I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
4 step present tense
1 - match up Spanish pronouns
2 - complete endings table (with options)
3 - scaffolded conjugation
4 - challenge - Students to work out which verb ending is needed through analysing the context, then conjugate the words, then translate the phrases - lots of cognates so doesn't matter that they haven't seen all of them before
Developed for a high ability year 7 class
DIFFERENTIATED BY OUTCOME - RANGE OF FOUNDATION AND HIGHER STYLE ACTIVITIES - 92 slides - Random images supplied are to give you an idea of the range of tasks. There are lots more included.
Extensive revision booklet covering LOADS OF vocabulary and grammar points in detail from Theme 2 of the AQA GCSE Spanish curriculum.
Home, home town, neighbourhood and region - social issues - global issues - travel and tourism
Grammar points included:
Quantifiers
Prepositions
articles
The preterite tense explanation and practice
verb gap fills in a range of tenses
Conditional tense inc. irregulars
Conjugation into all GCSE tenses
categorising 2 or more tenses tasks
Higher level idiomatic expressions
Present tense
future tense
sequencing connectives
higher level infinitive structures
reflexive verbs
Exam skills
Lots and lots of exposure to key vocab from this theme
Translation
Giving directions
Reading and categorisation
Question words practice and forming questions
Q+A practice
Writing skills with bullet points
manipulating adjectives (for gender and sing/plural)
Reading gap fill
These workshops have been made to support Dynamo 2 vert Module 1 - vive les vacances!
Topics included:
Reviewing and talking about school holidays
The perfect tense (regular and irregular)
Places in town
Past tense activities, opinions
Range of verb endings + negative verbs practice
Talking about a special holiday in the past
Differentiated writing tasks on past holidays
Resources could be used to support class powerpoints, remote learning, homeworks, or additional support.
**All resources compliment / consolidate content from Module 1. There are no duplicated tasks from the textbook or workbook. **
Each worksheet has clear instructions with examples for every task. Each worksheet is extensively differentiated. Tasks take 20-30 minutes (in line with ks3 homework requirements) with lots of optional extra tasks for higher end vert students.
Activities are inductive but aptly supported. Each worksheet will incorporate different “challenge” tasks which increase in cognitive demand, this could be creation tasks, the manipulation of verbs or sentences, etc.
Dynamo 2 Module 1 rouge resources coming soon.
HUNDREDS OF ACTIVITIES TO COVER ALL 12 TOPICS IN GREAT DETAIL -
I’ve attached some screenshots to give you an idea of the range of activities. Lots of differentiated reading/listening/writing/grammar tasks.
**I have covered as much vocabulary as possible (including the majority of the vocab lists in the textbook) and all key grammar points including MA grammar such as subjunctive/ personal a.
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TOPICS/ VOCABULARY INCLUDED:
Theme 1 (ks3 revision/ family/ relationships/ free time/ customs and festivals) - over 45 activities
Theme 2 (home and local area/ social and global issues including healthy eating/ travel and tourism) - over 85 activities
Theme 3 (studies/ life at school/ post 16 options and future careers) - over 85 activities
GRAMMAR INCLUDED:
Key grammar - all 8 tenses, prepositions, personal a and 3rd person opinions, regular and irregular verbs practice in all tenses including irregular past participles, questions, connectives, time expressions, using different tenses simultaneously.
EXAM SKILLS INCLUDED:
Writing/ Speaking/ Creation structure tasks to improve fluency when developing ideas.
**These are all original resources that have been developed into extensive a4 revision booklets for my current year 11s. **
Could be used for remote learning, homeworks, or adapted to support lessons.
Each unit consolidates key vocab, gives students several opportunities to practice the vocabulary and grammar in different contexts - and most importantly the activities vary greatly - meaning they’re not super dry! I’ve also taken extra care to ensure all resources are attractive and easily accessible as I teach a mixed ability year 11 class (targets 3-8)
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Specifically developed with the new grammar heavy GCSE course in mind
tener, ir, ser, ayudar, hacer in 6 tenses
(present, imperfect, preterite, simple future, proper future, conditional)
Speaking/ listening pair activity included
plus dominoes which could be used on the next lesson to reinforce/ check retention.
