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MFL resources you can trust! Where? Here...in Polly Glott's Shop... I have shared my eye-catching, creative resources - already made and trialled - often with built-in differentiation to make your day a little easier. I have over twenty years MFL teaching experience in the classroom, so download my ready-made worksheets, packs and presentations to even out that work-life balance!
If you're browsing the shop, try typing in "French" or "Spanish" to find resources in that language.
An aide-mémoire! Lists of food and drink to use with any year or ability. Plenty of space to add more vocab’ as pupils come across it. Print double-sided to make a booklet. NOTE: my PC has corrected the French “vanille” to the English, “vanilla”. Can’t yet find a way to change it back: please get your students to correct it! I might do this by asking them to find the deliberate mistake… :)
A generic worksheet with boxes to fill in when pupils are watching a film. It’s generic so should go with any film! There are French and Spanish versions. Haven’t updated my cover image yet, apologies.
Find: colours/words you know/words you heard but would like to understand/cognates/opinions etc. and a handy section to fill in how far into the film you’ve got so you can pick up next lesson.
Halloween French Vocabulary
A range of vocabulary-based activities on Halloween words in French.
28 pages repeated with and without graphics.
Includes:
simple matching
dictionary work
crossword
word search
quiz/puzzle
If you don’t have space to fit Halloween into your Scheme of Work, maybe it could be a HW / French club activity / extra for keen beans? :)
If you like this, take a look at my other French and Spanish Halloween resources here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/halloween-spanish-vocabulary-11760072
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-halloween-vocabulary-12407086
For many other resource on a variety of topics, take a browse in my shop here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Polly_Glott
Happy teaching!
A useful classroom wall display in French. WYSIWYG! Print in colour on A4 and cut to the shapes. Organise the words under the correct word type heading and use the images to help understanding. They can then be used during lessons by students and you as the teacher can draw your attention to them to show how to improve speaking and writing skills.
French Personal Information ID Cards
An engaging, fun 60 page resource (including cover pages, TOU and instructions)
lots of activity pages for your learners which you can assign carefully according to ability, based on reading and writing skills
Each page has jolly Christmas characters. We use their ‘cartes d’identité’ to discover lots about them and then use it as a basis for 1st person and/or 3rd person writing using personal information.
Vocabulary is based on simple personal information but learners may need a little research on some items (e.g. beignets)
Language covered:
first name/last name/birthday (number/month)/where they live/siblings/pets/likes and dislikes
This Distance Learning Pack can be used from home but equally would work well as printables for consolidation or revision of personal information. It could be used for cover lessons if you as the class teacher have already covered the basics. Alternatively, you as the teacher could print or assign sheets as bell tasks or homework.
Answers are included
The first 6 cards are in colour, then they are repeated in black and white. There are also A5 versions. You could print and laminate the A5 ones and use them as permanent resources and perhaps use them in conjunction with the question sheets.
Further development: Once learners have filled in their own carte d’identité they could use 3rd person to write about a classmate.
Originally a simple booklet made for Year 7 trip to Paris. Could also be used for Paris projects where, perhaps, Parisian landmarks are researched or creative writing is done. Booklet is A4 but designed to be reduced to A5 by your clever repro' bod.
Writing frame to help write a description of your town in Spanish with plenty of vocabulary for support on the second page. Provided in PDF and Publisher format. Shows examples of what to write for Intro’/Main part/Conclusion
Sample vocabulary
Voy a
quiero
quisiera
Me gustaría
escribiré
decidiré
qué xxx!
¡qué bien!
¡viva!
¡caray!
No está bien
la cultura
la polución
El centro de la ciudad
Las afueras
la zona peatonal
Un aparcamiento
¿Me gusta mi ciudad o no?
¿Bradford es un lugar donde se debe vivir?
Bradford es una ciudad que vale la pena visitar?
Survey grid to complete about hobbies in French. Extension included. Visually appealing. Learners circulate the classroom and ask as many people as possible about sports. Could extend with graphs/writing up results/third person writing and so on.
El pelo y los ojos
***updated to include answer sheet
Spanish hair and eyes simple worksheet to show understanding of hair and eye colour plus hairstyles.
I suggest you ask learners to draw each face so that you can keep the worksheet to use again. Another option is to project onto the IWB or make available to learners on their tablets if if they have them.
Activity 1: colour the eyes correctly.
Activity 2 draw and colour the hairstyles correctly.
Activity 3 Translate sentences into English.
Activity 4 Translate sentences into Spanish.
Suggested extension activities
describe a celebrity’s hair and eyes
describe yourself and your family
create a character and describe them in Spanish
draw and describe your friend
Looking for GCSE French jobs consolidation? This is a great work booklet to develop listening, reading and writing. Tasks include picture and word matching vocabulary presentation, puzzles, reading comprehensions, scaffolded writing, a couple of listening activities and independent writing tasks with cues.
If you have introduced GCSE learners to the French jobs topic, this is the ideal resource for you. You can use it to consolidate prior learning. If you haven’t taught the topic, use this resource for them to work out or deduce the vocabulary themselves.
Although prior knowledge is assumed, a long bilingual vocabulary list is included to help. Some research on vocabulary and structures might be needed, depending on the ability of your learners.
Ideal for
Distance learning. Open in edit mode and click in the text areas to answer. The background won’t move
Consolidation of the French topic the world of work
Independent learning
Helping with listening skills: 3 pages include listening tasks
The answer pages are given after the main work booklet and therefore may be printed separately or given when needed, rather than in one go to learners. Sample answers are given for writing tasks since, as I’m sure you will understand, responses can vary considerably.
Other uses for the booklet include using the sheets separately for starter tasks or cover lessons, even homework.
Tasks include:
reading comprehensions
scaffolded writing
gap-fills
listening
independent writing task with cues
puzzles*
For examples of vocabulary covered, see the end of the listing.
If you find this resource useful, please do review it. Other useful French and Spanish resources for KS3 and KS4 can be found in my shop:
[https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Polly_Glott]
Happy teaching!
French Distance Learning Pack (Personal Information)
Useful for cover, home learning, starter activities, revision or homework. **No prep’! This resource can stand alone and be accessed by learners independently. **
This 47 page distance learning pack is based on vocabulary from Studio 1 Unit 1, personal information: animaux/araignées/capoeira/chats/chiens/cinéma/consoles de jeux/danse/foot/gâteaux/opinions/hair/eyes/personality…) but would work well as a stand-alone resource as well.
Here’s a summary of what you get:
A 47 page booklet which includes the
vocabulary list.
Reading, writing and comprehension tasks – see the contents page in the files section.
Answers
If you find this resource useful, have a look at the accompanying puzzle pack which could also be used for home learning:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-puzzle-pack-12416879
There are lots of other useful resources in my TES shop here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Polly_Glott
Happy teaching!
**Time saving codes for marking
**
French, Spanish, Italian…
Stick the A4 sheet into learners’ exercise books at the front or back. As you are marking, any common corrections and so on that they should complete have codes. You just need to write the code on the work. Learners then
write out the relevant target(s) on their marked work - and complete them, of course…
The language is described as the “Target Language” so that the sheet is appropriate for many languages.
Simple assessment: answer the questions in Spanish.
¿Cómo te llamas?
¿Cuántos años tienes?
¿Dónde vives?
¿Qué tal?
Extension: ¿Cómo se escribe, tu nombre? Y ¿otra información?