A starter or general lesson activity for beginners with possible literacy/spelling issues. 'Spelling challenge'. 10 slides, editable. Display the gapped sentence (with some missing letters focusing on common mis-spellings). Students complete the sentence in writing, then see the correct version. You could dictate the same sentences as a follow-up. CEFR A1.
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Video listening. A short report about the growing demand for French lessons in Quebec for newly arrived immigrants. Questions in French. Model answers given. CEFR B1.
Video listening. A captioned video report about the daily life of a farmer in the Vaucluse (south of France). Some vocab given, then sentences to complete. Answers provided. Good for Y12 or Y13, or intermediate/advanced adult learners. CEFR B1.
I have uploaded a few sound files to the 'Correct the transcript' listening exercises on the Y10-11 page. These are all complete. You can use the free Microsoft app Text to Speech and MP3 to do this, by the way.
A sentence builder on sport. Includes a gapped version and a possible teaching sequence for a lesson. CEFR A1.
A text with exercises about "harkis" (Algerians recruited by the French army to fight for France against Algerians in the war from 1954 to 1962). Text, vocab to find, lexical work, pair work, summery. CEFR B2.
Another sentence builder-based full lesson plan on the topic of protecting the environment. CEFR A2.
A full lesson plan on the topic of holiday plans for the future. Two sentence builders, one gapped. Lesson sequence described, editable and adaptable. CEFR A2.
A full lesson plan on the subject of a past holiday. Two sentence builders, one gapped. Full lesson sequence described, editable and adaptable. Same format as previous lesson plans posted on the Y9 page. CEFR A2.
A full lesson plan on daily routine based on a sentence builder and a gapped version of the same. Suitable for a good Y9 class or beyond. Many oprions provided, edit and adapt as you wish. CEFR A2.