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GRAMMAR
PERFECT TENSE (passé composé)
See also the Year 8 page for many other perfect tense exercises.
AVOIR VERBS
POWERPOINT - regular -er verbs
POWERPOINT - irregular past participles
Perfect tense Updated with answers 10.12.22
Revision (avoir verbs)
Insert the right verb Updated with answers 10.12.22
Insert the right verb (2) Updated with answers 10.12.22
Insert the right verb (3) Updated with answers 10.12.22
Insert the right form and change an element
Insert the right form and add an element
Regular -er ( avoir) - translation sentences
Regular -ir/re ( avoir) - translation sentences
Irregular( avoir) - translation sentences
Sentence builder frame - irregular pps ending in u
Sentence builder frame - irregular pps ending in s and t
Translate into French (reg -er verbs)
Translate into French (reg -ir -re verbs)
Translate into French (irreg past participles)
Two question-answer board games NEW 8.1.23
ETRE VERBS
Sentence builder frame
Questions to practise perfect tense (être)
Perfect tense (être)
Perfect tense ( être) - translation sentences
Perfect tense (être) - agreements correction exercise
Visit to Paris - focus on past participles & agreements
As above - focus on full verbs
Translation sentences
Two translation board games NEW 8.1.23
REFLEXIVES
Perfect Tense POWERPOINT introduction
Sentence builder frame
Gap-fill and translation Updated + answers 14.12.22
Translation sentences
MIXED
POWERPOINT - various verbs
POWERPOINT - describing a holiday
POWERPOINT - a weekend in Paris
POWERPOINT - a visit to Brussels
Two translation board games NEW 13.12.22
A 'do now' to a time limit. 5 gapfill slides.
Last weekend - 'sentence chaos' reading aloud game
Visit to Paris - 'sentence chaos' reading aloud game
Perfect tense (avoir and être) - agreements correction exercise
Perfect tense (various) - board game
Passage completion and translation
Crossword
Crossword - gap fill - mixed past participles
Crossword - gap fill
Answers to the above crossword
Crossword - phrases to translate
Perfect tense - translation sentences
Perfect tense - visit to Paris pictures
Perfect tense (avoir/être) info gap task
Paired dictation (avoir/être)
Questions in perfect tense
Questions in perfect tense with est-ce que
Oral drill to practise negatives and perfect tense
NEAR FUTURE
(futur proche)
Information gap pair task
Two board games (QA/translation) NEW 5.1.23
FUTURE TENSE
(futur)
A 'do now' to a time limit. 5 gapfill slides.
POWERPOINT: regular future
POWERPOINT: describing a holiday
POWERPOINT lesson: present contrasted with future
Sentence builder - regular stems
Sentence builder - irregular stems
Two board games (QA/translation) NEW 5.1.23
Set of 6 retrieval "do now" grids (PPT)
Sentence chaos reading aloud game
Future tense questions
Paired dictation - future tense
Future tense sentences - insert the right verb
Moi en 2080 (Future)
Crossword
Crossword (regulars)
Battleships grid - regular future
Battleships grid - irregular stem future
Battleships grid - mixed future
Battleships grid: Next weekend - aller and jouer in whole sentences
Battleships grid: Holidays - various verbs in whole sentences
Next weekend battleships- mixed future
Graded translation sentences Eng-Fr
IMPERFECT TENSE
(imparfait)
POWERPOINT introduction
POWERPOINT lesson - present v imperfect
Sentence builder frame
Two board games (QA + translation) NEW 10.1.23
Imperfect Tense - drill
Imperfect tense - drill (2)
Imperfect tense gapfill
Imperfect tense gapfill (harder)
Ecole primaire - imperfect tense model
Imperfect tense crossword
Imperfect tense text and exercises
Imperfect tense homework task
Worksheet for oral and written practice
3 TENSES TOGETHER
POWERPOINT - 3 tenses together
Sentence builder frame
A tense recognition listening exercise NEW 12.1.23
Two board games (QA + translation) NEW 31.1.23
Simple stick-in tense guide
Past, present and future tenses (1)
Past, present and future Tenses (2)
Past, Present and Future Tenses (3)
Three tenses crossword
Tarsia puzzle
Past, Present and future with daily routine
Battleships grid for present, perfect, imperfect, near future and future
Easy dominoes for perfect, present and future tenses
OTHER GRAMMAR
POWERPOINT il faut/il ne faut pas with school rules.
Sentence builder frame il faut/il ne faut pas with school rules.
Sentence builder frame: negatives pas/plus/jamais
You're so negative! - easy drill NEW 23.2.23
Graded aller + infinitive translation sentences.
Superlatives
Superlatives crossword
Present tense
Negatives - present tense
Negatives - perfect tense
Yes/no game to practise negation
GRAMMAR NOTES FOR HANDING OUT
Irregular present tense verbs table
Imperfect tense
Future tense tense
Venir de + infinitive
See the Year 8 page for many more present tense exercises and other grammar topics (pronouns, adjectives etc).
VIDEO LISTENING
Please check any links to online videos before you print off or use a listening worksheet. Check that videos play on mobile devices. Please do not share login details with students.
Oumou – portrait of a child in Mali
Zico – portrait of a child in Libya
Hass Srey- portrait of a child in Cambodia
The five major rivers in France
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)
Peppa Pig – Polly va en vacances
Peppa Pig – La soirée pyjama
Peppa Pig video – 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
‘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. NEW 8.3.23
‘Change one phrase.’ 20 slides. NEW 9.3.23
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. NEW 1.1.23
‘Disappearing text.’ 5 slides. NEW 12.2.23
‘Finish my sentence.’ Listening – 30 sentences. NEW 1.3.23
PARALLEL READING
Girl abandoned at motorway services
Why can’t kangaroos walk?
An amazing and generous publicity stunt
Surfing
Fair trade
French overseas territories NEW 15.2.23
Louis Pasteur NEW 20.2.23
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
A visit to Paris (past)
A visit to Paris (future)
TV
My school trip
Last weekend
Social media
Pastimes
School
What I did yesterday
Future holidays
Future plans
Environment
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
Pets for sale
Holidays (easy)
Pastimes (easy)
A best friend (easy)
Healthy lifestyle (easy)
Fashion (easy)
School (easy)
My future (easy)
Where I live (easy)
What I did yesterday (easy)
What I did last weekend (easy)
Next weekend (easy)
Favourite food (easy)
LESSON PLANS
Translate-transcribe: La Rochelle
Daily routine – easy communicative activity
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
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
An amazing archeological discovery
Taskmagic gap fill on above
Forum post from momes.net
Guy Fawkes and bonfire night
Lionel Messi
Gareth Bale
DNA – questions in English
Greenhouse effect
Astronomy – super-Earths!
Healthy eating
Oceans under threat
Global warming
Chat rooms
Becoming a vet
VOCABULARY
Stick-in vocab – just print off and cut out!
Baccalaureat vocab game
Vacances – déchiffrez le code
Valise de vacances – déchiffrez le code
Shopping online for a walking holiday
Weather crossword
Expressions of time
Inventaire de cuisine – déchiffrez le code
Restaurant crossword
Dans la cuisine – définitions
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
Tennis pairwork game
Web task: hiring a gîte
10 standby dictations
Y9 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