Contents - Y10-11
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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
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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
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
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
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
Do we eat better than out ancestors? NEW 20.1.24
MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
Social media NEW 13.2.24
How 9 year-olds use the internet NEW 13.2.24
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
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
LISTENING ACTIVITY TYPES
Checklist of gap-fill exercise types you could do with listening texts
Checklist of dictation tasks
30 MINUTE INSTANT LISTENING
These tasks are to be read aloud, played or recorded by the teacher. Each one should take no more than 30 minutes, including correction. Select the headphone icon if you would like the ready-made text-to-speech recording (MP3). Or read aloud from the Word doc.
HIGHER TIER
Describing a TV series (Mr Robot)
Online ‘influencers’
Vegetarianism
Personal data protection online
Environment
Volunteering
Poverty in France
Ideal family
Horse-riding
Healthy living
Cinema – describing a film (Interstellar)
Listening and translation bingo game – environment theme
Instructions for the above game
FOUNDATION TIER
Healthy living
The Channel Tunnel
My town
Homework
Cinema – describing a film (Lion)
Describing a holiday
Environment
Describing a family
Describing a house
My school
My pastimes
TV series – Stranger Things
CORRECT THE TRANSCRIPT TASKS
Last weekend
Pollution in my city
A night at the cinema
My town: Paris
Healthy living
Typical school day
Poverty in Guadeloupe
My diet
The Tour de France
Next weekend
DICTATION TASKS
Opinions dictation/gap-fill
Greta Thunberg crosses the Atlantic by yacht
STARTERS
See the Y9 page for a collection of starters which may suit Y10-11 as well. They are easily adapted too.
LISTEN AND DRAW
7 images (also on Y9 page as a starter)
AUDIO LISTENING
The worksheets linked to the website Audio Lingua have been moved to the Free Samples page.
PHONICS
A listening and pronunciation task
A listening and pronunciation task (PowerPoint to go with the above)
This resource was given to me by Sarah Shaw.
PAIR LISTENING
Aural gap-fill tasks
VIDEO LISTENING
These sheets link to online videos. Print off the sheet and use in class or provide students with URL and they can work alone. Please do not share frenchteacher login with students.Always check that links work and that videos work on mobile devices.
FRIENDS
Trotro est amoureuxLink checked 10.23
HOME LIFE
Links checked 13.10.23 Note: ARTE have unpublished some ‘portrait d’enfant’ videos from YouTube and their own site, so the worksheets which were here have been removed. I am replacing them with new ones.
Food Peppa Pig – les crêpes
How to make a crêpe
Portrait d’enfant – Prince au Ghana
Portrait d’enfant – Moya en Afghanistan
Portrait d’enfant – Yayi au Togo
Portrait d’enfant – Mohammed à Pétra
Portrait d’enfant – Astou au Sénégal
Portrait d’enfant – Sreehari en Inde
Christmas – Peppa Pig – Noël
DIY – Papa Pig accroche une photo
Peppa Pig – une chasse au trésor
Peppa Pig – les avions en papier
Peppa Pig – premier jour de neige
Philippe describes his daily routine
ENVIRONMENT Links checked 13.10.23
Eating meat
Les Séquoias – a song by Pomme
A baby giant panda
What are nuclear power stations?
Fossil fuels (non-renewable energy)
Plastic waste in the ocean
Plastic waste in the ocean (2) – same source as above, different task
Plastic waste in the ocean (3)
Polar bears under threat (see written text on same)
What are fossil fuels?
Zero waste
Climate change explanation (hard!)
Sustainable development
HEALTH AND SPORT Links checked 13.10.23
Roller blading in Paris
Is the sun healthy?
Interview with Kylian Mbappé
What’s in a cigarette?
Papa Pig fait de l’exercice
Reducing cancer risk through organic food?
Olympics 2024 opening ceremony plans
PE/sport in school
The Tour de France
HOLIDAYS Links checked 13.10.23
Cycling holiday in the Loire
Perfect tense – silly song Si t’as été à Tahiti
Peppa Pig goes camping
Visit to Venice
Balade à Porquerolles
A French camp site
WORLD OF WORK Links checked 13.10.23
What does an airline pilot do?
Minors working in Quebec
What does a vet do?
What does a dental assistant do?
A trainee nurse talks
Jobs – cartoon short film
SOCIAL ISSUES Links checked 13.10.23
Animal rights
What is being “woke”?
Bullying in school
FRENCH LIFE Links checked 13.10.23
Cheese exports
The blue jackal (sub-titled)
Film trailer for Bonobos (nice!)
Why learn French?
The French-speaking world
The French-speaking world (2)
Technology – Ariane rocket
LESSON PLANS
Task-based activity – sédentaire ou actif?
Task-based activity – find out about Paris
Task-based activity – find out about tourism in France
Task-based activity – find out about F1 driver Charles Leclerc
Task-based activity – find out about rugby player Antoine Dupont
Storytelling pair game (Perfect and Imperfect tenses)
Numbers lesson plan – The Price is Right
DIALOGUES
See the Y8 page for more situational dialogues.
