Total coverage of the curriculum for KS2 French
Bring primary French to life with fun and engaging lessons, like this introductions exercise designed to facilitate students’ speaking skills. With a complete range of engaging activities matched to the KS2 Framework for MFL, Ensemble! provides everything you need to help children take their first steps in language learning.
- Ensemble! is mapped to the KS2 Framework for MFL to aid planning and progression for your students.
- With 120 activities across 20 units, it’s easy to build skills, pronunciation and confidence throughout lessons.
- The wealth of material contained in each presentation enables students to build oracy and literacy skills in line with the KS2 Framework.
Well-organised resources for whatever you’re teaching
Boardworks lessons are coherently structured and enhanced by a wealth of material to stimulate and inspire your students. Typical slides, like this one about telling the time, combine the main vocabulary for teaching with fully integrated audio.
- Audio clips can be paused or replayed, and written phrases revealed or hidden, so you can move at a pace that’s right for you and your class.
- Audio extracts are recorded using native French speakers, to introduce over 400 words and key phrases to your students.
Easy-to-use and ready-to-teach
Boardworks lessons are fully prepared and contain a wide variety of resources, saving you and your colleagues valuable preparation time. All the activities are ideal for dipping into, like this engaging activity which can be used to introduce vocabulary about the parts of the body to the whole class, or to revise with smaller groups.
- Grammar and dictionary sections in each of the 20 units build language awareness and literacy skills.
- A simple one-click navigation system allows you to always find the resources you need quickly and easily.
Inspiringly interactive
Embrace the interactive potential of your whiteboard and develop early language skills in a unique and stimulating way. This drag and drop activity about European countries introduces your students to the new vocabulary in a fun and easily recalled way.
- The interactive activities enable children to confidently express themselves in French across a wide range of key topics.
- Specially-written songs and poems provide memorable stimuli for group oral work.
A wealth of exciting ideas
The wide range of exciting activities lets you cover the requirements of the KS2 French curriculum with great ease and variety. Encourage class participation and understanding of key vocabulary with visually appealing and exciting activities like this animal noughts and crosses game.
- Dynamic activities will engage children taking their first steps in language learning with fun and visually-appealing characters to help bring French lessons to life.
- Anagrams, dominoes, word searches, noughts and crosses, snap and bingo games consolidate students’ learning in a fun and exciting way.
Additional teaching support
Ensemble! is supported by a range of additional resources designed to enhance your lessons and provide complete teacher support. Mapping grids, detailed teacher’s notes and help text all written in English provide assistance at every stage for both non-specialists and experienced language teachers.
- Printable vocabulary and phrase lists plus full audio transcripts give clear explanations of all grammar points plus language learning tips to boost students’ linguistic awareness.
- Detailed teacher’s notes accompany the product, offering complete support for non-specialist teachers, innovative ideas for using the resources and suggestions for extension activities.
Engaging and comprehensive from start to finish
Round up your lessons with interesting and varied plenaries, like this listening exercise consolidating students learning about places and directions. Whatever your teaching style, Boardworks resources contain everything you need to comprehensively cover a subject from start to finish.
- A wide variety of revision activities test understanding of key vocabulary and enable children to confidently express themselves in French across a wide range of key topics.