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, Y7 (Beginner)

Four new Blockbusters quizzes for beginners/primary. House, town, Christmas and easy verbs. Simple English to French or French to English translation. To be played as a class team game.

, Y7 (Beginner)

Two Blockbuster quizzes for primary/Y7. Very easy. One on food, one on classroom items. Simple translation, English to French.

, Y7 (Beginner)

Strip bingo game to consolidate knowledge of clothing vocabulary. Instructions provided with the sheet. Vocabulary to display to the class.

, Y7 (Beginner)

Strip bingo game on parts of the body. Good for primary or Y7. Pupils enjoy this activity which consolidates vocabulary knowledge.

, Y7 (Beginner)

Beginners' strip bingo game on classroom items. This would work well with Y6 or Y7 beginners. Just have a bin handy.

, Y7 (Beginner)

Beginner strip bingo game on food items. Instructions for game plus a displayable list of items the pupils can refer to. Just hand out strips of paper (e.g. a pice of A4, portrait, cut or torn down the middle).

, Y10-11 (Intermediate)

Video listening - intermediate level. A French camp site. A 4m 27s video presentation of a site in Finistère, Brittany. Students must tick off any facilities mentioned in the video from a list. Then they do a true/false/not mentioned task. All in lovely target language! You could easily build this in to a sequence of work on holidays, with some discussion of pros and cons of camping or personal accounts of camping.

, Y10-11 (Intermediate)

Text about why people steal. Vocabulary, tick true sentences, gap fill. Adapted and translated from a piece from a series for children in The Guardian.

, Y10-11 (Intermediate)

Intermediate fait divers about an orangutan who did not want to give up its cuddly toy at the airport. Apparently it became rather stroppy when the security officials tried to take its teddy. The security people feared it might be trafficking drugs. Text, tick true sentences, vocabulary, questions and translation.

, Y7 (Beginner), FREE

A grid to complete with -er verb phrases in the present tense. English-French and French-English. A narrow range of common regular verbs are used with a few notes to help students. The task could be extended by asking pupils to make up full sentences using a selection of the verbs.