6 years of teaching experience. Curriculum Leader for French and Spanish. Teaching French from KS2 to KS5, Spanish from KS2 to KS4. 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 NPQLTD.
6 years of teaching experience. Curriculum Leader for French and Spanish. Teaching French from KS2 to KS5, Spanish from KS2 to KS4. 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 NPQLTD.
A beautiful infographic with complex opinion phrases for pupils to use in their written or spoken work. Perfect for displaying in classrooms or printing out and sticking in pupils books/revision guides etc…
Aimed at GCSE level but can be used with all learners to stretch and challenge at KS3, or support at KS5.
A beautiful infographic with a list of infinitive constructions for pupils to use in their written or spoken work. Perfect for displaying in classrooms or printing out and sticking in pupils books/revision guides etc…
Aimed at GCSE level but can be used with all learners to stretch and challenge at KS3, or support at KS5.
This resource is great for pupils to revise all of module two from the Pearson Studio textbook for AQA GCSE French. Each part of the retrieval clock contains a subtopic that is studied within the module. Topics include family celebrations, daily routine, clothes, food, festivals and celebrations, etc… This is a great retrieval activity helping pupils with metacognition and teaching them revision strategies that they can make use of across many of their other subjects.
This resource is great for pupils to revise all of module two from the Studio textbook for AQA GCSE French. Each part of the retrieval clock contains a subtopic that is studied within module. Topics include weather, transport, where you live, what there is/isn’t in your town, what you can do in your town/region, directions etc… This is a great retrieval activity helping pupils with metacognition and teaching them revision strategies that they can make use of across many of their other subjects.
This resource is great for pupils to revise all of module two from the Studio textbook for AQA GCSE French. Each part of the retrieval clock contains a subtopic that is studied within module. Topics include film, TV hobbies, sports, free time, leisure activities, etc… This is a great retrieval activity helping pupils with metacognition and teaching them revision strategies that they can make use of across many of their other subjects.
This resource introduces pupils to DÃa de los Muertos (day of the dead), a Mexican festival celebrated on 2nd November, to help increase their cultural capital and knowledge of festivals celebrated in Spanish-speaking countries. The worksheet gets pupils watching a YouTube video and using active listening skills so that they can fill in the gaps on their fact file. For adaptive teaching pupils are provided with a missing words list which they can use to fill in the gaps or this can be omitted in order to challenge pupils further.
This resource is a handy worksheet which is designed to help pupils consolidate their knowledge of conjugating AR verbs into the present tense. This to be used after pupils have been taught how to conjugate regular AR verbs.
This resource could be a perfect extension sheet for pupils who have taken on board the method of conjugating into the present tense quickly, or it could be used as a support sheet for pupils who need that bit of extra practice.
The worksheet ends with a self assessment task where pupils identify how confident they are with the conjugations. This helps teachers identify whether more teaching is needed or whether pupils feel they have understood the content.
A beautiful infographic with key quotes from Joffo’s semi-autobiographical work ‘Un save de billes’. Perfect for displaying in classrooms or printing out and sticking in pupils books/revision guides etc…
Perfect for A Level pupils studying this as one of their set works for their literature paper.
Powerpoint for the start of a lesson based on surviving on a desert island which incorporates the key phrase 'j'ai besoin de' and 8 nouns. Other resources include higher ability writing frame and lower ability writing frame.
This resource provides a sentence builder, created specifically for Qu’est-ce que tu fais ? in the Pearson textbook Dynamo 1. It begins with introducing the pupils to the vocabulary, using activities adhering to EPI approach as advocated by Dr Gianfranco Conti.
Activities include: recall grid starter, mindreader, delayed repetition and delayed copying, one pen one die plus many more.
This is the first lesson in the unit of work entitled ‘Bonjour’ aims to start a Year 3 class off with learning French but could be easily adapted to use with a lower ability Year 7 class/any primary class starting out with learning French.
Pupils learn how to greet people, introduce themselves, describe how they are feeling and how old they are, as well as saying goodbye in a variety of ways.
This lesson uses EPI methodology to teach pupils through the use of sentence builders. The lesson is based on 1 hour of teaching and can be easily printed to provide each pupil with a booklet, minimising the need for exercise books.
To download all of the lessons in this unit, including an assessment preparation PowerPoint and teacher assessment grid, see the bundle in my shop.
This is the 3rd lesson in the unit of work entitled ‘Bonjour’ aims to start a Year 3 class off with learning French but could be easily adapted to use with a lower ability Year 7 class/any primary class starting out with learning French.
Pupils learn how to greet people, introduce themselves, describe how they are feeling and how old they are, as well as saying goodbye in a variety of ways.
This lesson uses EPI methodology to teach pupils through the use of sentence builders. The lesson is based on 1 hour of teaching and can be easily printed to provide each pupil with a booklet, minimising the need for exercise books.
