This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Describe yourself and others”, in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. It contains 68 slides (all corrections included) and should last for 6-8 lessons. Activities include: White board translations Faulty echo This or that (Reading and Listening versions) Match up Gapped translation Write the missing letters Finish my sentence Multiple choice quiz Comprehension LAM and RAM Reading: Find the French for Reading: Answer the questions in English Reading: Word Hunt parallel translation - Find 13 mistakes Listening: Find the French (audio included) Listening: Correct the statements (audio included) Listening: Correct the spelling/grammar (audio included) Listening: Listen and Spot the 12 pronunciation mistakes as you listen (LAM) (audio included) Listening: Listen and cross out the intruders and write the missing words (audio included) Structured production: Double paragraph writing Grammar explanation and exercices on adjective agreemnts One pen one di Delayed dictation Oral Ping Pong Pull the switch Mind reader Mad dictation Group compositions One for all and all for one Auction your family out *Please leave a review! =D

White board translations Find the French for in the Sentence Builder Match up Find the error in the sentence This or that Spot my error (phonological error) Find the intruder in each sentence Reading and listening tasks ((Text to Speech audio included =) ) Narrow Reading: Find the French for Reading: Answer the questions in French Reading: Gapped translation Comment dit-on? Listen and highlight the mispronounced words (LAM) Listen and write the missing words - no gaps provided (LAM) Listen and write the missing words and cross out the intruders (LAM) Listen and choose the correct statements (LAM) Structured production: Paragraph translation Structured production: Trapdoor Structured production: Sentence Stealer Expansion: Grammar recap table on Passé composé / near future / future / conditionnel Expansion: Exercises to practice the above four tenses Expansion: Grammar explanation on pronoun “Y” Expansion: Exercises to practice pronoun “Y” Autonomy-Routinisation: Oral Ping Pong Autonomy-Routinisation: Pyramid Translation Autonomy-Routinisation: No Snakes No Ladders Spontaneity: Pull the Switch Spontaneity: Paragraph writing Spontaneity: Flip presentation

Updated January 2025 to add listening files (2 speeds) and AI video to listening text This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic "School Subjects (Likes and dislikes + why” in the present tense and the imperfect, in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. Activities include: White board translations Find the French for in the Sentence Builder Faulty Echo Whiteboard sentence translations This or that Sentence match Positif ou négatif ? Quiz Sentence puzzle Complete with an appropriate word/ phrase Reading: Find the French for Reading: Answer the questions in French Reading: Correct the English translation Listening Bingo Listen to the text and Tick / Cross the words you hear / do not hear (LAM) (AI video included) Listen and correct the statements in French (LAM) (audio included) Listen and answer the questions in French - focus on short answers (LAM) (audio included) Structured production: Tangled Translation Structured production: One pen one di Structured production: Delayed dictation Structured production: Sentence stealer Expansion: Same Sentence Builder converted into the Imperfect Expansion: Grammar explanation / recap on Imperfect Expansion: Whiteboard translaiton on Imperfect through new Sentence Builder Expansion: Tangled translation (conjugation of verbs in Imperfect) Expansion: Convert the sentences from present tense to Imperfect Expansion: Choose between present tense and Imperfect Spontaneity: Listen to the story and draw pictures, then retell story Spontaneity: Group composition Spontaneity: Spontaneous translation of paragraphs (no SB allowed) Spontaneity: Tous pour un et un pour tous ! *Please leave a review! =D

This powerpoint covers a variety of GCSE topic with a focus on the indirect object pronoun "EN”, predominantly in the PRESENT tense, with some examples using the perfect tense, near future, imperfect, conditional, and future simple. This unit is also based on Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applies the MARS EARS framework. Activities include: White board translations Find the French for in the Sentence Builder Find the missing words x2 This or that Faulty translation Reading: Find the French for Reading: Answer the questions in French Reading: Vrai ou faux Reading: Paragraph translation to English Listening 1: Listen to the text and underline the mispronounced words (LAM) audio included Listening 2, 3 & 4: Listen to the text and write the missing words (LAM) audio included Listening 5, 6 & 7: Listen highlight all the intruders (LAM) audio included Listening 8: Listen choose the correct translation for the text (LAM) AI video included Structured production: Tangled Translation Oral Ping Pong Full circle One pen one di Expansion: Grammar explanation table on the uses of pronoun EN Expansion: 4 grammar exercices Expansion: Further grammar explanation on pronoun EN in other tenses Expansion: 6 grammar exercices Autonomy Routinisation : One pen One Autonomy Routinisation: Full circle Spontaneity: Group composition Spontaneity: Pull the switch / parallel text dialogue

