Series of lessons (approx 3) talking about a special birthday in the past tense. Designed for higher ability but easily adaptable for all ability levels. Based on the VIVA 3 Rojo text book - Module 1 (Somos asi) Unit 4 (Un cumpleaños muy especial). Includes… Recap on dates and verbs in the I form of the past tense. Basic past tense opinions and topic based vocab drilling. Recap of key infinitives and preterit tense formation of all verbs. Exemplar extended sentence translations to build up to a longer piece of writing. Writing task

First lesson of this module focusing on talking about children’s rights. All images from the text book are removed from the slides but I have signposted page numbers for ease. You will need access to the online listening files, Previous topic taught: Module 3 - En forma Reading comprehension with unfinished sentences (daily routine / healthy lifestyle) pupils complete the sentences. Conjugation of PODER Zona cultura - video clip about UN convention on the rights of a child Match up - sentences and pictures ¿Qué es? Recall - oral / whiteboards / paired knockout Key vocab recall + challenge (conjugation of TENER) Translation: ¿Cuales son los derechos que tenemos en Inglaterra? Speaking activity: ¿Qué derecho es lo más importante para tí? ¿Por qué? Listening (activity 3 pg78) - challenge: translate the sentences into English Reading (activity 6 pg79) - challenge: make the false statements true Match up - protest slogans Create: Placard for a peaceful protest around children’s rights A few other activities in the text book that could be used to pad out the lesson and get in some additional practice. This was aimed at a top set Y9 class so some more structure may need to be added for lower sets - writing frames, speaking grids, amended translations etc.

Christmas Powerpoint with various group and individual activities culminating in pupils designing their own French christmas card. * Feel free to adapt, amend or change as you see fit, or have a go at your own using the backgrounds at the end of the PPT. Facts found on the internet so may not be 100% accurate (as kindly pointed out below!)

Xmas worksheet to compliment lesson of same title. Includes vocab challenge and wordsearch.

Christmas worksheet which teaches pupils topic-related vocabulary. Compliments Joyeux Noel Powerpoint.

Wordsearch game created using Linguascope with words for rooms in a house.

Powerpoint lesson to introduce rooms in a house. Provides opportunities for paired / group and individual activities including a written activity.

Lesson aimed at top set Y10 but can easily be adapted. Lesson looking at different accommodation types and using the preterite and imperfect tenses together. Potential for at least 2 lessons worth of content. C easily build in more whole class questioning, whiteboard recall and retrieval practice. Prior learning: preterite tense formation; imperfect tense formation; holiday vocabulary (countries, transport, activities). Pupils had already written an extended description of a past holiday (90 words) which they go back to this lesson and improve with a more detailed description of accomodation. Starter: Gap fill - preterite tense text about a past holiday with key verbs removed. Pupils have to fill in the missing verbs then find the two mistakes - 2 of the verbs should be in the imperfect. Activity 1. Think, pair, share: preterite vs imperfect tense Activity 2. Match up - accommodation Activity 3. Listen and repeat - accomodation Activity 4. Paired speaking: Talking about accommodation in the present tense - ¿Adónde te quedas normalmente cuando estás de vacaciones? ¿Por qué? Activity 5. Reading comprehension Activity 6. Extended vocab recall Activity 7. Translations: talking about accomodation in the imperfect tense Activity 8. DIRT time written task: ¿Adónde te quedaste durante las vacaciones y cómo era?

