Click on the links below to access useful websites to help you with your MFL subjects :
ZUT (free to use after 4pm)
A terrific site that contains plenty of online interactive activities organised by year group.
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 a student who likes 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. 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)
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!
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 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 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.
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!
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. The site also 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.
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.
As well as providing a lot of general information for teachers, such as professional development and education overview, Teachernet is also a portal for sites to do with all aspects of teaching. The sites are ordered alphabetically.
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!
Pupils can use this online dictionary to check vocabulary from French or German to English and vice-versa.
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