A 29 page A4 booklet of grammar explanations and activities to practice grammar for GCSE French.
This booklet could be used at the start of year 12 as well as through the GCSE course. It is ideal for independent learning, cover work, homework, revision or a useful resource for tutoring French.
The following grammar is covered:
definite and indefinite articles, connectives, time frequencies, opinions, adjectives, exclamations, questions, the present tense, the perfect tense, the immediate future tense, the simple future tense, the conditional tense, idioms, expressions with ‘avoir’, direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns, the pluperfect tense, the future perfect tense, the imperative and the present subjunctive.
2026 FIFA World Cup French Project Booklet | KS3 French | World Cup Activities | Cultural Capital
Bring the excitement of the 2026 FIFA World Cup into your French classroom with this engaging and visually appealing 20-page French project booklet, designed to develop vocabulary, reading, writing and intercultural understanding through the theme of football.
Perfect for Years 7–9, transition activities, enrichment days, end-of-term projects or cover lessons, this booklet combines language learning with one of the world’s biggest sporting events. Updated specifically for the 2026 FIFA World Cup hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States, it provides a motivating context for practising key French skills.
What’s included?
• Introduction to the 2026 FIFA World Cup and participating teams
• Activities based on the 2026 World Cup groups
• French countries and flags matching task
• Reading activity on international football players and national teams
• True or false comprehension tasks
• World Cup history timeline activity (1930–2026)
• Football-themed French vocabulary exercises
• Translation activities using opinion phrases
• French-to-English and English-to-French sentence-building tasks
• Football-themed word search
• Labelling activity on football equipment vocabulary
• Creative football kit design task
• Reading comprehension activities based on famous footballers including Kylian Mbappé, Jude Bellingham, Erling Haaland, Sadio Mané and Harry Kane
• Independent research and writing tasks on students’ favourite football players
• Reflection and celebration pages to conclude the project
Why use this resource?
✓ High levels of student engagement through a real-world sporting event
✓ Supports vocabulary acquisition and cultural awareness
✓ Encourages creativity alongside language development
✓ Suitable for mixed-ability groups with a variety of task types
✓ Ideal for collapsed curriculum days, enrichment weeks, sports-themed learning or independent projects
Curriculum links
This resource supports the development of key skills within the KS3 National Curriculum for Languages, including:
• Reading comprehension
• Translation skills
• Vocabulary development
• Sentence construction and writing
• Cultural understanding and international awareness
Although not written for a specific GCSE specification, the resource also provides useful reinforcement of high-frequency language and thematic vocabulary that can support progression towards AQA GCSE French.
File types included
• PDF (.pdf) – ready to print as an A4 booklet or use digitally via a virtual learning environment.
Whether you’re looking for a French World Cup project, football-themed French activities, a KS3 French booklet, or engaging end-of-term language resources, this booklet offers an exciting way to celebrate the FIFA World Cup 2026 while developing students’ confidence in French.
Resource preview available here:
Beginners French KS2 / KS3 PowerPoint lesson presentation (100 slides) to introduce and consolidate French greetings (les salutations), farewells and introductions (Je me presente / Introducing myself / Introducing yourself) vocabulary.
My FSL / MFL French basics resources and units suit students beginning French, near beginners (and intermediate learners for revision) in:
Upper Primary (Key Stage 2) - Year 4, 5, 6 (Y4 Y5 Y6)
Secondary (Key Stage 3) - especially Year 7 and 8 (Y7 / Y8)
Equivalents such as Grades 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Core French in Canada
May suit others, depending on experience
INCLUDES:
Greetings such as Bonjour (Hello) and Bonsoir (Good evening)
Farewells such as Au revoir (Goodbye) and A demain (See you tomorrow)
Comment ca va? (How are you?) and range of answers
Comment tu t’appelles? (What’s your name?) and answers
Quel age as-tu? (How old are you?) and answers
Ou habites-tu? (Where do you live?) and answers
Key teaching points
Question slides that feature answers that appear on a click to scaffold French speaking
Role-play activities
Interactive Hexagons game
Designed for beginners or near beginners in Year 4, 5, 6 and 7 (and equivalents in other countries) but may suit others, depending on experience. In the Zip file is the original PowerPoint, plus an additional PDF version in case you don’t have PowerPoint where you work. Please note the PDF doesn’t retain the interactivity of the PowerPoint and the Hexagons game is not compatible with PDF and so is omitted from that version.