To download all of the lessons in this unit, including an assessment preparation PowerPoint and teacher assessment grid, see the bundle in my shop.
This is the 4th lesson in the unit of work entitled ‘Bonjour’ aims to start a Year 3 class off with learning French but could be easily adapted to use with a lower ability Year 7 class/any primary class starting out with learning French.
Pupils learn how to greet people, introduce themselves, describe how they are feeling and how old they are, as well as saying goodbye in a variety of ways.
This lesson uses EPI methodology to teach pupils through the use of sentence builders. The lesson is based on 1 hour of teaching and can be easily printed to provide each pupil with a booklet, minimising the need for exercise books.
To download all of the lessons in this unit, including an assessment preparation PowerPoint and teacher assessment grid, see the bundle in my shop.
This is the 5th lesson in the unit of work entitled ‘Bonjour’ aims to start a Year 3 class off with learning French but could be easily adapted to use with a lower ability Year 7 class/any primary class starting out with learning French.
Pupils learn how to greet people, introduce themselves, describe how they are feeling and how old they are, as well as saying goodbye in a variety of ways.
This lesson uses EPI methodology to teach pupils through the use of sentence builders. The lesson is based on 1 hour of teaching and can be easily printed to provide each pupil with a booklet, minimising the need for exercise books.
To download all of the lessons in this unit, including an assessment preparation PowerPoint and teacher assessment grid, see the bundle in my shop.
This is the 2nd lesson in the unit of work entitled ‘Bonjour’ aims to start a Year 3 class off with learning French but could be easily adapted to use with a lower ability Year 7 class/any primary class starting out with learning French.
Pupils learn how to greet people, introduce themselves, describe how they are feeling and how old they are, as well as saying goodbye in a variety of ways.
This lesson uses EPI methodology to teach pupils through the use of sentence builders. The lesson is based on 1 hour of teaching and can be easily printed to provide each pupil with a booklet, minimising the need for exercise books.
To download all of the lessons in this unit, including an assessment preparation PowerPoint and teacher assessment grid, see the bundle in my shop.
This is the final lesson in the unit of work entitled ‘Bonjour’ aims to help Year 3 pupils prepare a presentation to demonstrate the progress they have made within this topic. There is also an editable word do iment with a teacher marking grid to help with writing reports or data entry. This resource and set of resources in this unit of work could be easily adapted to use with a lower ability Year 7 class/any primary class starting out with learning French.
In this resource you will find a PowerPoint to help pupils prepare their presentation with a WAGOLL and success criteria so pupils are clear about the desired outcome.
The lesson is based on 1 hour of teaching + 1 presentation lesson where the presentations are assessed.
To download all of the lessons in this unit to teach this unit of work, see the bundle in my shop.
This is the 3rd lesson in the unit of work entitled ‘Bonjour’ aims to start a Year 3 class off with learning French but could be easily adapted to use with a lower ability Year 7 class/any primary class starting out with learning French.
Pupils learn how to greet people, introduce themselves, describe how they are feeling and how old they are, as well as saying goodbye in a variety of ways.
This lesson uses EPI methodology to teach pupils through the use of sentence builders. The lesson is based on 1 hour of teaching and can be easily printed to provide each pupil with a booklet, minimising the need for exercise books.
To download all of the lessons in this unit, including an assessment preparation PowerPoint and teacher assessment grid, see the bundle in my shop.
This resource contains 2 x1hr lessons (both contain activities to take them over 1 hour if needed/increase to 3 lessons) about what’s in your schoolbag.
Pupils complete activities based on the EPI approach as advocated by Dr Gianfranco Conti.
Activities include bingo, mindreader, sentence stealer and a pyramid translation.
There is also a big grammar focus on ‘un’ and ‘una’ to introduce pupils to Spanish nouns, their respective genders and the implications this carries.
This resource provides 4 hour-long lessons, using the EPI methodology to train pupils to answer using the question: ‘what makes a good friend?’
The resource starts by introducing pupils to the vocabulary on the sentence builder, using listening activities such as listening bingo, before moving onto speaking activities such as mindreader and sentence stealer. The 3rd and 4th lessons then focus on increasing the amount of complex vocabulary embedded in pupils’ long term memory by focusing on translation, reading and writing activities to allow pupils to produce their own writing on the topic.
Separate handout files are also included to make printing easier.
This resource contains 2x 1 hour lessons using EPI methodology to introduce Y9/10 pupils to describe their peraonality.
The activities use vocabulary from a sentence builder containing 2 tenses and some more complex vocabulary.
Pupils work through activities such as bingo, delayed copying, mind reader and sentence stealer and there is also a writing task at the end where pupils are tasked to write about their own personality. A success criteria and WAGOLL is included to support pupils.