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MFL resources you can trust! Where? Here...in Polly Glott's Shop... I have shared my eye-catching, creative resources - already made and trialled - often with built-in differentiation to make your day a little easier. I have over twenty years MFL teaching experience in the classroom, so download my ready-made worksheets, packs and presentations to even out that work-life balance!
If you're browsing the shop, try typing in "French" or "Spanish" to find resources in that language.
Spanish -¿Cómo es tu barrio?
A PowerPoint to introduce the adjectives to describe your neighbourhood.
The first few slides introduce the vocabulary and are followed by activities which can be done to develop skills with them.
There is an accompanying PowerPoint which contains the activities without graphics or backgrounds so that you can use these for handouts to print. There are two slides of each so you can print two per page of A4.
Activities include:
One pen, one dice
Missing words
Broken words
Faulty translation
Four in a row game
Vocabulary:
¿cómo es tu barrio?
mi barrio (no) es
bonito/bonita
feo/fea
limpio/limpia
sucio/sucia
tranquilo/tranquila
ruidoso/ruidosa
interesante
aburrido/aburrida
moderno/moderna
turístico/turística
industrial
animado/animada
pintoresco/pintoresca
descuidado/descuidada
precioso/preciosa
viejo/vieja
anciado/anciada
(no) es
más/menos que
Bastante/muy/extremadamente
An engaging Spanish Easter booklet which will liven up any Year 7 Spanish lesson. Your learners will love completing this Easter in Spanish . 12 activity pages including word search, word matching, colouring and reading tasks plus Easter cards to create. Vocabulary includes Easter vocabulary, parts of the body, colours and numbers 1-12 so that the booklet can work alongside your every day teaching. Full list below.
Booklets are flattened to protect my work and that of others within the resource and are uneditable. Please make sure you print the PDF file, not the resource preview images which show a watermark!
A flexible learning booklet for your students to learn vocabulary for Easter in Spanish. The booklet could be used for printables, distance learning, starter tasks, homework or cover’ lessons. The choice is yours!
Bilingual vocabulary list included and answer pages where appropriate.
Black and white version included, also.
Vocabulary
unos chocolates
un conejo
un huevo
un cordero
una campana
un narciso
un pollito
una canasta
una cruz
una iglesia
buscar
pintar
encontrar
la fiesta de Pascua
la procesión de Pascua
la búsqueda de los huevos de Pascua
rezar
uno
dos
tres
cuatro
cinco
seis
siete
ocho
nueve
diez
once
doce
rosa
gris
amarillo
azul
rojo
violeta
naranja
color menocotón
oscuro
claro
la oreja
el pelo
la cabeza
el ojo
la nariz
la diente
la boca
el brazo
la pierna
la rodilla
el pie
un coche
una flor / unas flores
un faro
el techo
el neumático
una rueda
una zanahoria
conducir
amigo
estoy/estamos
riendo
juntos
desde hace
en la imagen
se puede ver
veo
puedo ver
a la izquierda
a la derecha
There is a full set of Spanish Easter learning booklets available for Years 7 - 11 so you won’t need to rummage around for something different every year.
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French Personal Information ID Cards
An engaging, fun 60 page resource (including cover pages, TOU and instructions)
lots of activity pages for your learners which you can assign carefully according to ability, based on reading and writing skills
Each page has jolly Christmas characters. We use their ‘cartes d’identité’ to discover lots about them and then use it as a basis for 1st person and/or 3rd person writing using personal information.
Vocabulary is based on simple personal information but learners may need a little research on some items (e.g. beignets)
Language covered:
first name/last name/birthday (number/month)/where they live/siblings/pets/likes and dislikes
This Distance Learning Pack can be used from home but equally would work well as printables for consolidation or revision of personal information. It could be used for cover lessons if you as the class teacher have already covered the basics. Alternatively, you as the teacher could print or assign sheets as bell tasks or homework.
Answers are included
The first 6 cards are in colour, then they are repeated in black and white. There are also A5 versions. You could print and laminate the A5 ones and use them as permanent resources and perhaps use them in conjunction with the question sheets.
