French & Spanish resources for KS3, GCSE & A Level. Questions, issues or feedback? Get in touch via email: secondarymfl@gmail.com. I hope you find my resources useful and please leave a review if you can!
French & Spanish resources for KS3, GCSE & A Level. Questions, issues or feedback? Get in touch via email: secondarymfl@gmail.com. I hope you find my resources useful and please leave a review if you can!
A whole unit including Fifteen standalone resources for GCSE on the topic of my town/region and where I live. There are enough tasks and worksheets here for a full unit of work.
Resource 1: Describing what there is in my town (il y a/ negatives/ des installations en ville)
Resource 2: Describing my town (adjectives, opinions, a sentence builder & reading task)
Resource 3: What I am going to do in my town next weekend (a future tense review, a sentence builder, translation practice and a writing question).
Resource 4: A revision/ retrieval worksheet on the vocabulary and structures in Resources 1 & 2.
Resource 5: The imperfect tense - a worksheet comparing my town in the past with my town now.
Resource 6: Consolidation & wider practice on the imperfect tense on this topic.
Resource 7: More practice on talking about where I used to live - the imperfect tense translation & sentence builder
Resource 8: Improving my writing skills - a writing question with a model answer and complex structures translation
Resource 9: An exam style reading comprehension in French on ‘ma ville’ - coche la bonne case
Resource 10: A resource for comparing life in the town and countryside.
Resource 11: A GCSE writing question (4 bullet points) on my town with model answer gap-fill and complex structures to find.
Resource 12: A conditional tense sentence builder with translation practice. Si j’étais riche, je voudrais…
Resource 13: A revision sheet on Ma ville with a short writing task & support.
Resource 14: A reading comprehension on my town (Text with answers in French).
Resource 15: A knowledge organiser of key vocabulary on this topic.
Format: PDF and word documents with answers.
I have also made a Quizlet to review key vocabulary from these resources: https://quizlet.com/_8g1o5j?x=1qqt&i=2syx7b
A translation worksheet on the topic of holidays in the future tense and future constructions (espero/ tengo la intención de/ me gustaría). 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.
Save 82% with this bundle of 19 resources on different aspects of Spanish culture for A Level AQA (Artisitic Culture in the Spanish World) or Edexcel (la cultura artística y política en el mundo hispanohablante). It includes the following resources:
Navidad en España
Semana santa en España
Translations on ‘la quinceañera’
Revision sheet on los festivales y las costumbres
Translations on ‘la semana santa’
Translations on ‘la tomatina’ and gender violence
La gastronomía y costumbres en España
A resource on bullfighting traditions in Spain
Translations on la tauromaquía
Los gustos musicales en España
Music trends in Spain
Music tastes and festivals in Spain
Rosalía y el flamenco urbano
Translations on el flamenco y el patrimonio musical
Translations on el tango
Young people and traditional music
A revision sheet on music in the hispanic world
A worksheet on la salsa
La alhambra y patrimonio cultural
A standalone resource on the topic of ‘la navidad’ with vocabulary, reading and translation activities. The resource introduces key vocabulary on this topic and includes some exercises with the immediate future too.
Format: Word and PDF document with answers.
A 6 page comprehensive topic booklet on ‘la vida sana’ to introduce this topic to pupils in a stand-alone lesson or lessons. It includes essential topic vocabulary, key structures, translation practice, reading practice, writing and more.
Answers included.
Save 83% with this bundle of 19 resource packs on the impact of tourism in Spain for A Level (Edexcel). There are enough new resources here to plan the entire unit. (At least 18 lessons).
The resources include all aspects of the topic:
The popularity of Spain as a tourist destination
Popular tourist destinations in Spain
The Economic Impact of Tourism in Spain
Impact of drinking tourism in Spain
Tourism in Benidorm: the positive & negative
The Environmental impact of Tourism in Spain
Mitigating the environmental impact in the Balearic Islands
Agrotourism/ ecotourism in Spain
Sustainable tourism in Spain
Subjunctive practice on this topic
Summary of advantages & disadvantages
Translation practice on this topic
2020: the impact of coronavirus on tourism in Spain
Mass tourism & more…
The resources include reading comprehensions, grammar activities and translations.
A standalone worksheet with practice on adjectival agreement for KS3/ GCSE revision. The work sheet introduces 20 key adjectives and then recycles them in various activities which focus on agreement too.
Answers included.
A four-page comprehensive set of grammar exercises on the perfect tense, on topic of holidays which will enable pupils to write and talk about their holidays using the past tense accurately. Answers are included.
This is a resource for a whole lesson, or more, with activities throughout to make the tasks pupil-led and active.
The difficulty of the exercises are scaffolded:
regular -ER verbs;
regular -IR/-ER verbs;
irregular past participles;
verbs that use être as an auxiliary;
plenary translation tasks both ways.
Answers included.
Qu’est-ce qu’on peut faire pour protéger l’environnement ?
Resources to use in any lesson on the environment for GCSE. There is a range of activities including key vocabulary match up, translation both ways, reading comprehension and a ‘vocabulary hunt’.
