A standalone worksheet to focus pupils’ attention on adjectival agreement, based around the thematic vocabulary of ‘describe tu casa’. The exercises include matching up adjectives, translation to English, studying agreement patterns and an adjective agreement grid, correcting errors in a paragraph and plenary translation to Spanish. Answers included.

A support sheet for pupils who are describing a photo in French. There are lots of useful phrases to help with describing the photo itself, as well as lots of complex language and A* constructions for pupils to include. The structures and language are in groups: phrases to introduce a photo, past tense expressions, weather phrases, A* constructions to include, useful connectives, opinion phrases etc. My own pupils have found this very useful and it provides an excellent scaffold for them producing high quality work.

A longer GCSE writing question about school and future plans. There is a clear rubric and also a list of key complex structures to try to include, which are differentiated by level (bronze, silver, gold). Pupils can be given this question and encouraged to include as many as possible in their work to enhance quality of language. There is also a model answer using some of the structures (150 words) with a ‘structures search’ which pupils could look at before writing their own response.

A standalone resource to allow pupils to talk and write about the advantages and disadvantages of technology and Internet. The resource includes key vocabulary match up, complex structures, examples of advantages/disadvantages to classify and translate and a plenary translation into Spanish. Answers included. Please leave a review if you find this useful for your pupils or if you have any feedback. You can also message me directly on Twitter @mfl_secondary

Resources for a full lesson on past tense holidays, for GCSE pupils, with full answers. The resources are scaffolded but will also allow pupils to start talking about their past holidays immediately. The resources include Grade 8/9 constructions and allow pupils to make visible progress quickly: It includes: - A revision of key preterite verbs - A revision of regular preterite verb formation - An introduction to antes/después de + infinitive - Translation of sentences into Spanish and English - A preterite verb hunt in the PowerPoint - A Spanish text with gap-fill & comprehension - An exam style passage of Spanish to translate into English - Key holiday vocabulary is recycled in all tasks

A translation worksheet on the topic of family and relationships. Six different translation exercises which recycle the same key language and introduce new linguistic items in a scaffolded way. The exercises are ramped in terms of difficulty and final activity is a plenary translation task into Spanish. Answers included.

5 worksheets to revise key adjectives for GCSE. The resources include a revision list, three worksheets which revise these adjectives in context and a plenary revision worksheet. The adjectives are based loosely on the specification vocabulary lists. There is also a Quizlet available here: https://quizlet.com/gb/687786395/spanish-gcse-key-adjectives-revision-flash-cards/?new Format: Word documents and PDF with answers.

A resource on ‘los eventos deportivos y musicales’ with key vocabulary, translation and reading tasks and a writing question with a model answer to translate. This will support pupils to write and talk about attending sports and music events using a range of tenses and complex structures. Format: Word document & PDF with answers.

5 standalone worksheets to support pupils to talk about what they do at home in different rooms in the present, past and future tenses. Resource 1: Introduction and practice of rooms, key verbs and infinitive expressions with a sentence builder, reading and translation practice. Resource 2: Review of -ER verb conjugation rules in the present tense, adverbs of frequency and a reading comprehension. Resource 3: Review of the past tense conjugation rules, reading comprehension, a sentence builder and translation practice. Resource 4: More past tense practice, translation exercises, reading comprehensions and a writing task. Resource 5: Revision of the immediate future tense and a sentence builder to support to pupils to say what they will do at home tonight/tomorrow with translation practice and a reading comprehension. Format: Word and PDF documents with answers.

A standalone resource on which to base a lesson to improve writing skills for GCSE on the topic of house and home (donde vivo yo). The worksheet has five parts: Translating the question into English Reordering jumbled phrases that can be used in the task Reading a model answer and conjugating the verbs Searching for Grade 8/9 Expressions in the model answer A scaffolded grid for the pupils to write their own answer, with another model answer. Answers included.

7 worksheets of GCSE translation practice on 7 topics with over 200 practice sentences to translate - with answers. Each worksheet contains 15 sentences to translate into English and 15 sentences to translate into Spanish. The worksheets cover the following topics: House and home School Food and drink Health TV and film Family and friends Daily routine and helping at home Format: Word document and PDF with answers.

A three-page resource which will enable pupils to write and speak about past work experience for GCSE. The resource introduces key thematic vocabulary and is full of vocabulary, reading and translation tasks and a sentence builder/ knowledge organiser. The resource is aimed at GCSE groups and targets key vocabulary, reading and translation skills. The preterite and imperfect tenses are used throughout. All three pages have been uploaded to be viewed prior to purchase. Format: Word Document & PDF with answers.

A resources to use at KS4 to talk about family and to try to introduce some higher phrases that go beyond KS3. I have used this text as a model for pupils producing something similar about their own family.

Key verbs for this topic & a comprehensive revision of the future and conditional tenses with translation exercises for practice.

A test on the preterite tense I have used with GCSE pupils.

Revision of key link words, based on the topic of holiday preferences, including translation both ways.

A short reading task on the advantages and disadvantages of school uniform.

A reading task on Salsa music - comprehension, gap-fill and synonym finding with some translation. The text is about Salsa music - its roots and connections to Hispanic culture. More A Level resources here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-reading-translation-and-grammar-bundle-11846551

A comprehensive four page resource to help pupils to explain why they use their Internet and to give an positive and negative opinions about its usage. Suggested answers are included. The 7 tasks scaffold the pupil’s learning and get progressively harder. There is key vocabulary, translation in English, the uses of Internet, key adjectives, translation of justified opinions into Spanish, a reading task to decide if statements are advantages or disadvantages and finally an extension writing task. These resources will also allow pupils to talk about Internet using higher structures and sophisticated vocabulary.