Further development: Once learners have filled in their own carte d’identité they could use 3rd person to write about a classmate.
El pelo y los ojos
***updated to include answer sheet
Spanish hair and eyes simple worksheet to show understanding of hair and eye colour plus hairstyles.
I suggest you ask learners to draw each face so that you can keep the worksheet to use again. Another option is to project onto the IWB or make available to learners on their tablets if if they have them.
Activity 1: colour the eyes correctly.
Activity 2 draw and colour the hairstyles correctly.
Activity 3 Translate sentences into English.
Activity 4 Translate sentences into Spanish.
Suggested extension activities
describe a celebrity’s hair and eyes
describe yourself and your family
create a character and describe them in Spanish
draw and describe your friend
An engaging Spanish Easter booklet which will liven up any Year 9 Spanish lesson. Easter in Spanish can run alongside your Year 9 SoW. Here are 11 Semana Santa activity pages including word puzzles and reading tasks, a Spanish torrijas* recipe reading*, word sodoku plus Easter cards to create. Vocabulary includes Easter words, opinions plus much more so that the resource can work alongside your every day teaching.
This resource works well because
it’s a really engaging work booklet which will liven up any Spanish lesson
it is flexible: starters/whole booklet/cover/homework
it is accessible
a full bi-lingual vocabulary list is included
the answers are provided or model answers where appropriate
B&W version is provided for those (everyone??) on a tight budget
The booklets are flattened to protect my work and that of others within the resource and are therefore un-editable.
Vocabulary
unos chocolates
un conejo
un huevo
un cordero
una campana
un narciso
un pollito
una canasta
una cruz
una iglesia
buscar
pintar
encontrar
la fiesta de Pascua
la procesión de Pascua
la búsqueda de los huevos de Pascua
rezar
dulces
flores
recoger
felicidad
Cuaresma
liebre
sol
regalos
primavera
en la imagen
se puede ver
veo
puedo ver
a la izquierda
a la derecha
la torrija
el pan
la leche
frito
servido
el azúcar
la miel
la specialidad
bañado
sobre
todo
más grande que
empapar
vamos a
sacar
hervir
blandito
aplastar
darse vuelta
ponemos
la leche
cazo (m)
una rama
la canela
cortamos (en rebanadas)
una barra de pan
cuanto más reciente sea
menos
el tiempo
deberá estar sumergido
una vez que
llegar
la ebullición
volcamos
un plato
hondo
batir
calentar
una sartén
el aceite
encharcar
mojar
poco a poco
coger
rebozar
freír
dorado
por un lado
esperar
dorarse
el otro lado
una vez
tostado
el papel de cocina
escurrir
espolvorear
There is a full set of Spanish Easter learning booklets available for Years 7 - 11 so you won’t need to rummage around for something different every year.
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Easter booklets for Years 7-11
Pâques
This is a selection of booklets ranging from basic French Easter vocabulary matching, colouring and puzzles to higher level reading tasks further up the year groups. Each one has an accompanying answer booklet. Each booklet is usable as a stand-alone document for Easter activities. Alternatively, it could supplement your learning on Pâques.
You can use each of the sheets independently as needed within your lessons or print as an A4 booklet ready for your learners to work through. The booklet begins with a cover page to colour in to help settle your group. In-built differentiation or challenge working through the Easter booklet means that all children should be able to access the learning independently, allowing you to help those who most need it. It would therefore also work well as a cover lesson.
I would recommend black and white copies be lightened slightly as the coloured boxes can make the text a little harder to read than in colour.
Year 7
Vocabulary: BASIC Joyeuses Pâques, C’est Pâques, un lapin, une cloche, un (grand) œuf, un panier, des chocolats, une croix, un agneau, des tulipes, un poussin, une église, des jonquilles,
CHALLENGE un caneton, le soleil, l’herbe, les fleurs, les petits poussins, leurs vêtements, à votre choix, les coccinnelles, le champignon vénéneux, l’oiseau, le ciel, les feuilles.
