35 years' experience of outstanding teaching and senior leadership in schools in the UK and internationally, I am now a private consultant working from my home in the South West of France. I am sharing all my resources, one by one, to give back the teaching profession the precious TIME that teachers need to get that really valuable work-life balance.
35 years' experience of outstanding teaching and senior leadership in schools in the UK and internationally, I am now a private consultant working from my home in the South West of France. I am sharing all my resources, one by one, to give back the teaching profession the precious TIME that teachers need to get that really valuable work-life balance.
A 12 page booklet full of questions and ways to answer so that you’re never again lost for words in conversation.
French level GCSE / A LEVEL /DELF B1 - C1
It’s always hard wondering what to say. This booklet will be useful in the classroom, or for individuals setting themselves up for personal conversation practice in French.
Sample pack for Confident Conversations
This is a free sample of a few pages of the BIG pack so you can see what’s inside.
Users of this pack in my membership group have told me: “This is GOLD!” “I can’t wait for the next pack!” and have also guided me as to what makes the best questions for stimulating conversations.
Each pack has approximately 20 questions with illustrations or 20% of the vocabulary needed to stimulate discussions.
Suitable for year 9 upwards, intermediate level, or students who are independent and love a reference upon which they can stimulate their own opinions and discussions
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French.
Questions stimulate giving opinions and justifying them.
Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included.
This differentiated pack poses questions about what you do to keep fit and to make the best of yourself.
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French. Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Les vacances d’hiver asks questions about traditions and feeling towards Christmas and the winter holiday period.
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French.
Questions stimulate giving opinions and justifying them.
Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included.
This differentiated pack poses questions about fun things to do in life and why, and speculation questions regarding chosen activities.
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French.
Questions stimulate giving opinions and justifying them.
Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included.
This differentiated pack poses questions about your past. A comprehensive and useful reference chart kick starts this pack to make talking about the past much easier. All too often students get hung up in the grammar. A quick-reference page eliminates pain and saves time, which therefore builds confidence!
Additional section on describing opinions in the past with a reference to the imperfect tense to help those conversing more freely, yet who still need a bit of support!
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French.
Questions stimulate giving opinions and justifying them.
Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included.
This differentiated pack poses questions about your future.
Additional section showing how to form the future tense alongside the near future tense.
Additional section on the conditional present to assist with ‘if’ questions.
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French.
Questions stimulate giving opinions and justifying them.
Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included.
This differentiated pack poses questions about where you might be hurting, training, reasons for exercising, benefits and eating habits for fitness.
Role-play ideas included.
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French.
Questions stimulate giving opinions and justifying them.
Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included.
This differentiated pack poses questions about where you live, to describing your geographical position, justifying why you like a place.
Leads into what you do for y our environment.
Additional word matching activity page for topical vocabulary with answer page.
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French.
Questions stimulate giving opinions and justifying them.
Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included.
This differentiated pack poses questions about your thoughts on learning, learning style, what a good student is and feelings towards home schooling.
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French. Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included.
This pack poses questions about work, dealing with bullies and salaries. There’s also a section for pole-play interviewing for a job.
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French. Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included. Questions stimulate giving opinions and justifying them.
This differentiated pack poses questions about films, tv, music
A pack to stimulate spontaneous conversations, providing stimulating questions and 20% of the vocabulary needed to springboard creating discussions.
Designed for pair work or small group work to generate discussion in French.
Questions stimulate giving opinions and justifying them.
Useful for follow-up work on writing and using a broader range of vocabulary.
Idiomatic expressions included.
This differentiated pack poses questions about travelling, why you like to travel and where.
Additional grammar section on the subjunctive made very easy to use.
This vertical time line starts from as far back in the past as we can
go to as far in the future as we can go. The examples all use ‘Je’.
A 2 page representation of tenses for quick reference for all students to see the relationship between the tenses, and to save time by being able to choose the right one - FAST.
This is a pack with 12 sections to stimulate spontaneous French conversations in small groups or in pairs.
Level: secondary up to GCSE/IGCSE exam level.
Useful for starters, independent work for students who need support to be able to find what to say in a conversation, or for those who are already conversant just needing talk triggers.
Each section is designed to become increasingly more stimulating so you can pick and choose any group to use this pack with, depending on their level. Project a section on the board, or print different sections matching your current topic of study.
There are sections that stimulate discussion using the perfect tense, the imperfect tense, the conditional tense, the subjunctive made easy, the near ans simple future tenses . . . and idiomatic expressions close each section.
Each section in the pack has already been proven to generate conversations that last up to 5 hours, although not all in one go!
Whatever you choose, you can just hand it to students and let them choose, with your guidance what to talk about.
The beauty is that you can ask the same questions again and again with different groups, or students can talk about the same topic with other students and there will always be different responses. IDEA: students report back about what their discussion was about. They can even write a created dialogue or a summary of the conversation . . .
Trialled on adults and teenagers, this powerful pack has been called ‘gold’!
Designed to save you valuable preparation time.
Once grabbed, you can use it again and again in many ways to stimulate spontaneous conversations in French.
