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POWERPOINTS
Aller + infinitive (with sports)
Aller + infinitive (with various activities)
Perfect tense (with sports)
Perfect tense intro - regular -er verbs with avoir
Perfect tense various verbs
Buying fruit and veg - with partitives
Buying meat, fish and dairy - with partitives
Ordering drinks - with partitives NEW 6.6.22
At the pharmacy NEW 11.6.22
Shops
Clothing
Kim's game - clothing
Simple comparatives
Daily routine lesson
Present and perfect tense lesson
Ordering drinks - with partitives
Saying what you had or didn't have to drink - with partitives
Saying what you can do on holiday (On peut..)
Saying what you did on holiday (perfect tense)
Musical instruments
Parts of the body
Aches and pains
Household furniture and items
Countries in Europe
Languages spoken in Europe
GRAMMAR
PRESENT TENSE
'Sentence chaos' game: present tense - common irregulars, 1st person
5 easy 'do now' retrieval grids, various verbs NEW 29.6.22
Prendre, apprendre, comprendre
Dire/lire/écrire
Finir
Regular -er verbs crossword
Regular -ir verbs crossword
Regular -re verbs crossword
Present tense crossword (regular and irregular)
Present tense crossword - guess the verb
Stick-in or display on regular present tenses
Present tense summary and practice sheet
Irregular present tense verb gap fill
Paired dictation - jumbled words, present tense
Paired dictation (2) - jumbled words, present tense
Pairwork - present tense verb test
Questions using present tense
Using on peut + infinitive
NEAR FUTURE
5 easy 'do now' retrieval grids NEW 26.6.22
Aller + infinitive (1)
Aller + infinitive (2)
Aller + infinitive (3)
Aller + infinitive (4)
'Sentence chaos' game
'Sentence chaos' game (2)
Aller + infinitive battleships
Aller + infinitive crossword
Le weekend prochain - near future or future
PERFECT TENSE (Passé composé)
See the sentence builder frames below on the right for more perfect tense practice.
AVOIR VERBS
5 easy 'do now' retrieval grids, reg -er pps NEW 25.6.22
6 easy 'do now' retrieval grids, -ir/-re and irregular pps NEW 26.6.22
'Sentence chaos' game - avoir verbs
Present to perfect tense - translate and transform (EASY) (avoir reg)
Present - perfect tense oral/writing drill (avoir reg)
Present to perfect tense - translate and transform (EASY) (avoir irreg)
Present - perfect Tense oral/oral/writing drill (avoir irregular)
Present - perfect tense oral/writing drill (avoir reg and irreg)
Irregular past participles - kinaesthetic game
Labels for game above
Perfect tense battleships - regular avoir verbs
Perfect tense battleships - irregular avoir verbs
Le weekend dernier battleships - regular -er verbs
ETRE VERBS
5 easy 'do now' retrieval starters NEW 25.6.22
Present - Perfect tense oral/writing drill (être verbs)
Present to perfect tense - translate and transform (EASY) (être verbs reg)
Journey notes for oral exploitation - être verbs
Questions to practise perfect tense être verbs
'Sentence chaos' game - être verbs
Perfect tense battleships - être verbs
Paired dictation perfect - être verbs
REFLEXIVE VERBS
'Sentence chaos' game - reflexive verbs
Present - perfect tense oral/writing drill (reflexive verbs)
Present to perfect tense - translate and transform (EASY) (reflexive verbs)
Perfect tense battleships - reflexive verbs
VARIOUS PERFECT TENSE VERBS
Battleships game for Perfect Tense (can be adapted online for other grammar or vocab areas)
Present - perfect tense writing passage (mixed)
Worksheet for oral and written practice - avoir and être verbs
Questions in perfect tense
Various translation into French exercises
Perfect tense battleships - mixed verbs
Le weekend dernier battleships - mixed verbs
Possible/impossible activity
Perfect tense: être verb pairwork
Negatives - perfect tense (easy)
Negatives - perfect tense (hard)
Display - notes for describing a journey in the past
Story - gingerbread man (by Jo Wallace)
OTHER GRAMMAR
Adjective agreements
Etre + adjectives
Adjective agreements crossword
Du, de la, des, de
Du, de la, des, de
POWERPOINT with sentence builder - comparing dogs
Prepositions before towns and countries
Comparatives - comparing animals
Comparatives (2)
Direct object pronouns
Direct object pronouns drills
Direct object pronouns drills (2)
Food quantities
Ce, cette, ces
Au Café - mixed tenses and vocabulary
LESSON PLANS
Comparatives - quel chien préfères-tu?