Pupils can use these resources to model their own answers on ‘qu’est-ce que tu fais pour protéger l’environnement’ and the resources include lots of higher vocabulary and complex structures for them to recycle in their own work.
Answers included.
Two separate resources that will allow pupils to read, write and speak about their film tastes.
Resource 1: Vocabulary/ Translation/ Future Tense Sentence Builder/ Reading/ Translation & Writing
Resource 2: A GCSE style text with a pre-reading vocabulary task and two comprehension questions.
Answers included.
A comprehensive double-sided A4 Writing Mat with all the ingredients for success that pupils will need to produce a Grade 8/9 answer. There are 11 sections with structures to include and final checklist.
Two standalone resources on ‘Mes projets d’avenir’ for GCSE.
Resource 1: introduces key future time expressions, key infinitives, a review of the future tense, a reading comprehension and translation practice.
Resource 2: a GCSE reading comprehension and vocabulary hunt on future plans.
With answers.
3 double-sided worksheets on the topic of school trips for GCSE using the past and future tenses. These resources will help pupils to talk and write about previous school trips and plans for the future.
Resource 1: Mon dernier voyage scolaire 1 (Vocabulary, grammar, writing)
Resource 2: Mon dernier voyage scolaire 2 (Review of worksheet 1, reading comprehension and grammar practice)
Resource 3: Un voyage scolaire à l’avenir (Future time phrases, key structures, reading and grammar)
Format: Word and .pdf documents with answers.
This resource pack contains two worksheets with answers:
A double-sided worksheet to introduce core vocabulary, opinions and justifications. There are also some reading activities and an exercise on adjectival agreement.
A worksheet with two reading activities on the topic of school and subjects.
A standalone resource for GCSE on the topic of house/home and describing where I live. It includes four texts, a reading comprehension, a vocabulary hunt, translation into English and a mosaic translation into Spanish.
Answers included.
Save 63% with this bundle of 20 A Level translation resources costing £40 individually. Each resource contains translation exam practice, into both English & Spanish, on A Level topics for pupils to work on in class or as part of independent study, all with suggested answers.
Preview the quality of these resources with these free examples:
Paternity Leave in Spain: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/a-level-permiso-de-paternidad-translations-on-el-mercado-laboral-and-paternity-leave-with-answers-12043678
Social media: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-redes-sociales-translations-on-social-media-use-in-spain-and-answers-12355624
Las telenovelas: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-a-level-las-telenovelas-translations-on-the-role-of-soaps-in-latin-america-and-answers-12355759
The topics in this bundle include:
Music & customs: Flamenco
Work: Los ‘ninis’
Work: employment and “teleworking”
Immigration: Illegal immigration to Spain
Immigration: Undocumented immigrants
Family & Society: Transrights in Spain
Family & Society: A homophobic attack in Barcelona
Work: Women in the work place
Work: the gender pay gap
Family & Media: The impact of the Internet on family
Hispanic festivals: the quinceañera
Hispanic festivals: Semana Santa
Hispanic festivals: the Tomatina & gender violence
Hispanic traditions: bullfighting
Immigration: Immigration in Spain
Immigration: Racism and xenophobia
History: The Spanish monarchy
Music & customs: el tango
Media: the influence of the Internet in Spain
Tourism: The impact of mass tourism in Spain
A worksheet for GCSE to quickly revise preterite verb formation, in the context of holidays and holiday vocabulary. There is a verb drill activity recapping thematic vocabulary and translation tasks into English and Spanish.
These activities will scaffold pupils’ answer to the question: “describe tus últimas vacaciones”
Suggested answers included.
An 11 page resource with a comprehensive list with over 200 different examples of complex & idiomatic language that pupils can use in their spoken and written work. This can be referred to and used actively in lessons, as well as being a great resource for revision.
The structures are divided in 20 separate sections and, in each section, every construction has its meaning and an example for pupils to practise using it correctly. Answers also included.
Sections:
Complex structures requiring an infinitive
Opinion phrases
Adverbs & negation
Connectives
Before, after & the gerund
Use a past tense
Use a past tense construction
Say what you ‘used’ to do
Use a conditional sentence
Say what you must do
Use a future tense
Use a conditional tense
Say what you would have liked to have done
Use an expression of dreaming/wanting
Use a subjunctive expression
Use a comparative
Say what other people think and feel
Use an idiomatic AVOIR expression
Use some interesting averages
Say how long you have been doing something (‘depuis’)
There (‘y’)
Spanish version available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-key-complex-structures-revision-booklet-with-translation-practice-11851661
A standalone two-page resource to support KS3 pupils to describe the appearance of themselves and members of their family. It is scaffolded with vocabulary, reading and translation activities with a topic sentence builder.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
Save 75% with this bundle of 6 resources on the topic of the environment for GCSE. It includes:
A worksheet on environmental problems
How to help the environment- present tense
A worksheet on Grade 9 (A*) constructions on this topic
Grammar practice: the environment with the past and future tenses
Helping the environment - vocabulary and reading
A worksheet on the problems that worry me and how I can help, with translation practice