Resources for teaching a scheme of work based on the new AQA GCSE French specification for first exam in 2026.
This unit covers Theme 1 People and lifestyle - Topic 3 – Education and work from the specification. 18 lessons in total.
This unit of work includes:
A medium term plan outline with a suggested lesson-by-lesson scheme of work
A knowledge organiser/sentence builder for the topic
A student booklet (also used for teacher annotation) with do now retrieval activities included and a variety of listening, reading, translation, speaking and writing tasks
A PowerPoint which contains some front of class resources (skeleton only) and also some audio files using AI voices. Where no recording is included this would indicate the teacher reads aloud the text.
Knowledge/vocabulary tests also included
NB: These resources are very much based on my department’s ‘house’ style which incorporates elements of Gianfranco Conti’s EPI/PIRCO approach and our own teaching methods.
This is a French GCSE speaking intervention booklet used for a 2 hour pre-exam intervention session. Includes:
Verb practice
Role play bullet point analysis & game
Photo description practice
Conversation question development
Resource includes separate resources for adaptation, complete booklet & PowerPoint with skeleton answers
To use with Unit 1 Chapter 3 of Studio 1. Comment je me vois. Builds on basic vocabulary to include more words. Includes:
- Activity with vocabulary describing personality around the room and students fill in the gap.
- Drills to practise the personality adjectives with adjective agreement.
PowerPoint and activities to accompany Module 1 Unit 1 of Stimmt 2 Früher und heute. Includes:
- PowerPoint with lesson structure and answesr to various activities
- Extensive activities (stretch and support) on früher and heute Innsbruck texts (including listening gap-fill activity)
- Imperfect explanation and 2 pages of imperfect war/hatte/es gab drills
- Then and now pictures of various world cities for a photo comparison task
- Hamburg früher and heute text with vocabulary support
- Stretch and support transposition activity from imperfect to present
A whole series of activities based on Module 1 Unit 2 of Stimmt 2 Ich liebe Ferien - Was hast du in den Ferien gemacht?
Includes
PPT for all lessons with grammar explanations, answers to exercises etc.
Crib sheet for students to make their own notes from the PPT and the perfect tense
Listening exercise focusing on syntax of German perfect tense
Ping-pong translation for practice with perfect tense of haben
Irregular past participle match up exercise
Scaffolded listening exercises (stretch and support)
Sentence building exercise
English vs German task - comparing the syntax of past tense sentences in both languages
This resource is fully comprehensive and ready to use straightaway
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A unit of work using the Michaela inspired knowledge organiser approach on school uniform and opinions. Included:
Powerpoints with starter activities
Knowledge organiser
Sentence builders
Quizzes
Variety of activities including: photo descriptions, narrow readings
Loosely based on Dynamo 1 Chapter 2
Resources for teaching a scheme of work based on the new AQA GCSE French specification for first exam in 2026.
This unit covers Theme 1 People and lifestyle – Topic 2 – Healthy living and lifestyle from the specification. 8 lessons in total.
This unit of work includes:
A medium term plan outline with a suggested lesson-by-lesson scheme of work
A knowledge organiser/sentence builder for the topic
A student booklet (also used for teacher annotation) with do now retrieval activities included and a variety of listening, reading, translation, speaking and writing tasks
A PowerPoint which contains some front of class resources (skeleton only) and also some audio files using AI voices. Where no recording is included this would indicate the teacher reads aloud the text.
Knowledge/vocabulary tests also included
NB: These resources are very much based on my department’s ‘house’ style which incorporates elements of Gianfranco Conti’s EPI/PIRCO approach and our own teaching methods.
This is a French GCSE speaking intervention booklet used for a 2 hour pre-exam intervention session. Includes:
Verb practice
Role play bullet point analysis & game
Photo description practice
Conversation question development
Resource includes separate resources for adaptation, complete booklet & PowerPoint with skeleton answers
A photo mat preparing students for the GCSE and being able to describe a photo. Includes sections on:
- What is there in the photo
- What are the people doing
- Adjectives
- Higher level phrases
PowerPoint and activities to accompany Module 2 Unit 3 of GCSE Viva Edexcel. Includes:
- Dominoes matching school rules exercise
- Speaking exercises on school rules
- Gap-fill with English transcription of listening exercise
- Problems at school reading
- Optional (and very challenging) Pen, paper, dice translation
PowerPoint and activities to accompany Module 1 Unit52 of GCSE Viva Edexcel. Includes:
- Scaffolded listening on extracurricular clubs (differentiated twice)
- PowerPoint with answers and grammar explanations of desde hace and direct object pronouns (including practice exercises)
Original texts removed due to copyright
Two worksheets to help with listening activities from Chapter 5 Module 4 'In den Sommerferien'. These are both gap-fill listening tasks to aid with improving listening skills. Based on Page 104 Exercise 1 and Page 105 Exercise 6.
A couple of lessons which I used to bridge from unit 5 in Stimmt 1 to unit 1 of Stimmt 2. Focuses on countries and revision of the structures man kann, es gibt and the future tense. Lasts about two lessons and includes:
- PPT with presentation of vocab, flag quiz, tic tac toe game and starter activties.
- Table for students to copy up countries vocabulary
- Trapdoor on practising key phrases, using countries and introduction to weil clauses
- Pen paper dice translation recapping key structures
PowerPoint and activities to accompany Module 1 Unit 3 of KS3 French Studio books. Includes:
- PowerPoint with answers from selected answers
- Sudoku activity
- Vocabulary work with additional personality adjectives for stretch and challenge
- Walking vocabulary activity
- Extensive personality drills worksheet
- Pen/paper/dice translation for reading texts