Two sentence builders on the following topis: giving opinions on one’s job / work experience, and describing a past work experience + a jumble activity to go with the past work experience SB. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

Listening gap-fill activity to practise vocab on describing people - read out the transcript included and pupils fill in gaps. Afterwards you can ask them true or false questions about each of the descriptions, or they can write their own true or false statements for each person. Following this, you could give them the same blank copy and repeat the activity but substitute the gaps for other vocab to practise!

Quick reading comprehension task to consolidate vocab on describing family members. Also draws attention to adjectives and verbs. You could extend the activity by asking pupils to translate the boxes orally into English, or to rewrite each box changing TWO details in Spanish for each person.

Scaffold / writing frame for basic descriptions of family members in Spanish - vocab included to help. This activity would need to take place after pupils are familiar with the vocab in the boxes at the top - they are just there as prompts.

This listening comprehension tests a range of topics that would have already been taught by the time pupils complete this - it can be used as an end-of-topic assessment and covers age, birthday, languages, family members, pets and physical description. The teacher reads the transcript and pupils answer, or you can record the transcript onto an audio file and set it as homework.

Set of worksheets and activities to introduce and practise describing people and comparing them using más… que, menos… que and tan… como Short activity to complete orally projected onto the board (or printed out if you prefer) Parallel text with sentences in Spanish and English - you can use it to ask pupils to ‘find the Spanish’ for certain phrases in the English eg. ‘taller than’, ‘I think that’ etc. - can be done as a quiz Long worksheet practising it extensively Starter recap translations for a following lesson

Mini translations to complete as a race / quiz against partner. Can be used as Spanish to English or English to Spanish - simply select the Spanish or English column, change the colour to WHITE and then PRINT! You can change the colour back to black to show the answers.

Short grammar exercise + answers and extra teaching ideas! Worksheet to be done either projected onto the board on mini whiteboards, or printed off and completed. Pupils can practise using ser or estar correctly, and haber and tener correctly. It is within the context of the school topic.

A model answer with activities for a GCSE writing question on TV to help introduce students to how to write a good answer.

A short reading comprehension on the day of the dead (El día de Muertos). It is well adapted to beginners of Spanish due to the number of cognates in the text and the vocab-finding exercise. Comprehension questions help students to learn about this tradition.

Vocab sheet with some short translations and teaching ideas - enough for at least one lesson for teaching students to discuss the school rules in French.

A vocab-sorting task on vocab for types of TV shows, opinion phrases and justifications - display on the board, students read each phrase in pairs and decide which column it goes under. A ‘sondage’ survey speaking task - display the corrected vocab in the columns on the board from the first activity, and the students complete the sondage with people going round the room, using the vocab on the board to help.

A vocab exercise with a table to practise the masculine and feminine forms of adjectives for describing personality / décrire la personnalité / le caractère. Adjective endings + listening gap-fill to draw students’ attention to masculine and feminine adjective agreements.

A variety of lesson activities for 1-3 lessons to learn to describe the environmental problems in the world and the local area - a parallel text with suggestions on how to use it, a vocab hunt, delayed dictation, unscramble the sentences exercise, broken sentences to match up, another parallel text followed by a gap-fill, scaffolded translations from English into French. All answers included.

Reading comprehension on projets d’avenir / future studies / future work plans with true or false exercise, questions in French and extension translation work. Then a vocab worksheet of listening gap-fill, true or false and gapped translations. Answers included.

Mosaic translations from English to Spanish with vocab grid to help with word order and spellings. On topic of ordering food. Missing letters task on drinks in Spanish. Can be done orally or printed out.

Sentence unjumbling task can be done orally as per instructions on slide 1, or printed and done in writing. Or pupils can write answers on mini whiteboards and do it live. Vocab is on topic of describing people. Can be done as a quiz or competition.

Basic practice of describing people in Spanish - unjumble the sentences and complete the gap-fill using the options. Answers included. Covers topics of describing age and nationality, hair, eyes, weight and some personality.

Spanish to English translations short activity to consolidate vocab on describing people with ser. Answers included. This activity could be done as a competition/quiz in pairs or as a ‘one pen one dice’ activity (Google it! Great game) After you’ve corrected them, you could practise listening by asking pupils to turn the sheet over, then you read out one of the sentences from the sheet in Spanish, and on the back or on a miniwhiteboard, pupils translate it into English - good listening practice.

Narrow reading worksheet to practise expressions for talking about the future, as well as vocab on hobbies and time phrases. This reading could be done once pupils are familiar with some hobbies vocab and time phrases, and are ready to be introduced to some future phrases. Suggestions for further activities included in document as well as answers.