Start the French school year with confidence using this engaging La Rentrée Back-to-School French resource designed to help students reconnect with French, practise familiar language, and begin speaking from the very first lesson.
Perfect for Years 7–8 French beginners or returning students, this resource provides structured speaking activities, sentence starters, and interactive tasks that help students revise key vocabulary while building confidence and classroom communication skills.
Students practise introducing themselves, sharing preferences, and talking about themselves through scaffolded activities that make speaking French feel achievable.
Perfect for:
✔ first French lessons of the year
✔ back-to-school revision
✔ beginner French classes
✔ getting students speaking after a break
✔ relief lessons
What's Included
Students practise:
Tout sur moi (All About Me)
- introducing themselves
- sharing personal information
- using sentence structures such as:
– Je m'appelle…
– J'ai … ans
Tu aimes ça ? / J'aime…
- expressing likes and dislikes
- asking and answering simple questions
Les Vacances
- revising familiar holiday vocabulary
- sharing simple information
Speaking activities include:
✓ Interview ton camarade
✓ Parle avec un dé speaking game
✓ Trouve quelqu'un qui… mingle activity
✓ Structured role plays
Students build confidence with:
✔ speaking in French with classmates
✔ asking and answering simple questions
✔ introducing themselves
✔ expressing preferences
✔ using modelled sentence structures
✔ revising familiar vocabulary in context
Why Teachers Love It
Teachers love this resource because it:
✔ gets students communicating quickly
✔ reduces first-week planning stress
✔ provides clear speaking scaffolds
✔ supports mixed confidence levels
✔ encourages interaction rather than worksheet-only practice
✔ works for pairs, groups, whole-class activities or relief lessons
Australian Curriculum: French v9.0 – Years 7–8 (Year 7 entry)
Communicating meaning in French
- AC9LF8EC01 – Interact with others using modelled language to exchange information in familiar contexts about self and personal world
- AC9LF8EC02 – Develop language to interact in exchanges, routines, tasks and responsibilities related to classroom and interests
Understanding language and culture
- AC9LF8EU01 – Recognise and use features of the French sound system
- AC9LF8EU02 – Develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of, the French grammatical and writing systems
