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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!
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French Easter Card Game
A set of resources to bring in Easter vocabulary whilst revising Year 7 / sixth grade basic French: name/description of character, size/colors/age/name. 16 different ID cards about pets create a stimulus for a variety of activities: see the ideas sheet on the last page!
Year 7 resource covering basic information and questions with an Easter learning twist. There are 16 cards of pets to use in a variety of ways - listening/speaking/writing/whole class/small group/pairs. An ideas sheet is at the end. A flexible resource to bring in Easter words without jeopardising the SoW! Useful to revise basic information and questions but bringing in new vocabulary for Easter at the same time.
Year 7 Spanish
First Spanish Lesson
Get to know your KS3 pupils.
Do your pupils come from a variety of feeder primaries? This resource can help you to clarify level of MFL depending on which primary your intake is from.
This is also a helpful resource if the timetable hasn’t started yet or your sets/groups are not sorted in the third week of term which happened to me one year and I had to cobble to something together for two weeks not knowing if the children would be in the group or not…
There is room to put in the name of your school.
For differentiation ideas, try putting anagrams of Spanish vocab’ on the board (or on certain tables if you know the ability…) or anagrams of famous Spanish speakers. Also see my free French version.
Easter Semana Santa
For learners of Spanish, containing Easter vocabulary and personal information.
An Easter card game plus further activities. With Easter words thrown in, you may get away with using this in your lessons to bring in Easter vocabulary! A card game gets you started and further activities for reading/writing/speaking are explained on the last sheet.
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
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Sala de clase: objetos. Simple starters to build classroom object vocabulary in Spanish. Instructions in the notes pages. Simple gap-filling to develop gradually the correct spelling of classroom items in Spanish.
Salle de classe: objets. A pack of starter activities to develop knowledge of classroom objects in French. Fill in the missing letters. Three different sets of vocabulary ending with a grid covering all three to fill in.
Spanish All About Me
Basic personal information
A mini book to write about yourself. Fold the A4 or A3 sheet over to make the booklet. Page numbers are given.
Answer the questions and illustrate.
Vocabulary covered:
name
age
siblings
where you live
Could make a good revision starter, consolidation of writing or home work.
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
Snakes and Ladders game.
Vocabulary covered:
name
age
numbers to 100
personal qualities and faults
alphabet
first and third person singular of avoir and être
hair/eyes
comment dit-on / qu’est-ce que c’est / anglais/français/il, elle est comment/et/mais/pour avancer/conte/décris/quelles sont/
Should help with speaking. Perhaps put help on the whiteboard (e.g. comment dit-on if the learners are not familiar with it).
I’ve put a PPT version here as well so you could play it as a class with it on the IWB.
Viva 1 Module 1 U1-5 Mi Vida
Spanish Snakes and Ladders Game
Viva 1 Module 1 consolidation
A lively and interactive Spanish game for your young learners to use their Viva 1 Module 1 language. Involves vocabulary recall and translation Spanish-English, English-Spanish plus answering and asking questions.
Covers the topics in this unit as per the text book. It’s a good way to consolidate what they might have learnt in a fun way. Here’s a reminder of the framework/questions…
Saludos
¿Qué tipo de persona eres?
Mi pasión es
¿Tienes hermanos?
¿Cuántos años tienes?
¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?
¿Tienes mascotas?
Los colores
High-frequency words
Numbers
Colours
Apologies: noticed one word mistake in box 34. I’ll fix that as soon as I can… in the meantime, you can use it for learners to “find the mistake”!!
A two page French “test” for reading and writing. Good for Y7 once covered name, age, pets, hair, eyes, j’habite, opinions or as a low ability test for Y8 for recapping/consolidation. Mainly gapfill and matching but does have an open writing on the second page.
Viva 1 M1 U1.1-1.2
Board Game
A simple board game covering the Viva 1 Modules shown.
Learners work their way around the board - dice needed! - from start to finish by stating the correct answers on each square. There are questions from the units to answer in Spanish and simple vocabulary translations into English.
Vocab’ covered:
fenomenal/bien/regular/fatal/genial/estupendo
mi héroe es
sincero/a
tímido/a
tranquilo/a
divertido/a
tonto/a
serio/a
simpático/a
generoso/a
soy/eres/es
(no) soy
vivo en
¿Cómo te llamas?
¿Dónde vives?
¿Qué tal?
¿Qué tipo de persona eres?
French Halloween Vocabulary
Differentiated worksheet on basic Halloween vocabulary in French.
Scroll across the “preview and details” to see what’s included. I’ve also listed the activities here:
p2— learners have the TL vocabulary given and must match to the pictures
p3— learners look up the TL vocabulary themselves for each image
p4— learners work out the jumbled TL vocabulary for each image
p5— learners use the clues given to work out the TL vocabulary for each image which is jumbled
p6— answers
It’s the same vocabulary items each time:
hibou/fantôme/squelette/sorcière/momie/chauve-souris/monstre/lanterne/citrouille/araignée/toile d’araignée
Have a look at my other Halloween resources in French and Spanish here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/halloween-en-fran-ais-12000322
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/halloween-spanish-vocabulary-11760068
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Looking to bulk out your French personal information scheme of work and aid consolidation of vocabulary and structures? This French Personal Information Puzzle Pack is what you need. Covering personal information vocabulary presented attractively using a variety of puzzles, these are accessible activities for all your learners.
Useful features
Studio 1 Unit 1 compatible
can be used for distance learning
handy as homework
works well for revision
can be used as cover work
bilingual vocabulary list included
answers included
accessible activities
What’s included?
