Duration: 50 minutes (but easily lasts 1hour). Key vocab: Introduction to new shops (butcher, baker, pharmacy and stationary/book store). Includes new vocabulary relating to specific items purchased from these stores. Key verbs: Use of TRAVAILLER and ACHETER. Present tense. “je” pronoun. PowerPoint includes: starter activity, intro to new vocabulary, DART activities (Directed Activities Related to Text), listening activity, writing and plenary.

An interactive lesson that requires a confident teacher to pretend that his or her mobile has connected to the projector/display. Makes full use of sound. Gets less interested children, especially lower set, enthused about learning some grammar and pretending to write a reply. Designed for Y8 lower ability, can also be used for confident Y7s.

A tried and tested lesson which includes a homework task that should set prior to the class. This is included within the PowerPoint and needs to be printed out and distributed a few days before the lesson (ideally). The homework is then corrected in class and leads into a new activity. The PowerPoint includes another text for the class activity. Other tasks include speaking and listening. The lesson requires students to have covered some typical breakfast foods and has been designed to challenge Foundation students who would normally work on EXPO 2 VERT. As a point of reference, this lesson is aimed at covering the content of page 62. Covers a number of verbs in the present tense: manger, prendre, aller, boire etc.