A structured and differentiated lesson using the past tense in French to describe a past holiday. The lesson uses the thinking hard structure to encourage students to identify the key verbs and vocabulary for themselves. There are a range of activities included around one key reading text to help build language and eventually a description of a past holiday in French. The lesson includes of support and also stretch for students enabling all to make great progress with the topic and past tense.

A structured and differentiated lesson using the 3 main tenses in French to describe customs and festivals. The lesson uses the thinking hard structure to encourage students to identify the key verbs and vocabulary for themselves. There are a range of activities included around one key reading text to help build language and eventually a description of customs and festivals in French. The lesson includes of support and also stretch for students enabling all to make great progress with the topic and using the 3 tenses.

A structured and differentiated lesson using the present tense verbs in French to describe sports and hobbies. The lesson uses the thinking hard structure to encourage students to identify the key verbs and vocabulary for themselves. There are a range of activities included around one key reading text to help build language and eventually a description of a sports and hobbies in French. The lesson includes of support and also stretch for students enabling all to make great progress with the topic and present tense.

A creative set of resources using the all four skill areas to introduce the near future and conditional tenses to talk about a dream holiday in French. Ideal to use for the topic of holidays for GCSE French . The resources includes a PDF copy for students to use and helps to support independent study. The resources allows students to build their language in French and allows them to use their French in a real life and purposeful context. The resources are ideal for KS4 students but may also be adapted and simplified for KS3. The reading activities are also differentiated to represented the foundation and higher tiers and will also apply to the new GCSE specification.

Last year I decided to create a help sheet for students of French GCSE to help with their memory recall of key verbs across the different tenses. The list of verbs, sentence starters, complex structures and gender agreement all the key areas that students need to get correct in order to be successful with their speaking and writing in French. The list is very much a doable list for success for both foundation and higher tiers and encourages students to recycle the language from topic to topic. I found the resource to be hugely successful with over a grade improvement per student when compared with the previous year’s results. The resource proved to especially effective with boys, as it offered a clear set of key structures they could learn and use again and again. The structures have been careful selected depending on the frequency that they are used normally by students across all topics and offers them access to the greatest amount of marks.