A sentence builder called 'Going places'. A simple frame with all parts of aller in the present tense, a few countries, cities and places around town. A gapped version of the frame is given, along with a possible teaching sequence.
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Video listening. A short TV report about a collège militaire. We see 11 year-olds at the college and how they react to the strict system there. Simple gap-fill with some vocab to identify. Transcript of senetnces provided. CEFR B1.
A beginner sentence builder. "When am I going to do things tomorrow?" A two column frame with 'futur proche' verbs chunks and times. Suggestions for use provided. CEFR A1.
Audio listening on the subject of French secularism (laïcité). Students listen to the text read aloud, or using the MP3 file, and find 20 differences in the transcript provided. The original transcript is provided for corrections. Good for Y13 (CEFR B1/2). Useful for advanced adult learners too.
Video listening. Clémence talks about her five favourite objects. The video has subtitles and a transcript. Students must identify the items and translate some phrases into French. Then they list five objects of their own. You could do this as a guessing game. CEFR level A1.
A 'sentence chaos' memory game using reflexive verbs in the perfect tense, first person. Instructions given, with two sets of 10 sentences on slides. Could be used in Y9-9. CEFR A1.
A situational dialogue about holidays. Students read aloud in pairs, then replace items in bold with alternatives suggested, or their own. I've put this with the others in Y8, but these may work well with adult beginners or older pupils.
Audio listening for Foundation GCSE. An easy short, listening text, plus exercises. True/false/not mentioned in French and questions in English. Can be read aloud or you can use the MP3 text to speech file.(CEFR Level A1)
Audio listening for Higher Tier GCSE. A factual text about vegetarianism. Vocab to find and a true/false/not mentioned task. Answers given. This can be read aloud or played (audio produced with Text to Speech). CEFR level A2.
I have uploaded a Higher Tier (or even Y12) listening task based on the 'Influencers' reading text I previously uploaded. You can read aloud the text or use the MP3 file I created. The task is to correct a faulty transcript, find vocabulary and do a bullet point summary in English. The text is quite hard, but the faulty transcript exercise provides an effective scaffold.