I designed a lesson for my able Year 8 French group which could also be suited to GCSE students based around a past disasterous visit to a fictitious French restaurant. The lesson revolves around a differentiated reading comprehension task based on reviews of people’s experiences at La Bouffe restaurant. This culminates in students being asked to write their own restaurant reviews about a visit. Some may wish to use an online voice recorder, such as Vocaroo to record and submit their restaurant reviews.

A model response I wrote for my AS German group in response to the Jan 2012 AQA GERM1 Q12 writing question "Warum gibt es oft Konflikte zwischen den Generationen? Wie kann man solche Konflikte lösen?". I asked pupils to read this firstly and look up and annotate any unknown vocabulary, before ticking separate points which were relevant to either part of the essay title. This enabled pupils to see the number of points being made relevant to title. Then I asked them to look at the various grammatical structures I used and you may wish to go as far as getting the AS German grammar spec and ticking off what is covered in essay.

This is a very thorough resource that will enable pupils to prepare fully for either a GCSE Writing or Speaking assessment on the topic of Healthy Living. This includes wide-ranging reading comprehension tasks, verb manipulation tasks and model texts on following aspects: - Past & current eating habits (Present, Imperfect) - Past & current exercise habits (Present, Imperfect, Perfect) - Comparisons between past & current habits (Connectives & Present, Imperfect) - Advice for leading a healthy lifestyle (Modals in Present and Conditional) - Things which are harmful for your health (Cigarettes, Alcohol, Drugs - Expressing Opinions) - Leading a healthy life in the future (Future & Near Future Tenses) - What you would do for your health if you were rich/lived abroad (Conditional & si clauses) All exercises have supporting colourful & easy-to-understand verb-tense summaries.

A PowerPoint and supporting Word document which will provide at least one lesson aimed at improving student's knowledge of the plot and order of events in La Haine, which is so often rusty even after viewing the film for the first few times. Tasks include matching summaries of key events to clips from the film, ordering events that take place in the film and writing a short summary against the clock to present verbally in pairs/to class. Key/tricky vocabulary in the summaries have also been highlighted, and pupils can be encouraged to use the context of what they have already understood and asked to build an understanding of these expressions.

A reading comprehension task sheet with 3 different exercises including a comprehension grid and synonym and vocab finder tasks. The paragraph is a useful model for pupils who are preparing a response as part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.

A model A2 French essay on the film La Haine. Pupils could be asked to pick out key vocabulary, identify structures used, adapt ideas or even pick out key points made, evidence presented or evaluation made.

A model response to the AQA AS GERM1 Essay Writing Question: "Das Kino ist tot. Ein Kinobesuch ist teuer, die Auswahl der Filme ist schlecht und ich hasse die Werbung vor den Filmen. Ich sitze lieber bequem auf dem Sofa und sehe mir DVDs an. Wie reagieren Sie auf diese Meinung?" This can be utilised in a variety of ways; I usually get pupils to look at this alongside an AS writing marks scheme, extract key ideas, generic essay expressions and to list grammatical structures used. It is also a useful model for pupils to adapt when writing their own!

A 511-word model A2 French essay on the film La Haine and on how Kassovitz seeks to provoke strong emotions among viewers.

A self-penned AS model essay on the AQA essay question: « Le cinéma traditionnel est en voie de disparition à cause des DVD et le téléchargement en ligne. Grâce à Internet et aux DVD, il est de moins en moins nécessaire d’aller au cinéma pour voir un bon film» Les DVD et les films qu’on peut télécharger sur Internet, vont-ils remplacer le cinéma traditionnel ? Quel est l’avenir du cinéma ? Alongside it's use as a good model, pupils can also access this for key language, ideas, essay writing phrases.

Learning mat on GCSE topic of Leisure which pupils can use to form own ideas for a Controlled Assessment Speaking or Writing task. Areas include: favourite hobby & why, when you were younger VS now, what you did last weekend, future hobby and talking about a friend's hobby.

Another model essay in response to an A2 essay writing question from the AQA FREN3 June 2013 Q14b. This can be accessed in a variety of ways in order to help pupils make progress with their essay writing.

