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A lesson building on food and drink vocabulary, asking students to create their own role-play in Le Café Français! Fully animated with all answers and step-by-step approach through different activities. Full example of role-play given for students to build on. A great lesson, especially if you can provide your class with some props (aprons, plastic food, paper plates, something small to dress up in)!

Excellent starter, using French Guess Who (C'est qui?) images, asking students to find answers to descriptions on right of slide. Fully animated with all answers, and differentiated with 'Next step' and 'Challenge' options. Can be used to generate cultural discussion regarding typical French names and their English / other language translations. Can be built into an activity for younger learners with them creating their own images, and writing descriptions of their own faces / adding to their partner's descriptions.

Three Mario Kart Grand Prix grids, printable and adaptable depending on requirements. Slides give examples and blank templates for each of the options below. Also included are Display Posters for each option, should you wish to use Grand Prix as a classroom display and Mario Kart characters to print and cut out for each student. Option 1 - Learning Objective Grand Prix. Students write a short summary of lesson LO into first Grand Prix box and date. They then circle the red, amber or green light depending on how confident they feel with their understanding that day. Students move their character onto the following space next lesson and again chart their understanding by circling the appropriate light. Very useful visual aid to show student progress, and to help pick up learners who are struggling but may not wish to acknowledge as such in front of their peers. After several lessons, grids can be used to split class into groups - those who would like to further work on first LO in one group, second in another and third in another. Teacher can then differentiate classwork and circulate to help improve understanding. Also helpful to set homework, for example assigning students a worksheet on the topic that they found difficult and as such would benefit from extra practice. Challenge / extension work can be set for those students who have all green lights. Option 2 - Grammar Grand Prix. Exactly as above, but used specifically for grammar (present tense 'er' verbs, 'ir verbs' and 're verbs' for example). Students chart confidence and understanding each lesson and move character around. Teacher can assess progress and adapt planning accordingly as above. Option 3 - Behaviour for Learning Grand Prix. Used successfully with several year 8 classes with a large number of behavioural challenges. As a group, students decide behavioural target for lesson at the start of each class. You may find it best to stick to one target per lesson to begin with, for example 'I will listen when other people are contributing'. Important that students think of the target themselves in order to engage motivation. Give 10 seconds to think, pair, share at start of lesson, take ideas and then go with most popular suggestion. At the end of the lesson, students rate how well they have met the target by circling red, amber or green. Grids handed into teacher at end of lesson who has final say on correct light. Those who have met the target move onto the next square and receive a raffle ticket. At the end of a series of lessons (for example half-term), raffle is drawn for a small prize. Those who have circled green and have moved around the grid have the most raffle tickets and therefore the greatest chance of winning prize. However, even if a student has only met the class behaviour target once, they are still rewarded for this with the raffle ticket and therefore have a small chance of also winning.

Excellent resource, perfect for KS3 and KS4 to introduce / re-cap French Christmas vocabulary (une renne, un bonhomme de neige and so on) and discuss Christmas and New Year traditions. Fully differentiated with 'Want more', 'Challenge' and 'Want support' options for students, including extension questions linking to reading comprehension and Word Bank to support lower ability learners. Fully animated with all answers and notes under each slide to give overview of each activity. A huge time saver, took a whole afternoon to make! Lesson begins by asking students to work out Christmas vocabulary. Emphasis on independent learning. A game is then played, either holding up cards or writing the correct letter of the image that corresponds to the given word on a mini-whiteboard. Reading comprehension on French Christmas traditions follows, then a game of Pictionary and a Treasure Hunt review to finish to re-cap vocabulary. Reading comprehension offers great opportunity to discuss cultural differences, including food (for example foie gras, British culinary traditions that the French wouldn't usually eat, for example mince pies) and similarities. There are two fully prepared reading texts and teacher can select which one would be more appropriate for group. Both are also included on worksheet, either for teacher to delete one as appropriate before printing, or to give both to students and allow them to select their option. The more challenging text asks students to consider traditions at New Year too, and draws upon grammatical knowledge (imperfect tense, verb synonyms, direct object pronouns). The simpler text uses simpler language, is shorter and is split into two sections to help students with understanding. Great fun for the students, they're working independently and assimilating cultural knowledge, and really enjoyable to teach!

