Cover lesson worksheet for a low ability Year 8 class.
A series of tasks to work through to build up from learning the vocab to using it in a sentence.
Not very exciting, but thought it might save someone a bit of time.
Vocabulary lists produced for most modules of Y7, 8 and 9 French, roughly following the Expo textbook. Year 7: 1) Basic introductions, numbers, colours 2) Family and pets 3) House and home 4) School and daily routine Year 8: 1) Revision module (talking about family, where you live) + jobs and weather 2) Temps libre - introducing past tense 3) Les sorties - modal verbs, clothes 4) Manger et boire 5) Les vacances Year 9: 1) Future plans (Module 2 of Expo 3) 2) Interests/leisure/culture (Module 1 of Expo 3) 3) Healthy living
A few lessons for a Y8 class.
Using TV genres, telling the time, and introducing the past tense with one verb ready for doing the past tense in a bit more detail next lesson.
Reflexive verbs for high ability Y9.
Working towards a paragraph about a day in the life of a celebrity of their choice.
Covers:
-key infinitives
-conjugation in present tense using mini-whiteboards to respond
-sequencing an account with puis, ensuite, etc.
-using reflexives in a range of tenses
-advanced structures "avant de" + inf and "apres avoir" + pp
For a very low ability FCSE French group, but would be suitable for lower year groups.
Would be good for cover.
Match up key vocab.
Simple reading task (checking understanding of il y a and il n'y a pas de).
Matching places to activities with 'on peut'.
Font size is massive so you can print 2 sheets per page.
Worksheet on the topic of clothing designed for low ability Y8 groups to get on with independently during speaking assessment. Designed for a group who struggled to complete Linguascope sheets and Gianfranco Conti sheets in a cover lesson so needed something simpler.
Worksheet designed for low ability Y8 groups to get on with independently during speaking assessment. Designed for a group who struggled to complete Linguascope sheets and Gianfranco Conti sheets in a cover lesson so needed something simpler.
A cover lesson introducing language for the photo card at AQA GCSE (for the 4-sentences writing task, and as a starting point for the speaking exam). This is for a low ability Y9 group.
Covers:
-hay + nouns
-es + height/build
-tiene + hair description
-lleva + basic clothing
4 pictures for students to describe.
Lesson aimed at developing dictionary skills prior to writing Controlled Assessment.
The aim is for pupils to know what type of words they are looking up, and to be able to use verb tables correctly to avoid handing in work peppered with infinitives.
All examples are the Oxford School French Dictionary as this is what our pupils use in exams.
The conjugation game on the last slide was sent to me by a colleague who found it on TES - you may need to search for it to get a clearer copy than my screeshot.
2 lessons aimed at top-set Y9 pupils, linked to Module 1 of Expo 3 Rouge.
Lesson 1:
-Intro to film genres - think of an example for each genre listed.
-Reading task - guess the film from the description (answers: The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Frozen, The Fault in Our Stars)
-Find the French (for key phrases to use in writing)
-Writing task with sentence starters provided.
Lesson 2:
-What do you care about when choosing a film? - ranking priorities and writing about them
-Opinions of different aspects of the film - review.
Year 7 reading activity with three short texts including opinions and reasons. Could be suitable for cover work.
Part 1 - match pictures to the texts.
Part 2 - true or false.
Lesson to introduce personality adjectives with Y7 (they've already done loads of work on agreements for colours and physical description, so not that much time spent on it here).
Goes with Expo 1 and does refer to reading and listening activities from it, but hopefully some of the slides will be useful even if you don&'t use this textbook.
Resources for a very low ability/low confidence class who have just started the FCSE French course.
Most resources are suitable for/based on KS3.
Covers:
-countries (en/au/aux)
-points of the compass and some Geography work
-transport
-some activities and opinions
Reading task based on Expo 2 Vert p62 but extended (I have added an extra text and broken down the activities more).
This is for a low ability group so begins with the basics - recognising food words they have done and underlining them.
Then they have to identify which person mentions which foods, and there are some extension questions for the more able in the group to move onto.
2 lessons for a top set Y8 class doing Spanish once per week alongside French.
Using mas...que, menos... que and tan... como.
Some slides found on TES and adapted/added to my own resources, so not entirely my own.
Reading task to revise the perfect tense with Y9 after teaching illness with 'j'ai mal au...'.
Pupils match 2 halves of sentences and work out which illness would result from which activity.
As extension, I set 'find the French' on various time phrases and connectives used in the speech bubbles.
Knowledge Organisers for my Y9 curriculum, including:
Revision and enhancement of Y7 basics (self, appearance, personality, family) in the guise of a Loft Story (Big Brother) themed project.
Media, TV, film, leisure activities.
Healthy Living
Customs and Festivals
Education and Future Career Plans
The KOs are divided into Productive Language (what we teach students to say and write) and Receptive Language (mostly taken from the AQA specification list) which they need to understand for Reading and Listening but don’t necessarily need to use in their own work.
The KOs can be used to structure lesson planning, as a sentence builder or scaffold for students during written/spoken tasks, and for setting homework (typically half a column per week for vocab tests).
I hope you find these useful. Check out my other resources if you did. :)
Knowledge Organisers for Year 7 French. Excel spreadsheets to print A5 size and stick in pupils books at the start of each topic, or you could print them all in a booklet.
Can easily be used as sentence builders for speaking/writing, with students gradually reducing reliance on them towards assessments.
Also ideal for homework - setting roughly half a column per week for vocab tests.
Covering:
Classroom language (1-week mini unit)
School (subjects, opinions, teachers, uniform, rules)
Self, family and pets (productive and receptive)
House and home (productive and receptive)
Leisure activities
Les destinations touristiques
Quality opinions for all year groups up to Grade 5 (transferable language).
Printable knowledge organisers for KS3 French.
Can be used as a basis for SoW (ie: what content to cover), as a scaffold in lessons, and for independent learning (self-quizzing for homework).
Productive KOs include verb phrases and key vocabulary that has been selected because it is transferable or is easy to say/spell in test conditions.
Receptive KOs are at word level and contain key language taken from the AQA specification, aimed at exposing pupils to a wider range of this from KS3.
Topics covered (so far) are:
Food and drink
Leisure/free time activities
Pocket money, chores, jobs
Going out in town
Holidays
There are also KOs on key verbs in 3 tenses, and on quality language/opinions to be used across all topics.
Word loops are included for class retrieval practice of Food and Drink topic. Pupils aim to recall the translation of a word before the answers appear on the screen.