Contents - Primary/Year 7
My book 50 Lesson Plans for French Teachers:Step by Step is here. A4 format, photocopiable, with accompanying slides free on this site.
10 PAGE HOME STUDY PACK
Readings, guided translation, grammar
As above, with answers - thanks to Dawn Hale
CLASSROOM TARGET LANGUAGE
Comprehensive list for teachers and students
POWERPOINTS
Each presentation has a built-in teaching structure, but you can adapt and use as you wish.
Numbers 0-20
Colours (with animals and adjectival agreement)
In my pencil case
Fruit and veggies - Kim's game
Places in town - Kim's game
Pets - Kim's game
Pets - Which description fits?
Teacher script for above
Wild animals - Kim's game
Farm animals - Kim's game
Classroom - Kim's game
My bedroom - Kim's game
Sport
Opinions about sports
Marcus Rashford
Greta Thunberg
Free time
Around town
Spotty goes to town
In town you can go...
Spotty goes shopping
Asking for directions
Where is Spotty? (simple prepositions)
Telling the time
Rooms in the house
Where is Spotty? Rooms in the house
Means of transport
Means of transport + je vais...
Transport with opinions plus sentence builder
School subjects
School subjects with opinions
School subjects with days
Parts of the body (inc Jacques a dit and aches and pains)
Clothes (12 items)
Weather
Likes and dislikes (with food)
Likes and dislikes (with drinks - inc. Kim's game) NEW 26.6.25
Want/Don't want
Likes and dislikes (with pastimes)
Animals
Animals - single slide
Holidays
Phonology. How to pronounce r, u and ou
Phonics (vowel sounds and spellings)
Phonics (consonant sounds and spellings)
Phonics (silent consonants)
Phonics bingo
Minimal pairs. 20 slides.
Near future (Je vais...) with holidays
Near future (On va...) with holidays
Near future (Je vais...) with pastimes
Near future lesson (first person)
Near future lesson (third person)
What's Spotty doing? (-er verbs)
What Spotty doesn't do (ne.. pas)
What are Fifi and Spotty doing? (nous form, -er verbs)
What are Fifi and Spotty doing? (on form, -er verbs)
What are Fifi and Spotty doing? (ils form, -er verbs)
What does Spotty like doing? (two verbs together)
What does Spotty want to do? (two verbs together)
What does Spotty like doing on holiday? (aimer + infinitive)
Spotty buys fruit and veg at the market
What is Spotty going to do on holiday? (aller + infinitive)
Using -er verbs lesson (first person)
Using -er verbs lesson (all persons)
What is Spotty going to do? (two verbs together)
What are Fifi and Spotty going to do? (on form of verb)
What are Fifi and Spotty going to do? (ils form of verb)
What are Fifi and Spotty going to do? (nous form of verb)
SENTENCE BUILDERS
Taking sentence builders further
Sentence stealers game to be used with the resources below
Me (Word) or PowerPoint
How are you? or PowerPoint
Classroom items with prepositions (Word) orPowerPoint
In my classroom (Word) or PowerPoint
My pets (Word) or PowerPoint
My family (Word) or PowerPoint
Physical appearance (1st and 3rd person) (Word) or PowerPoint
Weather (Word) or PowerPoint
Favourite ice creams
Where I live (Word) or PowerPoint
In my house/flat (Word) or PowerPoint
In my town/village/local area (Word) or PowerPoint
Places in town (+ prepositions) (Word) or PowerPoint
Going places (present) - countries, cities, places (Word) or PowerPoint
Going places (future) - countries, cities, places (Word) or PowerPoint
What am I watching? What am I listening to? (Word) or PowerPoint
Using faire (present tense) (Word) or
PowerPoint
My bedroom (Word) or PowerPoint
Where are you going? Why? (Word) or PowerPoint
Where did you go? Why? (Word) or PowerPoint
Favourite means of transport (Word) or PowerPoint
Pastimes (Word) or PowerPoint
Christmas
Favourite subjects (Word) or PowerPoint
Describing a teacher I like (Word) or PowerPoint
What time do you do things?
What are you going to watch?
What time are you going to do things tomorrow?
Which animals do you like and why? (masculine)
Which animals do you like and why? (masculine and feminine)
When is your birthday?
