3 x Sentence Builders for the new AQA GCSE French topic CUSTOMS AND CELEBRATIONS

Recommended for Higher Tier due to the range of language, but could easily be adapted for Foundation Tier (editable word documents included)

What’s included:

Learning outcomes covered:
o Describing birthdays - 3 tenses
o Describing a traditional celebrations and festivals
o How you celebrate - 3 tenses

Vocabulary based on the official AQA lists + high frequency, useful verb phrases, complex structures as chunks and other universals

Integration of complex structures and idiomatic expressions to help students learn high-level language as chunks

High-frequency vocabulary and complex structures are recycled across several of the sentence builders

How to use them:

Modelling & scaffolding: I use sentence builders as a Knowledge Organiser, a modelling tool when introducing a new topic, and a scaffold for writing and speaking.

Teaching ideas: I have a free document in my TES called “Teaching ideas for sentence builders” that I recommend downloading if you’d like more ideas on how to get started with sentence builders.

EPI methodology: Although I do not work in an EPI school or follow every part of MARS EARS from Gianfranco Conti, these sentence builders could be used for EPI - they are in both PDF and word format so can be edited and adapted.

If you have any questions about this resource, please do not hesitate to contact me via my MFL Instagram @eclaireMFL