Excellent resource, perfect for KS3 and KS4 to introduce / re-cap Italian Christmas vocabulary (una renna, il Babbo Natale and so on) and discuss Christmas and New Year traditions. Fully differentiated with 'Want more', 'Challenge' and 'Want support' options for students, including extension questions linking to reading comprehension and comprehensive A4 page Word Bank, paragraph-by-paragraph to support lower ability learners. Fully animated with all answers and notes under each slide to give overview of each activity. A huge time saver, took a whole afternoon to make! Can be used for one or two lessons depending on ability of group. Lesson begins by asking students to work out Christmas vocabulary. Emphasis on independent learning. A game is then played, either holding up cards or writing the correct letter of the image that corresponds to the given word on a mini-whiteboard. A reading comprehension on Italian Christmas traditions follows. The reading comprehension offers a great opportunity to discuss cultural differences, including food (for example il panettone), the different days in the festive calendar for Italians (8 December, 6 January etc.) and similarities. The reading text is taken from 'Noi parliamo italiano' (link on worksheet). It has been slightly adapted and split into small paragraphs for ease of translation and discussion. The Challenge option asks students to consider traditions at New Year too. Great fun for the students, they're working independently and assimilating cultural knowledge, and really enjoyable to teach! Two games to finish - teacher or student choice! Pictionary on one slide and a Treasure Hunt searching for 15 gold coins and a treasure chest on another. Both designed to link to vocabulary at the start of the lesson!

Excellent lesson, focusing on French vocabulary and cultural traditions linked to Remembrance Day. Suitable for KS3 and KS4. Fully differentiated with 'Want more?' and 'Challenge' options, as well as support for learners. Animated with all answers, notes for teacher under slides, and photographs and clip art. Full worksheet for lesson included. Presentation as follows: Slides 1 and 2 - Date, title and LO. Emphasis on independent learning with learners matching French vocabulary (la boue, le froid, la guerre etc.) to English translations. Remove English to increase challenge for students. Slides 3 and 4 - Learners recall new vocabulary from memory and match to images. Slides 5 - 11 - AfL game using letters to select correct image. Slides 12 - 13 - Text linked to Le Jour de l'Armistice, drawing on cultural comparisons such as 'Le Bluet de France' et 'La Tombe du Soldat Inconnu'. Word Bank to support learners. Slide 13 - Questions linked to text and answers. Opportunity to extend learners with 'ceux' and 'celles' demonstrative pronouns. Slide 14 - Plenary triangle, asking learners to share with their partner one thing that they already knew linked to the lesson, two things that they've learned and one thing that they would like to know more about. Great lesson to teach and a huge time saver! Excellent cross-curricular links.

Great lesson, introducing France and the French language to learners. Created for Primary, but easily adapted to Secondary with a host of suggestions for further discussion, analysis and reflection provided. 40 slides in total. A huge time saver! Ideas for Secondary extension include cross-curricular links to: History (how were French regions affected for example during WW2, the Vichy government etc.); Politics (where in France is currently experiencing a surge in right-wing popularity? Why?); Geography (environmental impacts of tourism, how is it currently managed, could it be more effective?); Arts, Theatre, Music (funding, is it comparable to the UK? The policies of André Malroux and their impact); and the French Language (how is it protected, do other languages have similar institutions? Search Académie française). Slides 1 - 11 ask students to work out the country, linking to European Day of Languages 2016. Beautiful photographic images are provided to support student reflection (monuments, architecture, food, spring, summer, autumn and winter in France, artists - Monet and Matisse, the Tour de France and typical French shops). Slides 12 - 15 introduce the geography of France through maps and facts and figures (position within Europe, number of regions, number of people who speak the language). Slides 16 - 38 introduce French vocabulary linking to the images that students have just seen. Seasons, colours, numbers 1-12 and basic greetings. Slides 39 - 40 set students challenge of completing their worksheet within time limit (given by teacher) and to see how many new words they can incorporate into their day. Two song suggestions (You Tube) provided on last slide for younger learners. * Links to Assembly on European Day of Languages and Word document bundle for worksheets that link to activities if helpful.

