This was at first a cross curricular project with the Geography Dept and can be with tweaks. I like this project as pupils feel proud by the fact that they can speak the language confidently. For this topic, pupils learn the basic weather sentences while touching on the future, revising connectives and working on sentence structure. These plans can be adapted for all classes. These worked for me and the year group I had but I had changed some resources as this was a different cohort. At the end pupils are assessed on their speaking skills and can be on their writing skills once they write up the script up. There are 5 lessons and many resources to support the lessons. There is also a peer assessment forms as well as self assessment.

Detective fun activity which promotes collaborative talk between pupils. It allows children to take time in reading and discussing the definitions of poetic terms matching definition to word. It recaps words like rhythm, alliteration, metaphor and is a great starter to any poetry lesson. I have used this activity with year 5, 6 and 7 to recap poetic terms previously learnt or to stretch the more able. To start with, the teacher prints and laminated the 'find the poetic term'. Prior to the lesson each definition is placed around the classroom, school, corridor or playground. At the start of the activity, the teacher gives the pupils the worksheet 'poetic definitions'. I find putting children into pairs for this is more successful. According to ability, the pupils can either write part of the definition or write down the number. Each definition has a number.

This lesson/activity can be approached from various angles. I used it as an introduction to phrasing questions as we had learnt the basic- ‘Puis-je avoir….?’ with classroom equipment. (The latter question was taught using sign language and is very effective with lower ability pupils). Pupils loved asking for food items. You can add a ‘bureau d’echange’ and pretend to swap for euros. This can lead onto a food topic or travelling topic. The activity of a market will need to be set up prior to the lesson and class rules be established. Create incentives which will reward pupils. One year, it was decoding a clue as they visited each shop. Everyone knows their own cohort. I have included some publisher documents which can be amended to create market stall signs. This can be also linked with D & T department. Pupils were looking at healthy eating and mediterranean produces. They decided to make a salad nicoise. I created a basic cook sheet with the D & T teacher and we arranged the stalls to have the correct items to make this salad. So not to waste tuna we provided bags of tuna!

I created this activity as pupils struggled with the concept of an article in French. I first did this in English then gave them words in French and we discussed the difference. Afterwards I added the idea of gender. I have used this with year 5. From the worksheet, I cut the appropriate nouns and made them think about which is a common noun. You could start by work sheet or by sorting activity. There isn’t a list of words to cut and use as you will find that you will know which words will help your pupils depending on themes and levels and create on yourself.

A simple activity to recap learning. Can be used as a homework. I have put a ppt version so it can be used on interactive whiteboard.

A fun little powerpoint, I have used at the start of the year and ask if pupils can guess which one means. Pair work , group collaboration. The incentive is that the winner/winning group become the teacher in the last 5/10 mins and chose which activity we finish on i.e bingo with numbers or hangman etc I have used this as an introduction to imperative verbs after we played with the questions. There are two versions. The one with the gaps, I use a week later to recap or revise. Like any resource, I am sure this can be improved on or altered to suit a different age group or language.

This activity becomes a confidence booster. Once you have taught or revised with the pupils how to formulate questions, or you want to introduce a different type of questioning, this ppt will reinforce many skills. At first pupils are daunted by the amount of questions. I explain that the questions top left, everyone should be able to understand and answer. The others are a challenge and if after a certain amount of time, pupils are sill unsure, they can use their dictionaries or their book. This activity can take a whole lesson but over time becomes a starter. This activity opens to collaboration, encourages talking skills in target language where possible, can push dictionary skills in another direction as questions aren’t easy to find. I use this type of activity once a month by the summer term, pupils are confident and happy to create their own questions about the person while making amusing and wonderful assumptions. (Sometimes touching on PSHE topics).

Year 6 and Year 7 French I created these so pupils could feedback to me orally or in their books. They were mostly used for peer written feedback. Pupils loved the power of writing like a teacher and some spent time looking up in the dictionary more vocabulary to use. Of course, this can be altered to suit year groups.

This activity encourages collaborative talking and deduction. The pupils are shown an image of a person. Depending on the ability of the class, pupils could ask the questions themselves. On the next slide they are shown the same image with questions.It is always lovely watching pupils surprise themselves when they can translate the questions. You can take this activity in various directions. Either get pupils to answer the questions orally after spending time preparing imaginative answers or add ore questions and pretend its an interview, Or find another image and make pupils link both people together while creating profile for both.