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, Adult students

A dialogue for reading aloud and adapting. Topic: favourite meals. Written with adult learners in mind, but easy to use with older pupils (CEFR A2). Check out the Adults page for many more dialogues like this one.

, Y9 (Low intermediate)

A gap-fill exercises on the perfect tense (avoir verbs). CEFR A1.

, Y8 (Very low intermediate)

A simple PowerPoint: à la pharmacie. Nine common items to buy with partitives or indefinite articles. Includes a quick explanation of the difference. (A1)

, Y12-13 (Advanced)

A grammar worksheet on using si clauses with the pluperfect and conditional perfect tenses. Tricky! Better as a writing task once a few of examples have been modelled (A2/B1).

, Y10-11 (Intermediate)

A grammar exercise to practise the use of si clauses using the present and future tenses. Two gap-fills translation and five own examples to write. Sheets like this can be done orally, in writing or both. Suitable for Higher GCSE (A2).

, Y10-11 (Intermediate)

I have updated four texts on the Y10-11 page, the ones on Taylor Swift, Harry Kane, J.K. Rowling and Stephen Fry. The changes include updates and adding answers.

, Y12-13 (Advanced)

A video listening task based on a 1jour1question video about the résistance. This is a 'correct the faulty transcript' exercise. Good for Y13 (B1/2).

, Y8 (Very low intermediate)

A PowerPoint on the topic of buying/ordering drinks. Focus on partitives du/de la/de l' and phrases Je voudrais.... Je prendrai.... and Avez-vous...? Usable with beginners up to about Y8 (CEFR A1).

, Y12-13 (Advanced)

A text with exercises about the current state of the prison system in France, following a recent review by the inspector of prisons. Text, vocab to find, questions in French, oral summary, paired vocab testing and written summary. Good for Y13 (B1/2).

, Y12-13 (Advanced)

An A-level '30 minute listening' task on the topic of poverty and food insecurity. There is an optional MP3 track you can use, or just read aloud the text. There is a true/false/not mentioned task, gap-fill and optional 90 word summary for which you could use the listening or the transcript of the text. Spot on for Y13 (CEFR B1/2).