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!
A worksheet with a sequence of activities to introduce and practise talking about pets and colours for beginners’ Spanish. Activities include a matching exercise, a vocab table to fill out, a listening gap-fill and a ‘bad translation’ exercise.
Worksheet introduce and extensively practise vocab to do with daily routines and school. The aim is for pupils to learn all this language, including the verbs as vocabulary, BEFORE you go on to unpack the grammar of reflexive verbs and practise the conjugations. This helps avoid cognitive overload (which often happens when trying to teach grammar rules and meaning at the same time) Answers included, of course.
A worksheet with a few teacher-led activities to learn and consolidate vocab for giving positive and negative opinions on hobbies. Answers and instructions included.
Sentence builder on family relationships, saying if you get on well or not with family members an 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 variety of worksheets and multi-skill activities all relating to the topic of family - describing who is in your family, giving physical description of family members, describing personality/character, using object pronouns and depuis with the present tense, and describing relationships with family members using reflexive verbs on how well you get on and why. Activities include sentence builders, quick listening activities, translations, sentence jumble, gap-fills, gapped translations, bad translation / faulty transcript, aural sentence puzzles and other tasks.
Two sentence builders on the following topis: giving opinions on one’s job / work experience, and describing a past work experience + a jumble activity to go with the past work experience SB.
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 good sentence builder to use at the start of lessons to encourage target language and reinforce some key structures. 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
6 different sentence builders in French covering a large variety of high frequency expressions for classroom interactions - this encourages target language use and reinforces useful structures. See my shop for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder - ‘teaching ideas for using sentence builders’
A sentence builder to answer the question Qu’est-ce que tu as fait aujourd’hui ? / say what you have done today, within the context of high frequency verbs for being at school. 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
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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 selection of resources including a sentence builder on the advantages of doing an internship to answer the question ‘Pourquoi est-il important de faire un stage ?’ a list of vocab to paste into Quizlet/Textivate, a ‘gap fill no gaps’ listening activity with transcript for teacher to read and a ‘1 pen 1 dice’ translation activity.
A short activity where students must read the boxes and put the phrase under the correct column - you can project this onto the board, tell students to read each phrase aloud in pairs and decide which column it goes in.
Worksheets of activities to introduce and practise using possessive adjectives in Spanish, in relation to topic of family. Brief activity on definite article. Notes for teacher on how to use the activities included. One task also involves teaching dictionary skills.
Mosaic translations from English to Spanish with vocab grid to help with word order and spellings. On topic of ordering food.
Missing letters task on drinks in Spanish. Can be done orally or printed out.
A huge collection of activities to introduce and extensively practise vocab on describing people (phsyical description with ser, tener, eyes, hair, and description of personality). Activities include listening and speaking activities, translations (oral and written), sentence unjumbling, multiple-choice, writing frames with support etc.
Scaffold / writing frame for basic descriptions of family members in Spanish - vocab included to help. This activity would need to take place after pupils are familiar with the vocab in the boxes at the top - they are just there as prompts.
Set of worksheets and activities to introduce and practise describing people and comparing them using más… que, menos… que and tan… como
Short activity to complete orally projected onto the board (or printed out if you prefer)
Parallel text with sentences in Spanish and English - you can use it to ask pupils to ‘find the Spanish’ for certain phrases in the English eg. ‘taller than’, ‘I think that’ etc. - can be done as a quiz
Long worksheet practising it extensively
Starter recap translations for a following lesson
After learning about el día de los muertos / day of the dead, beginners can learn how to describe someone in the past so they can write a simple ‘tribute’ to someone that has passed, this can be turned into a seasonal display and pupils can decorate their tribute with marigolds or other flowers, photos or drawings. Worksheets include:
2 sheets of vocab activities to do (after you’ve introduced pupils to some of the basic descriptions vocab)
Sentence builder for writing a tribute - modelled answers in grid to help. This can be used to do dictations, aural translations etc. using mini-whiteboards and having pupils use the sentence builder.
Blank writing sheet for once pupils have practised enough - can be used as assessment.
