Audio listening linked to audio-lingua.eu. This was kindly sent to me by Elizabeth Raouf. An easy audio passage with translation into French to do based on the recording. Merci Elizabeth! You might even try this with a very good GCSE group.
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Video listening. This is a report about the daily life of a prison warder in a Poitiers prison. Gap-fill and a possible role-play. Good for the AQA A-level sub-theme about how criminals are treated.
Grammar: A sentence combining and translation exercise about using the relative pronoun dont.
A GCSE Foundation Tier reading exam. This is the third one on the site for Foundation Tier. It is close in format to the AQA-style but can be used with any board. Answer key provided.
Video listening. This is a recent report from France Info about housing the homeless in public buildings in Paris. Questions in French. Answers given. Perfect for Year 2 of the A-level course.
Intermediate video listening (Higher GCSE). This is a hard one for very good classes. It's an explanation of climate change with gap-fill (with options) and questions in English.
I have added to the Teacher's Guide pages of the site an article about teaching with written texts. It is a step-by-step beginner's guide for teaching an intermediate level written text. It's one approach of many, but a sequence which can work very well ans is adaptable to different groups and levels. Do check out the Teacher's Guide pages for lots more advice for MFL teachers.
Video listening. A news report about the Front national changing its name to Rassemblement national. Gap-fill with options. Nice verb used at one point: dédiaboliser (to detoxify). It won't work.
Three tenses crossword - past, present and future. Get the right verb form. Could be used in Y10.
Advanced article and exercises about a journalist living as a homeless person on the streets. Two versions, one of which I have written in the style of an Irish leaving certificate exam. The other is in my usual style: vocab, questions, oral work, gap-fill, lexical work, summary and translation.