Video listening, with captions. This is a short Trotro cartoon. Trotro is in love. The task is to just to find vocabulary, with hints given. Good for a y10 or fast Y9 group. Answers provided. CEFR A2.
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A text with exercises about screen usage in France by very young children. This is a longitudinal study begun in 2011, just published. Vocab to find, morphology practice, questions to answer. Answers given. Good for Y12, perhaps a weaker Y13. Topics: TV, education, cyber society. CEFR B1.
Three passages + exercises. Three women describe how they cope on low incomes with insecure work. Vocab to find and a matching task. Good for Y12. CEFR B1.
Video listening. This is a captioned video in which a Belgian woman describes her job as a prison warder. There are questions to answer in French and vocab to find. Answers are given. This fits well with the AQA A-level sub-theme of how criminals are treated. CEFR B1.
I have been removing outdated texts from the Immigration and Integration section of the A-level page. I have also been updating other texts from the same section, including adding answers.
A very simple bingo game for complete beginners learning how to understand basic teacher instructions. A grid with 12 items in English. Teacher reads aloud French, students tick off the right phrase. Editable, of course, if you want to make it harder. A1.
Two texts, one describing the advantages of AI, the other the dangers. Vocab to find, bullet-point notes to take in English, then oral/written French summary of those points. Good for a confident Y12 class, or Y13. CEFR B1. The texts were written by ChatGPT, then lightly edited by me.
A text with exercises about the recent demonstrations about pension reform. This is actually a heavily rewritten version of an older text about demonstrations. Text, vocab to find, true/false/not mentioned, summary, lexical work, translation and paired vocab test. Good for Y13. CEFR B2.
I have rewritten an older text on the A level page about the laws in France concerning underweight fashion models. Text, vocab to find, questions, bullet point notes to take, oral/written summary, discussion questions.
Video listening (with French captions). A short 2m 45 video. What does being woke mean? Vocab given to help, questions in English. Quite hard, so good for a high-attaining Y11 class, or even A-level. The captions help a lot. CEFR A2/B1.