SAVE by getting this as part of a French Greetings and Introductions BUNDLE, which also contains:
French Greetings and Introductions Worksheets
French Greetings and Introductions Games
French Greetings and Introductions Role-Play Cards
ALL 4 ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN:
French KS2 / KS3 MEGA BUNDLE 1
THIS PRESENTATION IS ALSO INCLUDED IN:
French Presentations and Interactive Games MEGA BUNDLE
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For any time! The Ultimate KS3 French Quiz! For any time, no fuss, francophile fun. This quiz is a whirlwind tour through the curriculum, perfect for a bit of a start of term warm-up, or end of end term wind-down. The quiz is light-hearted and amusing, multiple choice, interactive and focused on all areas of the KS3 curriculum.
The rounds include:
Getting verbal - Common verbs
Listen Up! - Listening round with links to short, French listening video clips (if this goes too fast, you can slow down the speed on YouTube, or play twice.
Home sweet home - Around la maison
Where is it? - Prepositions round
Loud and clear! - Comprehension listening round (again with clips)
Lucky Dip - A round with a mix of fun and challenging questions
The preview images show a few examples from each round.
Please note, the quiz is large so it’s in the ZIP file. The images are just a small preview of what’s inside :)
All answers are included, there is a score sheet (last page of PowerPoint), and the quiz lasts up to 45 mins. It can either be played having the answers revealed as you go along, or the board can be paused and the answers read out at the end (you can play either in teams or individually).
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Beginners KS2 / KS3 (Year 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) French speaking games for Greetings (Les salutations), Farewells and Introductions (Saying your Names, Ages, Where I Live etc), also known as Je me presente (Introducing myself): a board game, six 10-card loop games, a jigsaw puzzle, a 36-card active oral game and a vocabulary support page. These resources will help you plan multiple lessons.
My FSL / MFL French basics resources and units suit students beginning French, near beginners (and intermediate learners for revision) in:
* Upper Primary (Key Stage 2) - Year 4, 5, 6 (Y4 Y5 Y6)
* Secondary (Key Stage 3) - especially Year 7 and 8 (Y7 / Y8)
* Equivalents such as Core French
Instructions included.
Practise saying 'hello' and 'goodbye' (Bonjour, Salut, Au revoir, A bientot etc.) and asking and answering questions such as 'Ca va?' (How are you?), 'Comment tu t'appelles?' (What's your name?), 'Quel age as-tu?' (How old are you?), 'Ou habites-tu?' (Where do you live?) and 'Tu es de quelle nationalite?' (What's your nationality?).
SAVE with: French Greetings and Introductions BUNDLE which also includes:
French Greetings and Introductions Worksheets
French Greetings and Introductions Presentation
French Greetings and Intros Role-Play Cards
ALL 4 INCLUDED IN:
French KS2 / KS3 MEGA BUNDLE 1
BOARD GAME
Students roll a dice and say aloud in French the word, phrase or question they land on. 3 versions included (with minor changes around nationality and country to suit different locations).
LOOP GAMES
For oral practice in small groups. A student reads out the English word or phrase on their card and others check if they have the French translation, then read this out - and so on until the loop is completed.
JIGSAW PUZZLE
Print, laminate and cut the 16 triangular pieces. Students match French vocabulary with English translations to build a larger triangle.
ORAL GAME CARDS:
Give a card to each student. The questions Comment tu t'appelles?, Quel age as-tu? and Ou habites-tu? will be asked and answered as students circulate, trying to find themselves! To make locations featured more relevant, there's 3 versions (UK and Ire, US and Canada, and Aus / NZ).
