Contents - Y10-11

My book 50 Lesson Plans for French Teachers:Step by Step is here. A4 format, photocopiable, with accompanying slides free on this site.
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Grammar exercises
Sentence builders
Dialogues
Texts with exercises
Video listening
GCSE and IGCE
Vocabulary
 

HOME STUDY BOOKLETS

These two 40-50 page study packs contain resources for listening, reading, speaking and writing, together with answers. You can edit them as you wish. For teachers outside England and Wales, the level is about 3-4 years of teaching for Foundation, 5-6 years for Higher (depending on your syllabi).
Foundation Tier
Higher Tier

The pack below is a bridging pack from GCSE Higher to A-level for students intending to continue French

Bridging pack

GRAMMAR

See the Year 8 and 9 sections for more grammar exercises if the ones below are too hard. These worksheets may also be useful for revision at A-level.

Five pairwork verb tests (present tense)
Five pairwork verb tests (perfect tense)
Three pairwork verb tests (imperfect tense)
Three pairwork verb tests (future tense)
Three pairwork verb tests (conditional tense)
Two pairwork verb tests (pluperfect tense)
Tenses - translation into English
Tenses - translation into French
Definite articles and partitivesUpdated + with answers
Depuis and ça fait... que..
Perfect tense info gap oral task
Present to perfect tense exercise
4 translation boardgames (Perfect Tense)
Vacances aux Etats-Unis - perfect tense lesson plan
Vacances aux Etats-Unis - PowerPoint slide version
Passage to write in perfect tense from infinitives
Imperfect tense - crossword
Perfect and Imperfect Tenses (translation)
Pluperfect
Pluperfect (2)
Pluperfect (3)
Present participles
Present participles crossword
AdverbsUpdated + with answers
Adverbs crossword
Adverbs gap fill
Various tenses - battleships
Negative oral drills ne... pas
More negative oral drills - ne... plus/jamais/rien/personne
Negatives with imperfect tenseUpdated + with answers
Negatives with future tense
Game to practise jamais with the perfect tense + extensions
Two verbs together (PowerPoint lesson)
Two verbs together (2)Updated + with answers
Two verbs together (3)Updated + with answers
"Après avoir" structureUpdated + with answers
"Avant de + infinitive" structure
Conditional moodUpdated + with answers
Conditional mood (2)
Si clauses - Present + future
Si clauses - Imperfect + conditional
Si clauses - Imperfect + conditional (2)
Conditional perfect tense
Verb tenses crossword - pres, perf, fut, imp, cond
Possessive pronouns
Articles and partitives
AdjectivesUpdated + with answers
Present tense revisionUpdated + with answers
Direct object pronouns
Direct and indirect pronouns (difficult!) Updated + with answers
Relative pronoun que - PowerPoint lesson
Relative pronounsUpdated + with answers
Using ce qui and ce queUpdated + with answers

EASY SENTENCE BUILDERS

These allow students to build up utterances using comprehensible chunks of language. They could be used in preparation for speaking and writing tests. Each one has a suggested teaching sequence and a gapped version of the frame for scaffolding/self-testing purposes.
Digital technology (easier)
Digital technology (harder)
When I was younger
A plane journey (also in Y8)
A disastrous holiday
A holiday in England
Accidents (using present participles)
Holiday jobs (using present participles)
Protecting the environment (using present participles)
Healthy lifestyle
Cinema and TV
Sport
Music
Friends
Family
Family life
Typical school day
Life at school
Future plans
Volunteering
Pastimes in four tenses
Food preferences
A meal I had
My town
Poverty

TRANSLATION CROSSWORDS

Environment
Travel
Pastimes + Answers NEW 14.5.23
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GRAMMAR NOTES FOR HANDING OUT

Using pour, pendant and depuis
Negatives
Adjectives
Adverbs
Conditional tense
Conditional perfect tense
Relative pronouns qui and que
Asking questions
Using dont
Indirect object pronouns
Adverbial pronouns y and en
Pluperfect tense
Future perfect tense

TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH

Set of 5 gapped translations

TRANSLATIONS INTO FRENCH

Set of 5 gapped translations
Easy translations
Google Translate beaters - parallel gapped translations
8 harder translations
8 harder gapped translations
100 foundation tier sentences (AQA standard)
100 higher tier sentences (AQA standard)

TEXTS WITH EXERCISES

Teacher's guide to using texts with exercises

PARALLEL READING

You could make these into a booklet for independent reading
Zombies
The Mémorial Acte museum in Guadeloupe NEW 23.8.23
Online media habits
Superheroes
Weird hotel complaints
Phobias
Rescued fishermen story
Islamic State
Maglev trains
A heroic deed
Dogs who can detect cancer

TEXTS WITH QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH, JIGSAW READING AND GAPFILL

