Instant 30 minute listening. A-level - sub-theme "prisons in France". Source text for teachers to read or record, V/F/PM, single word gap-fill (no options) and an optional paraphrase task. All answers including model paraphrase supplied.

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Instant 30 minute listening. A-level. Young people's interest in politics. You could use these for paraphrase work too.

Another in the series of 30 minute instant, no prep teacher-read listening tasks. This one is about describing a holiday. Short text, true/fasle/not mentioned and gap-fill. level: Foundation Tier GCSE (easy intermediate).

Another instant 30 minute GCSE listening task: topic school. Level: Foundation. With true/false/not mentioned and gap-fill.

Another in the series of instant 30 minute listening tasks. GCSE Foundation Tier (easy intermediate). Topic: My House.

Instant 30 minute listening task. Topic: describing a family. This one is aimed at Foundation Tier and has true/false and gap-fill. The teacher reads aloud or records the script. Go at the pace which suits the class, repeat as much as you want.

Instant 30 minute listening lesson - describing the film Lion. This is for Foundation Tier GCSE (easy intermediate). Teacher script, true/false and gap-film with a choice of words including two distractors.

Video listening. A thirty minute activity about the Front National based on a 1jour1question video from Milan Presse. Questions in French to answer and a few transcription/translation sentences based on the listening. This would make a good starter for a "rise of the right" sub-theme and politics in general.

Text and exercises about young people's engagement with politics (AQA). Exercises include a vocabulary list, correct statements to identify, translation, 90 word summary, word morphology and discussion. Answers provided.

Another 30 minute instant listening task. This one is aimed at Foundation Tier GCSE (easy intermediate) and is about the environment. These tasks are zero preparation listening activities where the teacher reads the script as many times as they want. Answers are provided.