Text and exercises about antibiotic pollution of rivers. Based on a recent piece of research. Vocab to find, questions in English. Answers provided. A hard text, but the glossary task and questions provide scaffolding.

Video listening. Interview with a prison warder talking about the effects of overcrowding at St Brieuc prison. Vocab to find and note-taking.

Lesson plan based on a sentence builder frame. Practising the near future (aller + infinitive) in the third person singular and plural. This supplements the one using the first person only.

Text and exercises based on a prisoner's blog. Vocab and sentences to complete and a translation into English.

Two new sentence builder frames on the future tense, one for regular stems, the other for irregular. Suggested teaching sequence provided as usual.

Two sentence builder frames on perfect tense, avoir verbs, one with past participles ending in u, the other with past participles ending in s and t. These can be found on both the Y8 and Y9 pages.

Two new sentence builder frames to practise the perfect tense with être and reflexive verbs. You'll also find these on the Y9 page. Suggested teaching sequences provided.

Introductory PowerPoint presentation on reflexive verbs in the perfect tense. Images in sequence, repetition, memory work, grammar to discuss.

A sentence builder frame about favourite school subjects with reasons, together with a suggested teaching sequence.

An easy sentence builder frame for talking about pastimes. Possible teaching sequence provided. There are quite a few of these now on the Y7 and Y8 pages. Accessible to all abilities.