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  • Family – Authentic French Listening Practice With Activities To Try

    Authentic Free Audio Visual French Listening Practice – Theme: Family / La famille en France Since listening is often a neglected skill in language lessons (apart from listening to me and other students, of course), I am always looking for ways to provide authentic French listening content for my students. So, I have created this free French listening practice video with activities to try out. I will use this audio visual clip with my students from September, asย  that’s when we will be looking at the topic of ‘la famille’ or ‘family’ in French again. This particular extract is an audio visual extract which can be accessed on YouTube or…

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    Household Chores – Free French Listening Practice Video for GCSE Students

    Household Chores / Les Tรขches Mรฉnagรจres Video for Listening Practice Need some GCSE French listening practice for KS3 or KS4 students? If so, check out this authentic and original video for French learners. It includes a native French speaker talking for approximately three minutes about household chores (les tรขches mรฉnagรจres) in French. How can you use this video to practise French listening skills? You can use this video in the French classroom as part of a lesson, for homework or as revision for GCSE. It allows KS3 and GCSE French students to practise their French listening skills on the topic of household tasks and chores. What does this les tรขches…

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    GCSE French Listening Practice I don’t feel like there is enough GCSE French listening practice material out there for GCSE French students. Therefore, this post includes a collection of authentic videos on different topics at KS3 and GCSE level. My sole aim in creating these videos is to give more freely available content to French learners on topics they are studying as French listening practice. Use them in the classroom, as a homework listening task or as listening revision for GCSEs, or at KS3 (or equivalent) level. The videos are there to help students develop their listening confidence and comprehension skills through authentic practice. Topics for GCSE French Listening Practice…

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    Authentic School & Holiday French Interview with Belgian Pupils for Listening Practice

    Authentic French Interview Clip for French Listening Practice on Schools and Holidays The more authentic French listening practice clips I can find, the happier I feel! In fact, when an ex-colleague of mine from Belgium gave me this video clip with him interviewing two students, it made me start thinking of all the ways I could use it! If you need some authentic French listening practice for GCSE French students, or students learning French who are studying the topic of holidays or school, this will hopefully be very useful to you!ย  The 5 minute 35 seconds French video clip is in the format of a French interview between the teacher…

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    Complete GCSE French and Intermediate Level Revision Practice by Topic & Skill

    200+ Intermediate and GCSE French Level Revision Activities by Topic please check back here tomorrow, I am currently working on adding my materials to this page. Revision can be quite boring and tedious, you can certainly use an interactive website with gap fills at sentence level, but why not do your French revision by topic with vocabulary rich activities, testing your intermediate French language skills in a more interesting way? If you wish to practice your intermediate French language skills and revise topics covered at French GCSE level or French CEFR A2/B1 level, then try out the activities below. There are over 20 common topics found in GCSE French courses,…

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    Jobs – French Listening Practice and Transcript (Intermediate)

    Check out my jobs and les mรฉtiers lesson below with some french listening practice for GCSE French, FSL and FLE lessons. We did vocabulary and phrase recall, questions, as well as some french listening practice through an audio file read by a native speaker. If you’re interested in how I structured the jobs and ambitions lesson, or would like a copy of the listening resources I used for the GCSE French lesson, read on! How Did I Structure The Jobs Topic Listening Revision Lesson? STARTER We started the French listening practice lesson by mind mapping all job related words, phrases and questions that we could think of and adding them…

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    L’environnement – French Environment Listening Lesson

    Teaching the topic of environment and in need of a listening lesson for la protection de l’environnement topic? Look no further, French teachers! This is a ready-to-go, no-prep listening lesson with MP3 audio file, read by a native speaker at a medium speed, with a word-for-word transcript and six activities to practise the subject of environment. You can use this lesson revision for your French learners before their exams, as well as being ideal as an introduction, or towards the end of the environment topic as consolidation. …So many possibilities! What is included in this French listening lesson on ‘la protection de l’environnement’? MP3 AUDIO FILE The MP3 audio file…

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    GCSE French Listening Lesson on Social Media and Social Networks Social media andย ‘les rรฉseaux sociaux’ are a staple part of most young peoples’ lives in the 21st century. Therefore, I feel they are excellent themes to include in French GCSE exams. However, as normal, I can’t find any great resources that don’t cost a bomb to help to practise listening skills on the topic. So, I decided to create this lesson on social media for GCSE French lessons. I believe it would work really well as an introduction into the social media for Year 10,ย  or as revision for year 11. What is in the lesson on ‘lesย rรฉseaux sociaux’? The…

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