French KS3 worksheet for cover, revision, homework etc.
Recap jobs with EPI-style activities.
Match up vocab
Add the spaces
Choose and circle the correct word
Gapfill - write the missing word
Who said (reading)
Identify the tense (past, now, future)
Tick the job in the feminine form
Anagrams writing
Add the missing vowels
Answer the questions about the text in English
The first question of each task is done as an example.
With a suggested ‘challenge task’ extension at the end.
Contains an editable version
Vocab ready for new GCSE spec
Great for last minute cover work, revision leading up to a test, or for retrieval and consolidation of learning over the last few topics.
French KS3 worksheet for cover, revision, homework etc.
Recap food and drink with EPI-style activities.
Match up vocab
Add the spaces
Choose and circle the correct word
Gapfill - write the missing word
Who said (reading)
Choose ‘je mange’ or ‘je bois’
Tick the verb in the past tense
Anagrams writing
Add the missing vowels
Answer the questions about the text in English
The first question of each task is done as an example.
With a suggested ‘challenge task’ extension at the end.
Great for last minute cover work, revision leading up to a test, or for retrieval and consolidation of learning over the last few topics.
In this digital product:
You will find everything you need to teach Topic 6: Celebrity Culture (third topic of Theme 2 of the new GCSE course (with AQA): Popular Culture)
The Presentation (approx. 145 slides including answer slides) covers the whole topic and is composed of 4 parts:
A: My favourite celebrities
B: Becoming famous
C: Life as a celebrity
D: Celebrities’ actions and influences
There are 4 folders (A, B, C and D) containing the relevant files for that part.
It includes:
a range of Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing and Translation activities
grammar points including: Revision of relative pronouns, Demonstrative adjectives, Imperative and imperfect tense
elements of phonics: qu, ch, the letter -a, gn
retrieval activities, cultural aspects and homework tasks
QR codes/ links for independent study
vocab lists (full topic list or 4 lists for the 4 parts) + link to online course
comments under the slides for notes and worksheet location
answers
audio files and transcripts
.pdf and editable versions of the worksheets (except the writing support mat, which is only available as a .pdf)
Activities are differentiated and exam style.
The first 15 files are a preview of what is included in the .zip folder: Topic6.zip.
After downloading, save the .zip file in your computer (in “documents” for example), then right-click and select “extract all” to access all the resources.
For the full overview, you can check the free SOW available for download here.
If you have any questions or if you are interested in more resources like this one, you can check this Facebook page: @Frenchresources, where links to resources and freebies are posted regularly.
Full lesson resource on understanding, and practicing answers for, the ‘unseen questions’ element of the new AQA GCSE FRENCH speaking exam (after the reading aloud section)
PPT (editable) and student handout, talking you through…
the essential elements of the markscheme and what students are required to do,
the ADOPT framework (action/description/opinion/place/time) to categorise and identify common types of question,
and strategies to answer each.
Lots of model answers (including evaluation of what makes them good), plus scaffolded and independent practice - improving answers, and giving their own answers.
20 slides - one lesson with a higher ability group, or a set of lessons depending on your class. Could be used in one go or slotted into a wider scheme of work or revision plan.
Spanish version also available: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13438956
French Knowledge Organiser (x2) for key vocab and structures used at GCSE
Clearly laid out in sections for verbs, tenses, opinion structures, persons etc so students understand exactly how to evidence complexity and variety of language.
Foundation and Higher tier versions (called ESSENTIAL and FURTHER) - easily adapted to your students’ level and needs.
Foundation includes important verbs in a range of formats so tenses and variety can be evidenced in a straightforward way. Also features other ways to show variety, ie. people, places, and detailed opinions. Higher includes wider range of infinitive structures, modal structures, si-clauses, idiomatic phrases etc. English translations given for all key phrases.
A4 size - print individually or double sided, or A3 2-in-1. Clear and eye-catching; designed to be student-friendly.
Ideal for writing or speaking exam revision.
