I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
I’ve included all the top things that usually come up (i.e. prepositions, weather)
tenses for foundation and higher students of key verbs
articles and possessive pronouns
a range of opinion phrases
photo card language
mat is divided by colour meaning it’s easy to differentiate vocabulary
Resources developed to support students working from home due to Covid.
1-2 worksheets per module to cover all points extensively. Range of tasks (differentiated with support and lots of stretch and challenge)
Includes:
2.1 ¿Qué te gusta hacer? Using opinions + infinitive verbs
2.1b HL opinions, 3rd person opinions
2.2 ¿Cantas karaoke? Regular AR verbs in the present tense
2.2b Regular verbs in the present tense - all endings
3 ¿Qué haces cuando llueve? - Using cuando and talking about the weather
4 ¿Qué deportes haces? jugar vs. hacer
Extra - inductive JUGAR/ HACER full paradigm activities
5 - ¿Eres fanático? - talking about interests in detail
6 - Question words focus - Asking and answering
All activities have instructions in target language and examples for each activity.
Resources developed in line with new school policy of only using digital resources during Covid. Worksheets can replace lessons or be used in lessons.
1-2 worksheets per unit to cover all textbook content/ key vocab and grammar in detail Range of tasks (differentiated with support and lots of stretch and challenge)
Includes 4 extra extensive worksheets on the passé composé.
These resources are original and do not clash with the textbook/ workbook activities.
Range of activities, increasing in cognitive demand. Regular differentiation through examples and challenge/ super challenge tasks.
Worksheet focusing on vocab/ verbs to help do a writing on work and part time jobs
includes higher level phrases, infinitive verbs, connectives and success criteria
6 pages - differentiated by outcome
booklet is divided into sections, each one harder than the last
Section 1 - starts with basic vocab/ connectives and focuses on correct, short sentences
Section 2 - looks at opinions and reasons, revises key adjectives
Section 3 - looks at 4 tenses (regular present, simple future, preterite, conditional) in detail with time expressions for each tense
final activity brings everything together and has 4 levels of challenge
Has been very effective with 2 classes, both mixed ability and a set 2/5
Really proud of this
visual prompts/ fly in answers throughout
very visually stimulating and well designed
lesson focuses on language/ grammar patterns
increases in cognitive demand throughout
reflection points and production tasks
Good to consolidate grammar or use for intervention.
Generic grammar and vocabulary based tasks for extension challenge work
I have laminated them and cut them out, put the gcse ones on different coloured paper to give 2 levels of challenge work and it’s worked very well.
Lots of vocabulary/ dictionary skills/ grammar activities
These workshops have been made to support Dynamo 2 vert Module 1 - vive les vacances!
Topics included:
Reviewing and talking about school holidays
The perfect tense (regular and irregular)
Places in town
Past tense activities, opinions
Range of verb endings + negative verbs practice
Talking about a special holiday in the past
Differentiated writing tasks on past holidays
Resources could be used to support class powerpoints, remote learning, homeworks, or additional support.
**All resources compliment / consolidate content from Module 1. There are no duplicated tasks from the textbook or workbook. **
Each worksheet has clear instructions with examples for every task. Each worksheet is extensively differentiated. Tasks take 20-30 minutes (in line with ks3 homework requirements) with lots of optional extra tasks for higher end vert students.
Activities are inductive but aptly supported. Each worksheet will incorporate different “challenge” tasks which increase in cognitive demand, this could be creation tasks, the manipulation of verbs or sentences, etc.
Dynamo 2 Module 1 rouge resources coming soon.
Inductive worksheet covering the present and perfect tense with avoir.
What’s included?
common infinitives
common regular verbs
common irregular verbs
how to form the regular present/ perfect tense with avoir
practice with the above
common irregular forms of the present/ perfect tenses
practice with the above
a writing task
a reflection task
Would be suitable for KS3 as it is differentiated/ has lots of support but also low ability GCSE French groups.
MADE TO CONSOLIDATE EXPO 3 VERT MODULE 1: Ça t’intéresse -
Includes multiple tasks to help low ability students use common present tense verbs.
Includes challenge tasks.
Appropriate for mid-low ability.
Fully inductive tasks - examples for each task with challenges too. Ideal as classwork, remote learning, homework or extra revision.
* Inductive starter so students work out how the speaking exam works (Information search activity)
* Analysis of common issues before the exam - reflection opportunities for students to assess how they will sufficiently prepare for the exam
* Experiment which proves revision aids vocabulary recall (2 options for the task, either an online resource to do as a class OR pair/ independent dominoes with useful photocard vocabulary - this includes prepositions of place vocabulary)
* Example photo card for students to prepare as they would in the real exam
* Some support on how to structure their bullet points (I have invented a formula which helps students easily develop answers with opinions, reasons, development and further tenses)
* Links to a great online resource which students may use at home to revise vocab further
7 pages looking at sentence structure/ how to incorporate higher level language and 2+ tenses
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I have developed a formula in line with the AQA specification (requirement advice for the Grade 5 and above) - this formula is easy to follow and helps student ensure their answers are developed well.
It includes formulas for 4 tenses (present, imperfect, future, conditional) which are easy to follow and covers multiple topics (mi barrio/ el medio-ambiente/ la salud) and the activities increase in challenge, there are also tasks throughout that get students to practise each formula.
Extensive worksheets made to support Viva 1 - Module 1 (Mi vida) ALL UNITS 1-6 plus extra cultural activities.
These were developed for remote learning to support the vocab from the textbook. No duplicated activities. All worksheets build on the content from the textbook.
What’s included?
¿Cómo te llamas? (Introductions, key vocab for dialogues)
¿Qué tipo de persona eres? (adjectives - masc/fem rules and practice)
¿Tienes hermanos? (Siblings vocab, ALL FORMS OF TENER- taught inductively)
¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? (Numbers, days, months, birthdays, 3rd person verbs)
¿Tienes mascotas? (animals, colours, extended writing, adjectival agreement)
Cómo soy (Using intensifiers/ 3rd person verbs/ higher level language to do a piece of extended writing)
All instructions (apart from the inductive TENER lesson as it’s a full grammar worksheet) are in TL with English to support.
All activities have examples to aid accessibilities, with challenges throughout to support all abilities.
All worksheets aim to be around 30 mins worth of work in line with common KS3 homework expectations. That’s why for some units there are 2 worksheets.
Aptly differentiated and stimulating, with a range of reading/ writing/ grammar/ vocab tasks and fun tasks such as crosswords.
Detailed coverage of the topic - Activities developed for 2 mixed ability groups.
Note: the PPT is full of activities to support delivery of textbook activities / support students pre completion or exploit the textbook resources - there are over 75 slides of activities :)
Includes:
Transport/ adjectives to describe and compare transport
countries/ nationalities/ language patterns/ game to practise
weather/ Cuando + weather + activity practise for LA and MA/ seasons
Preterite tense in HUGE DETAIL - endings/ regular and irregular/ Mini whiteboards/ translations
Preterite VS imperfect tense activities
Speaking skills - role play/ photo card practise activities
Future tense (Simple and proper) games/ worksheets
Adjectives and literacy task (anagrams)
más/menos que… tan/tanto como practise
Listening skills
las quejas en el hotel
Writing skills and structure support
Listening transcript and assessment for foundation students