I am a qualified MFL teacher and a native speaker with over 20 years tutoring and teaching experience. I am passionate about creating well designed resources for students to help them improve their French and Spanish. I am currently teaching French and Spanish in a secondary school in Kent. My experience spans Year 7 to 11 in Spanish and Year 7 to 13 in French.
I am a qualified MFL teacher and a native speaker with over 20 years tutoring and teaching experience. I am passionate about creating well designed resources for students to help them improve their French and Spanish. I am currently teaching French and Spanish in a secondary school in Kent. My experience spans Year 7 to 11 in Spanish and Year 7 to 13 in French.
Give your students some French festive fun with these 2 activities:
A 14 word Christmas themed word search with answers
A 15 question quiz about Alfie the elf (revising school vocabulary) with answers
Easily editable to suit your class needs
Would you like to increase your students’ cultural awareness about Christmas in France with a range of activities of linguistic and cultural tasks?
In this 35 slide Powerpoint you will find:
• A key vocabulary search task with answers
• A reading comprehension task with answers
• A gap fill with answers
• A 12 question quiz with answers
• A jumbled word and sentence creator task with answers/ plenary translation
The document can easily be edited to suit your class needs.
Are you using exam board AQA? Do you want to improve your students’ FRENCH writing skills for the 90 paragraphs? Do you want to ensure your students can plan a successful paragraphs that meet the required criteria?
Then look no further! My specially designed GCSE French Writing Pack is designed to guide your Foundation and Higher tier students to success with a range of carefully designed resources created with the AQA mark scheme in mind.
**CONTENT: **
10 x 90 word model paragraphs that would score 100%, or 16/16 in the exam
Student tasks to get students to explore successful paragraphs and a visual analysis of the content that allowed the highest grade to be reached, + a lined paper practice sheet (paragraphs 1-3)
Planning and tick box document to use ahead of a full write up
In this 11 slide Powerpoint you will find:
Activities to aid student recall and discussion of false friends and cognates
Translations from English to French and French to English across all themes (with corrections)
A self-assessment grid for students to successfully identify areas of strength and improvement
Prepare your Year 11 students for their Reading assessment with this 20 slides Powerpoint containing:
A quiz to test your students’ understanding of the reading assessment
Tips for success
2 x reading comprehension tasks (Theme 1) with corrections
1 x translation into English task (Theme 1) with corrections
Sub themes: Food, clothes, celebrations
Get your students to write about Easter and their holidays with the following tasks:
A match up task designed to expose students to an account of a future Easter break
A photo description task
A 90 word paragraph task
This lesson contains:
An introduction to Easter with 4 translation tasks
A grammar task to revise the present tense in the context of Easter
A speaking task to revise the near future tense in the context of Easter
A word search with key Easter vocabulary and a matching the French definition to the right word activity
A Reading Comprehension task looking at Easter celebrations around France and the French speaking world.
Suitable for high ability Year 9 or middle ability year 10, Foundation Year 11 students.
In this presentation you will find:
A recap of what students need to bear in mind when translating into French
Practice tasks such as:
A multiple choice task
A spot and correct the error task
Translations into French tasks
All with answers
This can be done in class, completed as homework or shared with students as additional revision.
14 slides Powerpoint presentation with 4 key Higher prepositions + infinitives for students to use in their Higher Writing tasks and translation.
With examples, practice and corrections, your students will get to grips with these Higher structures and will improve their Higher writing skills.
This multi-resource pack is packed with a range of authentic resources designed to improve your students’ exam skills.
The bundle contains:
90 and 150 word paragraph tasks and model answers
Higher structures mat
Higher grammar recap and practice worksheets
Photo card descriptions for Foundation Writing
A French phonics lesson
GCSE listening practice tasks
Chapter by chapter tasks (55 chapters)
Character cards
Coming of age story introduction
Chapter summary template
1 model essay
Tips to teach literature for the 1st time
A 17 slide Powerpoint designed to revise the past tense talking about Easter in French.
L.O: By the end of this lesson students will have:
Revised key Easter vocabulary
Revised and practiced the past tense.
Applied their knowledge in reading and translation tasks
In this resource you will find:
An example of a 150 word paragraph task as presented by AQA.
A task to get students to identify the positive elements of a model answer (based on the success criteria/ mark scheme) -This is a genuine, unique answer which would score 32/32
Answers to the above task
A reminder of how to achieve the highest marks in this task
This series of 8 slides will:
Shed light on Assessment Objective 4 in Papers 2 and 3 and the links between them
Highlight the skills needed to be able to get top marks
Give your students example of key phrases to summarize/ present and evaluate a book or film
Help your students understand the requirements of this complex task with my comprehensive Powerpoint.
This includes:
Key info about the task
A clear breakdown of the mark scheme for top marks
4 x questions from previous exams
4 x model answers for each question
A peer assessment task encouraging students to apply the success criteria
Reflection and next steps
I have created a range of Higher GCSE style tasks to help your students with revisions leading up to their Reading and Writing GCSE’s.
Themes 1, 2 and 3 revision are all included with range of authentic tasks such as:
Reading comprehension tasks
Translations into English tasks
Match up/ correct the statement tasks
Independent writing tasks (mix of 90 word/ 150 word style paragraph points)
My answer sheets provides all answers including model answers for the writing tasks.