EASIER ACCESS!

No new presentations added, I’m afraid, but I have been through the collection as is and improved the way things work on this site by using the PowerPoint web app for the embeds. This lets you (a) see the presentation on this page (b) view a full screen version, or (c) download a full-fat PowerPoint file. Enjoy!

PERFECT TENSE

Amazing that, after teaching for all these years, I had never really tackled creating a slide show on the Perfect tense, Passé Composé, call it what you will. So I decided that would be my half term challenge and so, sporadically over a few evenings, I came up with this. There are a couple of incorrect animations in the embed version that are not as in the original. Use the menu button (2nd from right) to access that.

I rather ambitiously included avoir and être verbs, regulars and irregulars and reflexives, but there are clear sections, so the slideshow could be shown in bits if preferred for teaching purposes. Timings take care of most things, so the only clicks needed are (1) to advance the slide (2) to action the various triggers, ie the links included on some slides (3) to reveal the answers on the practice slides.

IL FAUT

A 20 minute rush job with this one, as I decided in the lunch break before the lesson that I needed something, however brief and perfunctory, to illustrate the use of il faut. And pretty brief and perfunctory it turned out to be. Seemed to do the business, however. There’s much to be said for keeping things uncomplicated. As ever, only slide transitions require a click.

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FUTURE TENSE

I’ve pretty much finished teaching the future tense to my year 9 class so it’s a bit late to be finishing off the slideshow! But here it is anyway, with a suitably futuristic background. It’s a pretty stripped-down presentation of the futur simple, but then you don’t want your PowerPoint to do all the work for you, do you? All actions are taken care of by built-in timings, so the only clicking required is to advance the slide.

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MORE REFLEXIVE VERBS

The second and third presentations on reflexive verbs are here in reverse order. The final one of the series deals with the Perfect Tense of reflexives. I often try to give a presentation some kind of theme, however irrelevant: this time I got hung up on things cinematic. The Flash conversion misses a scrolling text on the intermission slides, but is otherwise pretty accurate. Beware of trying to click too much – there are a lot of built-in timings.

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This presentation (second of three) introduces what I think of as the unexpected reflexives, ie not the ones that deal with daily routine stuff. It follows on in style from the first one on reflexives. Sadly, the Flash conversion messed up the text animation on the infinitives, but the original PPT is fine.

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REFLEXIVE VERBS

This recent effort really was a night before the lesson job. I was feeling depressed about dealing with reflexive verbs without something pretty on the IWB, so I sat up from midnight to 1.30 am working on this presentation. It displays my usual minimalist tendencies but is probably none the worse for that. After all, any presentation is just a tool to provide a visual backup for the teacher.

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