Food and drink preferences
Which sports do you like? - J'aime
Which sports do you do? - Je joue/je fais
ALPHABET
Spelling cities (PowerPoint)
Spelling famous French names (PowerPoint)
Alphabet games
Alphabet grid game
32 alphabet bingo cards
NUMBERS, DAYS, MONTHS
Numbers wordsearch - which number is missing?
32 bingo cards - numbers 1-30
Phone numbers information gap task
Variations on number bingo
Numbers 1-60 - arithmetic sheet
Numbers 1-50 dominoes
Numbers 1-100 dominoes
Numbers 1-100 crossword
Days and months wordsearch
Months of the year + dates
FAMILY AND PETS
Information gap task - family tree
Easy text and exercises on Peppa Pig - good for whiteboard too
Easy text and exercises on the Simpsons - good for whiteboard too
Easy text and exercises: my pets - good for whiteboard too
Easy texts and exercises
Family tree with questions
Family crossword + mon/ma/mes
Family wordsearch + mon/ma/mes - add hyphens svp
Pets crossword + articles
Animals crossword - French to English
Pets reading and drawing task
Animals song
PARALLEL READING
You could make these into booklets for extension work or just to keep in class.
Indexed booklet of nearly all the texts below
Front page for a booklet
Olympic Games
Meerkats
Kangaroos
Eiffel Tower
Channel Tunnel
Joan of Arc NEW 12.2.25
European Union
A day in the life of a cat NEW 8.4.25
Vampires
Ladybirds
Becoming a vet
Simple family poem
Brazil
Dolphins
My dog
My house
Cinderella
Planets
Weather forecast
The boy who cried wolf
Asking directions
Spiders
Sharks
Daily routine
My friend (male)
My friend (female)
My mum
The blue whale
The giant panda
Asteroids
Marie Curie
Astérix
Napoleon
The brown bear
Louis Pasteur
Charles de Gaulle
Quebec
VERBS and GRAMMAR
Practising être
Practising avoir
Practising aller
Practising faire
Practising jouer
Practising manger
Practising regarder
Practising parler
Practising prendre
Practising -er verbs
Practising -er verbs
Practising -er verbs drill
-er verbs - battleships game
-er verbs crossword
-er verbs sentence translation
-er verbs grid to complete
Simple daily routine
Using the verb s'appeler
Prepositions - picture and exercises
Prepositions - translation
Prepositions - crossword
Resource and lesson plan on prepositions (display/worksheet)
Prepositions - Où est le chat? (display/worksheet)
je vais + au/à la/à l')
Using subject pronouns il/elle/ils/elles
Ils or Elles? (1)
Ils or Elles? (2)
VIDEO LISTENING
Always check that linked videos are still available. Let me know about dead links please.
You can do these in class or set them for homework.
Beginner conversation
My bedroom – Alain Le Lait video with exercises
Trotro fait un gâteau
Trotro joue à cache-cache
Classroom vocabulary
Ma chambre – video listening sing-along
STARTERS
Some of these could be done orally and/or in writing. Suggestions for exploitation are given.
Beginner chat mat – display or print
Connections game – 5 slides NEW 29.4.25
5 sentence maker slides
5 sentence maker slides (common -er verbs)
5 sentence completion slides
5 short gap-fill paragraphs
10 noughts and crosses games
Insert the vowels. 3 slides. NEW 2.12.24
Fizz-buzz numbers game
‘Translate with prompts.’ 4 slides.
‘Pyramid speed test.’ 10 slides.
Pictures with true/false sentences. 5 slides.
Phonics bingo game. 8 cards provided.
Vocab championship
Putting words/phrases in the right order
Make sentences from a word/phrase list
Odd one out. 20 slides of sentences.
‘Change one thing’. 20 slides of sentences to alter.
Quick translation (very easy) 12 slides of sentences to translate
Quick translation (easy). 20 slides with gapped clues.
Quick translation (harder). 20 slides with first letter clues.
‘Finish the sentence.’ 10 slides.
‘Finish my sentence.’ Listening + vocab retrieval.
‘Mini battleships translation.’ 10 games (Word).
‘Start the sentence.’ 20 slides – focus on verb retrieval.
‘Match up.’ 20 slides.
‘Insert the gaps’ 10 slides.
‘Vrai ou faux?’ 20 slides.
‘Which answer?’ 20 slides.
‘Which question?’ 20 slides.
‘Match and complete’ 5 slides.
Easy crossword (Fr to Eng)
Spelling challenge. 10 slides.
