Family & Friends (Society) Reading Texts & Activities: N5/GCSE French
Looking for a resource that brings French to life for your students? Our booklet is the perfect tool to engage your learners with relatable, real-world topics like family, friendships, and the impact of technology. Designed specifically for N5/GCSE French students, it offers an exciting way to practice key language skills while exploring the themes that resonate most with today’s teens.
What’s Inside:
“Gen Z: How We Stay Connected”: Explore how young people use social media, video calls, and memes to stay in touch
“Modern Families: Life with Siblings and Step-Families”: A personal narrative about navigating life in a blended family
“Is Face-to-Face Time Disappearing?”: An article discussing how screen time affects family relationships
“Grandparents and Technology: Teaching the Older Generation”: A teen teaches their grandmother how to use WhatsApp to improve their family relationships
“The importance of friendship in adolescence”: A relatable article about navigating friendships during the teenage years
Why You’ll Love This Booklet:
Relevant, Engaging Topics: The booklet covers current themes, such as digital communication, family dynamics, and friendships, making learning French exciting and relatable for students
Comprehensive Practice: Each text is accompanied by exam-style questions, helping students develop their reading skills in line with the N5/GCSE requirements
Flexible for Different Learners: Whether your students are revising for exams or exploring new language topics, this booklet is adaptable for a wide range of learners
Marking Scheme Included: The detailed marking scheme helps assess student responses effectively and encourages independent learning
Culturally Relevant Content: The booklet provides an opportunity to discuss cultural differences and similarities, promoting meaningful classroom discussions
Ideal for teachers looking to incorporate modern, real-world topics into their French lessons, this booklet makes learning French both educational and enjoyable. Empower your students to connect with the language in a way that feels relevant to their everyday lives. Get your copy today and start inspiring the next generation of French speakers!
Having a positive impact on others (School, Family, friends)
Having a positive impact on others (School, Family, friends) - Primary Careers / PSHE . A fully-resourced editable PowerPoint lesson for Ks2 Students (1 hour +) which can be used by teachers to deliver a detailed workshop / session on the importance of this topic.
Learning Outcomes:
“To understand what we mean by “positive impact”. To consider how I have made a positive impact before. To consider how I can make a positive impact at school and at home.”
Key terms
Positive Impact, Consequence, Ripple Effect, Positivity
Homework Activity
“Choose one of the positive impact actions you could do. Complete it and write 250 words about: How you felt before How you felt after Whether or not you would do the positive action again in the future”
Each Lesson Pack Contains:
1 Fully Editable Careers PowerPoint (Learning Outcomes, Confidence Checkers, Assessment of Learning, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides, Extra Support Websites, Challenging & Thoughtful Questioning)
Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker)
The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, variety of student facing tasks and comprehension tasks These resources have been designed to be engaging, informative and pick up and teach.
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Family & Friends (Society) Reading Texts & Activities: N5/GCSE Spanish
Looking for a resource that brings Spanish to life for your students? Our booklet is the perfect tool to engage your learners with relatable, real-world topics like family, friendships, and the impact of technology. Designed specifically for N5/GCSE Spanish students, it offers an exciting way to practice key language skills while exploring the themes that resonate most with today’s teens.
What’s Inside:
“Gen Z: How We Stay Connected”: Explore how young people use social media, video calls, and memes to stay in touch
“Modern Families: Life with Siblings and Step-Families”: A personal narrative about navigating life in a blended family
“Is Face-to-Face Time Disappearing?”: An article discussing how screen time affects family relationships
“Grandparents and Technology: Teaching the Older Generation”: A teen teaches their grandmother how to use WhatsApp to improve their family relationships
“The importance of friendship in adolescence”: A relatable article about navigating friendships during the teenage years
Why You’ll Love This Booklet:
Relevant, Engaging Topics: The booklet covers current themes, such as digital communication, family dynamics, and friendships, making learning Spanish exciting and relatable for students.
Comprehensive Practice: Each text is accompanied by exam-style questions, helping students develop their reading, writing, and speaking skills in line with the N5/GCSE requirements.
Flexible for Different Learners: Whether your students are revising for exams or exploring new language topics, this booklet is adaptable for a wide range of learners.
Marking Scheme Included: The detailed marking scheme helps assess student responses effectively and encourages independent learning.
Culturally Relevant Content: The booklet provides an opportunity to discuss cultural differences and similarities, promoting meaningful classroom discussions.
