OTHER RESOURCES FOR FRENCH TEACHERS
Updated March 2010
(UK) site has texts, worksheets, sound files, powerpoints and more. It has accurate resources at various levels and is regularly updated. Highly recommended.
TESConnect (UK)has plenty of resources written by practising teachers happy to share.
Languages Resources (UK) is a lovely site with a good range of free Word documents and Powerpoints.
Rachel Hawkes' TalkToLearn (UK) resources are really good. Rachel is a languages teacher at Comberton Village School in Cambridgeshire.
Teachers TV (UK) has training videos, but also French videos produced by Channel 4 (Extra and Chez Mimi).
The National Strategies(UK) continuing professional development interactive resource is full of good advice, lesson plans, starters, plenaries etc. It is produced on behalf of the UK government to support secondary teachers.
MyFrenchResources.com(UK) from Kate Morin at Wilson's School, Wallington, has lots of really good pdf documents for all levels. The material is usually presentational and because it is in pdf form it cannot be edited.
Selbcass (Ire) has a large number of resources from beginner to advanced level, some of them interactive.
The Times Educational Supplement web site (UK) is a new repository for languages resources, including French. It looks promising, though has far fewer resources than than the TRE.
CILT promotes language learning in the UK.
OCR, AQA, Edexcel and Asset Languages(UK) have specimen assessment material and past exam papers to download.
Franc Parler (Fr) is aimed at "la communauté mondiale des professeurs de français". It has an absolute wealth of interesting material and ideas for lessons. Some of the material is interactive and includes video extracts and online games. Best for advanced level.
MFL Resources (UK)is a supportive and friendly Yahoo group community which also acts as a repository of useful resources. MFL Resources 2(UK) has further resources.
Mflresources 2 and 3, hosted by Andrew Starr at Bourne Community College (UK), are another great source of materials.
Teachnet(UK) is a repository for resources at various levels.
DES Standards Site has a plethora of teaching ideas/lesson plans for 11-14 year old learners.
Kent NGfL (National Grid for Learning) (UK)has a small number of useful powerpoints and Word documents e.g. on perfect tense.
1jouractu, the new name for les Clés de l'Actualité Junior, an online magazine for French 7-13 year olds, is a superb source for easy
reading material. You could extract texts for specific lessons, or just use it as a source for authentic personal reading.
Les Débrouillards is a French-Canadian online magazine with bags of good archived reading material, together with "fiches pédagogiques" for teachers, and links to fascinating Francophone sites. Suitable for intermediate to advanced students with a particular interest in science and nature.
Momes.net is an online magazine for young French speakers around the world, with forums, reviews, stories etc. Suitable for intermediate level. Good source of reading material for you to base worksheets on.
The Welsh NGfL site has good resources, including powerpoints.
The Guardian (UK) has a collection of very good advanced level texts which you can also listen to.
French Resources (UK) is a new site with some nice powerpoints for beginners through to intermediate. NEW 9.2.10
York PGCE (UK) is a blog on which trainee British language teachers post their powerpoints and documents. NEW 9.3.10
The Linguascopesite is an
good source of worksheets, pictures, flashcards and ideas.
An annual registration fee allows all members of a department to use the materials
via a username and password.
Taskmagic from MDLSoft is a self-authoring software package used by many teachers in the UK. There are ready-made games for it on the linked page.
The Vocational Languages Resource Bank from CILT (UK) has activities for learners doing vocational French courses.
i-café (UK) is Oxford University Press's online magazine with very good articles for reading. They include interactive comprehension tasks. Good for intermediate level and above.
Click here for a good selection of wordsearches produced by Anne Fox using the Quia software. You can do them online or print them off (better option).
The Cortland(USA) site has a tremendous list of ideas for language games.
The Imagiers has a list of video animations you can access via Youtube. Some are very useful, some are quite esoteric. If your school blocks Youtube, the files can be converted and saved using Zamzar .
The John McCafferty's French study pages contain gapfill worksheets, interviews to listen to and grammar pages with some interactive tasks.
Langweb, by Jon Meier from Verulam School (UK), has very helpful material, particularly for GCSE exam preparation. Jon's extensive grammar notes could be displayed om an interactive board.
Musselburgh Grammar School in Scotland has worksheets, powerpoints and many other useful resources. I find the new blog-style interface less user-friendly than before, though. It takes a while to find what you need.
Le Club Français has resources (including some interactive) for young learners - very colourful.
Tomlitoo has animal alphabet posters to print.
French.ie is the portal for French teachers in Ireland. You'll find worksheets and links.
Dulwich College (UK) has worksheets and powerpoints on grammar, film and literature.
Internet Actuel (Be) has interesting texts and worksheets.
The British Council( has lesson ideas designed for Foreign Language Assistants, but they could be of general use.
The Staffordshire Learning Net (UK) has powerpoints on grammar and vocabulary. Worth a look.
The Wirral Girls Grammar School (UK) has powerpoints and worksheets.
