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The latest additions to frenchteacher

I'm between visits abroad at the moment, having been to Guadeloupe and Florida in late January/early February and soon to spend a fortnight in Costa Rica in March. When I'm home I like to keep frenchteacher.net fresh with new resources, so here are the ones I've added in the last three weeks.

Beginner/low intermediate

A PowerPoint to introduce simple comparatives. Includes pair work and simple writing.

A PowerPoint. Asking for directions. Nine destinations, pour aller au/à la/à l' simple phrasing: just turn left, turn right, go straight on. Built in simple paired conversation practice. This would make a decent starter lesson on the situation.

A PowerPoint on shops. 12 shops and what you can buy there. With pair work and some written gap-fill. Usable with Y7 or 8 (near-beginner).

A PowerPoint to introduce and/or practise the near future (with pastimes). Built-in sequence with listening, repetition, oral games and translation. Good also for Y8 revision or introduction.

Crossword to practise the future tense with regular stem verbs.

PowerPoint - telling the time

Intermediate

A written text, vocab glossary to complete and questions in English about poverty in France. Good for Higher Tier GCSE or even, as an easy information source, for A-level.

A text and exercises about the no mobile phone day on 6th February. Vocab to find with hints, correct sentences to identify, gap-fill, translation into English and oral practice. Answers provided. Would make a self-contained lesson with homework.

Text and questions about Ariana Grande.

Advanced 


Tripadvisor-style reading on the Mémorial Acte slavery museum in Guadeloupe. Vocab to find, matching, summary and translation. Answers given. We visited this interesting and moving museum recently.

Texts and exercises on the Festival international de la BD in Angoulême. Tripadvisor-style comments, vocab to spot, matching task, summary writing, translation into French. Answers provided.


Reading comprehension. A set of seven Tripadvisor comments with various exercises - matching, vocab finding, questions and translation. Good for AS or A-level (heritage, festivals, etc).


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In January I had added these new resources:

Beginner/low intermediate

An easy sentence builder frame. Topic: describing a friend.You'll find these frames on the Y8 page. They are aimed at near-beginners.

Two new Battleships grids to practise the future or near future. One focuses on aller and jouer, the other on a range of verbs. Both require students to use full sentences and, in one case, to manipulate possessive adjectives too. I think Battleships is a great practice game, especially when it goes beyond simple verb conjugating. Easy to extend too, if students then make up their own sentences or play a yes/no guessing game based on their new sentences.
BTW you can easily edit these grids to work on other tenses.

Intermediate

Listening task linked to audio-lingua.eu. This is a challenging, Higher Tier GCSE (intermediate) task on the topic of mountain recipes: raclette, fondue and tartiflette. Students pick out phrases from the text, then do translation into French.

Two more listening tasks linked to audio-lingua.eu recordings. (1) Pastimes - very easy recording with multi-choice in English (Foundation) and (2) My food diet - intensive listening and gap-fill plus pair work practice.

Another audio listening task linked to audio-lingua.eu. This is Delphine describing the town she works in, Poissy. Easy multi-choice in English, followed by a gap-fill summary in French. Foundation Tier level (easy low intermediate). It could be used with younger classes.

Another audio listening linked to audio-lingua.eu. Easy Higher Tier. Foundation with repetitions. Pauline talks about her town Versailles. Sentences to correct (underline where there's an error and insert correct version)

Two more audio listening worksheet from audio-lingua.eu. These are about recycling in the home and tatoos. Exercises include vocab to find, questions in French and gap-fill.

Another audio listening task. A short audio extract about charities, from audio-lingua.eu. If you've never come across it, it's an archive of short authentic audio recordings. This task is simple gap-fill for intensive listening for detail.

Advanced

Advanced audio listening. A personal account of racism from an authentic audio-lingua.eu recording. Gap-fill sentence filling and oral summary. You could use this for written summary too.

Adapted review of the film La Haine. Questions in English and phrases to recall from memory or test in pairs.

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