Teaching colours is easy but teaching colour agreement can be a bit more tricky. This entire lesson will enable you to deliver this tricky grammar point effortlessly. You will find a lively powerpoint presentation introducing French colours and you will be able to get pupils to think for themselves about what happens with masculine, feminine and plural. Once you have done the presentation, you will be able to get the pupils applying their knowledge in an easy to use activity that progressively build up to colours agreement. Less able pupils can be given help in the last section of the worksheet by providing them with two possible answers instead of leaving it open handed.

This powerpoint presentation allows your pupils to recognise some basic conditional tenses in the context of describing your ideal town. It constitutes an entire lesson with activities included in the powerpoint and is suitable for National 4 and National 5 students of French. Some of the activities are very much in fitting with the curriculum for excellence spirit and can be used as assessment.

This set of resources will cover you for a couple of lessons. You could start with the presentation on pets (Les animaux) in French which introduces key language structures such as asking if someone has a pet (tu as un animal?) and giving appropriate answers (oui j'ai... / non je n'ai pas de). The worksheet that follows will enable your pupils to put into practice what they have learned and exposes them to adding the appropriate plural ending when required. The third activity allows pupils to work in groups and use their dictionary skills to work out the French transcription of sounds made by animals. This set of activities has been tried and tested and has always proved very successful.

This is a great way to easily and effortlessly assess your pupils' speaking and reading skills. This activity is enjoyable and allows you to circulate in the classroom and listen to them. The one produced here is designed for first year pupils but it is easily adaptable to any level simply by asking more complex questions. Each group of pupils will need a dice per group and one word answers are not allowed!

This set of resources and activities is based around an original detective story which is on the power-point. Its aim is to develop and assess reading, writing, speaking and listening skills on the topic of free time and invitations. You can set students into groups of 4 and issue each group with a dictionary (or 2) and clue cards (cartes indices). Each student also receives an activity booklet. The first part of the activity booklet is developing their reading techniques with questions for each slide of the story. They have to answer the questions as a group using their dictionary and clue cards to help them. Part 2 is providing them with a choice of writing activities and part 3 with a choice of talking / listening activities. Some of the activities require each group to break into pairs. As each group progress through the activity booklet, they collect gold coins and gem stones along the way. They can use these to assess themselves at the end with the self-assessment grid.

This resource was developed as part of a primary visit and focuses on reading skills. It involves setting the class in small groups of three or four. Each group has to fill in detail in the cyclist's ID card by moving round the classroom and reading three short interviews, each displayed on the wall in different corners of the room. Upon completion of the information required in the ID card, pupils have to identify the collage which is associated with the cyclists out of 4 different collages also displayed on the classroom walls. This activity can also be done by handing in all the material to pupils if the teacher needs to minimise movement around the room.

This power-point presentation constitutes a whole lesson that includes revision of the verb 'aller', practice of 'je vais porter' with clothes which leads into a step-by-step explanation of the near future and exercises to practice. By the end of the lesson, your pupils should have a good understanding of how the near future works and be able to apply their knowledge in simple sentences outwith the context of clothes.

The first power-point presentation constitutes an entire lesson with introduction of the vocabulary, first 3 persons singular of the verb 'avoir' and group work to practice describing other people. The second power-point introduces size description and the first 3 persons singular of the verb 'etre'.

This lively power-point presentation constitutes a whole lesson on inviting someone, accepting or declining an invitation. It also covers the grammatical point of using the verb 'vouloir' as a modal verb and introduces your pupil to French culture by letting them find out about parc Futuroscope. Included with the power-point presentation is a lesson plan as a suggestion on how to make use of the presentation.