This booklet is intended for Year 7 learners and helps them develop basic knowledge of Easter vocabulary in French. For extension and challenge, you could:
• Ask learners to write a paragraph about why they like or dislike Easter
• Say what they receive at Easter, what they do and where they go
• Prepare an Easter card for a friend, teacher or relative using their new vocabulary
• Make an Easter board game
• Write about why Easter is an important festival
• Research the differences between Easter in their country and France and write a summary in English or the TL.
Year 8
• English cultural reading compréhension
• Vrai/faux
• Word search
Year 9
• French handwriting
• Word puzzles/find the hidden messages
Year 10*
• Summarise French text in English
• Board game
• Recipe reading compréhension
Year 11
• French quiz
• Authentic resource reading comprehension
If you find these resources helpful, I also have other Easter resources in French and Spanish you might like to look at:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/pascua-12103413
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/semana-santa-12104731
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/easter-and-year-7-basics-lesson-resources-11840423
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/semana-santa-juego-y-actividades-11847281
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/semana-santa-y-informaci-n-personal-juego-y-m-s-11847286
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-easter-lesson-with-a-twist-11840429
A few sheets put together for Year 7s to learn Spanish vocabulary about Christmas. Matching/wordsearch/puzzle. Should last at least a whole lesson. They can always make their own puzzles or Christmas cards when they’ve done all these. Lots of colouring, too ;)
Bring something different to** Easter in Spanish**. This is an engaging Spanish Easter booklet which will liven up any Year 8 Spanish lesson. 12 activity pages Semana Santa activity pages including word puzzles and reading tasks, word sodoku plus Easter cards to create. Covers Spanish Easter vocabulary, opinions, cultural info’ about processions, true/false and photo descriptions so that the packet can work alongside your every day teaching.
This resource works well because
☛ it’s a flexible 11 page learning booklet for your Year 8s to learn vocabulary for Easter in Spanish.
☛ it’s a really engaging work packet which will liven up any Spanish lesson.
☛ the booklet could be used for
in-person printables
distance learning
starter tasks
homework
cover lessons
☛ it’s low or even no prep’ for you
☛ it can run alongside what learners are already doing to aid reading and deciphering skills e.g. photo description
☛ a bilingual vocabulary list included and answer pages where appropriate.
☛ a black and white version is also included
Vocabulary really is comprehensive in case learners are unable to look up words easily, so you may wish to remove this section if you prefer a more difficult booklet!
Booklets are flattened to protect my work and that of others within the resource and are un-editable.
Vocabulary
unos chocolates
un conejo
un huevo
un cordero
una campana
un narciso
un pollito
una canasta
una cruz
una iglesia
buscar
pintar
encontrar
la fiesta de Pascua
la procesión de Pascua
la búsqueda de los huevos de Pascua
rezar
una rama de palma
las calles
una carroza
una estatua
comer (como/comes/comemos)
gustar (me gusta (mucho))
hacer (hacemos)
tener (tengo/tienes/temenos)
ir (voy/vas/vamos/van)
comer (como/comes/comemos)
odiar (odio)
encantar (me encanta)
celebrar (celebramos)
pensar (pienso/piensa)
aqui
donde
cuando
con
quién
¿qué…? / ¿qué es/son…?
¿cómo?
durante
¿qué piensa?
¿qué llevan?
¿qué hay?
¿qué son?
¿dónde?
en la imagen
se puede ver
veo
puedo ver
a la izquierda
a la derecha
sonriendo
saltando
un pájaro
arboles
cantando
un nido
silbando
nubes
un gusano
el cesped
There is a full set of Spanish Easter booklets available for Years 7 to 11 so you’ll have something different each time.
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Spanish
Viva 1 Module 1
LESSON 1
An interactive PowerPoint lesson to recap or introduce Viva 1 Module 1: greetings/name/where you live/how are you. It covers the vocabulary in the module and has in-built extension. Reading/speaking/writing skills covered plus a noughts and crosses game.
There are notes in the slides for guidance on how to deliver the activities, also.
Year 7 Spanish
First Spanish Lesson
Get to know your KS3 pupils.
Do your pupils come from a variety of feeder primaries? This resource can help you to clarify level of MFL depending on which primary your intake is from.
