A Tarsia puzzle to practise recognition of three tenses of common verbs. You could use this in conjunction with an oral retrieval drill, translating verb phrases either way.
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An addition to the set of narrow listening tasks. This one is called A visit to Paris. Students listen, do a matching task and true/false. Patterns are repeated frequently. You can extend the task in various ways.
Video listening based on a 1jour1question video. This is about the right to vote and why one should vote. Gap-fill based on sentences adapted from the text, plus vocabulary to find.
A PowerPoint for beginners showing school subjects with days of the week (plus the weekend). Built-in sequence.
A short text, with vocab to find and true/false/not mentioned. It's about a charity set up by teenagers, with the aim of providing socks to people living on the street or in migrant camps. Could be used with a very good Y9 class, but fine for Y10 or Y11 (CEFR A2).
Video listening. A report about student poverty from regional TV. The task is to correct a faulty transcript. This 2 minute report would also fit well with the themes of poverty and volunteering.
A video listening worksheet based on a 1jour1question video. The topic is plastic waste in the seas. Questions in English and vocabulary to find. the transcript is on the web page.
A simple Tarsia puzzle on the classroom. Il y a + singular and plural nouns.
A simple Tarsia puzzle on pets and colours, plus making the distinction between mon/ma and notre.
A 'how to use Tarsia puzzles' sheet. I've suggested a range of possible ways to exploit the Tarsia puzzles on the Y7/Primary page (apart from just solving them!).