A variety of resources including revision booklets, entire lessons and worksheets suitable for GCSE and A level students of Spanish and French. There are several Italian, as well as English language/literature resources available too.
A variety of resources including revision booklets, entire lessons and worksheets suitable for GCSE and A level students of Spanish and French. There are several Italian, as well as English language/literature resources available too.
A workbook (with an answerbook included as a separate document) for A level students doing French and needing translation practice. There are exercises on each theme from English to French and from French to English.
The themes include:
family structures, modern values, friendships, relationships
youth trends, personality and identity
educational and employment opportunities
regional culture and identity in France and French speaking countries
media, art, film and music in the French speaking world
migration and integration
cultural identity and marginalisation
cultural enrichment and celebrating difference
June1940-May 1945
the cultural dimensions in occupied France
1945-1950
Suitable for any exam board
A workbook (with an answerbook included as a separate document) for A level students doing Spanish and needing translation practice. There are exercises on each theme from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English.
The themes include:
• family structures, modern values, friendships, relationships
• youth trends, personality and identity
• educational and employment opportunities
• regional culture and identity in Spain and Spanish speaking countries
• media, art, film and music in the Spanish speaking world
• migration and integration
• cultural identity and marginalisation
• cultural enrichment and celebrating difference
• el franquismo
• post civil-war Spain, historical and political repercussions
• coming to terms with the past
Suitable for any exam board
For A level students having studied the AQA AS spec, this booklet covers all the topics with particular focus given to examples students can use in their speakings. Also covers key information in the textbooks, as well as coming with a revision checklist.
Topics include:
la famille en voie de changement
la cyber-societe
le role du benevolat
une culture fiere de son patrimoine
la musique francophone contemporaine
le septieme art
Fully comprehensive PPT that could last 2+ lessons on relative pronouns. This was used for A level but can be adapted accordingly, depending on the level you are teaching at.
Includes exercises in the PPT for students to test what they have learnt.
The pronouns that are covered:
(i) qui, que
(ii) dont
(iii) ce qui, ce que, ce dont
(iv) lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles
auquel, à laquelle, auxquels, auxquelles
duquel, de laquelle, desquels, desquelles
(v) quoi
(vi) où
The definitions given:
the main clause
the relative clause
the relative pronoun
the ‘head’ noun
A quiz useful for an end-of-year lesson, or for revision purposes. Focuses on the AQA spec. for year 1/year 12. There are 6 rounds, with 10 questions in each.
The topics include:
Los valores tradicionales y modernos
El ciberespacio
La igualdad de los sexos
La influencia de los ídolos
La identidad regional en España
El patrimonio cultural
Some of the questions require gap-fill, others are more like the exam comprehensions and others are choosing the correct letter. There are also short translations.
A full lesson’s worth of resources aimed at students doing A level Spanish where immigration is a module.
Contains:
several activities where all language skills are used: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
an array of different tasks to be set individually, and group-based activities.
provides an insight into immigration in both Spain and other countries in the Spanish speaking world.
includes starter, plenary and homework.
all answers to tasks are provided on the PowerPoint, all task sheets are included too.
includes mini vocab topic test.
extensions are continuously provided for students with higher capabilities.
aims to improve students’ dictionary work in contexts etc.
A workbook suitable for French A/AS level students that helps them to consolidate and revise tricky aspects of grammar. The resource also comes with a separate answers booklet.
Includes the following topics:
General Grammar Revision
Differences between French / English
Comparatives and Superlatives
Tenses
Pronouns
Articles
Subjunctive alternatives
Adverbs
Time values
The passive voice
Negation
Modal verbs
with a variety of grammar/translation exercises for each.
The answers booklet also includes some explanations of the more difficult grammar points.
Perfect for revision or for homework that will last many different lessons.
This resource includes lessons and accompanying resources for PARTS OF the Claro 1 Unit 3 scheme of work. There are a range of activities, games and in-class assessment points (differentiated). Grammar points are taught also, and homework is provided.
Topics:
3.4 ¡Brrr¡ Hace frío!
3.5 ¡Somos fanátic@s de la música!
3.6 Su foto tiene muchos ‘me gusta’
A booklet designed to help students practice their translation from French into English.
Primarily designed for AQA where at Foundation and Higher, students translate a short passage from French to English as part of the last question on the Reading exam.
This Booklet is just for Theme 2, covering:
• My home
• Local area
• Shopping
• Charity and voluntary work
• Healthy and unhealthy living
• The environment
• Poverty and homelessness
• Other social and global issues
• Travel
• Holidays and tourism
Altogether there are 10 short paragraph translations for students to complete. There is an accompanying answer booklet too that has a breakdown of how students would get the 9 marks per question, following the format of the AQA mark scheme.
Suitable for in-class work, homework and revision, or cover.
Please visit my shop to access booklets for Themes 1 and 3, or to buy the booklet containing all three themes in.
