Interleaving tenses – Free sample starters – French GCSE

A focused sample of the GCSE interleaving tenses starter bank, featuring a set of mixed-tense translation activities designed to strengthen grammatical recall, tense recognition and sentence-building fluency.

Each task combines a range of tenses with clear prompts, model translations and support boxes for key vocabulary and structures (si-clauses, negation, agreement, modals, and subjunctive cues).

Differentiation built in:
1 star = straightforward sentences for Foundation practice
3 stars = embedded clauses and abstract ideas for Higher challenge

Works ideally as a 10-minute lesson starter for GCSE French classes.

Available in PDF and editable PPTX.

If you’d like the complete set with all four levels of challenge — from single-verb drills to extended paragraph translation — you can find it here:
GCSE Interleaving Tenses – Complete Differentiated Starter Bank

For related grammar resources, head over to my shop where you’ll also find:

• Interleaving tenses – Complete starter bank – French GCSE
• French tenses – KS3-GCSE practice & reference pack
• French tenses workbook – KS3-GCSE

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