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Irregular present tense drilling worksheet (GCSE/ A-level)
A 4 page document to practise the 30 most common irregular present tense verbs in French.
Page 1-2 : 45 gap-fill sentences
Page 3: Oral translation to French of verb only.
Page 4: Oral/Writing full sentence translation.
Perfect for higher level GCSE or beginner Y12 French.

La lecture
Qu’est-ce que tu lis en ce moment? Sentence builder and 3 activities ready to print and handout. Based on the Studio 2 module 1 unit 3. Made for high acheiving pupils. Could also work for Year 9 or introduction to reading vocab at GCSE.

Les films Year 8 9
Quels films aimes-tu? Sentence builder and 3 activities. Ready to print and handout. Used for high acheiving Year 8 students using Studio 2 module 1 Unit 2 j’ai une passion pour le cinéma

Possessive adjectives in French
A one-page worksheet for year 7 or other beginner group on possessive adjectives in French.
This worksheet covers:
mon,ma,mes
ton, ta, tes
son sa, ses
It re-visit genders of nouns such as family members, then introduces the possessive adjectives with match up, translation and gap-fill tasks for pupils.

Greetings in French Year 7 beginner
A double page worksheet introducing greetings and farewells with 6 consolidation tasks, including a mini-conversation for pairs at the end.
Perfect for that first lesson with year 7.

Phonics in French
This is a one page worksheet for year 7 French students (or other beginner groups) to revise the alphabet and learn about accents (aigu, grave, circonflexe) and other French letter combinations such as the following:
oi
ou
Ă©
qu
th
ai
au
ç
ille
There is a spelling task, a “write how it sounds” task, and an odd-one-out task.

Avoir verb
a one page worksheet revisiting subject pronouns and introducing the verb avoir with some practise tasks.
Perfect for the first “verb” lesson with year 7, or other beginner group

KS3 French: Qu'est-ce que tu aimes faire?
Powerpoint for KS3 classes that enable them to use two verbs together to give opinions on leisure activities.
This would also work for a Foundation level GCSE class.
Powerpoint includes:
starter noughts and crosses task to retrieve basic language
scaffolded introduction to the language (opinion phrase + 9 activities e.g. écouter de la musique, lire des livres, envoyers des textos)
3 short reading texts to drill language (find vocab, who…?, true/false, translate to English)
listening + speaking activities: listen and order, read aloud, play sentence stealers
Scaffolded writing task and pair dictation

Year 7 : C'est comment chez toi? Describing a house with basic adjectives
Full powerpoint lesson for Year 7/8 that tackles the question: c’est comment chez toi?
This is also challenging enough for Foundation level GCSE classes.
The powerpoint includes:
phonics starter task
sentence builder that introduces idea of adjectival agreement
3 reading texts with vocab, find who…, and True/False activities
Adjectival agreement explanation and table to fill in
Writing manipulation task
Translate to French task with support
oral pyramid task

KS3 French: qu'est-ce que tu aimes manger et boire? food and drink lesson
KS3 lesson on food and drink. This could also work for a foundation GCSE class.
The lesson includes:
starter task where student identify food cognates
scaffolded introduction to the language (je mange / je bois + partitive article + food)
teacher-led listening task (language provided)
teacher-led dictation task (language provided)
reading comprehension tasks (3 short texts)
sentence builder to support writing task
vocabulary drilling tasks (translate to english, choose the correct partitive article, fill in the missing letters, translate to French)

Compound tenses in French
A worksheet for high achieving GCSE pupils or pupils on the A-level course.
This worksheet explains how compound tenses (perfect, pluperfect, future perfect etc.) are made in French.
Worksheet includes:
table of avoir/ĂŞtre auxilaries in five tenses
Verb translation to French
Sentence translation to French
Section on the three different “si” structures need at A-level with a gap-fill task
Short text on music where students must locate the different tenses

Perfect tense drilling worksheet (GCSE / A-level)
A 4 page document to thoroughly practise the perfect tense of the 30 most common verbs in French.
Page 1-2 : gap fill task
Page 3: (Orally) translate the verb only. Verbs only use avoir in this task.
Page 4: (Orally) translate the verb only. Verbs only use ĂŞtre in this task.
Page 4: Mixed practise of avoir/ĂŞtre verbs. Full sentence translation either orally or in writing,

Adjectives in French
Full explanation and worksheet for regular adjectival rule sin French, along with a few irregulars (-en, -if, -eux).
Ideal for Year 7/8 French lesson, or revision at GCSE level.

