VIDEO LISTENING

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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.
‘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. NEW 22.7.23
‘Disappearing text.’ 5 slides.
‘Instant chat.’ 10 slides. NEW 13.8.23
‘Finish my sentence.’ Listening – 36 sentences.
‘Start my sentence.’ Listening – 36 sentences. NEW 19.8.23
‘Two truths and a lie.’ NEW 31.8.23

PARALLEL READING

Girl abandoned at motorway services
Mosquitoes
Why can’t kangaroos walk?
An amazing and generous publicity stunt
Surfing
Ocean level rise NEW 10.8.23
Fair trade
French overseas territories
Louis Pasteur
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
Family NEW 20.8.23
My best friend NEW 21.8.23
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
Talking about next weekend NEW 16.7.23
Talking about last week NEW 18.7.23
Daily routine NEW 24.7.23
A holiday in the past NEW 25.7.23
A holiday in the future NEW 25.7.23
Protecting the environment NEW 28.7.23
Healthy living NEW 11.9.23

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 lists – just print off and cut out Updated 11.8.23
Clothes bingo – 10 cards NEW 27.9.23
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

Tennis pairwork game

Web task: renting a gîte Updated with answers 15.5.23

10 standby dictations/translations – quite hard

Y9 oral questions Updated 13.8.23

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