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
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.
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
A big quiz of 30 questions on the Spanish-speaking world - can be used for beginners, done aurally in class or as a research task. Answers are included in the document. Great for starting off beginners in Spanish to get them interested in Hispanic world, or as an end-of-term fun activity!
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 reading comprehension with various exercises to consolidate the vocabulary on the topic. For KS4 topic of health / healthy lifestyles. Activities include find the vocab in the text, gap-fill, French questions, vocab-list and translation.
A set of translations from English to French to practise 3 key verbs on the topic of family relationships / les relations familiales - se fâcher contre, s’entendre avec, se disputer avec - a good revision exercise to go back to this topic or a writing practice for once pupils have had plenty of practise on reading & listening with these verbs eg. https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reflexive-verbs-and-family-relationships-worksheets-12282709
les verbes pronominaux / la famille
Selection of worksheets and activities for learning how to introduce oneself and give other details such as where you are from, birthday, language you speak, age and where you live. Including:
Worksheets to be done in class or homework with matching activities, translations and reading comprehension, answers included
Ppt. oral matching task with memory game for basic questions & answers
Ppt. with a load of oral memory drills to recycle & retrieve the basic questions & answers
Basic intros ‘correct the facts’ listening comp with translations - a thorough processing task that extensively recycles the language to give the above info
1 pen 1 dice game (google 1 pen 1 dice for instructions)
Basic greetings recap starter sheet
narrow reading texts on ppt. - can be printed off or projected on screen for pupils to translate orally into English
A sentence builder on the topic of describing someone’s personality - may be useful within the topics of family or friends / le caractère / la personnalité / la famille / les amis / descriptions. 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
An aural sentence puzzle followed by a vocab activity to introduce reflexive verbs for describing relationships with family members / les relations familiales / se fâcher contre / se disputer avec / s’entendre bien avec / les verbes pronominaux
A sentence builder to learn to answer the question ‘Si tu pudieras cambiar algo de tu colegio, ¿qué cambiarías?’ 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
All the sentence builders (along with several other activities) that I’ve made so far for KS4 French covering the topics of:
describing personality/character
describing physique/physical descriptions
a true friend / good parents
how you celebrated your birthday (perfect tense)
describing location of house
future studies
future tense / hobbies / free time
holidays - where you spend your holidays and how you travel
my dream job and qualities needed
my region / area
talking about your hobbies / free time and giving opinions on them
perfect tense / passé composé hobbies / free time
benefits of doing an internship / un stage
describing teachers and school activities
family relationships - saying whether you get on well or not with 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
A 3-page worksheet / activity sequence explaining how to use the pronouns en and y in set phrases for the topic of free time / hobbies / les loisirs / le temps libre. Ideal for helping pupils to integrate these into their writing to score higher marks for complexity / use of ‘complex structures’.
The principles for how en and y work are briefly explained, but the pronouns are mostly practised in the context of useful phrases on the topic, including with negatives and time phrases.
There is also a stage combining them with the present tense with depuis to enhance the complexity of students’ sentences.
Activities include a brief grammar explanation to read, a matching task, a teacher-led listening, multiple-choice, translations and a writing task.
All answers included.
Suitable for KS4 French or very able KS3 pupils as extension work.
See below a similar resource for using ‘en’ in the topic of school, but this time the practice is purely translations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12967353
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
A selection of 3 detailed sentence builders for KS4 or KS3 French for talking about le temps / la météo. Includes how to talk about the weather in three tenses, past present and future, and how to combine weather with your favourite saison - quelle est ta saison préférée, and examples of how to link it to free time activities.
See ideas for how to exploit sentence builders at this link below https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12281180 or at my blog.
A variety of activities to teach ser in the present tense to beginners, in the context of saying your nationality and where you are from. For 1-2 lessons. Includes:
Matching sheet to introduce the verb forms, some countries and nationalities
‘de donde eres’ big worksheet to be filled in using matching sheet including challenging listening comprehension task and translation
Additional lesson activity ideas included
Resources on mi tiempo libre / mis pasatiempos including regular verbs, sports and activities vocab, time phrases and connectives. Resources are mostly worksheets with different activities, often listening, matching, writing and translation.
A variety of different classroom activities and worksheets for teaching the irregular verb estar in the present tense to beginners in a few lessons. Includes:
dictation missing letters task to introduce verb and emotions and practise phonics
inductive grammar worksheet to fill in with translations
Interactive oral/memory tasks on ppt. to consolidate the conjugations