By printing the Power Point (Slides 1 to 8) you will have a booklet to prepare pupils for the FCSE French on the topic of holidays, I had designed it for Y9 pupils in 2012. It may be a bit outdated but you can adapt all slides. Note that slides 1, 6 and 8 are made of pictures of slides 12 to 16. There is a differentiated version. It includes texts in the present, past and future.

This lesson was originally planned for ESL students of level A1-A2. It can be adapted to native speakers (Y6). It includes speaking and writing activities based on the Hunger Games. The objective is to practise using adjectives. Activity: describing a town/city. Activity: using adjectives to describe people, emotions, etc. Including comparatives.

Resource: a rap song of the group Hocus Pocus. Level: top set Year 9, Y10. Topic: It's a song about the refusal of growing up and fatherhood. Here becoming a father means giving up on being a child and becoming responsible. Linguistic: idioms, vocabulary, the conditional tense. Skills: comprehension skills (listening)

Film: Amour (You will need the scene from the movie -From 11min00) Year group: Y10 Topic: growing old, illness, having a stroke. Culture: a French movie, French breakfast. Linguistic: Questions: the different registers, idioms, vocabulary, past tenses (passé composé vs. imparfait - this activity can be left out -page 3)

Group: KS4 Level: A2-B1 (the scene is long but they speak slowly and clearly -an advantage of older films 1979) Linguistic: Vocabulary, adjectives agreement, future simple. Skills: listening, reading, speaking or writing. Resources: introduction video, worksheet, power point, link to the scene (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5luxxd_i-comme-icare_school ) Culture: French movie I comme Icare, the Milgram experiment.