Four new parallel reading texts with exercises: the first about a girl left behind at the motorway services, the second about a drunken man who falls from a third floor balcony as he tries to spit on a police van, the third about a heroic charity walk, and the fourth (in Y10-11 section) on dogs who can detect cancer. All texts have true/false/not mentioned exercises and other comprehension tasks.

A-level text and exercises on refugees. Article, vocab to complete, questions for discussion on the text, fluency task and translation into French.

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Parallel reading for intermediate (GCSE) level. A heroic deed. This one is based on an authentic article about a 13 year-old who takes the wheel of a bus when the driver has a heart attack. I sometimes imagined that scenario on school trips to France. Never happened fortunately. Anyway, there are parallel texts, true/false/not mentioned and a gap fill summary to do. You could exploit this in other ways too.

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Parallel texts on the Tour de France. Comes with correct sentences in French to identify and gapped sentences. This adds to the stock of parallel texts in Y7 and Y8.

A parallel text/gapped French-English translation about Minecraft. Each gap has the starting letter of the missing English word.

Text with questions in English. "An act of heroism." Optional oral or written extension task. Based on an authentic magazine article.

Text and exercises about the impressive and popular chanteuse Taylor Swift. Text, vocabulary to complete, true/false/not mentioned, translation into English.

Parallel reading for intermediate (GCSE). This is about Maglev trains (magnetically suspended trains or trains à sustension magnétique in French). Parallel texts, true/false/not mentioned and a gapfill text in French. You could give this to a good Y9 class.

Parallel text about robots for near beginners/low intermediate. Texts in French and English with correct French statements to identify, general discussion points (in English) and sentence completion in French. I hope to add more texts to the Y8 page in due course.

A set of eight GCSE level (intermediate) English to French gapped translations. Each one has a particular grammatical emphasis. Presented as parallel texts, the French version with gaps. Model answers provided. these could also be given out for AS level revision.