Another starter for Y9. 'Match up.' 20 slides, 4 slides per topic (School, Technology, Pastimes, Food, Holidays). Students match starts and ends of 4 sentences per slide. Focus on grammatical noticing (tense, endings, articles, partitives and more). Instructions/suggestions given.

A simple information gap task to practise how to say phone numbers in French. Numbers up to 60 are used, but you can edit. Students work in pairs. You just need to model how phone numbers are read out in French, two figures at a time. A1.

A set of ten mini battleships games, using three chunks, i.e. all boxes are filled with chunks to translate into French. A1/A2.

A class survey for beginners about favourite ice-creams. Instructions given on the PowerPoint slides. A1.

20 questions, 20 slides. Three options for each question. Covers French and francophonie-related culture. Designed with Y8 in mind, but you could try it it with some Y7 classes. You'll find this in the Starters section.

Y9 starter. 40 slides with simple street signs. Students must note down the meaning of each sign in English.

Reading comprehension. Acts of heroism by citizens. Six stories, six paragraphs. Matching task with English sentences and vocab to find. CEFR A2.

A retrieval starter for Y9 (or above). Students make as many sentences as possible from a word cloud in five minutes. Suggestions for use are provided. In the word cloud there are only 'content words' so students have to provide the rest. A1/2.

A text with exercises about the inadequate care of prison inmates with psychological disorders. Text, vocab to find and a summary in French to write. A model summary is provided. AQA sub-theme: how criminals are treated. B1/2.

Students are shown a sentence on a slide and must write down what happened next to a time limit of two minutes, using three sentences. Could be done in pairs or individually. 20 slides to choose from. Adapt as you wish. This would suit a class with good prior knowledge and flair.