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.
The lesson starts with a mini quiz about the Higher Reading Exam to gauge how much your students remember.
You then have 3 different tasks with corrections:
Identify correct statements out of a list
A translation from French into English
A who says what task based on Fan Forum posts
The reflection tasks for each tasks allows you to pause and get your students to reflect on what went well + areas of improvement
This retrieval practice grid with points will motivate your learners.
Adapt and use as a starter task or plenary and get students’ brain cogs working hard for recent + older knowledge retrieval.
Train your students to successfully describe a photo card in writing.
This resource contains:
A summary of how the task is assessed and the success criteria
Examples of successful descriptions for photos relating to Themes 1, 2 and 3
A multiple choice quiz to get students to identify adequate descriptions
Top tips (success criteria reminder)
A model answer prior to test tasks (Theme 1)
5 photos for practice, each of which are followed by model answers
A reflection slide to use as a plenary
This resource contains:
A reference and practice sheet with:
4 French example phrases with their English translation
A summary of uses and formation
6 translations from French to English
6 translations from English to French
An answers sheet for all translations
QUI reference and practice worksheet and answers.
This resource contains:
5 examples of French sentences with QUI (and their English translations)
A summary of formation/ uses
10 phrases to translate into English
10 phrases to translate into French
An answers sheet
This resource focuses on DEPUIS and contains:
4 example phrases in French with their translations
A summary of how to use DEPUIS
10 French to English translations
10 English to French translations
An answers sheet for all 20 translations
TO CHALLENGE YOUR STUDENTS EVEN MORE:
A paraphrasing worksheet with 12 sentences to redraft using depuis
A Powerpoint with the answers + translations
This latter resource is also ideal to prepare students for the demands of the AS curriculum where they will have to paraphrase and summarize.
Are you using AQA for your French GCSE’s? Do you want to improve your students’ understanding of the photo card description task for the Writing paper? Then look no further! Designed to help your least confident students, this series of slides will breakdown how this task is assessed, what knowledge is required and how to successfully describe a photo to score full marks. There are model answers throughout and you can can customize the Powerpoint and Word document to suit your learners’ needs.
Do you want to improve your students’ writing abilities for the 150 word task? This set of resources is specially designed for Higher tier students who will need to respond to 2 bullet points using a wide range of language and accuracy.
My resource pack includes:
6 x 150 model paragraphs that would score 100% or 32/32 in the exam
2 x Higher mats with structures that impress
9 x Grammar reference and practice sheets and answers (based on the Higher mats content)
1 x planning and tick box document to use ahead of a full write up
All resources are in WORD and can therefore easily be customized, copied and pasted into your slides, or turned into PDF’s.
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
