Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Sentence builder for learning how to give opinions on your hobbies hobbies / free time activities with a range of activity ideas
Various exercises to introduce and practise three reflexive verbs on the topic of family relationships - s’entendre avec, se disputer avec, se fâcher contre. Also practices vocab for members of the family and negative sentences with ne pas and ne jamais. Exercises include matching / match-up, listening / jumble / unscramble sentences and gap-fill. Answers included. Les verbes pronominaux / la famille / tu t’entends bien avec ta famille? les relations familiales
A set of 3 x sentence builders to help pupils structure their answers and vary their vocab for the card discussion in the speaking exam for AQA. Quizlet links for studying the vocab are included in the document. Pupils can use this document as a scaffold when preparing answers to speaking cards.
A sentence builder and translation activity on the topic of physical descriptions / describing family members in French to answer the question ‘comment sont-ils physiquement?’ See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
A sentence builder on the topic of health to answer the question ‘¿Qué haces para mantenerte en forma?’ along with a short listening ‘faulty transcript’ exercise and some translations / jumbled sentences. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
A sentence builder frame to help students learn to answer the question how did you celebrate your birthday in French - perfect tense and key vocab
4 pages of activities on worksheets (1-2 lessons’ worth) introducing the rooms in the house and key verbs and structures for describing them and giving opinions. Activities include:
Vocab matching task to introduce rooms
short reading with vocab-finding task to identify core verbs and structures
listening gap-fill
bad translation exercise based on listening transcript
reading exercises - reordering a text and filling gaps
writing - translation sentences and then a free writing task
Answers all included.
Suitable for KS3 or KS4.
A basic, minimalist sentence builder for introducing the perfect tense in French / passé composé roughly on the topic of free time / leisure activities / hobbies. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Includes the following:
A variety of lesson activities for 1-3 lessons to learn to describe the environmental problems in the world and the local area - a parallel text with suggestions on how to use it, a vocab hunt, delayed dictation, unscramble the sentences exercise, broken sentences to match up, another parallel text followed by a gap-fill, scaffolded translations from English into French. All answers included.
A short listening, matching activity & reading comprehension exercise to consolidate the future tense through listening & reading alongside environment vocab.
A variety of lesson activities to learn to say what you do / what you can do to protect the environment / ecology - including matching activity to introduce the vocab, vocab hunt, listening gap-fill with follow-up activity and guided writing task (complete the sentences)
A variety of lesson activities on the topic of ecology (ce que je fais pour aider l’environnement) / environment and practising using negatives - ne pas, ne jamais and ne que. Exercises include a grammar recap, match-up of sentences, narrow reading with vocab hunt and comprehension, listening comprehension, quiz quiz trade and sentence unjumbling. Table of all vocab used in lesson is included for if you want to upload it to your own Quizlet / spreadsheet. Enough activities for 1-3 lessons depending on ability of group.
A sentence builder and short translation task to learn to describe your ideal house using the conditional & imperfect subjunctive. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
I just made these 6 sentence builders to give to my students to revise from for a writing test. They cover the following points:
Introducing yourself, giving age, birthday, where you’re from and where you live
Describing physique, hair and eyes - of yourself or of someone else
Describing personality - of yourself or of someone else
Describing your family and giving their names, ages and birthdays
Saying what pets you have (and colours) and any pets you used to have / would like to have
However, you can also use them for teaching the content in the first place - click this link to see ideas on how you can use sentence builders https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
A 3-page worksheet or activity sequence introducing a range of higher-level adjectives and focusing on the principles of adjective agreement within context of personality / le caractère / la personnalité / descriptions of people.
Activities:
Matching task for vocab
short dictation of the verb être
beat the teacher
inductive grammar task
grammar table exercise to focus on endings
short listening
correct or incorrect task
All answers included. Activities could easily be extended by doing translations both ways on mini whiteboards to consolidate all language at any point.
A parallel text gap-fill in French to learn the vocab for different members of the family / Décrire la famille / les membres de la famille. Answers included.
Thanks to Christopher Pye for the awesome excel spreadsheet used to make this. An oral translation ping pong activity on the topic of transport/travel.
Basic text on topic of mi colegio with vocab activities and translation. Once you have completed the vocab-finding activity, you can do true or false statements tailored to your group, OR comprehension questions. A more interesting and challenging activity is to get students to come up with a list of their own true or false statements to ask others - a great way to get them to study the text in detail. Finish with the translations. Answers included, of course.
See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
A sentence builder with a worksheet and list of teaching ideas and activities (listening, speaking, translation) to teach the future tense. Answers for worksheet included. It is within the topic of les loisirs / le temps libre / free time / hobbies. There is enough material for several lessons on this.
Family relationships sentence builder in Spanish for learning to describe how you get on with different family members and why. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
Worksheet containing a matching activity, listening and reading tasks and translations on the advantages and disadvantages of living in the countryside. Audio file and answers included.
