A-level video listening. This is a BFM TV report on the Alan Kurdi, the poor young Syrian boy whose body was found washed up on a Mediterranean beach. It is only short, at 1m 40s. There are pre-listening questions, questions and retranslation sentences. Also posted on the Adults page and on my blog.

Text and exercises for low advanced level (AS) on how younger drivers seem to be getting better in France. Article, vocabulary to complete, questions in French and pair work exercises. Would work with an excellent Y11 class.

Intermediate video listening. C'est quoi, un migrant? Linked to the 1jour1question video series. True/false/not mentioned and a vocabulary list to complete.

Parallel reading texts on migrants to Europe. With true/false/not mentioned and retranslation sentences. Low intermediate level.

A text with questions in English about migrant smugglers working in Calais. Apparently most of the trafficking networks are British and are thought to launder their earnings through night-clubs, for example. This could be used with a good Y11 class or for AS-level (high intermediate).

Parallel texts and exercises on fair trade. Easy text, true/false and vocabulary to complete. Could be used from Y8 to Y10, depending on ability.

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.