This is a simple ‘true-false’ game which I’ve adapted from Jackie Bolen’s ESL book called 39 Speaking Activities. (The book contains mainly well known communicative games, often suitable for intermediate level and above.) The aim is to get students to practise hearing, seeing and using ‘never’ with past tense verbs. So in French you would be repeatedly hearing and using patterns like “Je n’ai jamais visité la France” or “Je n’ai jamais joué au golf”. Model and write up some examples of your own. Translate if necessary. Explain what is happening structurally you think this is useful (or do it later). Students must guess (e.g. show on mini-whiteboards or by a show of hands) whether what you say is true or false. Choose examples from your own life to add interest, e.g. “Je n’ai jamais mangé de la viande.” (‘I have never eaten meat’.) If you can think of surprising ones, so much the better. Absurd ones are good too: “ Je n’ai jamais visité l’Antarctique.” ( ‘I have never visited the Ant
For your information and to unashamedly promote my website, below are the resources on the Y10-11 page which aim to help specifically with GCSE exam preparation. They are divided into two groups, the first Foundation Tier, the second Higher Tier. The most recent additions are two sets of sentence builder frames which students could use to revise for the speaking and writing components of papers. There is a bias towards AQA-style questions since AQA is by far the most popular board in England, though in reality the differences between the various awarding bodies are not great, so teachers using WJEC or Pearson/Edexcel will find the resources very useful. "Why reinvent the wheel?" so the old saying goes. I know hundreds of schools and teachers make use of these materials. To continue my pitch, these are just a few of the 1900-ish resources on the site. My surveys of members regularly show that the A-level and Y10-11 pages of the site are the most used. They are also the riches