For A level students doing AQA Lit B - Tragedy option
PPT includes:
recap of the history of the genre of tragedy
recap of the plot pattern for tragedy
recap of tragic endings/resolutions
an activity for students to choose three tragic methods in Keats’ poems (as attatched in full) and analyse/write about them
exam skills focus: how do we write about Keats? Students are placed in the examiner’s position with an activity where they judge an exemplar essay response
historical context of the poem
the interpretations over time of Lamia
semantic field and exercises relating to that
Lamia as an allegory - students focus on what the characters could represent
shifting perspectives and metamorphoses in the poem, including argument starters about that and critics’ views
for revision: a template on how to analyse poems is included - this is applicable to any poem.
For A level students having studied the AQA A2 spec, this booklet covers all the topics with particular focus given to examples students can use in their speakings. Also covers key information in the textbooks, as well as coming with a revision checklist.
Topics include:
la inmigracion
el racismo
la convivencia
jovenes de hoy, ciudadanos de manana
monarquias y dictaduras
los movimientos populares
A full lesson covering las asignaturas. Includes:
Revision of all the school subjects students should know, done orally via recap
A listening task - 5 subjects are mentioned and students have to recognise what they are plus why they are being spoken about. You are able to differentiate between abilities here by getting lower abilities to recognise the subject, and then higher abilities are tested on recognising certain phrases like ‘vale la pena’. Answers are included
A writing task which recaps main verbs and grammar points like me encanta + sing. or me encantan + plural noun
Homework set at the end
Useful as a revision lesson or introduction lesson to the topic.
A document useful for helping A/AS level students write the main body to essays on various topics. This is suitable for any exam board.
This can be used in conjunction with the ‘essay introduction’ sentence starters resource free on my page.
This resource is suitable for any year group with whom you have worked on the subjunctive and its uses. The PPT lesson will require some prior knowledge of the tense, however it is possible to adapt it so that this is not the case.
The PPT has 5 different tasks:
To revise, list some instances whereby you would use the subjunctive (includes answers)
Give certain forms of the subjunctive of certain verbs
Impersonal phrases that take the subjunctive
How to use the subjunctive to translate other phrases where it’s not needed in English (although, wherever etc)
Translation activities
A quiz useful for an end-of-year lesson, or for revision purposes. Focuses mainly on the AQA spec for year 10. There are 6 rounds, with 10 questions in each. 5 of these are topic based, and the other 5 are still topic-related, but more focused on grammar.
The topics are:
Me, my family and friends
Life at school
Education post-16
Healthy/unhealthy living
Free-time activities
Travel and tourism
Grammar topics include:
qui, que, dont
en + present participle
devoir/pouvoir/il faut/vouloir to school rules context
quantity words inc. with plurals
ce qui/ce que… c’est… sentence pattern
future tense
si clauses
il vaut mieux/il vaudrait mieux
negative ne…jamais
adverbs
il est possible que + subjunctive
avant de/après avoir etc/pendant que/depuis/venir de
weather expressions with faire
Some of the questions require gap-fill, others are more like the exam comprehensions and others are choosing the correct letter. There are also short translations.
A quiz useful for an end-of-year lesson, or for revision purposes. Focuses on the AQA spec. for year 1/year 12. There are 6 rounds, with 10 questions in each.
Rounds are:
• La famille en voie de changement
• La cyber-societe
• Le role du benevolat
• Une culture fiere de son patrimoine
• La musique francophone contemporaine
• Le septieme art (le cinema)
Some of the questions require gap-fill, others are more like the exam comprehensions and others are choosing the correct letter. There are also short translations.
For A level students having studied the AQA AS spec, this booklet covers all the topics with particular focus given to examples students can use in their speakings. Also covers key information in the textbooks, as well as coming with a revision checklist.
Topics include:
Los valores tradicionales y modernos
El ciberespacio
La igualdad de los sexos
La influencia de los idolos
La identidad regional en Espana
El patrimonio cultural
A document aimed at A/AS level French students to help them write about the films they have been studying.
Includes French and English versions of how to structure sentences, how to analyse content, and enables them to learn vocabulary necessary for discussing the films.
Suitable for any exam board and any film - easily applicable to any.
This resource includes all lessons and accompanying resources for the Claro 1 Unit 2 scheme of work. There are a range of activities, games and in-class assessment points (differentiated). Grammar points are taught also, and homework is provided.
Topics:
2.1 ¡Contamos hasta cien!
2.2 Te presento a mi familia
2.3 Los animales y las mascotas
2.4 Espejito, espejito …
2.5 Las descripciones físicas
2.6 Mi carácter y relaciones
This unit is typically taught to Year 7 students, although is beginner’s Spanish and can be used accordingly.
A revision booklet aimed at A level students doing the Lit B exam with AQA, focusing mainly on the themes present in the Handmaid’s Tale with analysis from a social/political protest lens. The analysis includes argument starters, quotes and character analysis. The themes include:
oppression
naming/identity
religion
women and their roles in society
freedom and imprisonment
language as a theme
sex, love and feeling
memories
power and control
rebellion
rule-breaking and appearances
Structure:
the Historical Notes
comment on the general structure
comment on the language
This resource was not made by me and I take no credit for it.