Hi, I'm an MFL teacher from Dorset and have been teaching French in secondary schools for 27 years, including as Curriculum Leader.
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Hi, I'm an MFL teacher from Dorset and have been teaching French in secondary schools for 27 years, including as Curriculum Leader.
Please leave review if you are happy with your purchase, or email me (Charlie01042000@gmail.com) and I will be happy to resolve any problems.
A bank of questions for the Edexcel Speaking exam conversation element. Questions are organised by theme into one handy booklet. Each question has a model answer to support less able students and space for students to prepare their own response in the target language. Ideal for students to keep all their speaking exam preparation in one place!
A selection of Grid Translations for Dynamo 1 French Module 4.
There is one worksheet for each double page spread in the module. Sentences are provided to translate from English into French. Students must use 5 French phrases from the grid to successfully translate each sentence.
This file includes 2 versions of each worksheet. The first version has a colour-coded grid to support weaker students. For the more able, the second version has a plain grid without colour-coding.
The following topics are covered:
Talking about animals
Describing your family
Describing where you live
Talking about breakfast
Talking about Bastille Day
Creating a cartoon family
A set of activities to practise numbers 1-31 in French
Can your students answer the questions correctly without losing the balloons and causing the basket to fall? Each slide contains 10 questions. Students lose 1 balloon for an incorrect “yellow” response and 2 balloons for an incorrect “green” response. Click on the balloons to make them fly away!
All “yellow” questions focus on numbers 1-10. All “green” questions focus on numbers 11-31
Activity 1: Translate the number from English to French
Activity 2: Translate the number from French to English
Activity 3: Answer the sum (shown as figures) in French
Activity 4: Answer the sum (shown as French words) in French
Activity 5: Fill in the missing vowels and say the number in French
Activity 6: Unjumble the anagrams and say the number in French
A selection of Grid Translations for GCSE Studio French Module 2.
There is one worksheet for each double page spread in the module. Sentences are provided to translate from English into French. Students must use 5 French phrases from the grid to successfully translate each sentence.
This file includes 2 versions of each worksheet. The first version has a colour-coded grid to support weaker students. For the more able, the second version has a plain grid without colour-coding.
The following topics are covered on the worksheets:
a) Talking about sport
b) Talking about using technology
c) Talking about reading and music
d) talking about tv programmes
e) Talking about a night out with friends
A selection of Grid Translations for Dynamo 3 French Module 5.
There is one worksheet for each double page spread in the module. Sentences are provided to translate from English into French. Students must use 5 French phrases from the grid to successfully translate each sentence.
This file includes 2 versions of each worksheet. The first version has a colour-coded grid to support weaker students. For the more able, the second version has a plain grid without colour-coding.
The following topics are covered:
Talking about countries you would like to visit
Describing impressive places
Talking about holiday activities
Preparing an advert for a French-speaking country
Describing people and what they do
A selection of “One Pen One Dice” activities for GCSE Studio French Module 5
Students take it in turns to roll the dice. The first person who rolls a 6 takes the pen and starts translating. Player 2 rolls the dice until they roll a 6 and says “C’est à moi” (It’s my turn!) This player has now won the pen and can start translating. Player 1 has the dice and needs a 6 to steal the pen. The winner is the first person to correctly translate all the sentences.
NB: To make this activity “COVID-safe”, students should have a dice each and use their own pen.
This pack includes 5 separate activities covering the following topic areas from Module 5:
Staying in a hotel
Talking about travelling
Talking about holidays
Ordering in a restaurant
Describing holiday disasters
A selection of Tangled Translations for Dynamo 2 French Module 4
For each topic, a paragraph is provided in a mixture of French and English which students must “untangle” into both languages.
This pack includes 6 worksheets covering the following topic areas from Module 4:
Talking about where you live
Describing the region where you live
Talking about household chores
Talking about daily routine
Talking about moving house
Using 3 tenses to describe a region
A selection of Tangled Translations for GCSE Studio French Module 8
Sentences are provided in a mixture of French and English which students must “untangle” into both languages.
This pack includes 5 worksheets covering the following topic areas from Module 8:
Talking about environmental problems
Talking about things which concern you
Discussing ethical shopping
Talking about volunteering
Talking about big events (using 3 time frames)
Ideal as a no-prep starter or as a home-learning translation exercise which makes it more difficult for students to use internet translators!
A selection of Tangled Translations for Dynamo 1 French
For each double page spread in a module, sentences are is provided in a mixture of French and English which students must “untangle” into both languages.
For a detailed overview of what is included in each file, please see individual listings in my shop.
A fun, quick and easy way to incorporate vocabulary retrieval into your lessons, whether face to face or remotely.
Spin the wheel to select a word or phrase for students to translate. Choose from French to English or English to French. Introduce an element of competition by dividing your group into teams or play remotely individually by asking students to type answers into the chat box.