Parts of the body
Numbers, times, partir and arriver
GRAMMAR NOTES FOR HANDING OUT
Perfect tense - regular avoir
Perfect tense - irregular avoir
Perfect tense - être verbs
Direct object pronouns
Problems with du/de la/des and le/la/les
Aller + infinitive
VIDEO LISTENING
Always check that videos are available online before you print off sheets. Do not share login details with pupils.
School – from YouTube
Daily routine – from YouTube
What is your favourite sport? – from YouTube
Passé composé song – from Alain Le Lait
Petit Ours Brun et le bébé – from YouTube
Petit Ours Brun joue à la dînette – from YouTube
Petit Ours Brun se lève tôt – from YouTube
Petit Ours Brun a perdu son doudou – from YouTube
Petit Ours Brun fait de la luge – from YouTube
Trotro fait un bonhomme de neige – from YouTube
Trotro a un beau cartable – from YouTube
Daily routine – from Youtube
Peppa pig fait les courses – from Youtube
Buying groceries – from Youtube
PARALLEL TEXTS
See the Y7 page for lots more parallel texts.
Robots
Cinderella story
Tour de France
Minecraft (gapped translation)
VOCABULARY
Baccalaureat vocab game
Stick-in vocab lists – print off and cut out!
Cyber-shopping at Auchan!
Excel sheet instead of above. Calculates the bill for you.
Shops dominoes
Shops – ‘Climb the wall’ listening game
Shops wordsearch
Food crossword.
Fruit and veg display/worksheet with images.
Fruit and veg wordsearch.
Fruit and veg dominoes.
Protein food dominoes.
Drinks crossword.
Shops crossword
Railways crossword
Railways wordsearch
Railways dominoes
Code breaker on restaurant vocab
Quel pays?
Draw a monster – parts of the body
Parts of the body crossword
Parts of the body wordsearch
Physical descriptions wordsearch etc
Clothes wordsearch
Questions about food
DIALOGUES
These can be used with adults and older pupils too
Restaurant dialogue and notes
Hotel dialogue and vocabulary
Campsite dialogue and vocabulary
Talking about holidays
Baker’s dialogue and vocabulary
Café dialogue and vocabulary
Butcher’s dialogue and vocabulary
Tourist office dialogue and vocabulary
Fishmonger’s dialogue and vocabulary
Greengrocery dialogue and vocabulary
Car hire dialogue and vocabulary
Train ticket office dialogue and vocabulary
Last weekend dialogue and notes
Next weekend dialogue and notes
Post office dialogue and notes
EASY SENTENCE BUILDER FRAMES
Taking sentence builders further
Sentence stealers game to be used with the resources below
France (on peut…)
A day at the beach
A visit to Paris (past/je)
A visit to Paris (future)
A visit to Paris (past/nous/on)
A visit to Parc Asterix (past/nous/on)
‘I watched… I listened to…’
‘I played’ (+ sports)
Going places (with perfect tense of aller, all parts)
Using faire (perfect tense)
Using faire (perfect tense) with silly sentences
Using jouer (+ au/à la and du/de la) with silly sentences
Using prendre with silly sentences
What I wear at school and at home
Finding directions
Asking questions about a friend’s interests
Weekend (present tense)
Perfect tense (être verbs)
Perfect tense irregular avoir verbs ending in u
Perfect tense irregular avoir verbs ending in s and t
Daily routine
What we do as a family (1st plural)
What my friends and I do (1st plural)
What my friend likes to do
Perfect tense (reflexive verbs)
Films and TV series
Saying what you want and don’t want to do
Saying what you like and don’t like doing (using plaire)
Saying what you can and can’t do where you live
Saying you know and don’t know how to do something
Last weekend
Technology
Next weekend
School
Pastimes
Holidays – present and past
Holiday plans
Meals
Describing a friend
Describing a mother
Household chores
EASY NARROW READING TASKS
These can be used in conjunction with the sentence builder frames above. The language used in these texts is largely from the sentence builders.
Further ideas for exploiting narrow reading resources
Typical weekend
Ads for missing cats
A journey – perfect tense être verbs
My daily routine
What we do as a family
What my friends and I do
Technology
School
Pastimes
Holidays
Next weekend
Last weekend
My best friend
Meals
OTHER
Revision questions for the start of year
Daily routine board game
Daily routine lesson plan
Sentence swapping game
School board game
Food board game
Lesson plan on D-Day landings
General conversation questions
Questions about school for oral and written work
Pupil survey sheet – good for self-evaluation!
Speaking test questions
Fill in the vowels – written accuracy
Ecole – gapfill/writing frame
Text and exercises on homework
Template for interviews with assistants