Samples
My book 50 Lesson Plans for French Teachers:Step by Step is here. A4 format, photocopiable, with accompanying slides free on this site.
FULL CONTENTS OF FRENCHTEACHER.NET (select to see a complete list of contents as of November 2020)
A Concise MFL Teacher's Handbook
Topics covered by exam boards in new A-Levels (by Steve Glover of dolanguages.com)
NEW GCSEs PowerPoint
NEW A-LEVELS Powerpoint
Guide to using text + exercises worksheets
Home Study Packs
Y7 (near-beginner)
As above with answers provided - thanks to Dawn Hale
Y8
Y9
Primary/Year 7
- Vegetables
- Kim's game PowerPoint - pets
- Fruit
- "A good student" poster
- Present tense (-er verbs) grid to complete
- Parallel reading - dolphins
- Parallel reading - weather forecast
- Fruits et légumes - code breaking
- My town - guided translation
- Dairy products
- Meat products
- Drinks
- Family resource and lesson ideas - old school!
- Marie-Hélène talks about herself - text with lesson plan.
- Adjective agreement crossword
- In town - dominoes game
- Place mat with classroom expressions
Year 8
- Musical Instruments
- Food crossword
- Cinderella story - parallel texts
- Gingerbread man story story (by Jo Wallace)
- Peppa pig fait les courses listening
- Daily routine board game
- Comparing animals
- Pres - Perfect Tense writing drill (reg)
- Pres - Perfect Tense writing drill (irreg)
- Pres - Perfect Tense writing drill (être verbs)
- Clothes wordsearch
- Battleships Game
Year 9
- Greenhouse effect
- Web task: hiring a gîte
- Bonfire night - Guy Fawkes
- Video listening - Trotro part en vacances
- Meerkats
- Astronomy - Super-Earths!
- Gareth Bale
- Andy Murray - notes for display/oral work
- Taxi-bikes in Nantes
- Healthy Eating
- Perfect tense avoir
- Perfect tense (various) board game
- Easy dominoes on perfect, present and future
Year 10-11
- Instant 30 minute listening - healthy living
- Imperfect + conditional drill
- 50 signs to explain
- 50 signs to explain - powerpoint version
- Video listening - daily routine
- Biodiversity
- Lions - text and exercises
- Andy Murray Wimbledon report gapfill
- Andy Murray Wimbledon report matching task
- Malala Yousafzai
- Adele - notes + exercises for class display and oral work
- Clothes crossword
- School crossword
- Time expressions crossword
- Verb tenses crossword
- Curious fait divers with exercises
- Nationalities and languages crossword
- Bradley Wiggins - notes + exercises for class display and oral work
- "Locavores" - people who like local food
- Interview with an astronaut - with English questions
- Interview with a TGV driver- with English questions
- Air guitar - with English questions
- La francophonie
- A flying car
- GCSE Higher stick-in writing strips (by Mel Bulmer)
- Listening tasks based on Encore Tricolore 4
- Higher GCSE gapfill tasks
- Reading tasks for GCSE revision
- AQA Higher Tier vocab list
These worksheets are linked to the website Audio Lingua.
HIGHER TIER (harder)
Holiday in Corsica 2020 NEW 19.11.20
Having a baby (imperfect tense focus)
Primary school (focus on imperfect)
FOUNDATION TIER (easier)
My house NEW 2.12.20
A Level
Key dates in history of European Union
Video listening – report on the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack
Worksheet booklet on Un Secret by Grimbert (by Paul Haywood)
Video listening – the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane, June 1944
French political system presentation
Living alone: instant 30 minute listening
Video listening + sub-titles – Emmanuel Macron talking about bullying at school
Video listening – Christine Lagarde talks about International Women’s Day
Fracking – from TV5Monde/Youtube
Aylan, the little Syrian boy washed up on a beach BFMTV/Youtube
Social background and educational achievement
Translation with model answer: from La Peste
Video listening – holidays – young children talking
Paris climate change agreement
Video listening – interviews on love and marriage
Xenophobia in France and Europe Food wastage
How is the world now? Discussion task.
Je ne regrette rien – song gapfill
Stereotyping of boys and girls through toys
Doping in sport – Lance Armstrong
Job interview advice – listening task
Prostitution – a prostitute’s account
Household chores and divorce rates
Pros and cons of electric cars
A-level level word grid to complete – nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs
Genome research
Snakes and ladders conversation game
Television conversation board game
New technologies conversation board game
Death penalty – for or against
Au revoir les enfants (1) – by Paul Haywood
Adults
Giverny
House buying vocab list
These worksheets are linked to the website Audio Lingua.
HIGHER TIER (harder)
Holiday in Corsica 2020 NEW 19.11.20
Having a baby (imperfect tense focus)
Primary school (focus on imperfect)
FOUNDATION TIER (easier)
My house NEW 2.12.20