I am a French and Spanish teacher. You will find here some resources I have produced to teach my students. Some are fun and innovative and others are more old fashioned. A variety of topics covered. Also some cultural knowledge resources. Enjoy...!
I am a French and Spanish teacher. You will find here some resources I have produced to teach my students. Some are fun and innovative and others are more old fashioned. A variety of topics covered. Also some cultural knowledge resources. Enjoy...!
A starter activity I designed to be used as a starter to revise Les Passetemps or work out what student do or don't know. The idea is that students speak to/ask each other in the class to find out the answers and each box/question has to be answered by a different person who can put initials when answer is written. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback!
Starter or HWK piece of text to translate into English and then adapt about own family in Spanish. Would suit Yr7.
Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)
A list of useful vocab for Spanish GCSE students. Could be done as a HWK, test or as a class activity where students go around the class and ask each other for the answers. Each person who gives an answer signs their initials. The idea is to try and get your students to communicate with everyone in the room. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)
A little grid to play battleships about school (subjects and opinions). Would suit Yr7 to help with speaking practice. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
After teaching my Yr7 body parts in Spanish, I asked them to design their own Frankenstein using body parts from various pictures (collage) and asked them to label it. This is an example of finished product you could show your class. Laugh out loud guaranteed. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
Recap of vocab taught, translation both ways, prepositions (gap filling), verb "faire" in present tense. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)
Easy test for Yr7 to check understanding and knowledge. Word recognition, translation both ways, reading comprehension and questions, writing exercise. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)
A test to check knowledge acquisition for KS4 on new technologies. Recap vocab taught, gap filling exercise, reading comprehension with questions, writing exercise.
Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
Claim the parcel translation game
Activity for revising/practising personality in French.
You have a table with different verbs tenses/sentences and project it on your interactive whiteboard/wall. In groups of 2 (max 3) they write the answer in French to one of the parcels/boxes on their mini white boards, come to you at the front of the class (you check) and if they have the answer correct they can claim the parcel/box. You write their names/team name on a post it notes and stick it over the parcel/box on the interactive whiteboard. Then, no one can do this parcel/box anymore. The winner is the group to have most parcels/boxes claimed at the end.
It worked really well with Yr8 classes this week.
Don’t forget to feedback!
This is a trapdoor activity to get your students to practise their speaking skills. It is played in pairs. Each person chooses an option for each sentence in their head. One starts reading the text and trying to find out the other’s choices. Each time they make a choice, the partner nods or shakes his/her head. If the choice is correct the person continues until they get it wrong. When they get it wrong, the other person has a go. The aim of the game is to finish first. I did this with my Yr10 students and they enjoyed it a lot! Enjoy and don’t forget to feedback!
This is a trapdoor activity to get your students to practise their speaking skills. It is played in pairs. Each person chooses an option for each sentence in their head. One starts reading the text and trying to find out the other’s choices. Each time they make a choice, the partner nods or shakes his/her head. If the choice is correct the person continues until they get it wrong. When they get it wrong, the other person has a go. The aim of the game is to finish first. I did this with my Yr10 students and they enjoyed it a lot! Enjoy and don’t forget to feedback!
14 French Trapdoor activities for the New French GCSE
These have proved very popular with students and teachers. Great for speaking practice, writing practice, translation.
Enjoy and don't forget to feedback!!
This is a trapdoor activity to get your students to practise their speaking skills. It is played in pairs. Each person chooses an option for each sentence in their head. One starts reading the text and trying to find out the other’s choices. Each time they make a choice, the partner nods or shakes his/her head. If the choice is correct the person continues until they get it wrong. When they get it wrong, the other person has a go. The aim of the game is to finish first. I did this with my Yr10 students and they enjoyed it a lot! Enjoy and don’t forget to feedback!
This is a trapdoor activity to get your students to practise their speaking skills. It is played in pairs. Each person chooses an option for each sentence in their head. One starts reading the text and trying to find out the other’s choices. Each time they make a choice, the partner nods or shakes his/her head. If the choice is correct the person continues until they get it wrong. When they get it wrong, the other person has a go. The aim of the game is to finish first. I did this with my Yr10 students and they enjoyed it a lot! Enjoy and don’t forget to feedback!
This is a trapdoor activity to get your students to practise their speaking skills. It is played in pairs. Each person chooses an option for each sentence in their head. One starts reading the text and trying to find out the other’s choices. Each time they make a choice, the partner nods or shakes his/her head. If the choice is correct the person continues until they get it wrong. When they get it wrong, the other person has a go. The aim of the game is to finish first. I did this with my Yr10 students and they enjoyed it a lot! Enjoy and don’t forget to feedback!
A reading comprehension activity I designed for my Yr10 about teenagers going abroad on foreign exchange. Vocabulary and questions. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback.
I have tried this with Yr9 and Yr10 and the students really enjoyed it. Print all photos and display around the room. I have taken these photos myself. Real French Authentic resources. Then give students the quiz questions (35 questions). Questions are differentiated: one all in French, one half French half English and one all in English. You will also find the answers to the quiz. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback! :-)
Here is a Powerpoint presentation I have made with all the answers and some writing titles for 120/180 words tasks.
This is to go with the French GCSE Translation booklet (attached) made by Kloereese on TES.
My classes have found it really useful for revision before exams.
Enjoy!
Gap filling exercise which I designed for my bottom set Yr9 on town. I gave each student a different strip and they then go around the class asking each other for some words they haven't got. The complete text is on the last strip for the teacher. Then, I got students to translate text in English followed by adapting it to write about their city/town. Enjoy and don't forget to feedback :-)