Use of on peut + infinitive. with opportunities for extension, models and a sentence builder to get going as a class

students must give the answer before the mouse is back to the hole

Using the perfect tense with être. using Studio 2 module 2 as a base.

Please follow the link on youtube ( pink martini ou est ma tete official video ) Lovely song for the past tense, parts of the body and even the direct object pronoun. The cards are for pupils to show as they hear the matching idea in the song. I have now added the audio file, I hope it works

There are many ways to use this and I have explained on the worksheet. Students could dictate the text to each other to focus on spellings, then could mime and memorise ( talk for learning ) , translate and change the time frame of the text. Any feedback appreciated.

to practice explaining what can be done in terms of hobbies and sports in different places. The doughnuts rolling over to encourage pupils to speak prove handy, or even to write on mini whiteboards

The text is directly taken from the brilliant website les petits citoyens and I made a power point activity with suggested activities to exploit this text from this authentic French online magazine. The last two slides can support in generating a debate on the advantages and disadvantages of Smartphones. U

A presentation to help students develop their reading skills and vocabulary on this sensitive issue. Can lead to interesting debates and be used cross-curricular. The text is from lepetitcitoyen.fr website which I strongly recommend.

Just designed this for y11 but could be adapted for any year group , any age, the reconstruction of the song can be differentiated as I made it harder for A/A* candidates by cutting more bits of the song, whereas I did leave bigger blocks for C candidates.

for a project on German music for higher ability students.

To improve students' performance in speaking and writing by developing use of extended sentences

Use this to challenge more able students

This is designed for an introduction to this tense with my year 8. We have used it before but we now need to understand how it works so students become independent in building and using this tense themselves. Any comments are welcome. The vowel gap fill activity can be used for pair work, for speaking and or writing. Students have to fill in the gaps ( stars ) with vowels only and then they could use the grid as support in speaking tasks. I hope this is useful to colleagues, I am sharing as it has been tried and tested many times .

designed with grade improvement in mind, keeping engagement and motivation through a nice topic ( holiday ) , this will also be used to develop confidence in speaking skills and in conjunction with mini whiteboards. I am now adding three differentiated controlled tasks ( as I have a wide range of ability ) if it helps you ( for AQA ) Now with updated version and correction of accents

I have three boxes ( one green, one pink as could not find orange, one red) In these I place different styles of help and support to help writing in lessons or even when setting homework. I would place the translation in the green box, the french clues in the pink box and the english clues in the red box.

two different power points to teach simple vocabulary on pocket money

A nice project to consolidate the future simple. Can be used as an assessment or for group work with a science theme. You may ask students to do some preparation work for ideas in collaboration with science.

This is to help students to learn the good higher grages habits. the test sheet can be used as a starter activity, lesson by lesson, to support students in retaining and understanding how to extend and develop writing and speaking. The test sheet can also be used to help students adapt to their own sentences. My year 10s really found it useful, I hope you do too. !

This can be used either as a support grid in lessons. I have also cut out all the different tables, laminated them and from the verb pattern sheet. I then offer students options to choose which tense they need the most help with, then they get the card for the whole lesson, or part of of the lesson. Tried and tested !

This is to support students with tenses and recognising patterns. This can be used a a support sheet or you may decide to cut out the grids and laminate and ask student to choose the cards with the tenses they need the most help with. I will add another resource with the conditional, and even some simple phrases using the subjunctive to stretch the more able.