Video listening. It's Petit Ours Brun again, this time going sledging (the snow type) with his parents. Correct sentences to spot and words to match up.

A text and exercises about a boating holiday in Charente Maritime. Text with underlined words and phrases to replace, comprehension questions and a short essay to write (optional). Would suit a good Y10-11 class (intermediate).

Video listening. Linked to a Petit Ours Brun video. This worksheet has correct sentences to spot and words to match up. This might benefit from some teacher scaffolding too. You could use this in Y9 too, depending on the class.

Two PowerPoint presentations, one on the Immediate Future (various verbs) and one on the Perfect Tense (various verbs). These include pair work, guessing games and negatives. Ready-made 30 minute target language lesson sequences.

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".