PowerPoint presentation about common animals.

Two new simple PowerPoints to teach weather expressions and likes/dislikes (with food) to beginners.

A creative paired storytelling game featuring use of the Perfect and Imperfect tenses. This is a lesson plan adapted and added to from an idea I came across on the British Council Teaching English website, attributed to Jackie McEvoy. Low preparation. Suitable for a good Y10-11 class (intermediate).

Two more PowerPoints added. (1) Future tense (2) perfect tense, regular avoir - er verbs. These are both on the Y9 page, but you can also find the Perfect Tense presentation on the Y8 page. I'm on a PowerPoint roll at the moment. Odd really, since I've never done that many in the past! See my recent blog about using PowerPoints with pictures and text.

Two nerw beginners' picture PowerPoints. Places around town with the preposition à and means of transport.

A PowerPoint to practise or introduce the perfect tense (with sports). Multiple repetitions of j'ai joué and j'ai fait. PowerPoints like these can be used in so many ways: choral and individual repetition, true/false, guess the slide, showing small portions of the slide (iris tool), transcription, translation and more. For inexperienced teachers: really stress the phonological contrast of je joue and j'ai joué - this is a source of confusion for many students. It's good to iron it out early to avoid "fossilisation".

A PowerPoint presentation on aller + infinitive (futur proche) with sports. images courtesy of pixabay.com (all uses permitted). You could use this one with Y7 or a weaker Y9 too.

A PowerPoint presentation on the topic of sport for beginners. Designed for oral exploitation with choral repetition, pair work and a little translation in mind. I have avoided publishing PowerPoints with images for copyright reasons, but the images I have used are from pixabay.com which allows for image use including commercial.

A fait divers about an amazing archeological discovery. A boy discovers historic treasure with his metal detector. Text, "find the French", true/false/not mentioned, questions in French and translation into English. I've placed it on the Y9 page (low intermediate), but you could use it with weaker Y10-11 or a brilliant Y8 class.

Video listening, reading, writing and speaking based on an Alain Le Lait video Dans ma chambre. Sing-along, true/false/ translation both ways, reading aloud, gap-fill for phonics development and writing. This would be great for beginners who have done a little work on bedroom vocab (as it were) and simple prepositions.