French

There are many cultural references, native speakers and real life situations captured within the clips in the French library allowing teachers to teach and students to become motivated and energised. Plus, this library features clips from the 2007 Educational Resource Award winning series Extr@.

The French News Bites cover topical events presented in the form of a video news bulletin containing curriculum-focused reports aimed at key stages 3 and 4.

There are 31 topics available through Clipbank for teaching French, covering:

Grammar

  • Present tense
  • Perfect tense
  • Future tense
  • Mix of tenses
  • Commands
  • Use of 'avoir'
  • Possessives
  • Prepositions
  • Pronouns
  • Asking questions
  • Negatives
  • Modal verbs
  • Adjectives
  • Useful expressions

Topics

  • The basics
  • House and home
  • Fashion
  • The essentials
  • Food and drink
  • Introductions
  • Holidays and tourism
  • Leisure
  • Health and fitness
  • Relationships
  • The world of work
  • Culture
  • Opinions
  • Countries and cities
  • Local area
  • Fashion
  • Animals
  • Self, family and friends

French sample videos

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Fanny's hobby (1)

Finding your way around a department store

Shopping on the internet

Sacha claims her lottery prize