapitre-47-free-11879122
And here is a FREE character study:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/no-et-moi-les-personnages-full-study-of-characters-full-essay-tips-free-11865603
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
Easter egg hunt - La chasse à l’oeuf
A fun game to do before the end of term to make your brain cells work with fun enigmas in French! Everything has been created for you and all the resources have an editable version so you can adapt them to your own school. I have added some pictures of the game once printed to help you visualize it. I would advise you to laminate everything if you want it to last. :-)
Clear rules in English are provided and check the instructions under each slide of the power-point (notes section).
7 enigmas with 4 routes around the school (for four teams)
An EDITABLE power-point with all the enigmas and the material needed to play
Pictures of the final game to help you visualize it
My students completed it under 50 minutes and you can make it harder depending on the year group. I played it with Y10, 12 and 13 and they were all able to complete the game with the right level of challenge.
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on the rules or the activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden
Les animaux, les nombres, les adjectifs et les couleurs - 3 LESSONS
Ideal lesson for year 7 or primary. Several cross-curricular Maths and French activities.
It could be used with any textbook really but I use it with Allez 1.
- French numbers with games and a lot of visual activities
- Two worksheets to accompany the power-points
- A survey activity to get the students talking in French
- A clear learning objective with a starter activity
- Challenge activities throughout the power-point
- Guess what is missing game
- Practise asking questions in French and answering them
- Adjective position in the sentence with a written activity to practise
- Create a column chart with the most popular animal in the class
- Homework ideas
- A reading activity to work out the meaning of colors and adjectives
- A full grammar explanation on adjective agreement
- Fill the gaps reading exercise on adjectives
- A quiz plenary to check understanding
- A power-point on numbers from 0-60 with possibility to use mini-whiteboards
LESSON 3.1 is FREE here so you can check the standard of my resources:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/allez-1-unit-3-chez-moi-3-1-6389725
I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message. I would really appreciate some feedback :-) Thank you very much.
@EloCamden