Setting the scene: This is a tried and tested lesson suited best for a morning session. Focusing on a French poem, the tasks require working in pairs. The lesson has been delivered to GCSE FOUNDATION students, but would be best suited for HIGHER. FOUNDATION will require more teacher input and guidance. Duration: 50/60 minutes depending on teacher input. Key vocab: Imperfect tense and conditional and infinitive practice Key verbs: ÊTRE and various others. PowerPoint includes: Starter activity which involved finding the odd one out. DART activities (Directed Activities Related to Text) finding verbs and underlining, listening activity, writing and plenary. Printouts required are included within the PowerPoint.

An interactive lesson that requires a confident teacher to pretend that his or her mobile has connected to the projector/display. Makes full use of sound. Gets less interested children, especially lower set, enthused about learning some grammar and pretending to write a reply. Designed for Y8 lower ability, can also be used for confident Y7s.

A tried and tested lesson which includes a homework task that should set prior to the class. This is included within the PowerPoint and needs to be printed out and distributed a few days before the lesson (ideally). The homework is then corrected in class and leads into a new activity. The PowerPoint includes another text for the class activity. Other tasks include speaking and listening. The lesson requires students to have covered some typical breakfast foods and has been designed to challenge Foundation students who would normally work on EXPO 2 VERT. As a point of reference, this lesson is aimed at covering the content of page 62. Covers a number of verbs in the present tense: manger, prendre, aller, boire etc.