VIDEO LISTENING

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Please recheck any links to online videos before you print off or use a listening worksheet. Please do not share login details with students. NOTE: I have removed two ‘portrait d’enfant’ worksheets as Arte have unpublished them.

Oumou – portrait of a child in Mali (Facebook link)

The five major rivers in France

Louis describes his new school NEW 2.3.26
Clémence talks about her five favourite objects (use of ce/cette/ces)

Clémence talks about her future journey to Cambodia (use of near future)

Clémence talks about her future journey to Belgium (use of future)
People talking about their pastimes
People talking about favourite sports
When were you born? (dates/numbers)
Peppa Pig – Les vacances de Polly

Peppa Pig – La soirée pyjama

Peppa – La fête de l’école

Peppa Pig – Maman travaille

Peppa Pig – A la plage

Peppa Pig – Le grand aquarium

Trotro – Trotro fait de la peinture

Trotro – Trotro part en vacances

Guided tour of Lyon

Describing a film – DekiruFrench/Youtube

Funny talking animals

STARTERS

15 sentence making grids
Vocab connections game – 5 slides
5 noughts and crosses games – perfect tense (QA)
5 noughts and crosses games – near future (QA)
5 noughts and crosses games – near future (translation)
Present tense spinners NEW 23.3.26
Insert a verb spinners NEW 2.4.26
‘Change one thing.’ 20 sets of 4 sentences
Odd one out. 20 sets of 4 sentences
10 short gap-fill paragraphs (with options)
5 short gap-fill paragraphs (no options)
‘Make a 10-word sentence. 15 slides.
‘Change one phrase.’ 20 slides.
Quick translation into French. 20 slides, 2 sentences per slide
7 guessing games
10 fluency tasks (oral or written)
Tonguetwisters
‘Listen and draw’. 7 images.
‘Finish the sentence’. 10 slides.
‘False facts dictation’. 10 slides.
‘Yes/no game’. 10 slides.
‘Mini battleships’. 10 games (Word).
‘Mini battleships translation’. 10 games (Word).
‘Mini battleships 3 chunk translation’. 10 games (Word).
‘Start the sentence’. 20 slides. Focus on verb retrieval.
‘Opinions and reasons’. 20 slides.
‘Ever-changing sentence’. 10 slides.
‘Possible or unlikely?’ 20 slides.
‘Find five facts.’ 10 slides, each with a short reading.
‘What happened next?’ 20 slides.
‘Word cloud challenge.’ 1 slide.
‘What’s the sign?’ 40 slides.
‘Match up’ (focus on grammar) 20 slides.
‘Which answer?’ (focus on tenses) 20 slides.
‘Tense spotting.’ 20 slides.
‘What’s the question?’ 15 slides.
‘Vocab recall challenge.’ 15 slides.
‘Comparisons.’ 10 slides.
Paired sentence completion (Word)
‘Which time phrase?’ 15 slides.
‘Sentence creation.’ 20 slides.
‘Sentence challenge.’ 10 slides.
‘Disappearing text.’ 5 slides.
‘Instant chat.’ 10 slides.
‘Finish my sentence.’ Listening – 36 sentences.
‘Start my sentence.’ Listening – 36 sentences.
‘Two truths and a lie.’

PARALLEL READING

You could put these together as an extra reading booklet
Girl abandoned at motorway services
Chimpanzees I What is xenophobia?
Quebec I ‘Laïcité’ and the veil
2.5 degrees temperature rise
A retirement home for elephants I Marie Curie
Mosquitoes I Why can’t kangaroos walk?
An amazing and generous publicity stunt
Surfing I Ocean level rise
Fair trade I French overseas territories
Louis Pasteur I Heroic charity walk
Drunk man falls from third floor balcony

NARROW LISTENING WITH EXERCISES

The teacher reads aloud four short texts, each quite similar, while students do the activities (matching and true/false)

More ideas for exploiting narrow listening and narrow reading resources
Healthy living I Family
My best friend I A visit to Paris (past)
A visit to Paris (future) I TV
Music I My school trip
Last weekend I Social media
Pastimes I School
What I did yesterday
Future holidays I Future plans
Environment I Favourite cooking

NARROW READING WITH EXERCISES

Eiffel Tower Tripadvisor-style comments
Parc Astérix Tripadvisor-style comments
Mont St Michel Tripadvisor-style comments
Futuroscope Tripadvisor-style comments
Favourite influencers NEW 13.11.25
Environment I Pets for sale
Holidays (easy) I Pastimes (easy)
A best friend (easy) I Healthy lifestyle (easy)
Fashion (easy) I School (easy)
My future (easy) I Where I live (easy)
What I did yesterday (easy)
What I did last weekend (easy)
Next weekend (easy) I Favourite food (easy)

LESSON PLANS

A visit to Paris (PowerPoint)
A restaurant menu and dialogue
Translate-transcribe: La Rochelle
Daily routine – easy communicative activity
Talking about next weekend
Talking about last week I Daily routine
A holiday in the past
A holiday in the future
Protecting the environment I Healthy living
My best friend

TEXTS WITH EXERCISES

These texts and exercises have been chosen or adapted to suit lower intermediate students. They are usually short and contain many cognate words.

The three little pigs I Kylian Mbappé
10 science museums in France NEW 13.10.25
Lionel Messi I Lando Norris
Ousmane Dembélé I Mohamed Salah
Lewis Hamilton I Maro Itoje
The Olympic Games
The three little pigs – easier sheet
The Camargue
Men’s beards have more germs than a dog’s coat
Meerkats
Are Christmas trees bad for the planet?
Ariana Grande
The basenji: a dog which doesn’t bark
Taskmagic gap fill on above
Forum post from momes.net
Guy Fawkes and bonfire night
Astronomy – super-Earths!
Healthy eating I Global warming
Becoming a vet

VOCABULARY

Stick-in vocab lists – just print off and cut out
Clothes bingo – 10 cards
Baccalaureat vocab game

Vacances – déchiffrez le code

Valise de vacances – déchiffrez le code

Shopping online for a walking holiday

Weather crossword

Expressions of time crossword

Kitchen equipment – code-breaker

Restaurant crossword

Kitchen equipment – definitions

Hobbies crossword

Sports crossword

Physical descriptions – powerpoint

Quel métier?

Quel métier? (2)

Jobs crossword

Jobs Tarsia puzzle

Clothes Tarsia puzzle

Character adjectives

Guess the job pair game

OTHER

POWERPOINT – The Price is Right game

20 reasons to learn a language
50 quiz questions

Tennis pairwork game

Web task: renting a gîte

10 standby dictations/translations – quite hard

Oral questions

Hotel reservation role-play

Pupil survey sheet – good for self-evaluation!

Ecole – gapfill/writing frame

Restaurant dialogue and notes

Describing my school template

Campsite dialogue and vocabulary

En vacances – template for written and oral work