This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic "Future Plans” predominantly in the Future Simple and Conditional Present. NOTE: It also recycles the content of the French GCSE UNITS 11,12,13,and 14 and therefore incorporates the Imperfect / Passé Composé and SI CLAUSES. It is therefore better used if taught after the above mentioned units. This unit is also based on Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applies the MARS EARS framework. Activities include: White board translations Find the French for in the Sentence Builder Whiteboard sentence translations Beat the teacher This or that Faulty translation Gapped translation Complete the table Gapped English / French task Comment dit-on… in pairs Find the intruder in each sentence Narrow Reading: Find the French for Narrow Reading: Answer the questions in French Narrow Reading: Find the missing words in the English translation Mini production: Guided translation Listening 1: Listen to the text and underline the mispronounced words (LAM) audio included Listening 2, 3 & 4: Listen to the text and write the missing words (LAM) audio included Listening 5, 6 & 7: Listen highlight all the intruders (LAM) audio included Listening 8: Listen choose the correct translation for the text (LAM) audio included Structured production: Sentence Translation in French Structured production: Tangled Translation Structured production: Sentence stealer Structured production: Sentence chaos Structure production: Quelque chose Structure production: Find your match Expansion: Grammar recap on future tense, conditional and SI clauses Expansion: Choose between the conditional or future tenses Expansion: Choose between the imperfect, conditional or future tenses Autonomy Routinisation : One pen One di Autonomy Routinisation : Disappearing text Autonomy Routinisation : No snakes no ladders Circle Spontaneity: Group composition Spontaneity: Tous pour un et un pour tous

This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Technology in every day life” in SPANISH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. It covers both the present tense and preterite. This sequence should be enough for 8-11 lessons, depending on individual schools’ timetable. Activities include: White board translations Faulty echo This or that (Reading and Listening versions) Sentence match (reading and LAM) Find the error in my Spanish sentence Write the missing letters Sentence puzzle Multiple choice quiz Narrow Reading 1: Find the Spanish for (present) Narrow Reading 1: True false (present) Narrow Reading 1: FIll in the missing words/chunk (present) Listening 1: Write the 14 missing words (audio included) Listening 2: Write the 26 missing words (audio included) Listening 3: LAM Spot the error (audio included) Narrow Reading 2: Find the Spanish for (Past) Narrow Reading 2: Gapped translation (Past) Narrow Reading 2: Correct the mistakes in the English translation Narrow Reading 2: Tick/Cross Gapped parallel translation (LAM) Find the missing words (LAM) Faulty transcript (LAM) Structured production (Structured paragraphs to write) Disappearing texts (6 levels) Disappearing texts (routinisation stage) Mind reading Delayed dictation Sentence stealer Mad dictation audio included Pyramid translation Group compositions Listen to the story and draw pictures - retell the story in pairs Ladder writing Please leave a review! =)

This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Describe a typical day at school”, in SPANISH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. This unit of work also recycles the previous seven units I have uploaded so far (as labeled 1-7). Activities include: white board translations Faulty echo This or that (Reading and Listening versions) Put the actions in chronological order Write the missing letters Probable & Improbable Gapped translation Sentence puzzle reading and listening tasks (no Audio - teacher to read) Word hunt with parallel text Las palabras que faltan y las palabras adicionales (LAM) Listen and highlight the mispronounced words (LAM) Listen and add the missing words (LAM) structured production (Narrow Translation) Grammar task Sentence stealer Faulty translation Un dado un lápiz RETRIEVAL GRID Mind reading Delayed dictation Dictogloss Act a story Group compositions Please leave a review! =)

This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Télévision et cinéma” in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. Activities include: White board translations Find the French for in the Sentence Builder Match up Find the missing word in the sentence This or that Spot my error (phonological error) Reading and listening tasks (Audio included for all listening tasks) Narrow Reading: Find the French for Reading: Answer the questions in French Reading: Translate the last paragraph into English Comment dit-on? Listen and highlight the mispronounced words (LAM) - audio included Listen and write the missing words - no gaps provided (LAM) - audio included Listen and write the missing words and cross out the intruders (LAM) -audio included Listen and tick the correct options (LAM) - audio included Structured production: Au voleur Structured production: Paragraph Translation Structured production: Oral Ping Pong Expansion: Lexicogrammar table Expansion: Grammar task 1: Fill the blanks Expansion: Grammar task 2: Multiple choice Expansion: Grammar task 3: Match up Expansion: Grammar task 4: Error correction Expansion: Grammar explanation Near future Autonomy: Pyramid translation x2 Spontaneity: Listen and draw pictures - then retell story from pictures Spontaneity: Pull the Switch Spontaneity: Exam piece of writing *Please leave a review! =D

