Video listening. Aya from Tunisia. One of the superb ARTE Junior video series about children from around the world. Starts and ends of sentences. Could be used with a fast Y9 class too.

'Narrow listening'. Le weekend dernier. Four short texts to read aloud with true/false and matching exercises. Answers given.

Video listening for advanced level. This is a short introduction to the nouvelle vague in French cinema. Gap-fill with options. Transcript provided. Good for Y13, or a very good Y12.

A sentence builder on finding directions. A gapped version is also provided.

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).