Le shopping Workbook

Subject: French
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11 - 14
Order Number: 9209

This topic based resource is suitable mainly for students in their earlier years of learning French, although there are elements suitable for more experienced learners (up to GCSE level). It comprises a variety of lively material, much visually appealing, aimed primarily at practising communication skills. It falls into 3 main categories:

1. Items for teacher use on the OHP or laptop, intended largely for oral work; these include colourful visual representations of the key vocabulary, at different levels of difficulty, each with a separate written version that may or may not be added – e.g. as an “overlay” on the OHP – together with various stimuli for the use of language in realistic, everyday situations such as making arrangements to go out.
2. Attractive and stimulating worksheets which enable students to consolidate the work led by the teacher in various ways: pair work to afford further speaking and listening practice, and individual reading and writing tasks to be completed either in class or at home, some of which relate to the student’s own experience.
3. Puzzles to practise vocabulary and spelling whilst at the same time adding an important element of fun.

Simple use of 3 time frames is included: the present, the future (using aller) and the past (Passé compose). There is also the opportunity to express opinions.

Topics covered are shops, money (including pocket money), buying food, clothes and presents.