Updated January 2025 to add recording files to listening exercises, as well as a grammar checkpoint, grammar exercises, and parallel dialogue with instructions! This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Food” present tense, in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. In the spontaneous phase, it recycles the previous units uploaded (15 & 16 on Getting on / Not getting on with family members, as well as unit 17 on role models, and unit 18 on Childhood ). It contains 49 slides (all corrections included) and should last for 5-6 lessons. Activities include: White board translations Match up Gapped translation Write the missing letters Positif ou négatif? Faulty translation Broken sentences Vrai ou faux Complete with the missing verb Reading: Find the French for Reading: Answer the question Reading: Gapped translation of transcript Listen and answer True or false (LAM) (audio included) Listen and answer the questions in English (audio included) Listen and write the missing words (audio included) Listening: Faulty transcript (audio included) Grammar explanation table 4x Grammar exercises Structured production: Mini paragraph translation Structured production: 130-140 words paragraph writing Structured production: oral ping pong Autonomy-Routinisation: Retrieval grid on GCSE Units 01,02,03,04,05 and current unit Autonomy-Routinisation: Faulty transcript on GCSE Units 01,02,03,04,05 and current Autonomy-Routinisation: Multiple choice quiz Autonomy-Routinisation: No snakes no ladder Autonomy-Routinisation: Plus vite ! Spontaneity: Parallel text dialogue with instructions Spontaneity: Group composition *Please leave a review! =D

This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Talking about future holidays" in SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is the near future using the “Yo” and “Nosotros” pronouns in the near future. Final exercise recycles the entire Year 8 curriculum (previous 8 lessons). Full MARS EARS sequence Activities include: White board translations Find the Spanish for in the SB Faulty echo Match up Multiple choice Beat the teacher Broken words Sentence match Narrow reading Find the Spanish For Narrow Reading English comprehension questions Narrow Reading Find someone who LAM - Listening : Collocations / Colligations training LAM - Narrow Listening Find the Spanish for (no listening included) LAM - Narrow Listening Gapped translation (no listening included) LAM - Which is the correct translations? Narrow Listening (no listening included) Production : Narrow translation (3 paragraphs) Grammar explanation on near future + practice Sentence stealer Disappearing text Mad dictation Group composition 4,3,2 *Please leave a review! =)

Updated January 2025 to add audio files for listening exercises This powerpoint covers the KS3 topic “Talking about jobs" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. It also recycles the previous seven Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01 - 07). Full MARS EARS sequence Activities include: White board translations Faulty echo Spot the missing word Beat the teacher This or that Unjumble the sentences Fill the gaps Likely or unlikely? Listening Bingo Narrow Reading: Find the French for Narrow Reading: Answer the questions in English Narrow Reading: Complete the table Narrow Listening: Find the French for (audio included) Narrow Listening: Correct the mistakes in the transcript (audio included) Narrow Listening; Gapped translation (audio included) Narrow Listening: Listen and choose the correct translation (audio included) Jumbled translation Mosaic translation Explicit grammar on Travailler and Être Sentence stealer Delayed dictation Mind reading Staircase translation Photo description Dictogloss 4,3,2 Technique *Please leave a review! =)

**Updated January 2025 to add more reading and listening exercises, as well as the recordings for the listening ** This powerpoint covers the topic “Where do you live” using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. Full MARS EARS sequence Activities include: White board translations Faulty echo Reading: Find the French for Reading: Answer the questions in English Reading: Gapped Translation Listening: Gapfill completion of audio paragraph (audio included) Listening: Answer the questions in English as you listen (audio included) Listening: Find the French as you listen (audio included) Listening: Answer the questions in English (audio included) Listening: Write the missing words in the paragraphs (audio included) Structured production (narrow translation) Sentence stealer Mind reading Correct the mistakes (focus on grammar) Delayed dictation Pyramid translation Disappearing text Picture description Group composition Please leave a review! =)

