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    Ma Ville – Amazing French Listening Practice for GCSE/iGCSE and A2/B1

    GCSE French Listening Practice on ‘Ma Ville et Ma Région for A2/B1 and iGCSE If you want to practise your French listening skills on the topic of ‘ma région et ma ville’ with a free worksheet with activities and transcript this is the post for you! Below, you will find, not only a link to our ‘ma ville et ma région’ audio-visual clip for listening practice in French, but also a useful worksheet with a number of activities to develop vocabulary and listening comprehension skills. Combined, these can be used to develop your French comprehension skills and listening skills. Use the transcript too to help to check your understanding further.…

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    Listen To French To Develop Your French Listening Skills The List Below Includes Perfect Ways To Listen To French for Beginners to Advanced Learner, *Providing You Have Internet Access! Listen to French online and practise your listening skills! h these easy to access ideas and activity to check your understanding. They are perfect for French teachers looking for suggestions for French students, or if you are a French learner yourself. Nowadays, you don’t have to leave your house to listen to French which is quite cool. Listen to French from your phone, laptop or tablet on the go too! Not only do the French listening activities below provide you with…

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Hi! I’m Sabina – an insanely passionate, qualified French and German teacher and tutor, as well as an experienced EFL teacher. I have over 13 years teaching experience in private, online, secondary and further education settings. I LOVE TEACHING LANGUAGES AND SEEING MY STUDENTS’ CONFIDENCE IMPROVE!

How do I help my language students and tutees?

* assess their current strengths and weaknesses and personalise each lesson to their needs
* develop students’ confidence from the first lesson
* improve exam skills
* develop communication skills (speaking, listening & translation)
* build vocabulary and grammar knowledge in a simple way
* … and whatever else they want to work on!

Who do I teach?

* Beginner to advanced EFL and ESL students
* Business English students
* KS3, and GCSE French students
* KS3, GCSE, Pre-U and A-Level German
* Home-educated students learning French & German
* Distance learning French & German language learners
* Beginner French and German students looking to make fast progress

Which qualifications do I help with?

* French GCSE & French iGCSE (AQA, Edexcel, Pearson, Eduqas, OCR, WJEC & CIE)
* German GCSE & German iGCSE (AQA, Edexcel, Pearson, Eduqas, OCR, WJEC & CIE)
* A-Level German (AQA & WJEC) / Pre-U German
* CEFR Levels A1-C2

As well as teaching languages, I love creating French and German KS3, GCSE, Pre-U and A-Level resources and sharing teaching ideas to save other MFL and language teachers time.

p.s. I would just like to clarify that ‘TheIdealTeacher’ is simply the website’s name and it’s what I aspire to be and what I am working towards. I am an enthusiastic modern languages teacher with the sole aim of improving my students’ language  acquisition with innovative teaching methods to promote progress and improve confidence quickly.

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