Includes those high-frequency words your students can never remember!
The ideal no-prep starter or plenary to ensure that your students are continually refreshing their vocabulary knowledge!
Do your students need help to read texts more carefully? Or to proofread their own work and spot their mistakes? Why not combine these skills with revision of previously covered material by using this sentence auction task?
Students start with 100 points.
They will be shown a sentence in French with an English translation.
They must decide if the translation is correct or incorrect.
Students bid points according to how certain they are of their decision. For example they could bid 100 points that the translation is correct, or 50 points that it is incorrect.
Each of the question slides contains 6 built-in timers so the teacher can decide how long the students have in order to place their bids.
If students guess correctly, they win double the points that they have bid. If they are wrong, the points are lost.
The winner is the person with most points at the end.
This powerpoint includes 20 slides covering topics from GCSE Studio French Module 8.
Bumper French holidays-themed wordsearch containing 30 words. Then find the hidden message using the remaining letters. Perfect as a starter to revise key vocabulary or for the end of term!
A selection of Grid Translations for GCSE Studio French Module 6.
There is one worksheet for each double page spread in the module. Sentences are provided to translate from English into French. Students must use 5 French phrases from the grid to successfully translate each sentence.
This file includes 2 versions of each worksheet. The first version has a colour-coded grid to support weaker students. For the more able, the second version has a plain grid without colour-coding.
The following topics are covered on the worksheets:
a) Giving opinions of school subjects
b) Talking about your school
c) Discussing rules and regulations
d) Talking about school activities
e) Talking about successes at school
65 future tense bullet points from Edexcel GCSE French writing papers collated into one handy booklet. Contains a gap-fill for your students to translate each bullet point into English and space for them to prepare each answer in the target language. Ideal for use as a no-prep starter which reinforces the use of key future tense structures and transferable vocabulary.
While your students are working remotely, it is more important than ever that they keep previously learned knowledge fresh in their minds. Why not set them an extra “Retrieval Grid Challenge” or use one of the slides as no-prep, timed competition starter for your lessons?
This PowerPoint contains 27 vocabulary retrieval grids drawn from the content covered in Studio GCSE French Modules 1-4. Each grid contains a selection of vocabulary ranging from single words to complete sentences, worth between 1 and 4 points, making it easy for you and your students to identify topics that require further revision and evidence progress over time.
The following topics are covered:
Describing people
Describing my town
Talking about what I do with friends
Talking about family relationships
Arranging to go out (future tense)
Describing a day out (past tense)
The person I admire
Revising leisure activities
Revising films / going to the cinema
Talking about sport
Talking about using technology
Talking about books and music
Talking about tv programmes
Talking about a night out with friends
Talking about food and meals
Describing clothes and what to wear
Describing daily life
Shopping for clothes
Describing festivals and traditions
Talking about shopping for a special meal
Describing family celebrations
Talking about where you live and what you can do there
Revising places in town and asking the way
Describing a region
Finding out tourist information
Discussing plans and the weather
Talking about your town, village or neighbourhood
Help your students get to grips with those high-frequency words they can never remember!
The students choose a square using a letter and number combination e.g. D3, A4, C6. Encourage the students either to translate the job, or make it more difficult by asking for a sentence with the word or phrase in that square. If the student is successful, click on the square to reveal whether there is a ship underneath.
You can reward the student or the student’s team with a point if they hit a ship. You can reward the student or the student’s team with several points if they sink the ship. For example, if the ship covers three squares, award the students three points.
A fun, quick and easy way to incorporate vocabulary retrieval into your lessons, whether face to face or remotely.
Translate the time expression correctly and click on the square to see how many points you will gain. There are 10 coins worth 1 point; 5 coins worth 2 points; 3 coins worth 3 points and 2 coins worth 5 points. Introduce an element of competition by dividing your group into teams or play remotely individually by asking students to type answers into the chat box.
Includes the following expressions of time:
après / déjà / toujours / en même temps / avant / pendant / tôt / dès que / une soirée / tard / une quinzaine / après-midi / à partir de / de temps en temps / une heure / une journée / au début / tout à l’heure / tout de suite / une année
The ideal no-prep starter or plenary to ensure that your students are continually refreshing their vocabulary knowledge!
A selection of Grid Translations for GCSE Studio French Module 3.
There is one worksheet for each double page spread in the module. Sentences are provided to translate from English into French. Students must use 5 French phrases from the grid to successfully translate each sentence.
This file includes 2 versions of each worksheet. The first version has a colour-coded grid to support weaker students. For the more able, the second version has a plain grid without colour-coding.
The following topics are covered:
Talking about food and meals
Discussing clothes and what to wear
Describing your daily life
Shopping for clothes
Describing festivals and traditions
Talking about shopping for a special meal
Describing family celebrations