This French puzzle pack is based on vocabulary from Studio 1 Unit 1
(e.g. animaux
araignées
capoeira
chats
chiens
cinéma
consoles de jeux
danse
foot
gâteaux
hard rock
injustice
insectes
jeux vidéo)
but would work well as a stand-alone booklet for revision or cover as the vocabulary is included. Alternatively, you as the teacher could print sheets as starter activities or homework.
Here’s a summary of what you get:
A 25 page booklet including vocabulary list.
Puzzles include wordsearches, jumbled words, crosswords, crack the code and more.
Answers
Here’s the complete list of the French vocabulary (a full bilingual list is included in the pack):
animaux
araignées
capoeira
chats
chiens
cinéma
consoles de jeux
danse
foot
gâteaux
hard rock
injustice
insectes
jeux vidéo
livres
musique
mangas
maths
pizzas
poésie
racisme
rap
reggae
reptiles
roller
rugby
skate
spaghettis
sport
tecktonik
télé
tennis
théâtre
voyages
violence
weekends
Les opinions
j’aime
je n’aime pas
Tu aimes…?
il/elle aime
Oui, j’aime ça.
Non, je n’aime pas ça.
Tu es d’accord?
Je suis d’accord.
Je ne suis pas d’accord.
C’est…
génial
cool
bien
ennuyeux
nul
essentiel
important
Ce n’est pas bien.
Moi et les autres
je suis
je ne suis pas
tu es
il/elle s’appelle
il/elle est
beau/belle
branché(e)
charmant(e)
cool
curieux/curieuse
de taille moyenne
drôle
généreux/généreuse
gentil(le)
grand(e)
impatient(e)
intelligent(e)
modeste
petit(e)
poli(e)
Les yeux et les cheveux
j’ai
tu as
il/elle a
mon ami(e) a
J’ai les yeux bleus/verts/gris/marron.
J’ai les cheveux longs/courts/mi-longs.
frisés/raides
blonds/bruns/noirs/roux
Les mots essentiels
et
aussi
mais
très
assez
toujours
Qu’est-ce que…?
Qui…?
Spanish Halloween
Distance Learning, cover pack, starters, homework pack in Spanish.
This versatile pack can be used in a variety of ways. It covers basic Spanish vocabulary for Halloween. There are wordsearches, sodoku and other puzzles. Here are the words included:
araña
bruja
calabaza
caramelos
calavera
disfraz
dragón
dulce
embrujado
escalofriante
escoba
esqueleto
extraterrestre
fantasma
fiesta
gato negro
gigante
horror
hombre lobo
lápida
lechuza
magia
maquillaje
mascara
misterioso
momia
monstruo
murciélago
ogro
tela de araña
trol
tumba
vampiro
The words are recycled throughout so you can use the sheets to develop confidence with the vocabulary by using sheets separately as starters or activities each lesson or send the complete pack home for independent study.
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.
Looking to love a resource? You’ll definitely love this multi-purpose learning booklet for St. Valentine’s Day in French. 10 French Valentine’s Day activities including a song, poems, word matching, text message reading…a truly engaging work booklet. Learners will be expected to research vocabulary independently to complete tasks, but a list is given to cover Valentine’s Day which includes amour/chocolat/adorer/cœur/chéri(e)/aimer/cupidon/rose/bague/destin/fleurs/rouge/hibou/fête/siècle/célébrer/foncé/clair/colorier/comme tu veux/violet/forme/palome/autres/est mort/devenu(e)/exprimer. That way you can build your learners’ vocabulary by completing the given tasks and also using the vocabulary list for other activities such as Valentine’s cards or display work.
This is a flexible learning booklet for your students to learn vocabulary for Valentine’s Day, building on the Year 7 and 8 work booklets but will work if they haven’t completed those before. A bilingual vocabulary list is included plus extra vocabulary when needed and answer pages where appropriate. Actvities are varied, with a focus on sentence level skills and vocabulary research.
amour
chocolat
adorer
cœur
chéri(e)
aimer
cupidon
rose
bague
destin
fleurs
rouge
hibou
fête
siècle
célébrer
foncé/clair
colorier
comme tu veux
violet
forme
palome
autres
est mort
devenu(e)
exprimer
envoyer
bonbons
entre eux
offrir
commencer
carte de vœux
apr. j.c.
flèche
calin
affection
ventre
flamme
folie
timidité
rêver
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French hobbies game, jeu de l’oie
Use this game about hobbies in French (fits well with Studio 1, Module 3) to promote speaking and even writing and listening. Full instructions given plus dice and spinner templates. I have also included further ideas for development.
The language in this game is as follows:
je joue au ping-pong
nous jouons sur la Wii
j’aime écouter de la musique
je n’aime pas faire les magasins
nous jouons au volleyball
nous surfons sur internet
je fais du jogging trois fois par semaine
j’envoie des SMS
elle regarde des clips vidéo
j’envoie des e-mails
tu es sportif/sportive?
je fais du judo
ils jouent sur la Playstation
quand il fait beau je fais de l’équitation
je fais du vélo
je fais du patin à glace
je fais du skate
quand il fait froid je regarde la télé
je déteste jouer au ping-pong
je n’aime pas jouer sur mon portable
je joue au foot deux fois par semaine
j’adore faire du parkour
ils font de la lutte
quand il pleut je parle avec mes ami(e)s/copains/copines
je fais une (des) promenade(s)
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