Les pièces de la maison - Rooms in the house
A one-page vocabulary drilling document to practise the rooms in the house,
including the following structures:
Chez moi il y a _____ pièces, dont….
Ma pièce préférée est……
The tasks include:
match up
break the sentences up into words
word anagrams
setence anagrams
a translation into French

French idioms display
6 display posters of modern and widely used French idioms.
The posters have the expression in french, the literal translation and the meaning.
The idioms are:
j’ai d’autres chats à fouetter
il ne faut en faire tout un fromage
je fais la grasse matinée
les doigts dans le nez
arrĂŞte de raconter des salades
j’ai grave le cafard
Best used if printed and laminated pn A3 paper.

OĂą habites tu? Hwo to say "in" in French
Beginner resource in French with a sentence builder on topic of "OĂą habites tu? ".
Explains when to use en/au/Ă /dans with some practise tasks.

New GCSE: un festival de musique au Québec
Productive skills-focused lesson that comes under the CUSTOMS FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS sub topic of the new French GCSE. It is aimed at higher level pupils.
This powerpoint includes:
starter present tense -er verb task
authentic text about Les Francos de Montréal (find vocab , reading comprehension, translate to English)
3 oral pyramid games with supporting texts. This will enable pupils to speak at length about a Francophone festival.
a 90 word writing task with guided support (recent festival, usual birthday celebrations, plans to go to a music festival)

KS3 : perfect tense introduction: qu'est-ce que tu as fait le weekend dernier?
The perfect lesson to introduce the perfect tense for the first time without overwhelming pupils.
This will work with strong KS3 groups or GCSE foundation classes.
The lesson includes:
a starter task retrieving present tense + near future conjugation
a slide explaining how to form the perfect tense with translations to both Eng and Fr
a short reading task (approx. 10 sentences) for students to familiarise themselves with the verb structure
a gap fill task to practise processing and spelling key vocab items
a perfect tense gap fill task
fast and furious oral translations activity of the perfect tense
a tangled translation task
a writing task with support that invites students to write about a past weekend.

Régime sain/ healthy diet / EN pronoun: new GCSE French AQA
A full powerpoint aligned with the AQA new GCSE French spec.
Topic is healthy living and lifestyle.
This Powerpoint is for Higher-ability classes and develops language to do with healthy choices.
The EN prounoun is also introduced and practised.
The powerpoint is made up of:
Do now slide: Write a photo description of 2 photos with guidance
Slide 1: intro to language. students have a grid with choices. They decide which is healthy or unhealthy. This can be used for oral translation too.
Slide 2: modelling. Students have a model text. It contrasts health choices in the imperfect tense with choices in the present tense. Students listen to the teacher read the text in French and then English as they annotate vocab. Students then pair read and orally translate in pairs.
Slide 3: structured oral practice: students have a grid of oral battleships that recycles language from the previous two slides.
Slide 4: structured writing. Students have sentences to translate with support that recycles vocab and imperfect/present tenses from previous slides.
Slide 5-8: grammar focus on “en” pronoun : explain - model - manipulate - produce
Slide 9: No support translation. Recycling vocab and now introducing the EN pronoun.
Slide 10: 150 word task with support and plan template for pupils to use.

French clothes lesson KS3
A Powerpoint for Year 7/8 that teaches clothes vocabulary and uses the following structures:
D’habitude j’aime porter…
Cependant, je déteste porter…
Le weekend prochain, je vais porter…
The Powerpoint is fully editable, but currently made up of:
an introductory slide where studens label the clothes with their translation
intructions for the teacher are in the notes section of the powerpoint
a slide with 3 short reading tasks that reuse the same strucutures. Students are invited to listen to the teacher read while underlining any words they change, pair read the texts, find specific vocabulary, tick chunks that are in the text, do a comprehension and complete two translation tasks based on the reading texts.
the final slide can be used for extended work or as HW. It contains a task on definite articles, a gap fill, a translation task of chunks to English and a translation task of key chinks to french.