A worksheet to practise the present and near future tenses in French, with some simple match-up and translation sentences.

A complete lesson used for an observation for a Year 8 class to describe a visit to Paris using the perfect tense with regular -er verbs. Includes a range of differentiated tasks including translations on mini-whiteboards and a battleships game for students to play in pairs. Also includes a sentence builder for students to use to add opinions and verbs in the 3rd person, and to support them writing the paragraph. I have also included the lesson plan. I hope you find it useful!

A lesson for students in year 7 or year 8 French (or a low ability GCSE class), to begin to talk about where they live, and to begin to describe their local area. Includes a range of activities, including words to cut up into envelopes for the students to make sentences (ideal for pair work). Differentiated activities throughout… Ideal for an observed lesson.

Introducing sports in French with Je joue. Includes a Battleships game for students to play in pairs to consolidate and practise speaking, a writing activity to extend learning which requires dice, and a match-up starter activity. Includes opportunities for extension, and differentiated tasks. Perfect for an observed lesson.

A lesson to consolidate learning of the perfect tense in French, with ‘avoir’ verbs, and an introduction on how to negate sentences in the perfect tense with ‘avoir’. Differentiated tasks and activities, with differentiated reading comprehensions and mini-whiteboards activity. Ideal for an observed lesson.

An interactive lesson which begins by revising places in a town, with a match up activity, then it moves on to ‘on peut’ with what you can do in different places in a town. It involves the teaching of how to say ‘at the’ in French (au, a la, aux), with interactive resources, a ‘sequence the words to make a sentence’ activity, a ‘power learning’ activity with 2 minute timer, gap-fill activity, and opportunities for extension. Each task is differentiated. Ideal for an observed lesson on this topic.

Lesson on ‘au restaurant’, ideal for Key Stage 3 or Key Stage 4 French. Interactive resources including a ‘match-up’ starter activity, a restaurant role play for students to sequence in pairs, a restaurant menu, a powerpoint to follow with differentiated lesson objectives, and links to French culture with pictures of authentic French dishes for the teacher to briefly explain the items on the menu. The answers to the activities appear on the Powerpoint, for students to self assess their starter activity and sequencing of the role-play. Ideal for an observed lesson.