A selection of activities practising key verbs in the perfect tense on the topic of jobs and internships. Activities include translation into English, verb conjugation, listening, broken sentences, unscrambling sentences and translation into French.

A set of activities to practise key vocab and complex structures for talking about part time jobs and internships. Activities include sentence unjumbling, first letter translations and gapped sentences. Answers included.

A worksheet with a selection of activities for practising talking about a past work experience or part time job. Activities include reading comprehension questions, gap-fill, broken sentences and jumble sentences. Answers included.

A worksheet practising the perfect tense on the topic of les transports. Activities include translation into English, discussion on forming the tense, a conjugation table and jigsaw translation.

Two worksheets on the topics of ‘Est-ce que tu reçois de l’argent de poche’ and ‘Qu’est-ce que tu fais de ton argent’. Exercises include reading, listening match-up, oral mosaic translation into French, listening gap-fill, vocab-finding and oral conversation.

Here is my ‘lesson builder’ that I wrote about on this blog post and am sharing here after a few requests - the blog explains how it can be used. https://mflclassroommagic.com/2020/05/22/make-your-own-lesson-builder-cut-down-planning-time/

An easy French listening comprehension exercise for talking about weekend activities and giving basic positive and negative opinions and justifications. Audio included.

Some basic flashcards that you can use for call and response style activities to model pronunciation. You can then go back every few slides to test recall of previous slides as the text will only appear when you click. You can then go through the blank ones and do ‘THIS OR THAT’ - give TWO options in French for the image, one correct and one incorrect - pupils have to repeat back the correct one. Then, there is a section on present participle phrases. You can create sentences using the vocab students have learned and adding a short present participle phrase - students can translate these on mini whiteboards / do them as dictation.

A visual handout to demonstrate time phrases used in French - a good scaffold for help in translations.

This is a document for students to keep for reference when studying the film Julieta by Almodovar. It can be used in conjunction with these questions https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/julieta-almod-var-scenes-analysis-questions-for-students-12169297

This could be a starter but could also take up a whole lesson - students are encouraged to compare Julieta’s two male partners and consider how they contrast. You can give them pointers to help them eg. physical appearance, qualities, type of job, background etc. and get them to consider who Julieta was better off with and why, what the director wants us to think of each of them and the overall messages.

Short activity that can be used as a starter before introducing how to describe someone in the imperfect tense (for teaching these imperfect words as vocab rather than grammar - early stages)

Basic ppt. with flashcards to introduce vocab and model pronunciation. You could do a variety of listen and repeat activities such as choral repetition, repeating whispering, repeating shouting, or get different pupils or teams to repeat to practise pronunciation. Then, on the blank slides with only the images, do a ‘this or that’ activity - say TWO phrases in Spanish and they have to write down/shout out which one matches the picture.

Two activities: Worksheet with images of celebrities - you could either project this onto the board and get rid of the boxes, and read short descriptions for pupils to match to the correct photos, or read out short phrases for each celebrity, some true, some false, and pupils note which are true. OR do it as reading comprehension - print the sheet and pupils go through and read, selecting correct options for each person. Sentence unjumble sheet to practise word order and spelling for descriptions topic. Answers included.

A few interactive activities to introduce some basic phrases for describing pets in Spanish.

Listening task for Spanish beginners on topic of food / Spanish omelette using YouTube video, can be completed in class or as homework. Separate document with answers included.

Flashcards to introduce vocab on describing personality - you can do different listen and repeat style activities with this, eg. individual repetition, choral repetition, whispering, shouting, then every so often go back a few slides and ask is it … or …? (give two options in Spanish and pupils give the correct one) then there are a few consolidation/recall activities in the ppt. and a sentence unjumbling activity to complete orally.

Activities to practise vocab for describing hair and eyes - oral translation, then memory task, speaking, grammar practice of ser and tener and unjumbling sentences.

This is a template for a multiple-choice lesson activity (could be used as a starter or plenary, or a short recap exercise). I have included examples of how I have used it in the past with Spanish, in a gap-fill style to consolidate vocab previously learned. You could keep the gap-fill aspect or get rid of it and just put questions.

An anagrams worksheet with spaces for each letter to help students practise spelling them. Can be used as a starter or short activity.