Bonjour, I have been a French and Spanish teacher for 22 years now, and I truly enjoy making engaging and colourful resources for my classes. I wanted to share some with you to save you time (we all know that teachers never get enough time!). Feel free to adapt and change anything to your taste and teaching style.
Bonjour, I have been a French and Spanish teacher for 22 years now, and I truly enjoy making engaging and colourful resources for my classes. I wanted to share some with you to save you time (we all know that teachers never get enough time!). Feel free to adapt and change anything to your taste and teaching style.
-6 stories about events and legends from France, in English (Nostradamus, Toulouse Lautrec, Marthe Robin, le Père La Chaise, les Catacombes de Paris, la Joconde) - 106 slides - part 3/4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-Powerpoint: slides with photos and prompts with a support box to encourage pupils to speak with more spontaneity and to revisit certain grammar rules.
-Powerpoint: slides with questions with model answers to spark conversation, prompting pupils to listen to their peers and answer accurately.
-Feedback sheet for peer-assessment.
-6 stories about events and legends from France in English (Napoléon, Notre-Dame de Paris, les 3 mousquetaires, le fantôme de l’Opéra, Vincent Van Gogh, le chevalier d’Eon) - 101 slides - part 2/4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-Powerpoint A Level: slides for each theme, with 4 blank squares to annotate key expressions (to support specific vocabulary, verbs and facts).
-Powerpoint IGCSE: slides for each of the Edexcel IGCSE themes, 2 slides with key translations in both languages to retrieve key concepts, followed by 1 slide to add personal notes.
-Powerpoint KS3: slides with blank sections to add any specific words, verbs, adjectives from a particular module.
-Powerpoint: slides with photos and prompts with a support box to encourage pupils to speak with more spontaneity and to revisit certain grammar rules.
-Powerpoint: slides with questions with model answers to spark conversation, prompting pupils to listen to their peers and answer accurately.
-Feedback sheet for peer-assessment.
-10 stories in English about events, facts and legends from France, with website links at the end to prove each story existence(L’inconnue de la Seine, la bête du Gévaudan, l’auberge rouge, la Résistance, le masque de fer, Jeanne D’Arc, la Tour Eiffel, le soldat inconnu, la révolution française…) - 97 slides -part 1/4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-A complete set of extra speaking activities using the AQA new French GCSE 2024 textbook vocabulary to prepare pupils to the new GCSE speaking format.
-Every unit in Theme 2 (modules 4, 5 and 6) through Powerpoints.
-**Each Powerpoint contains extra activities to boost conversation and dictation: **introductory slide / photo description activity /bluffing game around the module vocabulary (all animated) / pyramid conversation with speaking card support / dictation slide (no text provided) / mind-reader activity around the vocabulary / role-play and extra photo activity for some.
-You can use my speaking card support and amend it to your liking (although I highlighted in yellow the elements used in each pyramid activity).
-I created these documents to use for revisions on the book “No et moi” by Delphine de Vigan:
1-Cartes de discussion sur les personnages et les thèmes (each card has a character or a theme, with 3 prompts to spark conversation in pair or group work in French).
2-Format de dissertation (key structures to use for a well structured and analytic essay in French).
3-Résumé sur No et moi (a Powerpoint with 14 slides: each slide dedicated to a theme, a character or a notion to revise the core elements of No et moi with notes in French).
4-Eléments-clé - grille (a grid to prompt students to cover every character, theme, linguistic style and key moments from the book). I used this and appointed one student per row for them to add notes and share in class through a presentation.
Complete GCSE core grammar / translation practice materials.
-5x powerpoints: one per GCSE theme (who am I / culture / daily routine / local area / tourism). Slides explore key grammar rules / structures, followed by texts to translate, final slides offer sentences to translate both way, with targeted key structures.
-5x handouts: targeted texts to translate.
