3 different activities to push Year12/13 (A-level) students to use idiom to raise their levels in their speaking or writing. Students have to work on a range of useful idioms, finding their meaning and using them in writing and speaking.

Reading comprehension about Kylian Mbappé’s routine to teach reflexive verbs. It contains short achievable and differentiated activities: vocab search, true or false, regular -ER reflexive verb conjugations, match up, quick translations and a short writing to finish with. Ideal for beginners. Answers are provided.

Example of an IRP presentation for the speaking A-level exams. Great to give students before they write their own to guide them and show them how we can use high structures and facts in a concise presentation. Students assess the presentations and can discuss in pair and in class with the teacher.

Text with gap fills (passé compose verbs), with vocab search and questions for either speaking or writing (or both) Great to use as a frame for students.

Presentation/lesson on “Analysez l’importance du film Au Revoir Les Enfants” The presentation contains many questions to develop students’ ideas and key points to develop and analyse this topic. Also, it prompts students to organise ideas in a well-structured essay.

Examplar essay on La Haine by Matthieu Kassovitz on the title: Pour beaucoup de critiques, La Haine est un chef d’œuvre du cinéma. Dans quelle mesure êtes-vous d’accord avec ce jugement? Students must assess it.

International Men’s Day presentation for assembly, tutor time or PSHE lesson, raising essential questions to understand what are the challenges men face nowadays.

This presentation contains many outstanding features that would impress an examiner of French A Level: sophisticated vocabulary, compound tenses, grammatical structures, idioms, etc. with exercises and link to extra practice online. Examples can directly be implemented in any essay or speaking practice.

This is a fun activity to revise each and every unit studied in the new French A-level program. It contains essential questions. Students have to speak for at least 1 minute on each question with high order structures. I have put those questions on a separate document if you want to have them prepare them in advance or at home. Once downloaded, questions can be altered to suit your teaching.

Exam-style reading for SL and/or HL students about Emily in Paris and stereotypes in the media, and their impact. It comes with a Presentation with speaking exam questions to prompt conversations. Answers are provided.

Lesson to explain what freshers’ flu and meningitis are (symptoms, reasons, solutions)

Lesson on module 3 on jobs and careers introducing the imperfect tense from a reading comprehension. It also includes mini-white board challenges and a GCSE style writing task.

Presentation/assembly for a lesson on World Earth Day (April 22nd) with an article from the Guardian and follow-up discussion. It introduces also both documentaries A life on our planet and Seaspiracy.

Scaffolded worksheet for KS3/4 (easily adaptable tenses wise) that allow students to gain skills to write a film review in French. Perfect in the end of year to still do some work after/before watching a film. Activity 1: read “Intouchables” film review Activity 2: key vocab search Activity 3: tense search Activity 4: translation Activity 5: write your own review of a film including key content and language (checklist for both) Activity 6: (peer) assessment and setting personal target Ideal for KS3/KS4 end of year classes and GCSE (leisure topic) Could even be used for KS5 when students start studying the film in class.

Example of an oral card description for students with activities to assess it on the topic of experience (travelling, tourism)

Great worksheet that lasts a lesson. Many activities to develop reading and writing skills: vocab, information, true or false, and writing using the text as a frame. Great to encourage student to use a range of linguistic elements to reach a higher level (connectives, adverbs, adjectives, specific vocabulary, verbs, etc.)

Presentation/lesson/ideas on the topic of Resistance in the film. Lots of ideas, key scenes and quotes about the topic so that students should be able to come up with an essay plan by the end.

Worksheet on Paris to find information about the city and recognize its main landmarks.

Worksheet with two texts and activities design to build on opinion reaching level 4 to 5. KS3, year 7 or 8.