Context: school
Range of lessons which explain the structure of the speaking exam and focus on how to score high in the photocard section
Various tasks to practise speaking including Q&A PLUS a range of activities which look at developing ideas using 3+ tenses and higher level language
Especially proud of a peer assessment task where students take turns to test their partner following the proper format of the exam (seen and unseen questions)
See file names for what's included
these lessons were developed for a LA group
there is some overlap with the B lessons but I have included both versions as some are for set 3/5 and some for 5/5 so you can choose which is most suited to your group
Challenge and grammar integrated throughout
lots of re-inforcement and games to maintain engagement
last few lessons will help students with a speaking exam.
A range of activities to help students learn bodyparts, understand the difference between ME DUELE/N and be able to give advice to lead a healthier lifestyle.
Specifically developed for the new GCSE AQA specification
All tenses have a step by step explanation with an example, at least 1 practise activity and then answers in red on a separate duplicate slide.
Booklet is divided into 2 principal sections - basic grammar and grade 7+
I have covered a range of grammar from different topics including local area, environment, family, healthy living etc.
Tenses/ grammar covered:
Present(I do) / present perfect (I have done)
Past (preterite (I did) and imperfect (I used to))
Future (simple (I’m going to) and proper ‘I will’)
Conditional (I would do)
Si clauses + conditional (If I… I would…)
Higher level sentence structure
higher level phrases/ idioms
I have used this with 3 mixed ability year 10 groups and it has been very successful.
Suitable for all ks3 and even foundation at ks4
I regularly adapt this resource to help teach lesson structure to students who struggle when developing answers.
Includes help on sentence structure but also 'easy' formulas for conditional tense, present, future and past to improve grades.
Very well developed lessons with support and stretch and challenge integrated throughout
includes:
*Mock speaking exam with photo card and general conversation questions - NO ROLE PLAY
* 2 lessons on Speaking skills which includes format of the exam, example role play/ photo card, Q and A practise, help with You form verbs and linking questions and answers
* 'Quieres ser voluntario? Introduction to social issues topic with a great range of topical vocab taken straight from the AQA spec
* Conditional tense breakdown with reference to SI clauses and other HL vocab
* Tener expressions (e.g. tener sed) in all tenses
* Diet/ healthy/ unhealthy living
* Comparing diets (yours VS others, present and past)
* Preterit VS imperfect
* 3rd person opinions singular/plural - multi tense
* Listening skills
Present, present subjunctive, imperfect, conditional and future perfect tenses.
Handout to explain the use for each one - with HABER in all tenses.
Interactive lesson with a focus on inductive learning/ practise.
I have done this primarily with A level but have also taught it to some MA students for GCSE. the resource works really well because it encourages them to conjugate a range of vocabulary in all perfect tenses and allows students to work in their books but also orally due to the competitive sections of the lesson.
Includes a range of practise for all 4 skills
(Reading/ Writing/Speaking/Listening)
Lessons on:
* infinitives and infinitive constructions
* infinitive VS conjugated verb
* jobs/ inductive jobs/ places of work
* Speaking practise on jobs (1st 3rd and 3rd person plural),
* advantages/ disadvantages of jobs
* part time jobs/ pocket money
* preterite tense (regular and irregular verbs)
* chores
* Languages in the workplace
* Understanding and forming questions
* Revision of the topic
Range of short and full lesson activities, huge element of competition to encourage engagement from all students.
These games/ activities are TRIED AND TESTED, students regularly ask to play them again -
each PPT has instructions on how to play them and a model which is easier to adapt for new topics or even your second/ third language.
I’ve included all the top things that usually come up (i.e. prepositions, weather)
tenses for foundation and higher students of key verbs
articles and possessive pronouns
a range of opinion phrases
photo card language
mat is divided by colour meaning it’s easy to differentiate vocabulary
Mat 1 - focus on key vocabulary and key verbs in multiple tenses
prepositions/ weather/ photo card language/ articles/ possessive pronouns
mat 2 - opinions/ connectives including higher level connectives/ time phrases for future and conditional
mat 3 - GRADE 7 and beyond - idioms/ infinitive phrases/ HL language