A short lesson on verbs ‘pouvoir’ and ‘devoir’ in the present tense. The lesson includes a reading/match-up task introducing these verbs in the context of activities + why we can’t do these activities; an explanation of modal verbs and the conjugations of ‘vouloir’, ‘pouvoir’, ‘devoir’; a simple mini whiteboard task; a fill the gap task; and a fun noughts and crosses game to end the lesson.

Lesson on activities to do in your town with explanation of how to use PUEDO vs SE PUEDE. Activities include a match-up, a translation task, a fill the gap, and a Quizzizz created by myself.

This lesson is based on clothes vocabulary and on verb ‘porter’. The objective is to describe what you are wearing, what you like to wear, what you do not like to wear, what one wears on particular occasions. The lesson includes presentation of clothes vocabulary with mini quizzes to break down the repetition, the conjugation of verb ‘porter’, and some slides on colours and opinions. Activities include other mini quizzes, some associating tasks, some fill the gap tasks, a beat the teacher / slap the board slide, some speaking activities (could be made into writing tasks if needed), and a fun scrabble game. There is enough material to complete 1 long session or 2 shorter sessions.

Qu’est-ce qu’il faut acheter pour ta fete ? This lesson includes a starter on foods and partitive articles to get the pupils settled and warmed up. It continues with an explanation of how to use il faut + infinitives, with a detailed recap on what are infinitives and how to recognise them. It moves on to a mini whiteboard task to check for pupil understanding, before moving on to a reading/sorting out exercise which is also a model for a final writing task.

A full lesson based on festivals and traditions of different cultures. The lesson focuses on revising/refreshing the present and past tense of regular verbs. Activities include reading, translation and listening tasks, a fill the gap task, and a fun speaking task (trapdoor game).

Lesson on ‘‘dans ma ville’’ vocabulary + negative form. Lots of activities including quizzes, translations, slap the board, sentence bingo, and beat the teacher.

Full lesson on when to use JUGAR or HACER in relation to sports. Includes full conjugation of jugar and hacer with consolidating fill the gap exercise; a reading task; and a writing task with scaffolding and support.

Full lesson. Recap on jugar / hacer with a consolidating exercise. Recap of sports and adjectives. Find the mistake exercise; speaking exercise (trapdoor); quick recap on link words task; writing task with lots of scaffolding and support.

This lesson includes a full recap of how to form comparatives, and also of adjectives. It then moves on to how to form superlatives. There’s plenty of tasks including reading comprehension (true or false); match-up tasks; complete the sentences; unjumble and translate tasks; make comparative sentences into superlative sentences. The PowerPoint is quite plain hence it’s more ideal for older students (Year 9 onwards). Also ideal for private tutoring.

A full lesson on the environment and how people help protecting it. It begins with a presentation of useful vocabulary and expressions related to the topic before moving on to a slap the board slide to check for retainment and for consolidating this vocabulary. It follows with an explanation of word families and how pupils can make the most of these to learn and understand new words and expressions; then there is an exercise to get pupils thinking about word families trying to find the meaning of some new words. Following is an explanation of the difference between ‘‘me preocupa’’ and ‘‘me preocupan’’ and similar expressions. The final tasks are a reading task and two speaking tasks, one of them being a trapdoor which is engaging and fun and gives pupils the scaffold they need for the second conversational speaking task.

A lesson presenting shops vocabulary, with mini match up activities to break down the vocab repetitions and drill in the new words. Following this is a translation and match-up activity on what you can buy in different shops. The lesson goes on showing how to say what is in your town and it ends with a well scaffolded and modelled speaking + writing task to get pupils talking and writing about their town.

A really fun Easter lesson created for a Year 10 class (15 years old) who enjoyed it, however it can be used even from Year 7 (11 years old). The lesson begins with a silly translation game based on popular UK chocolate bars. The kids really enjoyed this task. It follows with some French Easter traditions and vocabulary, with a final slide that could be used for beat the teacher or slap the board games. Then there is a quiz to test the pupils’ memory and knowledge. Follows a French poem on Easter/spring that the pupils can read or translate with the help of a dictionary. Follows an Easter greetings card making lab. The PPT ends with a hangman game slide as a plenary activity.

Y7 lesson on partitive articles with a recap of food vocabulary, explanation of partitive articles, exercises (word snake, fill the gap), and a link to a Quizziz that I created.

Includes a recap of regular -ER verbs in the present tense (with a fill the gap activity to recall previous knowledge) + presentation of present tense of FAIRE and ALLER with knowledge consolidating activities (odd one out, writing and speaking task with scaffolding).

A full lesson on passé composé with auxiliary avoir. It includes a complete recap of passé composé with ‘avoir’ (as seen in lesson 1 and 2) and an explanation of passé composé with irregular past participles. Activities include: the same noughts and crosses game as lesson 2 to use a starter to check for retainment and understanding (feel free to change the questions inside) a mini-whiteboard task that includes irregular verbs a translation task a delayed dictation task to use as a plenary (find the sentences in the slide’s notes or make up your own).

A lesson based around food & eating out. The lesson begins with recap activities on food+diet vocabulary and sentences. It continues with a reading activity on restaurants and a listening activity based on a dialogue (ordering food in a restaurant). This last activity also serves as a model for the following speaking activities, where pupils will be recreating the dialogue to order their own food at the restaurant.

A lesson based around revising past tense endings and describing a special day. The lesson also focuses on teaching students how to appropriately use a dictionary, and it includes a useful slides with tips. Activities include a match-up, a fill the gap / mini whiteboard task, a looking up words in the dictionary task, and a translation task.

A lesson based on shops vocabulary. The lesson includes a starter task, shops vocabulary presentation with mini quizzes to break down the repetition, a flippity game, a reading comprehension task, and a writing task that can also be made a speaking task as needed.

A full lesson for Y7 or Y8 based on creating a dialogue inviting others to activities and making excuses. The lesson begins with a recap of activities based on a match-up exercise (match-up questions and answers). It moves on to a revision of common expressions related to answering propositions. Follows a speaking trapdoor game to get the pupils talking and practicing the expressions they’ve revised. Following this is a presentation of activities that can be used to make excuses when invited somewhere (eg. sorry, I have to wash the car; sorry, I have to walk the dog, etc.). This presentation is broken down with and followed by quizzes to help with memorisation and retainment. Finally, pupils can practiced these conversations with the help of a well scaffolded slide, before moving on to writing their own dialogue.

A lesson on different types of volunteering. It includes a recap on verbs + infinitives (quiero ser, pienso ayudar etc.) before presenting the vocabulary for different types of volunteering (with little quizzes to break down the repetition and drill in the vocab). Following is a reading task, and a speaking/writing task with lots of scaffold. For this task, find attached the handout to print to help the students.