A unit of work using the Michaela inspired knowledge organiser approach with some Gianfranco Conti activities on describing your school and revision of subjects, time and uniform. Included:
Powerpoints with starter activities
Knowledge organiser
Sentence builders
Quizzes
Variety of activities including: narrow reading, tangled translation, narrow translations, running dictation, big quiz on entire topic, no snakes-no ladders sentences (the grid can be sourced from Gianfranco Conti)
Loosely based on Dynamo 1 Chapter 2
PowerPoint and activities to accompany Module 1 Unit 2 of GCSE Viva Edexcel. Includes:
- School subject and teach homework
- Sentences for running translation
- PowerPoint with all answers to selected exercises from the book and explanation of comparatives and superlatives grammar point
Original texts removed due to copyright
A photo mat preparing students for the GCSE and being able to describe a photo. Includes sections on:
- What is there in the photo
- What are the people doing
- Adjectives
- Higher level phrases
PowerPoint and activities to accompany Module 2 Unit 3 of GCSE Viva Edexcel. Includes:
- Dominoes matching school rules exercise
- Speaking exercises on school rules
- Gap-fill with English transcription of listening exercise
- Problems at school reading
- Optional (and very challenging) Pen, paper, dice translation
PowerPoint and activities to accompany Module 1 Unit52 of GCSE Viva Edexcel. Includes:
- Scaffolded listening on extracurricular clubs (differentiated twice)
- PowerPoint with answers and grammar explanations of desde hace and direct object pronouns (including practice exercises)
Original texts removed due to copyright
A few resources to aid with the teaching of the future tense with werden:
- Worksheet with grammar drills
- Worksheet for students to fill in whilst listening to an explanation of the future tense
- Listening grid where students listen to sentences and categorise the elements to aid with the understanding of word order
Some more exercises to aid with the teaching of the future tense with werden. Includes:
- Translation homework into English
- Pen, paper, dice translation (two versions)
- Running translation sentences
A series of exercises and resources to practise the verb avoir and articles in French. Includes
- Page of drills on avoir
- Drills on determining articles based on thegender of nouns
- Battleships drilling avoir/il y a/classroom objects
- Find the error exercise
- Homework translation into French
A series of grammar drills with answers for self correction, ideal for cover work or DIRT type activities. Grammar covered includes:
- gern vs. mag
- verb agreements
- word order
- capitalisation of nouns
- connectives
Two resources to aid with teaching the town in German
1. Places in town with descriptions for students to work out meanings
2. A selection of texts on town
A lesson on the importance of water. Includes an activity based on a video about the journey of a water droplet and a translation activity based on important water facts
A lesson based on a silent movie featuring a griffon. The lesson is uses the video to create a lesson based on a literary text which forms the basis to practise the past tense.
Series of exercises to practise and reinforce the French imperfect tense. Includes:
- Back-to-back gap-fill dictation
- Listening exercises with the song cette année là by M. Pakora
- Worksheet with grammar drills
- QR codes for students to use to see an explanation on YouTube
A joint English-French cross-curricular lesson based on the poem 'Ton Christ est juif'. Includes listening exercise to practise students' listening skills, analysis of the poem in English and creative writing task in French
Pen, paper, dice translation for the 2 texts in Unit 1 Module 3 Comment je me vois of Studio 1.
Includes texts and translation in the form of the game, with comprehension activities afterwards.