Ideal for teachers looking to incorporate modern, real-world topics into their Spanish lessons, this booklet makes learning Spanish both educational and enjoyable. Empower your students to connect with the language in a way that feels relevant to their everyday lives. Get your copy today and start inspiring the next generation of Spanish speakers!
AQA GCSE Unit 1 - Me, my family and friends (Spanish)
You have 10 lessons to cover Unit 1 in here, all with worksheets ready to print. I have included plenty of my own activities to help support students in learning Unit 1 from the AQA textbook, which does not have a lot of engaging activities in. Therefore, these lessons will help to make your lessons fun whilst students are completing the unit, and should break down the more challenging grammar bit by bit. There is a variety of listening, speaking, writing and reading, with answers all on slides. I hope your students enjoy these lessons as much as mine have!
Spanish Revision Song: MI GENTE (My family and friends) with original YouTube song
Mi gente (my family and friends) - Spanish Song for GCSE, IGCSE, AP, IB Ab Initio & DELE Exam Practice
This catchy Spanish song is designed to help students improve their speaking and listening skills on the topic of FAMILY AND FRIENDS for exams like GCSE, IGCSE, AP, IB, and DELE. The lyrics are packed with essential past, present, future, conditional, and imperfect tenses, making it an ideal resource for revision.
Listen anytime, anywhere!
This song is available on all major streaming platforms so you can revise Spanish on your way to school, work, or even while exercising!
Spotify, Deezer, YouTube Music, Amazon Music etc: https://artists.landr.com/056870485706
The music video is availble on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/F5KfM1xAewU
What’s included in the TWO-page worksheet?
Lyrics with blanks: fill in the missing words while listening
Find the correct translation in the lyrics.
Match up the translation: reinforce key vocabulary
Put the words in the correct order to make a sentence.
Circle the correct answer(s) to improve knowledge of vocabulary on family members
Translate the sentences into Spanish
Answer key
How this song helps:
Boost Listening Skills: improve comprehension with natural pronunciation and key vocabulary.
Improve Speaking Fluency: sing along to practice pronunciation and intonation.
Expand Vocabulary: learn or revise essential family and friends related phrases.
Master Exam Grammar: reinforce verb tenses used in writing and speaking exams.
Perfect for:
Spanish learners at GCSE, IGCSE, AP, IB, DELE A2-B1 levels
Teachers looking for engaging classroom resources
Students wanting a fun and effective revision tool
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Spanish: Family and friends: Comparisons
Complete lesson teaching how to use comparison sentences in Spanish.
Worksheet on characteristics of family and friends
Describing family members and friends, matching adjectives with English. Begins with colouring-in task to suit middle or low ability KS4 students, with progression to paragraphs and writing frame. Suitable for cover lesson. Maps to Metro 4, Module 2 or Expo Rouge/Vert, Module 1.
Tangled translation - Family and friends
A worksheet to practice translation skills both from French to English and English to French. Ideal for cover, homework and revision. Answers included.
The worksheet contains two ‘tangled translations’ about family and friends where the text is written in a mixture of French and English. Pupils must write the full translation for both languages.
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Family and friends
Looking for a lot of different fun resources to promote better family and friend relationships? Here are lots of different resources, including a full ESL unit on the topic. This resource can be used throughout the year to promote better home and class relationships. Try it today!
FRENCH New GCSE Vocab Workbook: Family and Friends
This is a Vocabulary/Homework booklet and it is designed for the 2024 Edexcel GCSE. However, it can be used for any students studying the topics. It is part of a series of booklets which cover the vocabulary from the Edexcel prescribed list.
The booklets are designed to be interactive and to encourgage the students to use the vocabulary in a variety of different contexts.
The booklets are divided into sub-topics. Each sub-topic starts with a vocabulary list and then leads into a variety of exercises from fill-in-the-blanks, wordsearches, crosswords, reading tasks and translations to verb conjugation drills. Each activity aims to solidify understanding and retention.
Each booklet finishes with 2 exam-style writing tasks (Edexcel and AQA): describe a photo and a 80-90 word written task.
All answers are at the back.
There is a template link at the back of the workbook. You can edit the workbook by following the template link. Any questions of feedback, email me at TutorAlexandraABC@gmail.com
OTHER BOOKLETS IN THE SERIES ARE:
My Neighbourhood and House
Food and Drink
French Basics (free)
School
Jobs, work and future opportunities
Social Media, Gaming, TV and Music
This goes well with:
French Present Tense Lesson and Booklet
French Perfect Tense: Avoir and Etre Lessons and Booklet
French Future Tenses Lessons and Booklet
French Tenses Booklet - an Overview of all tenses!
