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La Paz Waterfall Gardens, Costa Rica
In our semi-retirement my wife and I extremely luck to be able to work and relax as we please. After a fantastic holiday in Costa Rica with our son Joel and his girlfriend Amy, and with upcoming trips to Spain (for a barbershop singing convention) and France (to spend time in our house in Puyravault) I've been using the last couple of weeks to write some new resources for frenchteacher.net.

Here are the latest additions, with the emphasis on resources for near beginners up to GCSE (intermediate level).:


Near-beginners

  • A PowerPoint on furniture and other household items.
  • An easy sentence builder frame. Weekend activities (present tense). Translations given on the grid. The frame is accompanied by a possible teaching sequence. I think these frames work particularly well with relatively lower attaining classes.

 Intermediate

  • The Price is Right listening game on PowerPoint. 12 items with their prices. Feel free to ad or replace with your own. Instructions for teachers on the first slide.
  • A narrow reading task (i.e. six paragraphs with some common language in each). Favourite lifestyles YouTube channels, adapted from a French blog. With matching, vocab to find and sentences to complete. Designed for intermediate (Higher GCSE) level.
  • Audio listening. Delphine talking about having a baby. Gap-fill, questions and translation into French. Focus here on use of imperfect tense.Linked to an audio-lingua.eu authentic recording.
  •  Audio listening. A house in Normandy. Higher GCSE, with gap-fill, oral summary and conversation. Via audio-lingua.eu again.
  • Audio listening linked to a short text from the very useful site audio-lingua.eu. This is a Foundation Tier extract about holidays in Corsica. Multi-choice and easy gap-fill.
  •  Audio listening. A one minute, easy recording with multi-choice and gap-fill for careful listening. Topic: things to do in town. GCSE Foundation Tier (low intermediate).
  • Intermediate level reading text (Higher Tier GCSE) on alcohol and health in France. Vocab to find, true sentences to spot, sentence construction and translation into English. Answers provided.
  • A paired listening activity - aural gap-fill. The sheet contains and explanation of the task and two examples each of which would take around 10 minutes or so. You could easily make up others of the same type.

 



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