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.
If you want to successfully prepare your Foundation French students to the new Photo description task then look no further. In this 24 slide Powerpoint you will find:
An introduction to the new GCSE photo description task for Foundation Writing
A student friendly success criteria
A recap of key structures for students to successfully introduce their descriptions (with translation practice)
3 preparation tasks with select the correct sentences and a gap fill
4 photo card description tasks with answers
THEME 2-Subtheme: HOLIDAYS
This task could be used mid unit as homework or classwork.
To achieve success in listening tasks students need to get used to hearing large amounts of information then select the correct options based on their understanding.
This task contains a number of distractors, as per per GCSE style listening tasks.
This resource contains:
The audio file
The task itself
The transcript
Corrections
This worksheet contains revision tasks focused on:
The correct use of the preposition TO + present, past and future tenses in French with:
A recap of the rule around TO
Applying the rule in gap fill task
Translating from English to French
Translating from French to English
A corrections sheet
Use as classwork or homework with your Year 10’s or 11’s.
Topics covered include holidays and volunteering (Theme 2)
In this 68 slide presentation you will find a carefully scaffolded recap of:
The near future tense and time phrases
The near future tense formation
Infinitive structures
With:
Retrieval tasks
Rule application tasks
Translations & Writing
Dialogues
Vocabulary and themes include: Leisure, holidays and school.
Train your students in this task with my worksheet.
This contains a model answer to a Theme 1 150-word type tasks followed by a range of scaffolded exercises to get students to identify and reuse higher tier structures in their writing.
A CURRAR unit (Theme 3) Based on VIVA content.
This resource bundle contains:
3 x Knowledge Organisers with the main vocabulary +
6 tasks including:
-Reading comprehension
Grammar (using SER + TRABAJAR successfully)
90 word model answer exploration + planning task
Translations
Answer sheets are provided too, and I have made the most of the unit to revisit Theme 1 vocab around relationships.
This resource consists of 2 MATS with examples of high scoring language including:
Idioms
Superlatives
Reasons
Tense complexity
Object pronouns
Si sentences
Following the mats there are examples of idioms in context and some translation tasks to get students using them in the context of the current GCSE themes.
Answer sheets are also provided.
You could use these as classwork or homework for your Higher tier students.
This revision lesson will get your students recapping how to describe their daily routine in French using:
Reflexive verbs in the present tense
Times of day
The lesson is over 50 slides and offers:
Match up recap tasks
Retrieval tasks with support (scaffolded translation, gap fills)
Reading
Speaking
Writing
Explore a model answer to a past paper with a focus on Assessment Objective 3 and 4.
This is perfect to prepare your Yr13 students for the demands of Paper 2.
This jumbo **44 slides revision lesson **is based on the key FOUNDATION French vocabulary for Themes 1 and 2, subthemes: Le temps des loisirs (Module 2 in Studio GCSE) and Le grand large (Module 5 in the same book_ for the AQA current specification.
It can be used as classwork or homework and includes all 4 skills.
The list of retrieval and GCSE tasks activities are listed below:
**Retrieval and revision: **
2 retrieval tasks (15 terms across leisure + holidays) **
• A gap fill (cinema)
• Modelled brainstorm task (leisure)
• Reading comprehension (matching menu to people’s tastes)
• Gap fill using correct verbs (disaster holidays)
• General Conversation questions match up task (x 8) ****
GCSE style tasks
• 1 x Role play
• 1 x Photo card description
• 1 x Reading comprehension (Who…)
• 1x Listening task (True, False or Not Mentioned)
• 2 x Translations (From English to French + French to English) 20 in total
• 1 x 90-word task (with examiner notes)
• 1 x 40-word task **
Article about chocolate in French with reading comprehension, vocabulary building and translation tasks.
Designed for A Level or IB students interested in gastronomy
or B2 /C1 learners of French who are interested in French food.