This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 8 topic “Hobbies in the Present and Near future" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs MANGER, BOIRE, PRENDRE, JOUER, ALLER, FAIRE and PORTER in the present and near future tenses (je form) with full retrieval of THE previous 6 units. Full MARS EARS sequence Activities include: White board translations Find the French for in the SB Beat the teacher Ghost time shadow reading This or that Gapped translation Faulty translation Unjumble the sentences Narrow reading Find the French For Narrow Reading Find someone who Narrow Reading gapped translation LAM - Find the mispronounced words Audio included LAM - Find the intruders x3 texts Audio included LAM - Fill in the missing words Audio included x3 texts Audio included LAM - Find the correct translation AI video included Production : Sentence Translation Production : Narrow translation Production: Sentence chaos Production: Quelque chose Grammar Table on verbs Aller, Faire, Jouer, Manger, Boire, Prendre, Porter in the present and near future Grammar tasks to practice x5 Sentence stealer One pen one die Oral Ping Pong Regular Oran Ping Pong Super Challenge Full circle No Snakes No Ladders Picture description Group composition one for all and all for one Pull the switch / Parallel dialogue (Regular) Pull the switch / Parallel dialogue (Extended challenge ) *Please leave a review! =)

This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic "Charity and Voluntary work” in the present tense, conditional, and SI+PLUPERFECT+CONDITIONAL PERFECT clause in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. Activities include: White board translations Find the French for in the Sentence Builder Faulty Echo White board sentence translations This or that Sentence match Quiz Complete with an appropriate word/ phrase Reading: Find the French for Reading: Answer the questions in French Reading: Correct the English translation Listening: Tick or cross (Audio included) Listening: Choose the correct answer (Audio included) Listening: Find the synonym (Faster audio included) Listening: Fill the gap AI video included Listening Bingo Listen to the text and Tick / Cross the words you hear / do not hear (LAM) Listen and choose correct the statements in French (LAM) Listen and fill the blanks in the transcript (LAM) Structured production: Tangled Translation Structured production: One pen one di Structured production: Delayed dictation - (Audio distraction included!) Structured production: Sentence stealer Structured production: Quelque chose game Structured production: 7-level disappearing text Expansion: Verb quiz - infinitives Expansion: Grammar explanation on SI + PLUPERFECT + CONDITIONAL PERFECT Expansion: White board translation on SI clause Expansion: Grammar on present tense Expansion: fill the gap on SI CLAUSE Expansion: Rewrite using the SI + PLUPERFECT + CONDITIONAL clause Autonomy: Faster Autonomy: Oral Ping Pong Autonomy: No Snakes no Ladders Spontaneity: Group composition Spontaneity: translation of paragraphs (no SB allowed) Spontaneity: Flip presentation Spontaneity: Pull the switch / Dialogue *Please leave a review! =D

This powerpoint covers the KS3 - Year 7 topic “Talking about hobbies" in FRENCH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. The grammar focus is on the verbs Jouer, Faire and Aller with a second sentence builder that introduces all personal pronouns later down the sequence. This is fully recycled in the next unit, as well as in the Year 8 bundle. Full MARS EARS sequence Activities include: White board translations Faulty echo Beat the teacher Complete with the missing letters Multiple choice quiz Sentence match This or that quiz Break the flow Gapped translation Narrow reading Find the French For Narrow Reading Comprehension questions Narrow Reading Bad translation LAM Collocation grids Narrow Listening Tick or Cross (audio included) Narrow Listening Gapped translation (audio included) LAM Faulty transcript (audio included) LAM Shadow reading (audio included) Production : Jigsaw translation Production : Narrow translation Grammar SB Grammar explanation on “Jouer + sport / instruments” Grammar explanation on “Faire + activities” Running dictation Sentence stealer Photo description Group composition One for all and all for one *Please leave a review! =)

Updated January 2025 to add recording files for Listening section, and one AI video This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Healthy Living” and recycles the perfect tense in the context of food, as well as the present and near future, in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. It also introduces the SI CLAUSE (Si + imparfait + conditionnel). =) More effective if used after units 06 & 07 previously uploaded on Food =) Activities include: White board translations Find the French for in the Sentence Builder Whiteboard sentence translations Find the missing word in the sentences This or that Spot my error (phonological error) Find the intruder in each sentence Vrai ou faux Mind readers in pairs Find the missing word in each sentence and write in on your whiteboard Reading and listening tasks (NO AUDIO included - teacher to read) Narrow Reading: Find the French for Naerow Reading: Answer the questions in French Narrow Reading: Gapped translation Listen to the text in French and reorganise the translation chronologically (LAM) (AI video included) Listen and write the missing words - no gaps provided (LAM) (audio included) Listen and write the missing words and cross out the intruders (LAM) (audio included) Listen and answer the questions in French - focus on short answers (LAM) (audio included) Structured production: Narrow Translation (x3 paragraphs) Structured production: Oral ping pong Structure production: Delayed copying Expansion: Sentence Builder on Si Clause (Imparfait + conditionnel) Expansion: Grammar explanation Si Clause (Imparfait + conditionnel) Expansion: Fast and Furious Si Clause (Imparfait + conditionnel) Expansion: Sentence Stealer Si Clause (Imparfait + conditionnel) Autonomy-Routinisation: Dictogloss Autonomy-Routinisation: Chain reaction Spontaneity: 130-140 word paragraph writing Spontaneity: Group composition Spontaneity: Flip presentation *Please leave a review! =D

