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

STARTERS

‘Change on thing’. 20 slides, each with four sentences
Odd one out. 20 slides, each with four sentences
Missing verb. 25 slides.
‘Complete the table.’ 5 slides. NEW 26.9.23
‘Pyramid memory speed test.’ 5 slides. NEW 7.11.23
‘Contradiction.’ 1 slide. NEW 30.9.23
Re-ordering words. 10 slides, each with four sentences
Gap-fill. 5 short paragraphs with options
Gap-fill. 5 short paragraphs without options (harder) NEW 10.7.23
5 sentence-making grids
‘Spot the errors’. 20 slides each with 4 sentences
‘Correct the sentence’. 20 slides.
‘Insert the verb’. 20 slides, each with 4 sentences.
Vocab championship (also on Y7 page)
‘Yes/no game’. 10 slides.
‘Sentence stealers’. 10 slides.
‘Spot the errors’ (with pictures) 10 slides.
‘Mini battleships translation’. 10 games (Word).
‘Mini three chunk battleships’. 5 games (Word).
‘Start the sentence’. 20 slides. Focus on verb retrieval.
French general knowledge quiz. 20 slides.
‘Match up.’ 20 slides.
‘Missing word.’ 25 slides.
‘Paired sentence completion’ (Word)
‘Complete and translate.’ 25 slides.
‘Finish my sentence.’ Listening and vocab retrieval.
‘Match and complete.’ 10 slides, 10 vocab topics.

PARALLEL TEXTS

See the Y7 page for lots more parallel texts.

Robots

Cinderella story
The International Red Cross

Tour de France

Minecraft (gapped translation)

VOCABULARY

Vocab championship
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 crossword (Eng-Fr).
Fruit and veg dominoes.

Protein food dominoes.

Drinks crossword.

Shops crossword
Transport
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
Clothes – ‘Climb the wall’ listening game NEW 29.10.23
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

SENTENCE BUILDERS

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)
A plane journey
A train journey
‘I watched… I listened to…’
‘I played’ (+ sports)
Going places (with perfect tense of aller, all parts)
Going places – future
Using faire (present tense, 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 have to (must) 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
Sport
Holidays – present and past

Holiday plans

Meals

Describing a friend
Describing a mother
Describing a father NEW 30.10.23
Household chores

EASY NARROW READING TASKS

These can be used in conjunction with sentence builders above.

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