TARSIA PUZZLES
With thanks to Mr Barton tarsiamaker.co.uk
Ways to exploit Tarsia puzzles
My home
My bedroom
Weather
Pastimes
Going places (je vais/on va)
Family
Simple QA
Pets and colours
In the classroom
Time (including 24-hour clock)
Drinks (je bois/je voudrais)
Drinks (j’aime/je n’aime pas)
Food (j’aime/je n’aime pas)
Shops (Je vais…)
At the café
Prepositions
GUIDED TRANSLATION WITH EXERCISES
Mon chien
Ma famille NEW 13.3.25
Ma maison
Weather forecast
Ma maman
Daily routine
Free time
My town
Shopping
GUIDED TRANSLATION/DICTATION
My dog
My cat
My town
Me
TIME
Time (1) – hours and half past
Time (2) – quarter past and to
Time (3) – minutes past and to
Time (4) – mixed
Telling the time worksheet
Where and when.
Using aller plus time.
Time matching task
TOWN
Battleships game for places in town (can be adapted for other grammar or vocab areas)
Battleships town + prepositions (3 versions)
Directions
My town – text and exercises
Two dice board games
Code breaking
Crossword
Crossword with definitions
In town – wordsearch
Dominoes
Vocab matching
Pour aller…..
Transport
Shops (oral/written drill)
HOME
La maison de la famille Leblanc
My house (text and exercises)
Rooms battleships (three versions)
House for sale advert
In the house
In the house crossword
In the house (2)
Rooms in the house
Two dice board games (house and bedrooom)
Ma chambre
Dans ma chambre – wordsearch
WEATHER
Battleships game
Crossword
Weather
Weather (2)
Weather dominoes
Weather crossword
Weather forecast – parallel reading
SCHOOl AND CLASSROOM
Classroom vocabulary – code breaking
Classroom vocabulary dominoes
Teacher instructions bingo
My school – text and exercises
Il n’y a pas de…(ppt)
School subjects
Classroom vocab – crossword Eng-Fr
Classroom vocab – crossword Fr-Eng
Classroom vocab with indefinite articles- crossword (pdf)
Authentic classroom items list
Classroom wordsearch
Classroom vocabulary anagrams
Answers for the above
Classroom items strip bingo game
ADJECTIVES
Adjective agreement crossword
Adjectifs possessifs (1)
Adjectifs possessifs (2)
Adjectives gap fill
Top Secret! (descriptions)
CHRISTMAS
Christmas vocabulary
Christmas crossword
Christmas strip bingo game
Christmas code breaking
Christmas wordsearch
FOOD AND DRINK
Fruit and veg crossword Fr-Eng
Food strip bingo game
Fruit and veg wordsearch
Fruit and veg – code breaking
CLASS SURVEYS
Favourite fruits (PowerPoint)
Favourite vegetables (PowerPoint)
Favourite sports (PowerPoint) NEW 18.12.24
Favourite animals (PowerPoint)
Favourite pastimes (PowerPoint)
Favourite school subjects (PowerPoint)
Favourite ice-creams (PowerPoint)
Favourite meals (PowerPoint)
Favourite French desserts (PowerPoint)
Favourite drinks (PowerPoint)
LESSON PLANS
Teaching with flashcards sequence
MOI basic intro – disappearing text
‘Maxime’ – disappearing text NEW 6.4.25
Teaching ne… pas
Family resource and lesson plan
Teaching school subjects
Sandrine talks about her home – text with lesson plan
Marie-Hélène talks about herself – text with lesson plan
MISCELLANEOUS
Three simple dialogues to read aloud and adapt NEW 25.3.25
A swapping sentences game
‘Sentence chaos’ reading aloud game
A question and answer fluency game
A “likely or unlikely” game (with lots of present tense verbs)
“A good student” poster
Teacher phrases for the classroom
Stick-in vocab lists Updated 15.5.25
Strip bingo vocabulary game
Four simple gapped dictations
Fridge sheet – stick on fridge for revision
Place mat with classroom expressions
Pupil survey sheet – good for self-evaluation!( edit online)
Questionnaire for new pupils – adapted from Juliet Casey’s
Conversation questions board game
Parts of the body strip bingo game
Clothing strip bingo game
Clothing strip bingo game (longer version)
Sentence length strip bingo game (common verbs)
Pair work interview slips
Word re-ordering for revision
What is the question?