This is a handout that goes over how to use the comparative and the superlative as well as a worksheet to practise it a bit. I used it with my GCSE students.

A rather prescriptive worksheet I designed for a cover lesson recaping on places in town and directions. Covers all 4 skills.

Introduction of prepositions to describe bedrooms. I used parts of powerpoints I found on TES to make my own so thank you people for sharing! There's also a worksheet I made for my bottom bands and an interactive activity pupils can do on computers or as a class. I just noticed a spelling mistake on estanteria, there should be an accent on the i, sorry no time to redownload at the minute.

A lengthy worksheet that practises and drills the past tense verbs with etre and the irregular past participles. Also, a couple of slides of a pair/team powerpoint game. Can be done with KS3. Reflexives and regular verbs will come later!

This covers the direct object pronouns but I still need to add the rule about the past participles and the indirect object pronouns. I'm about to use it so would love to hear what you think!

Notes I put together for my GCSE group to help them prepare for the Speaking exam (the presentation for the WJEC). They are doing it on the topic of Self and family but it can easily be adapted. For the slide on the method of Loci, I simply made up a story focusing on these key sentences. Please let me know what you think!

An 11 pages booklet designed for the first part of the Self and Relationships topic of the WJEC GCSE course. It covers the topics of greetings, personal details, physical description, character descriptions, adverbs, adjectives and adjectival agreements, intensifiers and comparisons. A variety of activities to include word ordering tasks, conversations, translations, readings, word recognition tasks and writing tasks exposes pupils to a good range of vocabulary and tenses from the word go, and structures are recycled throughout the booklet to facilitate language assimilation. I have used it with my mixed ability Yr10 and have received very positive feedback. It is also ideal for homework tasks, independent work and cover lessons. The booklet format allows you to keep track effectively of pupils’ work and makes accessing reference material an easy task when it is stuck into books once completed. I couple it with a lot of listening and reading aloud activities and also make pupils learn off by heart the 2 paragraphs they produce in this booklet.

Worksheet I just put together for my Yr 7 to practise the time.

This is a worksheet to practise the present tense of aller (to go) and faire (to do) with leisure activities. It includes a crosswords, a fill in the gaps exercise and a translation exercise. It is ideal as consolidation activities, homework or cover work and is suitable for KS3 and KS4.

A worksheet to practise and reinforce the vocabulary of holiday activities and opinions for KS3 and KS4. It includes a match up task, a fill in the blanks task, and 2 translation tasks (French into English and English into French). The latter tasks include some time phrases too. It is ideal for independant work, homework, cover work or further practise in lessons.

Scaffolded reading tasks introducing the topic vocabulary for helping the environment. The tasks develop pupils’confidence in manipulating key vocabulary and structures. Ideal for GCSE groups.

A worksheet to introduce the topic of holiday activities and opinions at KS3 or KS4. Includes the key words for each activity and for the main opinion phrases in French. Pupils write their opinion for each activity. Ideal for some independent work and introducing or reinforcing key topic vocabulary. The activities included are: swimming, sunbathing, going for a walk, having a lie-in, going shopping, rock climbing, cycling, windsurfing, going to the beach, visiting a castle, eating an ice cream. The pictures are from www.freepik.com, credits for the pictures included can be found below, many thanks to them for sharing. <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/people”>People vector created by brgfx - www.freepik.com</a> <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/people”>People vector created by pikisuperstar - www.freepik.com</a> <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/water”>Water vector created by katemangostar - www.freepik.com</a> <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/water”>Water vector created by macrovector - www.freepik.com</a> <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/person”>Person vector created by pikisuperstar - www.freepik.com</a> <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/background”>Background vector created by brgfx - www.freepik.com</a> <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/tree”>Tree vector created by macrovector - www.freepik.com</a> <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/food”>Food vector created by freepik - www.freepik.com</a> <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/water”>Water vector created by gstudioimagen - www.freepik.com</a> <a href=“https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/background”>Background vector created by freepik - www.freepik.com</a>

A PowerPoint to practise or test pupils’ knowledge of 5 key verbs (aller, faire, jouer, manger, voyager) in the simple future, present, perfect and conditional tenses. When the answer appears, it also plays a soundtrack of the French phrase, spoken by a native speaker. Great for preparing the GCSE exam and improving pronunciation and confidence, in particular for the speaking exam. Initially designed for independent practice by pupils but can also be used a class activity. Ideal as a regular starter or small verbs blitz.

Worksheet for pupils to familiarise themselves with the present tense of the verb “faire” (to do) and to practise using it with activities that use the verb “faire”. This is ideal as a support worksheet in the lesson, homework or independent work for a cover lesson. It can also be used as revision for GCSE groups.

A colourful grid that can be used for a listening and a pair work activity, practising the question “Est-ce qu’il y a …” with places in town and the answers “Il y a … / il n’y a pas de…”. The grid can be laminated and used with whiteboard markers, or alternatively, I give the little grids to my pupils for them to use. Class listening activity: The teacher chooses 8 places and marks it on their grid. Pupils in the class take it in turn to ask questions to find out the places the teacher has picked. To win, the class must guess all 8 places before the last box. The game can then be played in pairs.

A worksheet to introduce the description of people in photocards. It ties in well with the topic of descriptions and family and helps reinforce key phrases needed to describe photos. I use it as a first introduction to photocard description.

Booklet/PowerPoint for pupils preparing for their French GCSE Writing exam. It includes a list of complex phrases and a 1 page per topic recap of key structures and verbs in different tenses. It covers the 2022 WJEC topics, which will be common to most specifications: Self and Relationships, Health and Fitness, Entertainement and Leisure, Food and Drink, Local Areas of Interest, Travel and Transport, Holidays and Tourism, Environment, School and College Life, School and College Studies, Career Plans, Employment and Skills and Qualifications. It is designed to be big enough to display on the board or to print as an A4 or A5 booklet. There are no coloured boxes that will prevent pupils from reading the text. It is editable, so easily adapted to your pupils or your area.

A GCSE practice paper for the Higher writing exam. It follows the WJEC specification and types of exam questions. Great for that extra little bit of practice.

This set of sheets include a list of the key irregular verbs in the present tense, demonstrates how to form the present tense of -er verbs and allows pupils to practise conjugating -er verbs.

A worksheet that provides pupils with the key vocabulary needed to say the time in Spanish, with an example of translation. Great for use as a reference sheet in pupils’ books.

A GCSE practice paper for the Foundation writing exam. It follows the WJEC specification and types of exam questions. Great for that extra little bit of practice.