Powerpoint presentation used to have students reflect on if young people should be granted the right to vote at 16 and talk about the absentation rate among young people. This presentation is design to work along the Oxford textbook AQA French Year 2 but can used independently. (“pour ou contre le droit de vote” and “Les ados et l’engagement politique - motivés ou démotivés?”) Reading, listening, writing, translation, speaking exercises. Worth 4/5 hours of lessons (29 slides)

Assessment with translations, open writing and questions on the political life in France. Great for an end of unit test.

Worksheet to give student essential facts about volunteering in France. From this, students have to do an exam type summary and have some questions to answer (either in writing or speaking) to practise for the speaking exam (the card part)

Les vacances - questions dans tous les temps à préparer à l’écrit ou à l’oral pour l’unité GCSE “Holidays”

Great reading tasks for students to develop vocab and arguments to say whether they prefer to stay or go abroad on holidays and why. 4 reading tasks and match up, translation, speaking, writing exercises.

Great activity to push student’s writing across KS3 or GCSE. Students are journalist for a gossip magazine and must use a range of vocab, adjectives, adverbs, opinion phrases with reason (simple or complex) This sheet can be adapted for any tense (present or past) and levels (I used it with my year 9 and GCSE classes for instance)

Exercises to push speaking. Context: at the commercial centre. Lots of useful vocab and 3 speaking situations to practise in class.

Comprehension exercise on the short film included in Paris je t’aime.

Great article to make students reflect on the preservation of a UNESCO site and whether we should rebuild or preserve a destruction of one of them. A series of exam-based exercises: vocab search, translation into English, summary and questions to practise the speaking part of the exam.

Worksheet to match the name of festivals in France with their definition.

Translation to use VOULOIR properly with an infinitive verb after.

Presentation with ideas and key questions on the topic of “l’autorité” in the film Au Revoir Les Enfants by Louis Malle.

Great settling activity that pushes literacy in French by having students spell words properly, read and translate a text, judge it and write a reply. This has worked very well with my wildest students! Used it for Year 7 and Y8 students, can be adapted to include past tense. Answer is provided.

Listening activity on what Unions, how they act, who for, etc. Introduction of the main vocab that ends with discussions and students writing their own definitions with key words.

Lesson on the voting age in France “Faut-il accorder le droit de vote dès 16 ans?” with speaking and writing tasks.

Lessons on the A-level topic of politics “L’Union Européenne a-t-elle un avenir?” with 2 videos, speaking and writing activities.

Introductory lessons to explain how the French mentality is built on the power of the people and rebellion - through history, art, institutions.

3 sets of questions about the A-level topic of manifestation to prepare students for the speaking exams. The lesson is based on 2 listening (videos) activities on the example of the company GOODYEAR.

Listening activity based on a video on leisure and French people. Prompts for discussion.