!! These are for reference only as based on old (prior 2011) Level 1 Prescribed Vocabulary List

Sound Files

Philippa Kruger (Otago High School for Girls) has recorded the vocabulary list and has kindly contributed her work to be loaded on to the website for all to use. Download the files and get your students to load them onto their Ipod or other sound player!

Levels 5 and 6 Vocabulary Activities

►Online Vocabulary Practice:  Follow this link to find 38 "dictées"online! The author has used lists of prescribed vocab (England) to create a fun FREE programme to practise listening and spelling of French words.  Students can self test and the "Tic Tac Toe" activities are perfect for pair work and a challenge!  A useful link to share with your students for word learning and revision at this level.  BONUS!  Go to "télécharger" and you can download several Mots Cachés and Mots Croisés to print and give your class as follow up activities.    

►Crosswords: Organised by topic, the crosswords from frenchteacher.net are all interactive online activities and provide great vocabulary reinforcement and writing revision, . Share this link with your students. Definitions appear as the number on the grid is clicked.  If help is required, the "Indice" button gives an extra letter.

Level 1 Vocabulary and Expressions

Julia Brown (Dilworth School) has created effective PPT presentations to teach and reinforce words and expressions containing the words from the Level 1 Vocabulary List.  The words and expressions, presented in alphabetical order, are attractively described by pictures and each presentation offers students the possibility to memorise and reinforce language in a novel way.

Bonjour de France: Grammar exercises

Kathy Stanford (Alliance Française, Rouen) brings to our attention this website created by a French Language school in France. 

These online grammar exercises

can complement classroom activities and allow students to drill their conjugations skills.

Emphatic Pronouns

Elizabeth Warren (Onslow College) shares the chanting activity below that she uses to reinforce the a chanting activity to reinforce emphatic pronouns. Based on the game “Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? ”, Elizabeth describes how you too can use this with your students.

TBL - Giving Instructions

Manu Ménard (St Matthews Collegiate) is sharing this task based worksheet.  Manu provides five consecutive activities for students to get to grip with giving instructions in French but he also includes a Teacher Help sheet so that you too get to grip with the concept!

Object Pronouns with Céline Dion's "Mon Amie M'a Quittée"

Verna Morris (Dunstan High School) has created a resource based on Céline Dion's song Mon Ami M'a Quittée. Verna says it turns out to be great for reinforcing object pronouns and is not too difficult for year 11. The song is on youtube at

this link

Verna has kindly shared the lyrics, along with a set of English expressions which you can cut up, and the students can put them in order on hearing the song the second time through. You will find this in the document below.

Passé Composé Gameboard

This gameboard designed and kindly shared by Rachel McDonald (South Otago High School) is great for students to practice the past tense in goups of up to 6.  They need the Board (download and print in A3 from below), dice and markers and decide the order of play to use a range of time locution.  Students will practice a range of verbs and conjugations.

Lady Di : lecture/activité Passé Composé

Wayne Lynch (Saint Mary's College, Auckland) has kindly shared a resource he has used for a long time but which has continued to engage his students: a text he wrote as Lady Di was killed in a car crash over 10 years ago! The resource can be used as a reading activity and/or a perfect with verbs of movement exercise.

Y, the Pronoun.

Rachel McDonald (South Otago High School) has put together the presentation below to introduce the use of Y.  In her PPT, Rachel provides many illustrated examples, simple explanation and a comprehension exercise. 

Grammar Lessons PPT

Julia Brown (Dilworth College) has put together these very useful presentations and she has kindly sent them on so that they can be used to introduce a range of grammar points relevant at this level.

Dominos - Passé Composé

Designed to help students  recognise and re-use phrases in the Perfect, the first 2 Domino worksheets below, created by Florence Lyons (Matamata College), will assist your teaching of this tense, at times when grammar explanations are a bit too much! The third Domino worksheet is a reading activity to use as a memory game.

French HotPotatoes from the Ashcombe School

The Ashcombe School (UK) website offers a wide range of online activities for Students and Teachers of French.  These HotPotatoes quizzes allow students to learn time phrases and to recognise the various tenses they learn from Level 5 up.

►Miscellaneous Grammatical Structures Explained with Practice Activities (also suitable for revision and for extension to further levels) 

A day in the life of Homer Simpson

In this very comprehensive PPT, Rachel McDonald (South Otago High School) goes over Homer's activities for the day to introduce the verbs which take "être" in the Perfect.  Rachel's introduction is followed by explanations of the grammar points and a practice activity. 

Une conversation fluide!

Use the following conversation starters and links with your students to ensure  fluidity and rythm while practising for conversation at levels 1, 2 and 3.