A scaffolded worksheet on the topic of transport with the main focus on the key grammar: avant de plus an infinitive.
Exercises include:
Part 1: Vocabulary - matching-up the French with the English
Part 2: Matching-up the two halves to form completed sentences.
Part 3: Translating the matched-up sentences into English.
Part 4: Writing four sentences using the vocabulary and grammar avant de plus an infinitive. Then, translating them into English.
PPT with activities that explains and shows how to form the present tense in Spanish and gives students many opportunities to conjugate the regular verbs.
There is a separate part on the presentation about irregular verbs with activities to conjugate into the 1st person irregular form.
Worksheet with answers included to practise the present simple tense.
Quiz included with answers to test students knowledge on the present simple tense.
Translation task - students are to translate the key vocabulary and sentence structures into English related to the topic of asking and giving directions.
Extension: Use the vocabulary to form complete sentences.
Answers are included.
Complete lesson on ordering food and drinks at a Spanish restaurant.
PPT with a range of activities.
Wordsearch for the Do Now
Scaffolded worksheet with ample opportunity to meet new language, manipulate the language and to make language their own.
Answers included on the PPT.
A scaffolded two-sided worksheet that revises the use of gender agreements/definite articles, time expressions of frequency and the usages of “jugar” and “hacer”.
Ejercicio 1: ¿Masculino o feminino? él o la? Luego, tradúcelas al inglés. (masculine or feminine? Put él or la. Then, translate them into English).
Ejercicio 2: Empareja las expresiones de frecuencia. (Match the time expressions of frequency).
Ejercicio 3: Escucha a las cinco personas hablando sobre los deportes y completa la tabla en inglés.
(Listen to the five people talking about sports and complete the table in English).
COPY OF THE TRANSCRIPT IS AVAILABLE FOR EXERCISE 3 subject to copyright - may only be used once purchased.
Exercise 4: Ejercicio 4: Lee los texto y haz las actividades (Read the texts and do the activities).
A: ¿Qué significan……? (what do the following mean in the text?)
Tip: Look at the context from the underlined words.
B: ¿A quién se refiere? David (D), Jaime (J), Lucía (L) o Manuel (M). Corrige las frases falsas. (Who does each sentence refer to – David (D), Jaime (J), Lucía (L) or Manuel (M)?).
C: Lee los textos otra vez y contesta a las preguntas en español (read the texts again and answer the questions in Spanish).
Ejercicio 5: Crea cinco phrases utilizando el vocabulario de la lección de hoy (Create five sentences using the vocabulary from today’s lesson).
Scaffolded worksheet on the topic of describing your character/personality using adjectives in Spanish.
Exercises:
Exercise 1: Find the nine adjectives in the wordsearch.
Exercise 2: Write the nine adjectives.
Exercise 3: Translate the nine adjectives into English.
Exercise 4: Re-order to form complete sentences.
Answers included.
Two-sided scaffolded worksheet on an introduction to finances. Students are given an insight into some of the different vocabulary realted to finances which they will come across and need to know for when they manage their own finances.
Exercise 1: Match-up the key words with their definitions.
Exercise 2: True or false? Challenge: Correct the false statements.
Exercise 3: Define the key words
Exercise 4: Read the passage and fill-in the gaps with the correct words.
Exercise 5: Using the passage in exercise 4 to help you, answer the following questions in full sentences.
Exercise 6: Design a short poster to encourage other people to save money. What can we do to help others to save money? You must use some of the key topic vocabulary from this lesson.
Wordsearch, PPT with activities and a scaffolded worksheet with answers on the topic of going to the pharmacy.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to say what is wrong, and know how to ask for advice at the pharmacy.
PPT with activities and a scaffolded worksheet with answers on the topic of transport methods.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to recall the different methods of transport using the preposition “en”.
PPT, wordsearch and scaffolded worksheet with ample opportunity for students to meet, manipulate and make language their own.
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to know some Spanish different greetings that they can have a basic conversation with other speakers of Spanish.
Lots of choral repetition with visuals providing opportunities to play vocabulary games such as: Beat the Teacher; pronunciation competition between both sides; splat; guess the correct image etc.
The scaffolded worksheet is split into four parts:
Part 1: Vocabulary - fill-in the gaps with the correct words.
Part 2: Reading Comprehension - Read the texts and answer the questions in English.
Part 3: Translation - translate sentences from Spanish into English.
**Part 4: Writing - **Write a short description about themselves using the vocabulary from today’s lesson. They may use the texts in exercise 2 to help them with the structure of their text.
A scaffolded worksheet giving students the opportunity to meet the new language, manipulate it and make language their own.
The key grammar in this lesson is definite articles and students need to be able to know the gender of family members in Spanish.
This worksheet also focuses on developing student’s reading and writing skills.
Exercise 1: Sort the members of the family into masculine, feminine and plural.
Exercise 2: Translate the family members above into English.
Exercise 3: Read the text and answer the questions in English.
