A "translate and transform" grammar drill sheet for oral and written practice. Perfect tense, regular -er verbs, first person only. This is the first of some easier grammar sheets I'll be adding to the Y8 and Y9 pages. These offer controlled practice of verbs alongside easy vocabulary in short sentences. Some schools find the existing sheets too hard. These can easily be extended by asking pupils to slot in new or additional sentence elements.

Sarah Shaw of grabandgolanguages.co.uk kindly sent me a resource to help develop listening/pronunciation/phonics skill. I've placed it in the Y10-11 section, as the vocabulary is too advanced for beginners. Do check out her site, especially if you tutor adult learners.

A lesson plan called Translate-Transcribe: La Rochelle. This is an example from my book 50 Lesson Plans for French Teachers.

Audio listening based on an easy short, slowly delivered text from Audio Lingua. Ma maison. The exercise consists in correcting a faulty transcript. There is a parallel English translation of the first, uncorrected text. Foundation GCSE, or could be used from Y8 with some classes.

Advanced video listening on the topic of the Resistance. This is a "correct the faulty transcription" task which also gives easy background information about the membership of the French Resistance.

Short article in the form of questions and answers about identifying as trans. Vocabulary to find and a summary to write in English. Answer given.

A very simple sentence builder frame on describing a house or flat (rooms). A teaching sequence is suggested, including choral repetition, guessing, reading aloud, listening with note taking. There is also a house picture for imaginative description.

A very simple sentence builder frame for beginners. Favourite ice creams. Possible teaching sequence suggested. As always, the resource is editable.

Beginner PowerPoint. What does Spotty want to do? (two verbs together). Easy lesson sequence, using il veut, then je veux and tu veux. Featuring my (free on Pixabay) dog, Spotty. Absolutely no relation to another dog with spots.

A teacher-read narrow listening task on the topic of social media. Four very short texts, a "who said?" exercise and a true/false. Answers given. This is one of several similar zero prep tasks on the Y9 page. You could display the texts for further exploitation.