French Comparatives and Superlatives
French Conditional Grammar Lesson
Save on the French Grammar Lesson Bundle!
French GCSE Grammar Lessons and Workbooks
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German word knowledge: Self, family & friends
This word reading knowledge exercise is based on General Certificate of Secondary Education prescribed topics and vocabulary for German, embedded in authentic texts.
Me, my family and friends
A comprehensive unit on family relationships and marriage in Spanish! This resource includes engaging presentations, worksheets, and digital quizzes (Quizlet and Blooket) for an interactive and immersive learning experience.
This three-session unit covers topics such as family dynamics, marriage, and cultural differences in marriage traditions. Students will learn to:
Describe family relationships using reflexive verbs and relevant vocabulary.
Express opinions on marriage using modal verbs and opinion phrases.
Compare attitudes toward marriage in Spanish-speaking countries and the UK.
Each session features starter activities, practice exercises, and plenary discussions, along with homework assignments to reinforce learning. The provided digital materials (presentations, worksheets, and quizzes) allow for easy adaptation to various teaching environments.
This unit is perfect for intermediate-level students looking to enhance their vocabulary and speaking skills in Spanish while exploring culturally significant themes.
Different types of Families
Different types of Families Lesson. A detailed PSHE PowerPoint Lesson pack that comes with an assessment fir progress.
Learning Outcomes:
To know the names for different types of family
To understand how different families might be formed
To understand how to value all different types of family in society
Key Terms Covered
Nuclear, blended, single parent, same sex parent, equality act, protected characteristic
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Each Lesson Pack Contains:
☞ 1 Fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Outcomes, Confidence Checkers, Assessment of Learning, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides, Extra Support Websites, Challenging & Thoughtful Questioning)
☞ Most lessons include a Worksheet
☞ Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker)
☞ Teacher Notes (On some slides)
☞ Mapped against Latest Statutory Health and RSE DfE Guidance, PSHE Association & Character Education Guidance from DfE.
⟴ PSHE Association Theme: Health and Wellbeing and Relationships H11 KS4 H6
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Helpsheet for describing family & friends
Sheet with key words/phrases on for describing self, family & friends. Useful for controlled assessments.
French GCSE Worksheet on "Me, my family, and friends" (Answers provided)
This worksheet is for GCSE French students.
It is based on AQA GCSE theme-based vocabulary (foundation tier): theme 1 “Identity and culture”, topic 1 “Me, my family and friends”.
Answer sheet is provided.
It can be used for revisions, cover work, homework, etc.
It will help students to consolidate the vocabulary on the above topic, but also they will need to pay attention to gender, agreements and conjugation.
Choosing Good Friends Assembly
This 20 slide assembly looks into the reasons why it is important to choose good friends.
This assembly includes:
What is a friend
Informative video
Qualities of a friend
What impact can a friend have on us?
Personal Reflection questions
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ME, FAMILY AND FRIENDS
This resource is meant for Years 9 to 11 French students. It deals with the unit Me, family and friends.
Learning Objective:
• To learn to describe yourself, your friends and your family.
- Physically
- Personality
• To learn possessive adjectives
• To learn the verb être – to be and avoir – to have
• To learn the verb s’appeller
• To learn the verb s’entendre
• To learn to describe your hair and eyes
• To learn to say where you live
• To learn countries and cities
• To learn prepositions of position
Bundle
Family and Friends Relationship Management
This bundle includes 4 of our character education and classroom management modules on family, friends and school.
Conflict Resolution 101: This mini-workbook is composed of 4 different activities. It will assist your students to identify their conflicts, the styles they used in handling these conflicts, as well as they will be given the chance to assess their present conflicts and if the resolution skills they used are effective. There are also case scenarios to come up with more ways to resolve conflicts. Each activity has processing questions to facilitate the learning experiences of the students and help them express and understand more the activities.
Workbook Activity includes:
Conflict Survey
Conflict Styles
Conflict Assessment
Conflict Case Scenarios
Conflict Resolution: How to Handle Conflict:
This conflict resolution lesson teaches what conflict is about, the dynamics of conflict and conflict resolution strategies to help your students improve their conflict resolution skills. This lesson will also help you in managing your class better and will help promote and maintain good interpersonal relationships in class.
