GCSE Theme: 2 – Tradition and Festivals
Features: PPT lesson and worksheet
All answers to exercises provided on the PPT
Culture focus: the origin of festivals and the French Guyana carnival
Activities:
Readaloud about the Guyana festival
Reading exercices about carnivals (true/false, find in the text)
Grammar: key adjectives to describe a carnival
Dictation
Listening: find information from a video
GCSE Theme: 3 – The world around us
Features: PPT lesson and worksheet
Culture focus: video study from the content creator Bruno Maltor.
Activities based on two videos: live in Corsica and in Toulouse.
Students watch extracts of the videos and answers questions to broaden their understanding and cultural knowledge.
Activities:
Readaloud
listening and noting down keywords, answering quesitons
Independent research and writing about cities in France
GCSE Theme: 2 – Celebrity culture
Features: PPT lesson and worksheet
All answers to exercises provided on the PPT
Culture focus: top favourite celebrities of French people 2025, including young French people
Activities:
Readaloud about celebrities
Reading exercices
Grammar: key verbs of success in the past
Dictation
Listening: video
Independent research and writing about celebrities
KS4 (GCSE) Theme 2: Celebration
Full lesson practicing the four skills with GCSE style exercices on the topic of Christmas. Includes cultural information about Christmas in various French departments and Overseas.
GCSE 2026 topics: Popular culture (films), celebrity culture, festivals
Includes:
Three PPT lessons of 50 minutes
All answers to exercises provided on the PPT
Student worksheet
Lesson 1: introduction to French films (timeline
Lesson 2: introduction to the Cannes festival + 90w wriring task
Lesson 3: workshop on questioning and interview role-play
**More details about the resources: **
three ready-made lessons on the topic of French cinema and the Cannes festival. Includes answers to exercises and challenge tasks for high achievers
four skills practice (LRWS) with GCSE style exercises (topic vocabulary, ‘true or false’ reading, listening practice, 90w task, role play speaking).
Culture: brief introduction to the history of French films and comedy, featuring information about influential French movies. Information about the Cannes film festival.
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French listening and writing practice about new 2024 resolutions.
Culture: based on a video from ‘Le Parisien’. Students listen to the video and fill-in two tables about people’s resolutions. They have to listen, note down, translate, then complete a gap-fill activity.
Vocabulary: matching activity based on new resolutions vocabulary from video.
Writing: students have to advise some resolutions based on given problems. They then need to write three new resolutions of their own in French.
Appropriate for KS3-KS4 / (A1)
Cultural lesson about the Cannes festival.
Features:
GCSE 26 vocabulary (celebrity culture, cinema)
Key facts about the festival
Reading, listening, writing activities
Information about movies
Objective: To get to know information and GCSE vocabulary about the Cannes film festival
90min lesson - Identity and lifestyle
Topic: “le slow living”
Objective: to talk about the concept of slow living and imagine your life if you could slow down
Grammar: Conditionnal revision and hypothetic clauses