Set of cards that can be used in a multitude of different ways. Template is set up to link to perfect tense, but can easily be adapted for other tenses or different grammatical points if required. Slides are designed to be printed and each card cut out. There are eight cards on each slide (four slides in total - 32 cards to play with). Each card has an English phrase and a French phrase underneath. The cards can either be used as dominoes (students will require a full set per group), or as a speaking game, timed in class. To play as a speaking game, each student is handed a card (or more than one card if less than 32 students in group). Cards can be assigned randomly, or teacher can differentiate by giving LA less challenging translations and HA more difficult sentences or more than one card. Students are given 30 seconds to work out the French translation of the English section of their card (this is what will signal that it is their turn to read theirs out), and to familiarise themselves with the pronunciation of the French sentence on the bottom of their card. To play: 1. Teacher starts the clock. 2. The student with the 'Début' card says their English sentence and reads out the French underneath. 3. The student with the English translation that links to the French sentence that has just been said reads their card out loud, and the game continues. 4. The game ends when the student who has the last card says their English and French out loud. The French will link to the English on the first card read aloud. 5. Teacher stops the clock. 6. Round two - can the students beat their original time? 7. Pick up on grammatical points as a class / any errors that were made. Why did these happen (pronunciation, recognition of pronouns etc.)? Differentiation suggestions: * Teacher can mix up the cards in between rounds and play several times. * Teacher can show PowerPoint as students are saying cards aloud, to support with colour recognition of the cards they are holding (if game is printed in colour) and with visual recognition of speech. Inversely, to increase challenge, teacher does not show PowerPoint. * Teacher can limit time students have to familiarise themselves with their card(s) after they are handed out. Always a huge hit! Can be played at beginning or end of lesson. Useful from HA KS2 - KS4 to revise perfect tense. Sentences use vocabulary linked to activities such as going to the cinema or bowling.

Huge time saver! Incredibly useful! Took a day to make! Can be printed as individual A4 pages (or blown up into A3) for French 'Word Wall' display. Very useful to direct students to for help with their own work and to encourage independent learning and flow. Can also be printed as an A4 or A5 booklet for students to have an individual copy for reference in class and at home. Created as when directing students to dictionaries to help source their own verb conjugations, confusion would often ensue as no English translations / pointers on when to use each tense were given to help students who were unsure. Really helps to drive independence and so helpful when teaching as time can be spent supporting LA / pushing HA when circulating, rather than having to constantly be translating verbs to help students continue with their work. 30 pages in total. Verb tables - 24 pages! Present, perfect, imperfect, near future, simple future and conditional tenses for 12 key verbs in French and in English. Definition of when to use each tense also given on each verb table to help student understanding. Connectives - 3 pages. English and French translations given. Separated into different tables of connectives to use with any tense, the present tense, the perfect tense, the imperfect tense and finally the near future, simple future and conditional tenses. Opinions - 1 page. Postive and negative opinions given in French and in English. Ways to introduce points of view also given in table to help students extend and vary communication.