This lesson include:
Definition of Conflict
Conflict Styles:
1. Accommodating
2. Competing
3. Avoiding
4. Compromising
5. Collaborating
Conflict Hooks:
1. Competence
2. Inclusion
3. Autonomy
4.Status
5.Reliability
6. Integrity
Conflict Resolution Activities
Conflict Resolution Strategies
Processing questions are included in each conflict resolution activities
Relationship 101: Tips for a happy and healthy relationship in school:
This mini-lesson comes in handy to teach to your students on the first day of school. It will help set the tone of the things you expect from them as a class and remind them of how to treat their teachers and classmates throughout the school year.
The Family: Understanding Family Dynamics and Strengthening Family Communication:Family is one of the most important relationships in life. Learning and understanding the role of each family member, their contribution and the way they communicate are essential in keeping family relationships happy, healthy and harmonious.
This mini-lesson includes activities on appreciating family members, recognising the importance of family traditions,learning and understanding the importance of responsibilities towards family members, learning to address family issues and recognising the importance of effective communication. Lecture on family conflicts and how to improve communication to family members are also included. Processing questions are included to facilitate better learning experiences.
GCSE Revision Lesson Theme 1 Family and Friends
**PACK OF TWO LESSONS
LESSON 1:**
Outcome: To revise and recap what we have previously learned about ‘me, my family and friends’, including:
Family members
Possessives (mi, mis / tu, tus)
Personality Descriptions
Physical descriptions
Starter - vocab and grammar retrieval grid
Task 1 - Traffic light system - student choose the correct translation out of the three. AFL.
Task 2 - GCSE past paper question (listening) - please note access to Exampro is ideal for this task. Otherwise teacher may have to switch out for different listening activity. Transcript provided
Task 3 - GCSE past paper question (reading)
Baseline test - single sentence translations
Baseline activity - students complete either task 1 or task 2 depending on how they performed in baseline test (differentiation).
Plenary - whole class questioning with slide to support
LESSON 2:
To revise and recap what we have previously learned about ‘me, my family and friends’, including:
Comparatives
Superlatives
Starter - select the right option e.g. ‘me/mi llevo bien con mis padres’ - challenge to translate the sentences.
Task 1 - Teacher modelling of comparative structures
Task 2 - Students demonstrate understanding by translating sentences on mini whiteboards.
Task 3 - Teacher modelling of superlatives
Task 4 - Students demonstrate understanding by translating sentences on mini whiteboards.
Task 5 - GCSE past paper question speaking practice (role play). Students pretend they have the role play card and their task is to see how they could fit in a comparative or superlative into the card.
Baseline test - Students complete the sentence translations.
Baseline task - Students complete the activity (1 or 2) based upon their results.
Plenary - whole class questioning with slide to support.
Me, My family and friends- Unit 1- GCSE French
In this resource:
You will find teaching materials for Theme 1- Unit 1 of the 2016 French GCSE (AQA) : Me, My family and friends (moi, ma famille et mes amis).
For the new GCSE (teaching starts 2024) please see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13056654
The PPT (approx. 80 slides including answer slides) covers the whole Unit and is composed of 3 parts: ’ About me’, ‘Relationship with family and friends’ and ‘Marriage and Partnership’.
It includes:
-Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing and Translations activities (3 of each minimum)
-Grammar points and practice: Avoir and ETRE, -ER verbs present tense +reflexive -ER verbs, adjectival agreements, possessive adjectives, comparative and Near future
-Homework tasks
-A Kahoot and a Quizlet practice
-a link to an online vocab learning course+ (a paper version of the vocab list)
-a vocab test linked to the course
-QR codes at the bottom of worksheet for extra independent study
-Tips, reminders and strategies to support students
-Comments under the slides for advice and worksheets location
All worksheets and answers are provided (.pdf and editable formats)
Activities are differentiated and exam- style
After downloading, save the file in the “my documents” area of your computer, then right-click and extract all to access all the resources
The first 13 files are a preview of what is included in the .zip folder
**PLEASE NOTE: 2 versions of the resource is included to help with the transition for lower ability classes. This is reflected in the slight price increase compared to other topics, which only contain one version. **
Unit 2: Technology in everyday life is available here: [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/technology-in-everyday-life-unit-2-gcse-french-12194735]
If you have any questions or if you are interested in more resources like this one, you can check this Facebook page: @frenchresources, where updates, links and freebies are posted regularly.