Lesson plan for the dialogues below
TV
TV (alternative version)
Getting to know you
Environment
Films
Reading
Part-time jobs
Sport
Social networks
Theme parks
Music
Paris
Food
Holiday plans
Buying a house
Talking about a friend
Video games
Talking about your town
School
VOCABULARY
Climb the wall listening game – sport
Climb the wall listening game – pastimes
Handout: expressions with ‘bon’ and ‘bonne(s)’
Environment vocab
Men’s clothes vocab – web task
Environment crossword
Answers to the above
Environment crossword (2)
Town vocab
Reading – vocab
Car vocab
Car vocab (2)
Car vocab crossword
Airport vocab crossword
Transport vocab
Transport vocab crossword
Sport definitions crossword
Rugby terminology crossword
Time expressions crossword
TV and radio vocab
TV programme types
TV in France
Cinema vocab
School vocab
At school
School crossword
Computing terms crossword
Easy Fr-Eng translations on food
Countries and nationalities – code breaker
Countries and continents crossword
Nationalities and languages crossword
Countryside vocab crossword
Holidays crossword
In town – code breaker
Clothes crossword
Furniture crossword
Expressing opinions
Household chores – for display
Household chores – sondage
Lost property
Vocab list for silent customer game (see Games that Work)
Find the cheapest product at But – web task
Pairwork task on “argot”
Household objects – pairwork games
Baccalaureat vocab game
Personality adjectives – code breaker
Personality adjectives – crossword
Christmas presents
EDEXCEL IGCSE
Set of 10 Question 8 grammar practice questions Updated, Merci Séverine
GCSE from 2018
See the Adult Students page for set of situational dialogues + vocabulary. These can support your work on role-plays.
Foundation Tier
Knowledge organiser (for speaking and writing)
Knowledge organiser (for speaking and writing) – alternative version
A booklet of 17 sentence builders for speaking and writing revision
AQA-style role-plays
AQA-style photo card conversations
Photo card conversations
Photo card conversations (2)
AQA GCSE general conversation questions
AQA conversation questions as boardgames
100 translation sentences into French(with answers)
Reading exam (1)
Reading exam (2)
Reading exam (3)
Reading exam (4)
10 Foundation Tier translations into English (with answers)
How to write a good Foundation Tier essay (ppt)
How to write a good Foundation Tier essay (Word)
Higher Tier
Listening revision booklet
Knowledge organiser (for speaking and writing)
A booklet of 17 sentence builders for speaking and writing revision
AQA-style GCSE 2016 role-plays
AQA-style photo card conversations (Higher tier)
AQA-style GCSE photo card conversations (Higher tier) (2)
AQA general conversation questions
AQA conversation questions booklet in pairwork format
Edexcel conversation questions booklet in pairwork format
WJEC conversation questions booklet in pairwork format
AQA conversation questions as board games
20 Higher Tier translations into French (with answers)
10 Higher Tier translations into English (with answers)
A reading to writing task for essay writing (holidays)
Reading exam (Higher tier)
How to write a good Higher Tier essay (ppt)
Stick-in writing strips
How to write a good Higher Tier essay (Word)
Help sheet for developing range in essays
Set of 10 reading comp gapfills for GCSE/IGCSE.
Further set of 10 gapfills for GCSE/IGCSE (different format).
Higher GCSE style gapfill tasks Identifying attitudes – 100 statements.
Reading tasks for GCSE revision
Common written errors at GCSE
GCSE FIRST TEACHING 2024
Foundation
10 reading aloud passages (Foundation Tier)
AQA-style Foundation Reading paper
8 AQA-style Foundation role-plays to read and adapt
8 Edexcel-style Foundation role-plays to read and adapt
10 Edexcel-style Foundation photo card/conversation tasks
10 AQA-style Foundation photo card/conversation tasks
6 photo cards for display, modelling and practice (Foundation). NEW 4.4.24
AQA Foundation Writing model – 90 words NEW 12.1.24
Edexcel Foundation Writing model – 80-90 words NEW 12.1.24
Higher
AQA Higher Writing model – 150 words NEW 11.1.24
Edexcel Higher Writing model – 130-150 words NEW 11.1.24
10 reading aloud passages (Higher Tier)
AQA-style Higher Reading paper NEW 28.11.23
Pearson-Edexcel-style Higher Reading paper NEW 1.12.23
Foundation Reading paper (any board) NEW 7.4.23
8 AQA-style Higher role-plays to read and adapt NEW 16.12.23
8 Edexcel-style Higher role-plays to read and adapt NEW 15.12.23
10 AQA-style Higher photo card/conversation tasks NEW 18.12.23
10 Edexcel-style Higher photo card/conversation tasks NEW 18.12.23
Other resources
50 French signs to explain- low intermediate to intermediate (Y9-11) (Word doc) (1).
50 French signs to explain – low intermediate to intermediate (Y9-11)(Word doc) (2).
50 French signs to explain (3) – low intermediate to intermediate (Y9-11)(Word doc).
50 French signs to explain (4) – low intermediate to intermediate (Y9-11)(Word doc).
50 French signs to explain (5)- low intermediate to intermediate (Y9-11)(Word doc).
Signs dominoes game
Powerpoint(1) of the second set of 50 signs.
Powerpoint (2) of another 50 signs.
Powerpoint (3) of another 50 signs.
Powerpoint (4) of another 50 signs.
Powerpoint (5) of yet another 50 signs.
Conversation game (thanks to MGS online)
Listening tasks based on Encore Tricolore 4
Help sheet for developing range in written CAs
GCSE written error checking exercise
Record and Self Evaluation sheet for British teachers (edit online)
Easy guide to writing a basic exam essay
Tips for GCSE Writing – stick in sheet
DOMINOES
Healthy living
Holidays Free time