Excellent resource, can be used as 1-2 lessons depending on ability of group and how much time you wish to spend on cultural exploration of festive traditions. Text is taken from radins.com and is titled 'Noël en France : Noël typique et traditions régionales'. Link to article is included on worksheet. The article compares festive traditions in Alsace/Lorraine and Provence. It has been very slightly adapted and is split into paragraphs for ease of reading and discussion. Questions ask students to consider what type of text they are reading, then to match ten words highlighted in text to the correct description to develop language (for example 'Le Réveillon - le 24 décembre). Third and final exercise is six questions contrasting and comparing traditions in both regions, linking to culinary traditions, Père Fouettard / Père Noël and nativity scenes amongst others. Fully differentiated - two comprehensive vocabulary tables are provided to support learners who would benefit. A great lesson, genuinely interesting, and a fun way to include KS5 students in Christmas fun whilst still challenging their linguistic and cultural knowledge! I learned a few things making it! Next step could be for students to research and present to the class how Christmas is celebrated in other parts of the Francophone world. A great time saver, took three hours to make! Article and questions are one file, answers to all of the questions is the second. Could also be used for high-achieving KS4 class.

A great resource, clearly explaining the topics studied over the course of the Spanish GCSE and the format of the upcoming exams with a detailed breakdown for the Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing papers. Information includes the length of each exam, the question styles and number of marks available. The GCSE qualifications from 1-9 are also explained in a user-friendly format. Colourful pictures of Spain, easy to read and informative! A great time-saver! Perfect for students and parents.

Excellent lesson, introducing / re-capping French Easter vocabulary and traditions. Fully animated and very attractively presented. Lesson is fully differentiated with ‘Challenge’ and ‘Want support’ options for learners as appropriate. LA and HA worksheets included within bundle. All answers provided and support for teacher in ‘Notes’ section of each slide. Emphasis on fun, independent learning. Students are asked to match French Easter vocabulary to the English equivalents to begin, then repeat the words after the teacher (create a team points game from this activity if you wish with actions). Students are then asked to match a phrase to the correct image, using letter cards or by writing a letter on a whiteboard. A reading text then follows, with questions linked to Easter celebrations and traditions in France. At the end of the lesson, a Pictionary slide is set up to review learning, and also an Easter Egg Hunt game, whereby if students answer questions correctly, they can choose a square to hunt for 15 golden eggs. Took four hours to make! A huge time saver!

A great resource, clearly explaining the topics studied over the course of the German GCSE and the format of the upcoming exams with a detailed breakdown for the Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing papers. Information includes the length of each exam, the question styles and number of marks available. The GCSE qualifications from 1-9 are also explained in a user-friendly format. Colourful pictures of Germany, easy to read and informative! A great time-saver! Perfect for students and parents.

Great lesson, covering all rooms and levels of the house, introducing them and culminating in students writing their own paragraph to describe their house or an imaginary house. Learning objective: To be able to recognise rooms in the house and describe my or an imaginary house. Lesson includes: Starter activity, un-scrambling sentences that increase in difficulty; repetition of rooms of the house vocabulary with text and images; table to fill in with rooms of the house; Splat game; Listening activity grid (teacher makes up listening text to link to ability of class); images linking to different levels of the house and whiteboard activity; writing activity with paragraph scaffold for LA; Super Splat game to finish! Lesson is fully animated with all answers and teacher instructions for each activity. A huge time saver!

Full lesson PowerPoint that can be used across one or two lessons depending on ability. Fully animated with instructions for teacher on each slide. Differentiated for HA and LA. Used with year 4 class for observation lesson and following lesson. Graded outstanding. Would also work well for year 7 - year 8 class as one lesson. Lesson builds on new vocabulary with the emphasis on independent learning and enquiry, as well as incorporating time phrases and simple opinions. 36 slides in total including: pairs game to decipher cognates, near-cognates and new vocabulary, vocabulary tables, repetition of vocabulary with photographs, pass-the-parcel and treasure hunt games, speaking activity with dice, whiteboard translations and reading comprehension. Interactive and creative. Reading comprehension for example is set out as iPhone text message exchanges. All fully differentiated and worksheets included in bundle for pairs game, LA and HA students. Excellent time saver!