Approx. 2-3 lessons (depending on how much recall/retrieval you include) to compliment the VIVA AQA GCSE Textbook. Any images from the book have been removed from the presentation so you will need access to these resources to include - corresponding page numbers on the slides. This was designed for a top set Y10 class but I used both the VERDE and ROJO books as they are only just starting the GCSE course. Lesson 1-2: Places in a town (Viva ROJO) Plenty of opportunity to build in further retrieval activities or practice with adjectives if needed. I found I got to Activity 6 by the end of Lesson 1 so began with the adjective recall at the start of lesson 2. Starter - vocab recall + grammar activity (VIVIR) Activity 1: Whole class retrieval Activity 2: Paired retrieval (speaking practice) Activity 3: Making links - reading comp. Activity 4: Listening + grammar point (un/una/unos/unas/muchos/muchas) Activity 5: Sentence translations Sp-Eng + challenge Eng-Sp Activity 6: Adjective recall + think pair share Activity 7: Whiteboard work - stepped translations including adjectives Activity8: Writing task with template Bonus resource: Whole class feedback sheet based on common mistakes and misconceptions seen during the writing task. Lesson 3: Directions (Viva VERDE) Starter: Forming questions in Spanish - ¿dónde está? Activity 1: Paired vocabulary task Activity 2: Action! Activity 3: Listening: ¿Adónde van? Activity 4: Asking for and giving directions (speaking or writing task)

Intro to holidays in the present tense for Y8, before going onto Viva 2 Module 1 - Mis vacaciones. Main focus is on countries and recap of the verb IR. Includes match up, gap fill, translations, listen and repeat, beat the teacher and a peer assessment task too.

Lesson which looks at how to describe the place where you live. Looks at the differences between city and town and goes over adjectival endings. Re-caps giving opinions also.

Reading comprehension to compliment lesson of same title.

Comprehensive food and drink vocabulary challenge to compliment lessons on mealtimes. Can be done as a paired or group activity. In pairs each pupil has a sheet and has 5 minutes to try and translate as many items as possible, after 5 minutes they swap papers and have another 5 minutes. Or divide class into small groups and give each group a pack of post-it notes. They then have to translate as many items of food and drink as possible (without a dictionary) writing each item on a post-it and sticking them to the desk.

Nice cultural lesson on Paris - includes identify the monument activity, quiz, jot thoughts activity and an IT based research activity.

Lesson to follow on from 'Cómo Es Tu Pueblo / Ciudad?'. Looks at places in a town. Match up exercise that can be done in groups, pairs or as an individual activity. Re-caps using 'hay' and looks at an exemplar piece of level 4 writing. Pupils finish by writing a paragraph to say what is in their town - extension: use the future tense to make it a level 5 piece of work.

Comprehensive list of everyday foods for pupils to tranlsate into English then label the pictures in French.

Worksheet to compliment lesson introducing rooms in a house. Pupils translate rooms into English then colour code according to whether the word is masculine or feminine. Then label the pictures in French.

Lesson on mealtimes and food items. Follow on from breakfast lesson. Looks at verbs used in Spanish such as DESAYUNAR / ALMORZAR / CENAR etc. Also looks at sentence structure and extended sentences using phrases such as SIEMPRE / A VECES.

Foundation Y8 French lesson recapping weather (lesson 1) and then moving on to say what you do in good and bad weather (lesson 2). Follows the Studio 2 Foundation book Module 1: T’est Branché - Unit 5. Print out vocab lists included on hidden slides that wont show up during the presentation but can be printed off in advance of the lesson. Optional writing frame (depending on ability) for the final task. Can be easily adapted for more able or lower ability as necessary.

A GCSE revision lesson talking about food and meal times. Aimed at a lower ability class but still has high levels of challenge. Writing frames and additional support provided (such as instructions both in French and English) if needed. Linked to Studio Vert Pg50 but solely focuses on mealtimes, talking about food preferences and DOES NOT include anything on quantities (Pg51). Pour commencer: find the odd one out (recap on food and drink items) Activity 1: Vocab retrieval French-English Activity 2: Vocab retrieval English-French Activity 3: Listening (mealtimes/food and drink items) Activity 4: Point Grammaire - du, de la and des Activity 5: Controle - du, de la and des Activity 6: Full sentence tranlsation, English-French Activity 7: Speaking/Writing activity - responding to questions Pour terminer: C’est bon ou mauvais pour la santé? Pourquoi?