Imparfait ou passé composé practice - a worksheet of exercises that can be completed orally or in writing

A good end-of-topic exercise to practise writing about the topic of food and drink, with a follow-up checklist of things to focus on to upgrade your answers.

Thanks to Christopher Pye for the awesome excel spreadsheet used to make this. Oral ping pong translation on the topic of holidays to consolidate all vocab and practise speaking.

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.

A revision worksheet revising the use of depuis with present tense on the topic of music.

A revision sheet with a gapped translation for agreeing adjectives on the topic of food. Answers included.

A set of exercises with a model answer and general tips on scoring a high mark in the CIE IGCSE writing question 3.

A table to help students practise writing on the topic of money for the Q2 on the CIE IGCSE writing paper.

A worksheet designed for completion shortly after watching the film Julieta by Almodovar to consolidate understanding of the plot. They could either be completed as quite quick activities for students to quickly get an overview of the plot, or could easily be stretched out to cover a whole lesson with lots of discussion about the plot in more detail and students’ ideas about the themes of the film, the style and any other observations.

A reading comprehension in Spanish on some bullet points providing general background information about Almodóvar's 2016 feature Julieta. Intended for students studying the film at A Level or Pre-U. This is a good activity for homework or classwork to be completed either before watching the film or just after.

A worksheet on Maître Gims's new song 'Cameleon' from December 2017. Filling in the blanks in lyrics, matching up new vocab, and some short 'find the vocab' activities. You could also spend some time at the start of the lesson discussing French music, Maitre Gims, Black M and Sexion d'Assaut to see if any students have discovered their music before.

This listening comprehension tests a range of topics that would have already been taught by the time pupils complete this - it can be used as an end-of-topic assessment and covers age, birthday, languages, family members, pets and physical description. The teacher reads the transcript and pupils answer, or you can record the transcript onto an audio file and set it as homework.

Quick reading comprehension task to consolidate vocab on describing family members. Also draws attention to adjectives and verbs. You could extend the activity by asking pupils to translate the boxes orally into English, or to rewrite each box changing TWO details in Spanish for each person.

Basic practice of describing people in Spanish - unjumble the sentences and complete the gap-fill using the options. Answers included. Covers topics of describing age and nationality, hair, eyes, weight and some personality.

Basic ppt. with flashcards to introduce vocab and model pronunciation. You could do a variety of listen and repeat activities such as choral repetition, repeating whispering, repeating shouting, or get different pupils or teams to repeat to practise pronunciation. Then, on the blank slides with only the images, do a ‘this or that’ activity - say TWO phrases in Spanish and they have to write down/shout out which one matches the picture.

Spanish to English translations short activity to consolidate vocab on describing people with ser. Answers included. This activity could be done as a competition/quiz in pairs or as a ‘one pen one dice’ activity (Google it! Great game) After you’ve corrected them, you could practise listening by asking pupils to turn the sheet over, then you read out one of the sentences from the sheet in Spanish, and on the back or on a miniwhiteboard, pupils translate it into English - good listening practice.

Sentence unjumbling task can be done orally as per instructions on slide 1, or printed and done in writing. Or pupils can write answers on mini whiteboards and do it live. Vocab is on topic of describing people. Can be done as a quiz or competition.

Mini translations to complete as a race / quiz against partner. Can be used as Spanish to English or English to Spanish - simply select the Spanish or English column, change the colour to WHITE and then PRINT! You can change the colour back to black to show the answers.

Flashcards to introduce vocab on describing personality - you can do different listen and repeat style activities with this, eg. individual repetition, choral repetition, whispering, shouting, then every so often go back a few slides and ask is it … or …? (give two options in Spanish and pupils give the correct one) then there are a few consolidation/recall activities in the ppt. and a sentence unjumbling activity to complete orally.

Several activities which could last a few lessons / homeworks to introduce physical descriptions using ser, all teacher instructions and answers are included. Activities consolidate the vocab. You could also substitute the translation worksheets for aural translation - instead of pupils seeing the sheet, you read one of the sentences from the sheet in Spanish and they write the English, or you could use it to do dictation sentences.