FRENCH STARTERS & PLENARIES
 


GCSE Revision Starters

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Greetings
Opinions
Alphabet / Sound-spelling
Numbers / Time
School
Clothes
Daily routine
Verbs
Places in town / countries
Free-time / Hobbies / Sports
Health
Holidays
Days and Months
Miscellaneous

Greetings

Greetings Triangles
(PDF 176 KB)

Greetings - fill in the vowels
(MS Word 20 KB)

Basic conversation - fill in the vowels. Give it to them cut up and they can put it in the right order!
(MS Word 20 KB)

 

Opinions

Personal opinions and reasons
(MS Word 23 KB)

 

Alphabet / Sound-spelling

Find the rhymes - Pupils use their knowledge of sound-spelling to find as many rhymes as possible
(MS Word 27 KB)

Alphabet/false friends - pupils fill in the correct letters according to the sound, then work out the words, which are all false friends
(MS Word 33 KB)

Alphabet PowerPoints

 

Numbers / Time

Numbers Triangles
(PDF 275 KB)

Un peu de maths - sums using words
(MS Word 20 KB)

Numbers
(MS Word 38 KB)

Time
(MS PowerPoint 54 KB)
Give pupils a mixed-up list of the times in French and they have to write in the correct English while watching the slide show

Time - Vrai ou faux
(MS PowerPoint 158 KB)

A looped, timed PowerPoint. Pupils watch for 5 or 10 minutes and write down Vrai or Faux.
Time - Vrai ou faux - answers
(MS PowerPoint 175 KB)

24 hour clock speaking dominoes
(MS Word 52 KB)

When pupils hear the time on the left-hand side of their domino, they say the time on the right-hand side of their domino. It works like a chain. You can race against the clock and then give everyone a different domino to make it more difficult again.

Numbers worksheets

 

School

School opinions
(MS Word 61 KB)

All about school multiple choice
(MS Word 41 KB)

School odd-one-out
(MS Word 32 KB)

School
(MS Word 44 KB)

School dominoes
(MS Word 472 KB)

School worksheets

School PowerPoints

 

Clothes

Les Vêtements dice-throw
(MS PowerPoint 193 KB)

Les Vêtements Multiple Choice
(MS PowerPoint 243 KB)

Answers
(MS PowerPoint 248 KB)

Clothes dominoes
(MS Word 2.4 MB)

Opinions and descriptions (clothes)
(MS Word 60 KB)

Clothes worksheets

 

Daily routine

Daily routine starter
(MS Word 24 KB)
Answers
(MS Word 24 KB)

Daily routine worksheets

Daily routine PowerPoints

 

Verbs

Passé Composé negatives and questions
(MS Word 47 KB)

Future tense gapfill
(MS Word 22 KB)

Passé composé - work out the verb forms
(MS PowerPoint 26 KB)

Past Tense holidays fill in the vowels
(MS Word 20 KB)

Passé Composé
(MS Word 39 KB)

Passé Composé gap-fill
(MS Word 32 KB)

 

Places in town / countries

En ville - find 12 "in town" words in the crossword in a limited time
(MS Word 21 KB)

La France multiple choice
(MS PowerPoint 506 KB)

Answers
(MS PowerPoint 501 KB)

Points of the compass
(MS PowerPoint 139 KB)

Worksheet
(MS Word 75 KB)

Francophonie
(MS Word 22 KB)

Places in town worksheets

Places in town PowerPoints

 

Free-time / Hobbies / Sports

Sport sentences
(MS Word 22 KB)

Free-time / Hobbies / Sports worksheets

Trouvez quelqu'un qui aime....
(MS Word 128 KB)

Trouvez quelqu'un qui fait....
(MS Word 152 KB)

Trouvez quelqu'un qui....
(MS Word 479 KB)

 

Health

L’alcool, le tabac et les drogues gapfill
(MS Word 24 KB)
Answers
(MS Word 22 KB)
Good for making pupils think about facts and figures. A fair amount of guessing will be involved too!

 

Holidays

Holidays abroad
(MS Word 23 KB)

 

Days and months

Days and months - unmix the anagrams
(MS Word 20 KB)

 

Miscellaneous

Es-tu...?
(MS Word 26 KB)

Trouvez quelqu'un qui a ...
(MS Word 64 KB)

Trouvez quelqu'un qui est...
(MS Word 61 KB)

Draw the heads - pupils draw the correct features on the blank heads. Try getting your pupils to work on them in pairs and them compare the results !
(PDF 97 KB)

Venn diagram - pupils sort words according to whether they are numbers, colours, feminine or things in the pencil case. Words can go in the intersections or outside the diagram if they are irrelevant.
(MS Publisher 32 KB)

Multiple Choice answer sheet
(MS Word 71 KB)

Adjectives dominoes
(MS Word 42 KB)

Comparative and Superlative
(MS Word 49 KB)

Superlatives - pupils can have a guess at the answers by themselves first and then you show them the answers
(MS PowerPoint 363 KB)

 

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