A beginner sentence builder frame. Places in town with the prepositions près, loin, à côté, pas loin, en face. Plus a gapped version of the same frame.

I have been adding further text-to-speech recordings of instant listening resources on the Y10-11 and A-level pages. These give you the option of playing a recording rather than reading aloud or recording yourself. They sound slightly artificial, but I'd be happy to use them.

I have begun to upload some MP3 audio files to accompany the Instant Listening tasks on the Y10-11 page. They are "text-to-speech" recordings, so of good quality in terms of pronunciation, moderate in pace, but with slightly artificial intonation. You could use these instead of reading aloud or recording the texts yourself, if you prefer.

Another "Ask the experts" communicative task on the topic of the reformed baccalauréat. Making a factual text a source of communication! Scroll well down the right-hand column of the A-level page.

An "Ask the experts" communicative task on the topic of patrimoine. See the previous update for a description.

An "ask the experts" task for A-level. Topic: the New Wave of French cinema. The idea is that three "experts" each have a different French paragraph about the new wave. Together, the paragraphs provide a good introduction to the subject. The others in the group have to go round asking 11 questions thye have each been given, taking notes from the experts, then synthesising those notes into a summary in French. there are three other similar tasks on the A-level page (scroll well down, right hand column).

A very simple sentence builder frame: what I wear at school and at home. Could be used with complete beginners. Includes a suggested teaching sequence and gapped version of the frame.

PowerPoint for beginners. Qu'est-ce que Spotty va faire? This provides a logical sequence for teaching, including choral repetition, translation, a guessing game and some very basic grammar. Editable and adaptable as usual. Spotty is my Pixabay copyright-free dog who is used repeatedly in my beginner PowerPoints.

Video listening based on a 1jour1question video. Questions in French to answer. Answers given. The transcript of the video is on the 1jour1actu website. This may be of interest to adult students too.

A short text with exercises based on a story from the Daily Mail (quelle horreur!)and picked up by the excellent Daily Geek Show In a study it was found that men's beards contain more bacteria than a dog's coat. Text, vocab to find, true/false and summary in English.