Worksheets and a few Powerpoint presentations for Modern Languages.
Mainly Spanish at the moment and mainly Key Stages 3-4, but one or two Key Stage 5 too.
I hope my resources are useful to you. I spend quite a lot of time making them and would like to save other busy teachers time preparing resources - so you can get on with teaching.
Worksheets and a few Powerpoint presentations for Modern Languages.
Mainly Spanish at the moment and mainly Key Stages 3-4, but one or two Key Stage 5 too.
I hope my resources are useful to you. I spend quite a lot of time making them and would like to save other busy teachers time preparing resources - so you can get on with teaching.
This is a triple worksheet (three pages) about future plans (not future jobs as such but more general: I'm going to take a gap year, go to university, learn to drive, etc).
Sheet 1 is a vocabulary sheet for this topic.
Sheet 2 has some simply match-up and gap-fill tasks to introduce key vocabulary.
Sheet 3 has four sample paragraphs about people's future plans. There are questions testing comprehension but also getting pupils to highlight useful language such as time phrases, connectives, etc. The idea is to get them to think about how they can write sophisticated paragraphs about this topic.
Sentences for pupils to translate about the main characters of L'étranger (Camus). Some key vocabulary is provided.
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
Pupils must match 9 quotations to the right box in the tables, to show how they fit with certain character traits of the three main characters (Meursault, Raymond, Marie)
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
Two pages of quotations grouped under the following headings:
La mort et la futilité de la vie
La justice dans un monde irrationnel
Le désir de l’homme de trouver un sens à la vie
Être « étranger »
L’importance d’accepter la vie et d’en profiter
You can cut up (or digitally re-arrange) the quotations for students to sort under the headings themselves, perhaps after you have first asked them to find some relevant quotations related to those themes themselves.
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
This 6-page document assembles key quotations from Part I of L'étranger (Camus), most introduced by a brief English comment for easy reference.
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
This is an audiovisual activity for the Immigration sub-topic (AQA A-Level Spanish).
It contains a series of questions or gap-fill sentences related to a 2017 Youtube video about immigration from Mexico to the U.S.
(I slowed the video down to 0.75 speed for the first listen, then played it at normal speed. This seemed to work well.)
Please check the accompanying video (not produced by me) is still available before downloading the worksheet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiNHOEm_kHg
Useful for practising the Conditional Tense in the context of the Racism topic. Gets students practising relevant vocabulary while practising their grammar at the same time.
(If you use the new Oxford 'AQA Spanish' text book you'll find that p.35 in Section 2.2A (Las medidas contra el racismo) covers the Conditional Tense in just this context.)
Contains:
1) Worksheet with 20 sentences about combatting racism for students to translate into Spanish. Each requires a verb in the Conditional Tense, including some of the main verbs with irregular stems (and a couple of derivatives, e.g. intervenir).
2) Simple Powerpoint presentation where the sentences appear one by one, followed by the answer.
You could do a few on mini-whiteboards/iPads as a class and then pupils fill in the rest on their sheet.
Designed for revisiting the Present Tense at Key Stage 4, but could be used in KS3 and KS5.
Presentation of
the Present Tense regular verb endings, with mini-whiteboard practice activity for -ar verbs and a class Battleships game for practising the er/ir/ar endings (the students love this!)
the verbs with irregular ‘yo’ forms (conozco)
stem-changing (radical-changing) verbs, with an accompanying worksheet for students to fill in the ‘I’ and ‘we’ forms of common stem-changing verbs
You may also be interested in my
Present Tense crossword
comprehensive ‘Spanish Verb Tenses Overview Sheet’ …
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Double-sided sheet preparing pupils to talk/write about a future holiday.
Side 1: A writing (or speaking) frame modelling various ways of combining sentences to say what your future holiday is going to be like.
Side 2: List of additional vocabulary which could be used
Could be used with some KS3 pupils too.
The worksheet contains a text recounting a past holiday to Barcelona.
There are gaps in the text where appropriate connectives are required. Pupils must choose the right one from the box below the text. Then, next to the list of English connectives, they write the Spanish.
The text could also be used for reading comprehension purposes.
(Images are public domain from Wikimedia Commons)
Explanation of direct object pronouns in a food context. E.g. Tu aime les frites? Oui, je les aime. With some class/individual practice activities.
( All images are public domain from https://openclipart.org )
Help your students get to grips with using several different tenses to talk about holidays. Good for consolidation when pupils have been talking about past holidays, future holidays etc and may be starting to get mixed up.