Exercise 4: Write a paragraph about your familia. Include some of the vocabulary and connectives from today’s lesson. You can use the text as a model from exercise 3 to help you.
PPT with a wide range of activities, wordsearch and worksheet based on the topic of “the weather”.
By the end of the lesson, students are to be able to confidently describe the weather.
Do Now: Unscramble the Spanish cities.
Vocabulary games - choral repetition with ample opportunity to meet the new language.
Fill-in the gaps with the correct letters to see what they can remember from the choral repetition games.
More choral repetition games and then a match-up task for students to manipulate the language.
Speaking exercise: Question and answer related to the topic of the weather.
Listening exercise: Students are to listen and write down the correct letter. To stretch the more able, they are to also write down the city and the temperature.
Reading exercise: Read the texts and answer the questions in Spanish.
Worksheet split into 4 parts:
Part 1: Put the names of the correct Spanish cities on the map.
Part 2: True or false statements. Correcting the false statements using the map for support.
Part 3: Translate sentences into English.
Part 4: Write four sentences about the weather in their area.
Plenary: Translation dictation exercise (teacher to say some in Spanish and students write the English and vice-versa).
PPT with activities, wordsearch and scaffolded worksheet with ample opportunity for students to meet the new language, manipulate, and make language their own.
Do Now:
Learners are to find the words in the wordsearch. Then, they are to translate the words that they know and predict the ones they don’t know using their knowledge of cognates.
Choral repetition games: Splat, Beat the Teacher, Guess the correct image, have a pronunication competition between both sides of the classroom.
Matching-up task: Students are to match the Spanish with the English.
Video: Students are to watch the video on the Day of the Dead traditions and customs and are to answer the questions in English.
Students will then have a copy of the transcript for their reference.
Independent Work:
Exercise 1: Students are to match the words (Spanish with the English).
Exercise 2: Students are to translate the sentences into English.
Exericse 3: Students are to translate the sentences into Spanish.
Exercise 4: Students are to write four sentences in Spanish using the vocabulary from this lesson.
Plenary: Quiz!
PPT with a wide range of activities introducing different cities and towns in Spain.
Some activities include:
True or false - students will be provided with facts about Spain and they are to use their true or false cards to select their responses. (This could also be done on their mini whiteboards).
Challenge: Students are to correct the false statements.
Choral repetition with visuals provides ample opportunity for students to meet the language.
Vocabulary games - ideas – have a pronunciation competition between the two sides; splat; beat the teacher; guess the correct image; listen and write down how students think it might be spelt before presenting the words etc.
Match-up: students are to match the Spanish with the English equivalent.
Geography - students will be given a copy of a blank map with a list of different regions of Spain. They are to have a go at inserting the correct regions in the right place on the map.
La Tomatina - Students are to watch the video about Buñol’s Tomatina festival and answer the questions in English.
Places of interest - Students are to copy the table and match the photo with its Spanish city and place of interest.
Plenary: quiz to consolidate knowledge
PowerPoint introduces some simple Chinese words and greetings with visuals to show some different aspects of Chinese history and culture. Teacher can do a competition to split the class into two teams and the team that pronounces each word/phrase the best will get a point. The team with the most points, wins and gets a special prize.
To practise, there is a role play with the pinyin for learners to do with their partner and take it in turns to be A and B. If learners are feeling confident, they can do it without the pinyin too.
Materials available: Vocabulary sheet, role play (with Pinyin), role play (without pinyin).
Scaffolded worksheet on the sports with a focus on the differences between faire and jouer and the prepositions.
jouer + au/à la/aux and faire + du/de la/de l’/des).
Both versions are available in Simplified and **Traditional **Chinese. Two separate PPTs are attached.
PPT on the topic of food and drink with activities/games for students to learn some different food and drink items (four of each) in Mandarin Chinese.
By the end of the session, will be able to express what they would like to eat and drink in Chinese.
Lots of choral repetition with the Chinese characters and pinyin.
Games include:
-What’s missing? - The students will see one of the images disappear and need to identify the missing one.
-The Flyswatter: Two students will come up to the front, the teacher or other students will shout out one of the words (e.g. 咖啡)and students need to the identify the image. The student who taps the board the quickest, will win the point.
Scaffolded worksheet divided into three parts:
Part 1 – Common English Phrases and Sentence Patterns
Complete the following in order to make meaningful sentences/questions.
Part 2 – Vocabulary
(i) Match the idiomatic expressions with their definitions.
(ii) Decide whether the following have been used correctly (T) or not (F).
(iii) Correct the mistakes for the ones that are false (F).
Part 3 – Imperfect vs Simple Past
Explanations with examples for both the imperfect and simple past including the uses.
A (i) Decide whether the following are the Imperfect or the Simple-Past tense.
(ii) Underline the triggers/verbs of that tense in each of the sentences.
B) Create your own sentences using the simple past tense.
C) Create your own sentences using the imperfect tense.
D) Complete the following passage with the correct verb forms.