A Canadian vet talks about her job
Is it better to be an only child?
A black boy brought up in Nazi Germany
An act of heroism
Migrant smuggling in Calais
Dolphins
Elephants (being like humans)
Malala Yousafzai
Gapfill on above
Jigsaw reading on above
Locavores - people who only eat local food
Gapfill on above
TM3 jigsaw reading on above
Interview with an astronaut
Gapfill on above
Jigsaw reading on above
Smiling
Gapfill on above
Jigsaw reading on above
Giant pandas
Gapfill on above
Jigsaw reading on above
Polar ice melt and sea level rise
Gapfill on above
Jigsaw reading on above
Driverless cars
Air guitar
Louis Braille
Interview with an airline pilot
Interview with a TGV driver
Coca-cola
The secularism charter in French schools
Fear of flying course (Could be used with Cabrel song J'ai peur de l'avion)

SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY

Tripadvisor - visiting the Cité des Sciences
Net zero NEW 17.7.23
A lottery winner creates a foundation to fight climate change
How to save water
Countries affected unequally by climate crisis
Lesson plan based on the text above
A green transformation for the Champs-Elysées (with accompanying video)
Polar bears under threat of extinction (see video listening on same)
Biodiversity
Dolphins threatened by pollution
Lions
Shale gas
Are GM foods dangerous?
Ozone pollution
Journée mondiale sans portable
Antibiotic pollution of rivers

HOLIDAYS

Visiting the Eiffel Tower
Holiday gîte - Tripadvisor
A holiday in Charente Maritime
Visiting Futuroscope
Skiing holidays
Gap fill for the above
Matching task for the above
The Pont du Gard
Fastest roller coaster in the world

HEALTH, WELL-BEING, SPORT

The Tour de France
Protection from UV rays
The risks of vaping
Tattoos
How well do you sleep? - narrow reading
Stress in teenagers
Alcohol and health in France
French people eating less meat
Healthy eating - sugar
Locavores - people who like local food
Eating meat and the environment
Healthy fats
Vegetarianism
Healthy eating habits

Pets living longer
Healthy living campaign

SOCIAL ISSUES

What are social media influencers?
A charity project set up by teens
Syrian refugee family in Belgium
Government plan for the homeless
Poverty in France (2016)
Poverty in France (2018)
Pocket money
Child labour
Betting in FranceUpdated + with answers

EDUCATION

Texts and translation on school (7 pages)
Why do girls do better than boys at school?
School uniform - for or against
Gap fill for above
Paying children for good marks

LITERARY TEXTS

Booklet of 10 extracts with questions for GCSE higher tier
Lesson plan and worksheet on a poem about Alzheimer's
Déjeuner du matin poem
Cinderella story
L'Etranger passage
Le Petit prince passage
Le Petit prince passage (2)

MISCELLANEOUS

Online dating ads
Two French films
A 7-page set of resources on TV (written with G. Conti)
The origins of the French language
International Girls' Day (11 Oct)
A French nurse pilots a microlight across Africa
Heroic deeds by citizens
Film review: Le temps des secrets
Greta Thunberg crosses the Atlantic by yacht (2019)
An amazing survival story (Tonga tsunami, 2022)
Frantz Reichelt, who died trying to fly from the Eiffel Tower
10 interesting facts about board games
Chocolate
The eruption of Mont Pelée in 1902
Favourite lifestyle YouTube channels
Three weird animal news items
Favourite TV series
Interesting facts about dogs
Ariana Grande
J K Rowling
Harry Kane
Taylor Swift
Super heroes
Ma meilleure amie
Sting - won't bequeath his fortune to children
Remarkable war story
Interview with a Dutch immigrant to France
Interview with a French GP
Curious fait divers
Fait divers - attack in Corsica (passive)
La francophonie
Stephen Fry
Orangutan fait divers
Why do people steal?
What would you do with one hour to live? (Conditional practice)
TV programmes matching task (updated 2017)
Homer Simpson
Daily routine + past/present/future
10 standby dictations
Pair work tennis game
Silly Tommy Cooper jokes to translate back into English
Questions on food
Vanilla cookies recipe
Pairwork miming task on leisure
New Year resolutions task
Work experience sheet
Word doc by Tracie to support the above
Holidays text for paired dictation
J'ai peur de l'avion (Cabrel song gapfill)
For display - notes on Adele + easy oral/written exercises
Road accident picture for creative story-telling
Health and fitness questions
Health questions writing task
Food and health counter game - thanks to Delyth Preston
Worksheets to go with Le Café des Rêves (by Felicity Stevens) - available on YouTube
Idea for lesson with French assistante
20 questions about "la rentrée des classes"
Matching listening or reading task on environment

Online food shopping with Ooshop.fr CHECK FIRST - edit if needed.

Daily routine interview
Holidays gap fill
20 questions game
Interdit ou permis?
Bulletin scolaire
Picture for storytelling
Geography crossword
Transports - pour et contre
Job application letter