Lesson for higher-ability GCSE class. Engaging activity (running dictation) with a model text about someone’s favourite sport in Spanish followed by writing activity. Interactive noughts and crosses game also included.

Lesson to introduce Spanish weather phrases in imperfect tense. These are then incorporated into complex sentences about leisure/ free time activities - activity to show students how to make sentences more and more complex. Speaking activity, writing activity and plenary game (full instructions on slide notes).

Lesson suitable for a GCSE class. Introduces phrases for helping around the house in the infinitive and present tense. Builds up to writing sentences including weather phrases and frequencies. Includes engaging activities and 2 games with instructions in the slide notes (battleships and a plenary speaking game).

GCSE Spanish holidays vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes countries, transport, accommodation, holiday activities and weather and the past tense. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish chores vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes chores, opinions, what other people do, weather and includes a range of tenses. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish leisure vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes opinions, leisure activities, comparisons, imperfect and future tense sentences. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish technology/ media vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes opinions, activities using technology, advantages and disadvantages of technology. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish social problems vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes social/ world problems and proposed solutions. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish environmental problems vocabulary (focusing on students’ local environment) is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes local area problems e.g. pollution, comparisons, opinions, suggestions for resolving the problems including conditional and subjunctive set phrases. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish school subjects vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes asignaturas, opinions, a range of tenses and great phrases for those aiming for a 9. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish lesson to introduce vocabulary for world problems. Suitable for middle to high ability group. Includes images to introduce vocabulary e.g. el cambio climático, la guerra, el paro. There is then a whole class team game to embed the vocabulary. Full instructions are on the slide. The slide on the board can be printed and handed out as a vocab sheet to glue into books. There is then a pair game to model putting the vocabulary into high level opinion sentences e.g. pienso que el problema más grave hoy en día es el paro porque en mi opinión afecta a muchas personas. This game uses set phrases to build up their familiarity with the vocab. The lesson then introduces the set phrases ‘lo que más/ menos me preocupa es…’ and there is a translation activity to practise this.

GCSE Spanish lesson on what there is in students’ towns/ en mi pueblo. Includes vocab revision on places in town, identifying what there is to do for different groups of people (families, older people etc.) and reading practise on the topic. Suitable for a higher ability group. Starter reading activity to revise KS3 vocabulary on places in town. Vocab list that can be printed and glued into books (places in town) and slides with images to model how to put these into sentences about what there is for different groups of people. Introduction to the higher level phrase me habría gustado + infinitive with examples relevant to the topic. This can be left out for lower ability groups. Reading text which can be used as a model text for writing, which can be set for homework. True/ false activity and list of things to find that make the text an example of ‘what a good one looks like’.

Powerpoint to introduce school subject vocabulary and to talk about how many times a week they study those subjects. There are slides with nice pictures to introduce 12 school subjects (asignaturas). There are 2 slap the board games and a slow-reveal of an image team game to practise the vocabulary. There is a slide that can be printed with a match-up activity that can be glued into books so students have a copy of the vocabulary. There is a translation activity, a battleships game (slide can be printed for students and instructions are in the slide notes) and 2 slides for plenary activities.

Activity to practise French speaking. 26x printable French identity cards including name, nationality, age, birthday, brothers & sisters and pets. Perfect activity for consolidating a unit of work on ‘about me’. You could challenge students to ask all questions to as many people as possible or turn it into a ‘find someone who…’ activity to ensure that students listen to others’ answers.

Two lessons in this powerpoint introducing aller in the present tense and building sentences about where students go (places in town revision). Includes: beetle game battleships game reading activity structured dictation activity plenary class game Instructions for games are provided in slide notes and print outs are included.

Lesson on giving opinions and reasons about what students like to wear/ their clothes. The lesson revises clothes vocabulary (including adding adjectives) and then moves on to building complex opinion sentences e.g. j’aime porter un jean parce que je pense que c’est assez confortable et chic. There is a speaking/listening game to practise putting together these sentences and a writing activity.

Worksheet to revise etre verbs in the passé composé and to learn or revise irregular past participles. There is space to write in the verbs that take etre using the DR MRS VANDERTRAMP mnemonic. There are then 10 sentences to translate into French with a mixture of avoir and etre verbs so that students have to think carefully about whether it is an avoir or etre sentence. There is a grid to fill out with common verbs with irregular past participles. There are 6 sentences to translate into French using verbs with irregular past participles. Worksheet suitable for a higher ability GCSE class or for AS/ A level revision.

Lesson introducing students to what an infinitive is. This is then built on when introducing the easy future tense in French using aller in the present tense. Dictionary activity and translation activity with answers included.

A lesson to introduce vocabulary for forms of transport in French. There are three slides to revise directions to places in town in French including a speaking activity with a map and a short writing activity. 9 forms of transport are introduced in French there are 5 slides with 5 quick games to practise recognising and using transport vocabulary in present tense sentences (colour sentences, bomb sentences, a dice game, slap the board and find the treasure). Translation activity with answers and plenary game included. All games are fully explained in the slide notes.

2x lessons in one powerpoint revising sports/ leisure activities, introducing the present tense for -er verbs in French and practising reading and writing skills. In the first lesson there are 2 short activities to revise sports vocabulary (slap the board and put spaces back into sentences). The present tense of -er verbs is introduced through petal endings and there is a gap fill to practise. In the second lesson, students revise present tense endings for -er verbs in French. There is an excellent whole-class game perfect for AFL to practise the verb endings (full instructions in slide notes) - the class is split into 2 teams and students have to stand up and beat the other team when it’s their turn to answer. There is a short activity with the verbs in sentences and then a reading and writing task. There is also a plenary game at the end (instructions in ppt - pirate/ treasure).