Vacances aux Etats-Unis. Diary prompts in French to elicit lots of oral and possibly written work in the perfect tense, with some imperfect. Based on our own recent holiday to California, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon! Teacher's notes provided.

Text and exercises about Homer Simpson. Text, vocabulary to complete, true/false/not mentioned and matching. This is an updated version of an older text which had no exercises to accompany it.

Text and exercises on a proposed French government bill to ban model agencies and fashion houses from employing ultra thin models. Text, vocabulary list, questions in French on text and for general discussion and translation into French. Good AS level topic resource.

Long text and exercises on the state of the French environment in 2015. This is a bilan covering air, water, CO2 and biodiversity. True/false/not mentioned, sentence creation, translation into French. This is a chunky text which could lead into all sorts of work on this topic.

Video listening for annual International Women's Day on 8th March. Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund talks about the economic contribution of women around the world. Questions in French. Model answers given. Available as a free sample.

Video listening for advanced level. Greenwashing. A song about excessive consumption and human hypocrisy. Gap fill and questions for discussion in French. Good for A-level and advanced adult students.

Another set of perfect tense translation sentences. This time with avoir, être and reflexives mixed up. Answers provided.

Two new sets of translation sentences to practise the perfect tense (passé composé) with être and reflexive verbs. Model answers provided. These go with the ones I did yesterday on avoir verbs. Some vocabulary help provided. Good for Y9, very good Y8 or for revision in Y10-11.

Perfect tense, regular -er, -ir and -re and irregular avoir verbs. Three sets of translation sentences from English to French. These could work with Y8 or Y9 (low intermediate).

Video listening. Short cartoon video from Energivores.tv about the environmental consequences of eating meat for protein. I have placed it in Y10-11 (intermediate) but it could be used for AS level. Pre-listening questions for discussion, true/false/not mentioned and a simple vocabulary list to complete. Also on Adult Student page.