The CILT Vocational Languages Resource Bank (UK) is exactly what the title of the site suggests.
The King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray, UK, has a pupil-friendly site with some resources for teachers if you look around.
The Costessey High School (UK) has powerpoints and some Hotpot tasks for 11-14.
Top French Videos (USA) by Leslie Bernard has youtube videos of interest to francophiles as well as her own powerpoint presentations. NEW 5.1.10
Les Dossiers du Net ( has a very large range of articles for advanced level and university students.
Revisionworld( has a growing number of resources.
GCSE Bitesize (can be highly recommended; includes interactive GCSE tests
The BBC Talk French( has downloadable sheets to go with the lesson plans.
Here you will find good printable Crosswords.
Pupils will like reading this Simpsons (FR) site, whilst teachers could create good reading comprehension worksheets from it. Intermediate level.
There are very good sheets at the
French is Great site
in Canada.
Patricia Barry from Saint Joseph's College in Brisbane, Australia has generously made available her worksheets for us all.
Helen Myers from the Ashcombe School and ALL has produced useful materials.
French.ac.nz has resources at various levels produced by New Zealand teachers and others.
i-café (UK) from Oxford University Press is the archive of articles from a course no longer being updated.
French Podclass has listening materials (podcasts) produced by a young Frenchman (Sébastien)living in California.
PedagoNet has all sorts of puzzles and riddles, some interactive. I like the "énigmes" section which consists of mind puzzles you could use for discussion with advanced students. Nice site!
Targetlanguage has a set of graded notes and vocab lists, useful for reference, printing off or whiteboard display.
Linguanet and Linguanet Europe are general sites with information for language teachers and links.
PGCE students at York University (UK) share resources such as powerpoints and Word documents.
Discovery Educational Software have free crosswords, wordsearches etc.
The Okapi site has good reading material, whilst the Correspondants section has short paragraphs written by hopeful penfriends (the type of paragraphs UK GCSE exam boards use).
The Zoo de la Palmyre site is interactive, but has all sorts of good textual material on animals.
La Maternelle de Moustache is aimed at French nursery schools, but has some useful materials for us.
Smartbooard primary resources from the Downs School, Kent, UK.
Graham Davies' ICT4MFL site is highly informative and useful and includes comprehensive links.
Free clipart for language teachers is offered by the Half Baked Software people
More clipart can be found at Barry's Clipart
Picto (Ca) has lots of free pictures with an easy to use drop down window menu.
The following links will take you further
in your searches!
Frenchteachers.org
List of web vocab from Cornell College.
Indo-European Languages, from Jennifer Wagner, an American living in Annecy, has an excellent list of vocab and grammar at various levels which could be a useful resource to supplement lessons. This is a a very informative, accurate and thorough site, with a nice personal tone. A real feat!
BECTA (UK)has a good list of computer room words and phrases.
If you are stuck for any computing terms in French, try this comprehensive glossary by Philippe Deschamps.
Here is a good list of literature vocab from Cornell College.
Here is a list of French Proverbs
Bingo Card generator!
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links -
famously comprehensive!
Wildfrench.co.uk
- very good links!
Frenchrevision.co.uk
French.about.com - lots to see here
Schoolzone.co.uk
Realfrench from Manchester Metropolitain University - good, but you pay.
Puzzlemaker allows you to make wordsearches and other puzzles. Very easy!
Powerpoint game templates
E-worksheets has some free examples for beginners.
UK Department of Transport has a text and worksheets on theme of road safety!
Happychild (UK) has many free vocabulary and verbs which could be printed off for tests and revision.
Peter Cox (from William Beaumont High School (UK), has produced a range of powerpoints.
Revision Centre, aimed at students really, has some pages you could copy - for example, model oral presentations.
Languages Online (Aus), (part of the state of Victoria's "Eduweb"), has simple pdf resources for beginners and near beginners.
Newent Community School ,(UK) has made some good worksheets available for us all.
FrenchEntree (UK) is aimed at British people moving to France, but contains a wealth of factual information which could be of use for langauge or civilisation work.
Faux amis are listed alphabetically and in some detail on Laura Lawless's excellent About site (USA).
Houghton Mifflin College (Can) has some useful maps and OHTs.
Au Féminin (Fr) is a very good source of reading material aimed at women, but would interest males too.
Massachusetts University (USA) has some good grammar material for advanced learners.
Conso.net (Fr), from the Institut National de la Consommation has a searchable archive of letter types covering all types of situation.
Here you'll find French Tonguetwisters
Clock for interactive whiteboard
1001 Feuilles (Fr) has advanced level worksheets to go with a range of French language movies.
Downloadable game templates can be found at Sandfields School (UK) site.
The British Film Institute has a guide to exploiting films in the classroom.
At Chansons Françaises has lots of song words for French-speaking artists.
Best Of Paroles has lots of French lyrics, as well as links to the Fnac site where you can listen to song extracts as well.