Video listening. A 1jour1question video about extreme political parties. The task is to complete a gap-fill of a paraphrased version of the transcript. Options given. Also, a 'find the synonym in the text' task. CEFR B1/2.

A current affairs resource. The shocking story of an Afghani female athlete, refugeed in France, who has had 3000 threats of death and rape. A short report based on a story from France Info I head on the radio this morning. Questions in French. Answers given. CEFR B1/2.

A current affairs text about reactions to the latest anti-semitic attack in France. Questions in English. Answers given. CEFR B1.

A current affairs text for my new section on the A-level page. This is a recent report about how 55% of French people live in dwellings which get too hot - so-called 'logements bouilloires'. Comprehension questions in English. Answers given. Chat GPT helped with this. CEFR B2.

10 noughts and crosses games for beginners (PowerPoint slides). Simple sentences to translate into French. Feel free to edit as you wish. CEFR A1.

A paired information gap task. 'Astrid en vacances.' In pairs, each pupil has six things Astrid did during her holiday in La Rochelle. The times and dates are mixed up. Between them, the students must establish the correct timeline. This requires using the perfect tense, third person. Easy to extend by getting students to retell the holiday in the first person and add other activities. A high-performing Y9 class could do this. CEFR A2.

For Y13. A pair work info gap task where each partner is given six key dates about France's involvement in WW2 (dates + a note about what occurred). The dates are out of order. Between them, the pair must talk to each other to work out the combined list of 12 dates, in the right chronological order. You'll find this in the discussion tasks section, right-hand column. Scroll down.CEFR B1/2.

I have updated this 'text + exercises' resource by adding a set of 10 multi-choice questions. CEFR B1.

50 subjunctive sentences to translate into English. Answers given. CEFR B2. Plenty more subjunctive exercises on the page.

I have reuploaded a crossword about French geography after a subscriber pointed out a few errors. It could easily be given to an A-level class or very good GCSE group.