Advanced text and exercises on the topic of "la diversité" on French TV. Includes a text, vocab list to complete, questions in French, gap-fill, word relationship tasks, summary and translation both ways. It is part of a larger unit soon to be published separately on TES.

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.