A model essay on La Haine for the A2 French cultural studies essay writing question "Quels aspects de l’œuvre du metteur en scène que vous avez etudié est-ce que vous trouvez plutôt positifs ? Est-ce qu’il y a des aspects de l’œuvre que vous critiqueriez ? Expliquez pourquoi." This resource includes a 732-word model essay with a variety of points, vocabulary and grammatical structures and also 3 exercises for pupils to complete, including a vocabulary finder task, a reading comprehension and target language response task, and a third task which invites pupils to think of further positives and criticisms of La Haine.

A self-made PowerPoint on Negative Constructions covering ne...pas, ne…guère, ne…jamais, ne…plus, ne…que, ne…personne and ne…rien. It includes examples and explanations of how each one works and has a translation exercise at the end to incorporate ideas presented in previous slides. The slides make a useful handout for students.

Model essay in response to AQA FREN1 past paper question from the January 2013 paper: "A votre avis, quels sont les aspects positifs et négatifs d’être une célébrité?" As many of my students continue to translate their root ideas that they have in English literally word for word, we looked at how to "keep it simple", i.e. using vocabulary and structures that were within the realms of their knowledge. This essay can serve as a useful model, and can be used to ask pupils to identify grammatical structures they recognise. Another useful exercise is to ask pupils to read through the essay and to tick every relevant point made in relation to the title.

A 619-word model A-level essay response to the question "Welche Aspekte der Arbeit des von Ihnen gewählten Regisseurs finden Sie besonders interessant? Erklären Sie warum." which can be used for preparation for either the legacy or new specification writing paper, given the fact that it is full of useful vocabulary, idioms and ideas. There are some tasks for pupils to work through, including identifying the point, evidence and analysis sections of the main body to highlight the need for clear structure, translating expressions in bold in essay into English, a comprehensive vocabulary list from essay which can be set as homework, and a Point-Evidence-Analysis grid for pupils to complete. At our centre, we encourage pupils to plan the essay in brief English phrases as it is much quicker than in the target language, and then carefully work ideas into the target language when completing the essay itself. The grid could be used in two ways, either by using the model essay as a reading comprehension and getting pupils to note PEE in English, or getting them to discuss and note down their own PEE plan. This could then be presented to class and constructive feedback given or it could lead to further discussion of ideas among peers.

Bemoaning the lack of new GCSE-style assessment materials to accurately assess our pupils, and using a draft assessment resource from the AQA website as a rough guide, I create my own foundation writing paper on the topic of holidays. This will need to be used in conjunction with the writing marks scheme from the new AQA specification, but at present there are no raw mark - grade conversions. This can nonetheless be devised by teachers using either professional judgement following the assessment or using percentages of old UMS conversion tables (i.e. approx. 80% = A*).

I use this comprehensive set of 37 questions with our Y13 pupils who studied Le Silence de la Mer as part of their preparation for the AQA FREN4 A2 speaking exams. In the summer exam series 2015, our centre attained a 100% A - C at A2.

My model essay answer to past GERM1 AQA essay question: "Viele Erwachsene beklagen sich, dass Kinder zu lange vor der Glotze hängen. Wie reagieren Sie darauf? Bringt das Fernsehen mehr Vorteile als Nachteile?" This can be used as a vocabulary finding exercise, asking pupils to summarise points of each paragraph inEnglish. It can also be used as a basis to discuss essay structure and of course gives pupils a useful model which they can adapt ideas from. They can also read through it and alongside an AS mark scheme discuss what makes this essay a good piece of work.

A 580-word model essay response to the new AQA AS Paper 2 essay writing question "Welche Bedeutung hat das Koma der Mutter für die Familie Kerner? Inwiefern ist es symbolisch wichtig?" The essay also has a comprehensive vocabulary list of words and expressions used throughout the essay. This essay can be exploited in a variety of ways, including asking pupils to highlight the point, evidence and evaluation sections of each paragraph, removing expressions or specific vocabulary and asking pupils to fill in the gaps (this can be tailored to the needs of the class), summarising key ideas in English. I also ask pupils to assess it according to the new AQA marks scheme to help to familiarise them with the new marks and how they are obtained.

Reading comprhension worksheet with vocabulary finder task, reading comprehension questions and a grammar identification task. The paragraph gives a good model for pupils preparing a response to part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.