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Le Silence de la Mer Questions & Ideas - Some exemplar speaking questions based around the story chapter by chapter with model answers. Le Silence de la Mer Discussion webs - Pupils read the statement in the middle and then to skim through novel to find relevant quotes or section to back up statement. E.g. "Werner aime le silence" Commentez le rôle de l’oncle et son importance dans « le Silence de la Mer » - Model plan in English to respond to an A2 essay writing question. LE SILENCE DE LA MER Questions for entire novel: Questions with gaps for pupils to jot down their own answers for subsequent discussion in class. This allows a structured step-by-step approach to covering the Guided Study Topic.

A 4-page document offering essay writing phrases specific to writing responses to Kiffe Kiffe Demain essays at AS and A-level French. These are tailored around the book by Faiza Guene and is divided into sections, including introductory phrases, Introducing / structuring points in main paragraphs, presenting evidence, presenting evaluation, being more specific, making conclusions. I allow and actively encourage my students to write essays using this framework, up to and including timed essay attempts, in order to familiarise themselves with phrases which will enable them to produce a structured piece with varied language. This has proven very successful and popular with students, whose results have developed by using this resource.

A self-made speaking mat which includes phonetics and PowerPoint presentation so that pupils of all ability ranges at GCSE can create extended answers to questions about smoking, drugs and alcohol. Suitable for all GCSE speaking and even writing preparation on the topic of Healthy Living/Lifestyle.

Two PowerPoints and a summary crib sheet & translation task for Year 7 French on topics of sport and leisure activities.

A reading comprehension task and some Imperfect tense verb gap-fill/manipulation and translation tasks in a nice concise resource on previous and current hobbies. Pupils can be encouraged to adapt paragraphs to create their own.

A self-made PowerPoint on Negative Constructions covering ne...pas, ne…guère, ne…jamais, ne…plus, ne…que, ne…personne and ne…rien. It includes examples and explanations of how each one works and has a translation exercise at the end to incorporate ideas presented in previous slides. The slides make a useful handout for students.

A self-made PowerPoint on adjectives and adjectival agreements. Includes regular and irregular adjectives, as well as various adjectival patterns and adjectives which change meaning depending on whether they come before and after the noun. Includes examples of each as well as exercises on certain slides. Slides also make a useful handout for pupils. The accompanying word document is a list of useful adjectives to describe personality which can be used as an extension to PowerPoint in getting pupils to agree adjectives to describe someone in their family or a friend.

Reading comprehension worksheet with vocabulary finder task and comprehension questions. Pupils can also texts as models for their own responses, which are ideal for GCSE speaking and writing preparation. The sentence building task is using phrases and ideas from the reading comprehension worksheet and along with the support column, pupils translate the English sentences into French to form an extended paragraph about how a town used to be.

Reading comprhension worksheet with vocabulary finder task, reading comprehension questions and a grammar identification task. The paragraph gives a good model for pupils preparing a response to part of a GCSE writing or speaking task.

This is a list of generic essay phrases that I have used in my many model essays on La Haine which I give to my students at the start of the year and encourage them to use when writing their own essays on the film. In this way, students are "trained" to write their essays in a structured fashion, following the Point-Evidence-Evaluation model. I call this the bones of the essay, and the meat on those bones comes from their own planning and ideas. I also encourage my pupils to add to this list should they come across any expressions that they like/use that aren't already on the list. Although students obviously aren't allowed any aid in the exam with them, by the final exam, some of these phrases will be embedded in their work by force of repetition. Students will naturally develop "favourites" and provided that these are used in the correct context, it will enable them to focus more on the content, i.e. gaining more marks for the critical analysis of the ideas they put forward.

A detailed booklet of 22 themes and page-referenced quotes/examples for each which corresponds to the edition by the publisher Livre de Poche Jeunesse (ISBN: 9782012490185). My AS and A-level students have found this to be a really useful resource when looking for evidence to include in essay responses. This is not a workbook with activities, but a booklet with categorised examples whose purpose it is to be accessed a crutch when completing or when preparing for AS and A-level essays on the Kiffe Kiffe Demain novel.

A 783-word model written response to the new AQA A-level French 7652 Paper 2 question "Faïza Guène présente Kiffe kiffe demain comme un journal. Comment est-ce que cela affecte la façon dont l’histoire est présentée ?" The response is followed by a comprehensive vocabulary list which will enable pupils of all levels to access the model response. Pupils can use the model response to identify point, evidence and personal evaluation in each main paragraph, as well as to draw out useful generic essay language which they can in turn use in their own work.

An exemplar 618-word model A-level French essay I wrote on the film La Haine about the influences of the film's director Mathieu Kassovitz. It also has a few comprehension exercises thereafter.

Model 630-word answer to the AQA A-Level French Paper 2 writing question. Very useful as an exemplar following possible mock writing paper reviews using the 2018 series, or simply to dig into for good structures, language and verb-tense recognition tasks.

This includes a full lesson PowerPoint presentation and accompanying worksheet which I created and used recently for appraisal. The lesson I delivered using these resources received very positive feedback. The PowerPoint includes a differentiated gap-fill starter on the verbs gehen and spielen and then introduces the gern, nicht gern and am liebsten concepts. This is then consolidated through pairs verbal tasks, a clearly differentiated reading task, a speaking and listening dice game, a writing task and plenary task.

I have used these writing and speaking support frameworks with the new AQA GCSE specification to help pupils produce more accurate and varied written ideas, and to support with answering target language questions spontaneously with greater confidence. The foundation framework includes key verbs in past, imperfect, present, near future tenses as well as key time markers, adverbs and conjunctions. The higher framework includes a wider range of both regular and irregular verbs in past, imperfect, present, near future tenses, future and conditional tenses as well as a range of time markers, adverbs and conjunctions. They also have reflexive verbs in the tenses listed above, as well as complex structures, including passive voice, subjunctive mood, perfect subjunctive, perfect infinitives, present participles, the conditional perfect and si clauses. These are very popular with the pupils, and can be laminated on A3 or used as A4 inserts in exercise books.

A 762-word model essay in response to the AQA A-level French Paper 2 question on Faiza Guene’s Kiffe Kiffe Demain with the title “Analysez les rapports entre les personnages féminins et les personnages masculins dans ce roman.” The model essay is accompanied by 6 exercises, including a synonym finder task, a grammar gap-fill based on adjectival agreement, a verb formation gap-fill task, a diamond 9 speaking task based on relationships between characters, an English summary task to show understanding of model essay’s structure and content (Point-Evidence-Evaluation) and the final task which requires pupils to choose the relationships they wish to analyse and to offer their thoughts to each one. This resource could be used over the course of 2 lessons and serves as an excellent model to support less confident pupils, but also contains a wealth of vocabulary and structures in order to inspire the more able.

With translation an increasingly important part of the new GCSE, I developed a short translation assessment for my Y9 French class to complete at the end of the unit on Home Town & Region.

A research activity in which pupils use the internet or their smartphones using school WIFI to research the other films, apart from La Haine, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and complete the grid. This enables pupils to establish common themes and includes links to 3 of Kassovitz's short films, and can lead to subsequent target language discussion in which pupils offer opinions.

Here is a list of exemplar speaking questions for the 6 AQA AS German topics. These could be used as follow-up questions to any speaking card stimulus.