This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Customs and traditions” in the perfect tense, present indicative, near future, and future simple in FRENCH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. Also includes the si+present+future clause. More effective if used after FRENCH GCSE Units 11-16 in terms of grammar due to the recycling and interleaving of those tenses. Activities include: White board translations Find the French for in the Sentence Builder Match up Find the missing word in the sentence This or that Spot my error (phonological error) Reading and listening tasks (TTS Audio included for all listening tasks) Narrow Reading: Find the French for Reading: Answer the questions in French Reading: Translate the last paragraph into English Comment dit-on? Listen and highlight the mispronounced words (LAM) Listen and write the missing words - no gaps provided (LAM) Listen and write the missing words and cross out the intruders (LAM) Listen and tick the correct options (LAM) Structured production: Delayed copying Structured production: Narrow Translation (x3 paragraphs) Structured production: Oral Ping Pong Expansion: Grammar conjugation table (6 tenses) Expansion: Grammar task present tense Expansion: Grammar task perfect tense Expansion: Grammar task future tense Expansion: Grammar task multi tense Expansion: Grammar explanation Near future Expansion: Parsing grid Near future Autonomy-Routinisation: Dictogloss Autonomy-Routinisation: One pen One di Spontaneity: Listen and draw pictures - then retell story from pictures Spontaneity: Pull the Switch Spontaneity: Exam piece of writing *Please leave a review! =D

This powerpoint covers the GCSE topic “Discussing previous holidays”, in SPANISH, using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. This unit of work also recycles content from the resource : SPANISH GCSE Resource - Las vacaciones (Part 1 - Past holidays) EPI / MARS EARS as well as content from all other units uploaded so far. Activities include: White board translations Faulty echo This or that Listen and correct the English translation Write the missing letters Match up Sentence puzzle Reading: Find the Spanish for Reading: Answer the questions in English Reading: Faulty translation Listening: Find the Spanish for (audio included) Listening: Answer the questions in English (audio included) Listening: Listen and fill in the gaps in the transcript (audio included) Listening: Faulty transcript (LAM) (audio included) Listening: Highlight the mispronounced words (audio included) Listening: Listen and add the missing words (audio included) Structured production (Narrow Translation) Grammar task Faulty translation Un dado un lápiz Mind reading Delayed dictation Mad dictation Pyramid translation Group compositions Listen to the story and draw pictures - retell the story in pairs (audio included) Todos para Uno, Uno para Todos Please leave a review! =) Please leave a review! =)

This powerpoint covers the Year 7 topic “Describing myself and others - how I get on with my family" IN SPANISH using Gianfranco Conti’s EPI methodoly, and applying the MARS EARS framework. It also recycles the previous five Year 7 units uploaded, labelled (01, 02, 03, 04 & 05). Full MARS EARS sequence Activities include: White board translations Faulty echo Beat the teacher This or that Unjumble the sentences Faulty translation Complete with the missing letters Reading and Listening tasks (Narrow reading and Listening) (no Audio - teacher to read) Faulty transcript LAM Mispronounced words LAM MIssing words LAM Bad translation RAM Structured paragraph writing Sentence stealer Oral Ping Pong Mind reading Group composition Auction your family out All for one and one for all Vocab/Chunk test *Please leave a review! =)

About this resource: This is the first of many short stories in French to come. Each short story matches its own EPI units for further consolidation, and enjoyment with reading. What is included in this story: This short story related to the following unit: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/01-french-year-7-unit-1-my-name-and-my-age-epi-mars-ears-12834653 It includes the following: The sentence builder used in the EPI unit and on which this dialog has been based A dialogue/conversation with the English translation included as parallel text. 100% comprehensible input. A variety of exercises to complete to practice meaning and form (with answers included at the end) An AI generated conversation uploaded on my Youtube channel to make it more interactive for kids. Easily editable format (Word and PDF included)