-I designed these to help my Year 10 and 11 review complex structures/ grammar rules and encourage pair-share (progressive learning when powerpoints are used slide by slide).
-Powerpoint: extending an answer in 4 steps for the conversation task, support card.
-Powerpoint: practice photos with questions and prompts, covering each theme. 2 Powerpoints, one per tier.
-Powerpoint and Word: 10 practice role plays with answers. 2 Powerpoints, one per tier.
-**Essay format with core sentences **ready to use for ANY title, ANY book (can be amended for films) with alternative structures for each section.
-AQA speaking materials:
1-Card to use in class and prompt students to peer-mark each other, following the AQA grade criteria (stimulus + conversation + IRP).
2-Answer card with prompts to develop any questions (stimulus + conversation).
3-Debating expressions to use for class activities.
-A complete set of extra speaking activities using Vif 2 vocabulary to prepare pupils to the new GCSE speaking format.
-Every module and unit through Powerpoints.
-**Each Powerpoint contains extra activities to boost conversation and dictation: **introductory slide / photo description activity /bluffing game around the unit vocabulary (all animated) / pyramid conversation with speaking card support / dictation slide (no text provided) / mind-reader activity around the vocabulary.
-You can use my speaking card support and amend it to your liking (although I highlighted in yellow the elements used in each pyramid activity).
-Over 20 stories about events and legends from France, in English-over 300 slides - parts 1 to 4.
-Texts and photos, telling in details each event.
-Warning: some photos and details could be disturbing for some young pupils (to review and adapt according to your class).
-My pupils/students LOVED having one lesson based on culture only, with dark and quirky stories.
-I designed it, using some Wikipedia details for precise details (dates, statistics for example).
-You could adapt this for homework or a classroom presentation by pupils in French.
-AQA new GCSE speaking / writing materials:
1-Card to use in class and prompt pupils to peer-mark each other, following the new AQA GCSE grade criteria.
2-Answer card with prompts to develop any questions with supporting verbs in 3 tenses.
3-Debating expressions to use for class activities.
4-Target talk / writing with “spend the word” game (Powerpoint slides ready for printing and cutting or distribution online) with GCSE sub-topics.
5-New AQA speaking activities for class practice (Theme 2).
-**Essay format with core sentences **ready to use for ANY title, ANY book (can be amended for films) with alternative structures for each section.
-Edexcel speaking materials:
1-Card to use in class and prompt students to peer-mark each other, following the Edexcel grade criteria (stimulus + conversation + IRP).
2-Answer card with prompts to develop any questions (stimulus + conversation).
3-Debating expressions to use for class activities.
4-Edexcel Themes: question bank (to prompt class talk and practise the conversation section of the examination).
-Edexcel iGCSE speaking / writing materials:
1-Card to use in class and prompt students to peer-mark each other, following the Edexcel iGCSE grade criteria.
2-Answer card with prompts to develop any questions with supporting verbs in 3 tenses.
3-Debating expressions to use for class activities.
4-Target talk / writing with “spend the word” game (Powerpoint slides ready for printing and cutting or distribution online) with iGCSE sub-topics.
5-Powerpoint with photo task explained + practice
6-Powerpoint with photos + questions to talk about each area of the photos and more, for Units 1 to 3.
-Edexcel GCSE speaking / writing materials:
1-Card to use in class and prompt students to peer-mark each other, following the Edexcel GCSE grade criteria.
2-Answer card with prompts to develop any questions with supporting verbs in 3 tenses.
3-Debating expressions to use for class activities.
4-Target talk / writing with “spend the word” game (Powerpoint slides ready for printing and cutting or distribution online) with GCSE sub-topics.
5-Powerpoint with photo task explained + practice
6-Powerpoint with photos + questions to talk about each area of the photos and more, Foundation AND Higher materials.
7-Powerpoint with role-plays with support boxes for Foundation AND Higher.
8-Grammar and translations for class or homework practice, for each Theme (Edexcel GCSE).
