Beginner strip bingo game on food items. Instructions for game plus a displayable list of items the pupils can refer to. Just hand out strips of paper (e.g. a pice of A4, portrait, cut or torn down the middle).

Video listening - intermediate level. A French camp site. A 4m 27s video presentation of a site in Finistère, Brittany. Students must tick off any facilities mentioned in the video from a list. Then they do a true/false/not mentioned task. All in lovely target language! You could easily build this in to a sequence of work on holidays, with some discussion of pros and cons of camping or personal accounts of camping.

Text about why people steal. Vocabulary, tick true sentences, gap fill. Adapted and translated from a piece from a series for children in The Guardian.

Intermediate fait divers about an orangutan who did not want to give up its cuddly toy at the airport. Apparently it became rather stroppy when the security officials tried to take its teddy. The security people feared it might be trafficking drugs. Text, tick true sentences, vocabulary, questions and translation.

A grid to complete with -er verb phrases in the present tense. English-French and French-English. A narrow range of common regular verbs are used with a few notes to help students. The task could be extended by asking pupils to make up full sentences using a selection of the verbs.

Video listening. Interview with a former student from a lycée militaire, now at an IUT (Institut universitaire de technologie). Tick off the true sentences and translate/transcribe sentences. This could work with AS level, but probably best with advanced (A2 level) students. Nice clear recording.

Intermediate reading. Text about Sting not passing on his fortune to his children. Text, vocabulary, tick the true sentences in French, gap fill.

Parallel reading for near beginners. Vampires. Tick the true sentences, underline cognates and complete a word list. This could work from primary through to Y8.

Identifying attitudes and points of view. 100 statements covering 16 topics. Students mark them as POSITIVE, NEGATIVE or POSTIVE/NEGATIVE. This type of exercises often features in exams. Students could try all 100 in one sitting (about 20 minutes?) and see how they score.

Another set of 10 reading comprehension gapfills for intermediate (GCSE/IGCSE) level. These have a different format to the ones I posted three days ago. I quite like these: they assess comprehension without having to resort to English.