Links

Eteach is an online education recruitment company who specialise in teacher and support staff recruitment all over the UK and Northern Ireland . They take both temporary and permanent staff and currently have over 700,000 people a month who hit their website, as well as a record breaking amount of jobseekers signing up to the website.

This is the site of Ashcombe language college in Surrey. It is a well of information and resources for language teachers. The great thing about this site is its sets of videos of native speakers (French, German and Spanish)accompanied by exercises which cover 16 topics, mainly for GCSE students.

It also provides an excellent list of links categorized by topics. Very impressive!

If you are looking for rewards for your pupils, this site is great. It has loads of stickers, pencils, bookmarks..in French, all at a very small price.

This site also offers excellent games, flashcards and books in a whole range of languages. Well worth a visit!

(Click on courses, then on Modern languages)

This site contains a list of very useful and extremely well documented sites, in French, German, Spanish and Italian. It also offers very clear explanations on the AS and A'level exams.

This link will also take you to an excellent dossier on pollution written in French by Ken Knight from Loreto College. (Look for the button marked Interactive Dossier in the light blue menu on the left when you get to the Modern Languages Home Page)

It's very detailed, yet the French remain at the right level for pupils. You'll be wondering how you ever taught the "pollution" topic without it!

This is a superb site to practise French pronunciation! You can hear all the sounds of the French language and there are very good exercises to practise. The presentation is fun and it's very easy to navigate. A must for French learners!

If you have pupils who like murder mysteries and speaking French, then this site is a dream come true! Read about the murder, find out about the suspects and solve the crime. Pupils won't even realise that they are actually doing reading and listening comprehensions and grammar exercises.

A lot of fun for pupils of all ages as this site offers 4 different levels of difficulty.

This is an impressive site all in French, which offers reading and listening comprehensions, grammar exercises, vocab lists and a lot more. It's fun, authentic and very educational! (This site is probably best for year 10 and above)

A site whose objective is to facilitate access to the best IT and web-based activities in French as a Foreign Language. There are sites for interactive grammar, auto-corrected exercises, simulations, etc. which all can be used for work in the classroom or for self-studies. Very useful!

"Talkingdice" is a brilliant site for all MFL teachers. For £5.85 (including p&p) you can buy a set of 6 printed dice on a lot of different topics all linked to the National Curriculum. This site also gives you loads of ideas on how to use the dice in the classroom. It's a great and cheap way to encourage students to speak in any language!

Although this site may look a little busy at first, it is extremely useful for both teachers and learners (from Year 7 all the way to Year 13);

It offers online exercises and games in French, Spanish and German and also contains a list of relevant language links. Well worth a visit!

This site is intended for both students and teachers. For the former, it provides a lot of practical information such as applying to universities, finding accomodation ... as well as learning sites.

For teachers, it offers access to Unions sites, discussion forums, vacancies, performance tables and inspection sites and so on. Bookmark it!

Not only does this site offer links to French sites, it also provides a multitude of links to the canadian culture, language and gastronomy! A great site to remind us that French is not just spoken in France!

Le Quartier Francais is a Canadian portal with a huge number of sites related to Canada, France and the French language and culture. It is available in French and in English.

This site is more relevant to teachers and A'Level students as most of the links take you to authentic French or Canadian sites.

Well worth a look!

Portal for French related sites, including online teaching resources.

This site is divided into areas of experience and subdivided into each topic. For each topic there are four or five exercises available and most of them involve reading and writing, with a few audio ones.

This is an extremely detailed and complete site which pupils will find very useful either when revising for the GCSE exam or throughout years 10 and 11 to practise the topics studied in class.

This site offers exercises in some of the topics covered for AS: Gapfilling exercises, reading comprehensions, vocabulary tests …

It also suggests different French sites for each topic for extra information and further reading.

This site is a portal which specialises in online exercises on different areas of the French language and culture. It also offers a list of sites that teachers can use to create their own quizzes.

This site is a French verb conjugator, which students may want to use instead of their verb table. It is very comprehensive, but not very user-friendly.

This site works along with the AS textbook "Au Point". It provides exercises to match the vocabulary covered in the book.

One drawback is that you have to keep a couple of windows open at the same time and switch back and forth between the two – for instance the reading comprehension text in one window and the questions in another.

The grammar side of the book is well covered with a lot of exercises.

Like the previous site, it also provides a lot of links per topic for further reading and information.

This is a very famous revision site for GCSE. As well as providing exam skills, it offers reading and writing activities both at foundation and higher level.

It is a very user-friendly site which offers advice in English with hints to help pupils with exam techniques.

This site is also available in German.

A very user-friendly site created by a French teacher

There are roughly four or five types of exercises for each topic and this site has a "check" and "hint" option.

"French Revision" is a great site which offers a lot of practise for KS3, KS4 and KS5 in all four skills, as well as grammar exercises.

For GCSE students, it also offers access to past papers which can be marked on the spot.

Well worth a visit!

Anne Fox has created a very useful site which offers services not found anywhere else. It offers the possibility to type in words or sentences in French and hear them spoken.If you need to practise some vocab, send it to Anne and she will make up some exercises for you.

This site also gives a list of useful sites for GCSE.

Excellent site!

An excellent grammar site comprising lessons as well as exercises. It is very exhaustive and easy to follow. The armadillo theme throughout makes the grammar more fun.

This site, created by the Guardian newspaper, offers reading, writing, listening and speaking exercises. It also provides a list of vocabulary for each topic that pupils can listen to as well as read.

The list of topics covered for year 7 is very extensive. The reading and listening exercises come with a "check" option, however the listening and speaking ones do not.

One drawback of this site is that some of the exercises cannot be done online and have to be done on paper with the correction available on screen.

This site, created by the Guardian newspaper, offers speaking, reading and writing exercises in a wide range of topics studied for GCSE. The site offers two options: French with or without sounds. It also provides grammar rules and exercises. The exercises are aimed at higher-level pupils.

One drawback of this site is that some of the exercises cannot be done online and have to be done on paper with the correction available on screen.

In this site, pupils have access to a complete lesson about each of the different topics covered, as well as exercises to practise.

The only drawback to this site is that pupils can cheat by pressing "view the right answer".

This site also includes some listening comprehension exercises and is also available in German.

(Click on the icon representing the pile of papers, and click on "higher")

This site contains language tutorials on some topics as well as games and exercises. It is less complete than the previous sites I have mentioned as it only covers the following topics but is particularly good for grammar:

- plans for the future

- the future tense

- holidays in the past

- the conditional tense

This site is also available in German.

AS students will find this site extremely useful when revising grammar. It follows the AS textbook "Pyramide" and covers all the grammar points studied in the book with exercises to practise. Students can check their answers on the spot.

This site also offers links towards other useful sites relating to each topic.

This is a fun, interactive site with a lot of games, some of which can be played by two or more pupils

Exercises are added on a regular basis, so it is well worth checking this site regularly. Most of the topics follow the same pattern of exercises, such as matching French and English, wordsearches, flashcards.

Although this site is not aimed directly at GCSE pupils, it covers a lot of the topics studied and is an excellent tool to revise vocabulary and grammar at foundation level.

The University of Sussex has created an impressive and very useful list of links to do with France and the French culture. It includes background sites, news and media on line, teaching resources and sites for further research. Each site is documented.

http://www.yourdictionary.com

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This site offers access to online exercises to go alongside textbooks such as : Métro, Avantage, Fusée, Equipe and Formule X.

For KS4, it offers access to past papers and more online exercises.

Very useful site!