Activity to practise French speaking. 26x printable French identity cards including name, nationality, age, birthday, brothers & sisters and pets. Perfect activity for consolidating a unit of work on ‘about me’. You could challenge students to ask all questions to as many people as possible or turn it into a ‘find someone who…’ activity to ensure that students listen to others’ answers.

Worksheet to introduce or revise the passé composé French past tense. There is space to write out avoir and etre in the present tense and then there are English sentences to translate into French to practise the tense; 8x avoir sentences and 8x etre sentences. Worksheet suitable for a medium to high ability GCSE class or for a high ability KS3 class.

Worksheet to revise etre verbs in the passé composé and to learn or revise irregular past participles. There is space to write in the verbs that take etre using the DR MRS VANDERTRAMP mnemonic. There are then 10 sentences to translate into French with a mixture of avoir and etre verbs so that students have to think carefully about whether it is an avoir or etre sentence. There is a grid to fill out with common verbs with irregular past participles. There are 6 sentences to translate into French using verbs with irregular past participles. Worksheet suitable for a higher ability GCSE class or for AS/ A level revision.

List of French numbers up to 300. Useful as numbers revision sheet or numbers reference sheet.

Lesson introducing pets/ animals vocabulary in French. The vocabulary is introduced with images and a slap the board game. There is then a simple writing activity to help students practise making nouns plural in French.

Activity to practise all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in French around giving opinions on leisure/ free time activities. I have used this activity with a high ability year 7 or 8 class or with a year 9 class as revision. Use with grids in Word documents. Students complete in teams – one student per team may be on their feet at any one time. Filled in grids of the model text need to be stuck up around the room. One student per team goes to the model text, remembers what they can and dictates it to their team member, who fills in the empty grid (one word per box). Model texts may not be taken down. Students may not stand by model text and shout bits of their text back to their team (reading and writing). First team to finish wins but there are also points for accuracy. One point is available per box completed.

Powerpoint to revise free time activities and opinions in Spanish. Includes find the errors sentences and two slides with games (images flying across the screen and trap door sentences game - guess partner’s sentence with lots of opportunities for repetition and speaking practice).

Lesson on giving opinions and reasons about what students like to wear/ their clothes. The lesson revises clothes vocabulary (including adding adjectives) and then moves on to building complex opinion sentences e.g. j’aime porter un jean parce que je pense que c’est assez confortable et chic. There is a speaking/listening game to practise putting together these sentences and a writing activity.

Lesson introducing students to what an infinitive is. This is then built on when introducing the easy future tense in French using aller in the present tense. Dictionary activity and translation activity with answers included.

First lesson on giving opinions about school subjects. There is an interactive noughts and crosses game to revise school subjects. This could be played in 2 teams as a whole class on the whiteboard. There are slides to introduce opinion phrases and to facilitate a discussion about why we add ‘n’ to ‘me gusta’ for plural subjects and why ‘odio’ is the odd one out. There is an activity where students work out what the sentences need to be for the images provided - answers in slide notes. They are simple sentences such as me gusta la historia. There is an interactive team game to practise these simple sentences further. The class is divided into 2 teams and given numbers. When you call out a number, the 2 children with that number need to stand up and give the sentence for the images on the board - great for AFL. Full instructions in slide notes There is then a match-up activity for adjectives to describe school subjects.

Powerpoint to introduce school subject vocabulary and to talk about how many times a week they study those subjects. There are slides with nice pictures to introduce 12 school subjects (asignaturas). There are 2 slap the board games and a slow-reveal of an image team game to practise the vocabulary. There is a slide that can be printed with a match-up activity that can be glued into books so students have a copy of the vocabulary. There is a translation activity, a battleships game (slide can be printed for students and instructions are in the slide notes) and 2 slides for plenary activities.

Lesson for higher-ability GCSE class. Includes revision of free time activities and opinion vocabulary. Introduces extreme sport vocabulary. Translation activity, model text reading activity, differentiated writing task, games (including plenary).

Lesson on Spanish leisure activities in preterit tense. 9 activities are presented in preterit tense. Engaging game is provided (full instructions on slide - version of card game ‘cheat’ including printable cards on ppt slide) to help students practise saying sentences accurately from memory. Plenary team game.

Suitable for a higher-ability GCSE group. Introduces vocabulary for items students might buy with their pocket money then builds these into complex sentences through activities. Also introduces the set phrases: ‘si tuviera mucho dinero’ and ‘compraría’.

Revision of complex sentence starters and complex opinions with sports in Spanish. Engaging speaking activity to practise pronunciation/ speaking from memory (game - full instructions in ppt slide). Key verbs in imperfect tense introduced and model text provided.

Lesson to introduce Spanish weather phrases in imperfect tense. These are then incorporated into complex sentences about leisure/ free time activities - activity to show students how to make sentences more and more complex. Speaking activity, writing activity and plenary game (full instructions on slide notes).

Lesson suitable for a medium/ high ability KS3 Spanish class. This lesson revises ir in the present tense and places in town before introducing the easy future tense (voy a ir). There may be enough material for two lessons. The lesson has a class game (treasure/ pirate - full instructions on ppt slide notes) to revise places in town and ir in the present tense. There is also a trap door sentences game to revise giving opinions about places in town (instructions provided in slide notes). The future tense is introduced and sentences are practised with a battleships game (2x grids included - one for medium ability, one for high ability). These are then extended by adding time phrases. There is a reading text and activity (find all the elements that make this text good). This text could be used as a model text for a writing activity/ homework. The text is suitable for a high ability class but details could be taken out to make it easier. There is a whole class plenary game (same pirate/ treasure game but this time using the future tense).

Lesson for higher-ability group about how much pocket money they receive and how they earn it (through chores/ helping around the house). We revise numbers, start to write structured sentences around ‘If I do X, I receive Y’, Translation activity with answers and class plenary game included.

A lesson to introduce vocabulary for forms of transport in French. There are three slides to revise directions to places in town in French including a speaking activity with a map and a short writing activity. 9 forms of transport are introduced in French there are 5 slides with 5 quick games to practise recognising and using transport vocabulary in present tense sentences (colour sentences, bomb sentences, a dice game, slap the board and find the treasure). Translation activity with answers and plenary game included. All games are fully explained in the slide notes.

A lesson on giving opinions on transport and giving reasons for using different forms of transport in French. There might be enough content in the powerpoint for two lessons and it is suitable for a higher ability KS3 class. There is an interactive noughts and crosses game for the board to revise transport vocabulary. The teacher then introduces adjectives such as lent/ rapide to give reasons for opinions on transport. There are two short writing activities and a reading activity (model text) as well as a plenary game (treasure/ pirate - full instructions for all games/ activities are in the slide notes). The reading activity is A/B paired reading where students take it in turns to read sections of the text that their partner is missing. Students need to write in what they hear when there is a gap in their text - excellent speaking/ listening practice. A/B texts and answers on the ppt provided.