PDF and editable versions included in this download. Spanish version also available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13480641
I’ve updated my World Cup resources for 2026 (Spanish and German to follow).
Here are a series of lessons on this theme.
L1 – countries participating, past winner, flags
L2 – Reading about country + players
L3 – describing or designing your own kit
L4 – body parts / sports injuries
L5 – describing outcomes of games / who will win / visit to a game. Sentence building
L6 – Speaking GCSE Style activities - based around Edexcel exam board requirements but can be adapted (photo description / read aloud / role play)
Plus a glossary/knowledge organiser of key vocab, which could be printed off to support if you are using all/nearly all of these lessons.
Big French Quiz for End of Year or welcome back lesson for Y8 + Y9
5 Categories, 8 questions per categories
Categories are:
General Knowledge
Paris
Food & Drinks
History
Sport
A Powerpoint presentation that covers all French tenses (present, perfect with etre and avoir), future (near and simple), conditional and imperfect. Their formation and a short translation exercise for each one with answers. Each slide is colour code per tense.
A bundle of 9 worksheets on the topic of Food for French GCSE/KS3 which will support pupils to talk about the food they like and eat in the present, past & future tenses.
Resource 1: Introducing types of food and the partitive article
Resource 2: Food routine and adverbs of frequency
Resource 3: Food and the immediate future tense
Resource 4: Types of food & cuisine and preferences
Resource 5: Adjectives and describing food
Resource 6: Food and le passé composé
Resource 7: A scaffolded writing task and model answer on food (past, present and future)
Resource 8: A revision worksheet on all aspects of this topic.
Resource 9: 4 pages of writing activities on food and fast food and a longer GCSE writing question with a model answer.
Format: Word and PDF documents with answers.
A workbook (with an answerbook included as a separate document) for A level students doing French and needing translation practice. There are exercises on each theme from English to French and from French to English.
The themes include:
family structures, modern values, friendships, relationships
youth trends, personality and identity
educational and employment opportunities
regional culture and identity in France and French speaking countries
media, art, film and music in the French speaking world
migration and integration
cultural identity and marginalisation
cultural enrichment and celebrating difference
June1940-May 1945
the cultural dimensions in occupied France
1945-1950
Suitable for any exam board
For A level students having studied the AQA AS spec, this booklet covers all the topics with particular focus given to examples students can use in their speakings. Also covers key information in the textbooks, as well as coming with a revision checklist.
Topics include:
la famille en voie de changement
la cyber-societe
le role du benevolat
une culture fiere de son patrimoine
la musique francophone contemporaine
le septieme art
How to Write a FANTASTIC French Essay!
This is a writing lesson that introduces the mnemonic FANTASTIC.
It’s a comprehensive lesson designed to help GCSE French students excel in their writing exams. The lesson introduces the FANTASTIC mnemonic, a simple and effective tool for remembering key grammar points and structures required for success.
The lesson includes a range of exercises, example writing tasks, and practice questions, all designed to reinforce the mnemonic and build students’ confidence in writing. Accompanying worksheets provide additional support for independent practice, showing example texts, questions for students to answer, and sentence builders to support them in writing.
This goes well with:
French Tenses Writing Booklet
The Perfect Tense Lessons with Avoir and Etre
Future Tenses Lessons
Present Tense Lesson and Workbook
AQA Specific
French AQA GCSE Photo Card & Conversation Higher
French AQA GCSE Photo Card & Conversation Foundation
French AQA GCSE Read Aloud Higher Tier Booklet with Audio
French AQA GCSE Read Aloud Foundation Tier Booklet with Audio
French AQA GCSE Role Play Higher Tier
French AQA GCSE Role Play Foundation Tier
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A workbook for Year 4 French. This resource has been translated and adapted from a Spanish version created by the very generous and talented Rachel Hawkes. Please let me know if you see any errors. Topics include: Greetings, classroom language, numbers 1-31, age, months, days, dates, birthdays, colours, shapes, the face, the body, family, alphabet, descriptions.