Side 1 contains three tables (one for AR, one for ER, one for IR verbs) of common holidays-related verbs (e.g. nadar, etc). The tables have four more columns in which to write in the (first person singular only) preterite, present, future and conditional forms of each verb. Some are already filled in, which gives the students a guide to how to fill in the rest.
(There is another version of this containing all the answers which you could project on to the board for pupils to check their answers.)
Side 2 is for reference. It contains all the regular verb endings for AR, ER and IR verbs in the present, preterite and future tenses. There are also notes about irregular verbs and stem-changing verbs.
3 Powerpoints on the family and descriptions topic practising key grammar:
On adjectives, describing qualities of a good friend and an ideal partner
On reflexive verbs in the Present
Perfect and Present
Perfect tenses, e.g. She gets on with… (elle s’entend avec). They argued (ils se sont disputés) etc
On direct object pronouns, e.g. he listens to me, she criticises me (elle me critique) etc
All with grammar notes and practice tasks
Aim: to help GCSE (or KS3) pupils prepare to write their own paragraph about ‘last weekend’ (after previously learning the Preterite Tense and relevant activity vocabulary).
Worksheet with 2 model texts about “el fin de semana pasado” (last weekend). Contains opinions and time phrases for pupils to find.
Accompanying Powerpoint with a “One Pen, One Die” activity to do after the worksheet. Then a speaking pair game (roll the die, say the sentence, gain the points). Also a gap-fill activity to reinforce the language from the worksheet - could be used as a Starter the following lesson.
Fumar, beber, tomar drogas
Lesson Powerpoint and double worksheet about drinking, taking drugs and drinking alcohol. Talking about your good and bad health habits.
A 41 slide Powerpoint with clear and concise explanations about how the Perfect Tense works and practice activities.
Not complete lessons (these slides are extracted from various lesson Powerpoints) but the Powerpoint does cover er, ir and re verbs taking avoir (plus how to make them negative) as well as être verbs and the irregular past participles.
There are explanations with examples, and a few match-up / gap-fill / translation / speaking tasks (oxo and dice game).
Could save you some time!
For the KS5 'Racismo' sub-topic.
The double-sided worksheet contains two tasks:
1) An introductory gap-fill activity (text summarising what SOS Racismo is and does)
2) An audio-visual activity where students watch a video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi1Xm0sqYr0 ) then answer the 11 accompanying questions.
To complete task 2, pupils must watch a Youtube video of an interview with the president of SOS Racismo, who gives examples of racism, including his own experience, and some measures for combatting it. The video gives various other facts about racism in Spain.
I would recommend that you reduce the speed of the video to 75% by selecting the Settings icon at the bottom of the video (not available on some tablet apps but visible on PCs), then clicking Speed > 0.75
PLEASE CHECK that the video is still available before downloading the worksheet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi1Xm0sqYr0
This sheet will probably take up most of the lesson by the time you have watched the video twice (pausing it to give students a chance to write), gone through the answers and discussed the issues raised. Alternatively, it could be set as a homework.
(Images are public domain from openclipart.org unless otherwise credited)
A lesson on saying what you have to/must do to stay healthy, e.g.
Tienes que comer fruta y verdura
Hay que hacer ejercicio
Full lesson including put-pieces-of-paper-together-to-create sentences activity, dice speaking game, mini-whiteboard activity. Also accompanying worksheet (page 2 of the worksheet is the sentence-building activity template for pupils to cut out).
Lesson Powerpoint and accompanying worksheets (and vocabulary sheet) on talking about what your IDEAL SCHOOL would be like.
Key verbs introduced, model texts with ideas. Everything you need for teaching this sub-topic.
BONUS
As a little extra, I’ve included some slides about talking about EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES and WHAT MY PRIMARY SCHOOL WAS LIKE
10 page (+cover) Grammar Booklet. Perfect for end of year revision or consolidation work during the year.
This was designed as a Grammar Revision booklet for first year Spanish students, covering:
Gender: masculine and feminine nouns
Singular and plural nouns
'The' (the definite article)
'A (an)' (the indefinite article)
'Some'
Adjective agreements
Me gusta(n)
‘My, your, his, her, its’ (Possessive pronouns)
Regular verbs in the Present Tense
Two irregular verbs: ‘tener’ and ‘ser’
There are step-by-step explanations and exercises for each grammar point.
The vocabulary used presupposes familiarity with the first four chapters of Mira 1 (or a similar text book: it is typical'beginners'' vocabulary on family, pets, colours, etc)