Fantastic and very comprehensive resource covering all aspects of reflexive present tense formation. All animations and formatting ready to go. A huge time-saver! Powerpoint is 13 slides and can be adapted to suit all learners. Includes clear and concise explanations of reflexive verb conjugation and questions for students to gauge understanding. Perfect for mini-whiteboard activities. Differentiated to help LA access translation questions. Two reading texts at end of presentation (easily printable as worksheets) for students to spot reflexive verbs. Linked to daily routine / school life. Excellent for introduction at KS2 / KS3 to conjugation and for revision and further practice at KS4.

Fabulous and very comprehensive resource that can be used for one or a series of lessons. 45 slides in total. Introduces all main types of weather with images, and a series of activities designed to build learner confidence and use of new language. Activities include: * Large images with text for students to repeat after teacher. * Differentiated tables with weather phrases (Option 1 to draw lines between French and English translations, Option 2 to match French weather phrases to images and add in English). * Dice game to practice pronunciation. * Pass-the-parcel team game to improve memory recall. * Listening activity (again differentiated with two options). * Speaking activity - Think, pair, share to describe weather in different parts of France. Excellent cultural link through geography of France and where different cities are situated. Could easily be developed into a research project with different types of weather in these places across the year and how they compare to home. * Writing activity - Preparing own weather forecast (again differentiated with scaffold for learners who require). * Speaking / presenting activity - Students present their weather forecasts to class. * Review / Plenary triangle - Students reflect on their own learning by noting down three things that they knew already but now better understand, 2 new things they learned during lesson and one thing they need to find out more about. Fully animated with all answers and explanations for each activity under relevant slides. Huge time saver and great fun to teach!

A great resource, outlining the new AQA French GCSE as a simple Factsheet. Very useful for students as an introduction to the course. Also used with excellent feedback at Open Evenings to provide further information (from the AQA website) for students, Parents and Carers, and for staff within the department alongside the new Specification. Suitable for Foundation and Higher tiers. A huge time-saver! The Factsheet provides information about the advantages of studying French at GCSE level, alongside answers to the following questions: 1. What will I study? (Core themes and sub-topics.) 2. How will I be assessed? (Information on the four exam papers, the length of the exams, the marks awarded and the types of questions.) 3. When will I take my exams? 4. How do GCSE grades 1-9 work? The Factsheet is attractively and simply presented with photographs and images. A space for Student reflection is provided at the end of the document, as well as the link to the AQA Specification at a Glance for further information.

A great resource, outlining the new AQA Italian GCSE as a simple Factsheet. Very useful for students as an introduction to the course. Also used with excellent feedback at Open Evenings to provide further information (from the AQA website) for students, Parents and Carers, and for staff within the department alongside the new Specification. Suitable for Foundation and Higher tiers. A huge time-saver! The Factsheet provides information about the advantages of studying Italian at GCSE level, alongside answers to the following questions: 1. What will I study? (Core themes and sub-topics.) 2. How will I be assessed? (Information on the four exam papers, the length of the exams, the marks awarded and the types of questions.) 3. When will I take my exams? 4. How do GCSE grades 1-9 work? The Factsheet is attractively and simply presented with photographs and images. A space for Student reflection is provided at the end of the document, as well as the link to the AQA Specification at a Glance for further information.

A great resource, outlining the new AQA Spanish GCSE as a simple Factsheet. Very useful for students as an introduction to the course. Also used with excellent feedback at Open Evenings to provide further information (from the AQA website) for students, Parents and Carers, and for staff within the department alongside the new Specification. Suitable for Foundation and Higher tiers. A huge time-saver! The Factsheet provides information about the advantages of studying Spanish at GCSE level, alongside answers to the following questions: 1. What will I study? (Core themes and sub-topics.) 2. How will I be assessed? (Information on the four exam papers, the length of the exams, the marks awarded and the types of questions.) 3. When will I take my exams? 4. How do GCSE grades 1-9 work? The Factsheet is attractively and simply presented with photographs and images. A space for Student reflection is provided at the end of the document, as well as the link to the AQA Specification at a Glance for further information.