This is also a helpful resource if the timetable hasn’t started yet or your sets/groups are not sorted in the third week of term which happened to me one year and I had to cobble to something together for two weeks not knowing if the children would be in the group or not…
There is room to put in the name of your school.
For differentiation ideas, try putting anagrams of Spanish vocab’ on the board (or on certain tables if you know the ability…) or anagrams of famous Spanish speakers. Also see my free French version.
A couple of puzzles to explore directions vocabulary in Spanish. One wordsearch, one crossword.
Language covered:
¿para ir a…? How do you get to …?
pase go past
hasta up to
cruce cross
siga carry on
tome take
suba go up
baje go down
tuerza turn
todo recto straight on
al final de la calle to the end of the street
está lejos/¿está lejos? it’s far/is it far?
la primera calle the first street
la segunda calle the second street
la tercera calle the third street
a la derecha to the right
a la izquierda to the left
los semáforos at the traffic lights
la rotonda the roundabout
la plaza the square
**Time saving codes for marking
**
French, Spanish, Italian…
Stick the A4 sheet into learners’ exercise books at the front or back. As you are marking, any common corrections and so on that they should complete have codes. You just need to write the code on the work. Learners then
write out the relevant target(s) on their marked work - and complete them, of course…
The language is described as the “Target Language” so that the sheet is appropriate for many languages.
A useful classroom wall display in Spanish. WYSIWYG! 51 pages. Print in colour on A4 and cut to the shapes. Organise the words under the correct word type heading and use the images to help understanding. They can then be used during lessons by students and you as the teacher can draw your attention to them to show how to improve speaking and writing skills.
Spanish Dónde Vives
KS3 Where do you live vocab’ - casa/piso/aparamento/centro/afueras/bloque etc.
Lots of games and activities, teacher-led, pairs, whole class to build confidence in the ‘dónde vives’ vocabulary (types of house/where in town/adjectives/opinions).
This fits well with Listos 1 Module 4 but have a look at the vocabulary as it will fit with other textbooks or can be used on its own.
Here’s a summary of what you get:
A 63 page PowerPoint with vocabulary list .
Stars to represent difficulty but these are only as a guide as you will know your learners best.
PDF copies of just the activities so you don’t need to trawl through the PPT for them
Activities around the vocabulary:
Delayed Copying
One Pen, One Dice copying activities
Sentence Stealers games
Battleships game
Ping-Pong game
Find Your Match
Error
No Snakes, No Ladders game
Chunks. Translations using a grid of vocabulary chunks
First Letter Translations
Vocabulary list (bilingual in the resource):
adosada
afueras
animado
antiguo
apartamento
bloque
bonito
bungaló
campo
capital
casa
castillo
centro
ciudad
costa
desierto
doble
donde
en
feo/a
finca
granja
individual
industrial
junto a
me encanta
me gusta
moderno
montañas
mucho/muchos/mucha/muchas
no me gusta
piso
porque
pueblo
que se llama
río
sierra
sin embargo
también
tranquilo
vives
vivimos
vivir
vivo
voy a
y
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and other resource along this theme:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-d-nde-vives-12399238
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-directions-12399509
French:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-name-age-pets-hair-where-i-live-test-12187608
French LES PASSE-TEMPS/LES LOISIRS (hobbies)
No prep’ for you!
Studio1 Module3 support booklet
or standalone French free time booklet as vocab’ included
Here’s a summary of what you get:
A 47 page booklet
20 activity pages for your learners
Comprehensive bilingual vocabulary list
Answers for all sheets (except longer writing task)
This booklet is based on vocabulary from Studio 1 Module 3 but would work well as a stand-alone booklet for revision or cover as the vocabulary is included. Alternatively, you as the teacher could print sheets as starter activities or homework.
Here are other hobbies resources I have made:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/passe-temps-pr-f-r-11548796
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/les-passe-temps-11554898
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/sondage-les-passe-temps-11498567
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/quel-est-ton-passe-temps-pr-f-r-11554918
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/les-passe-temps-activit-s-en-groupes-11502927
Here’s the vocabulary included in this distance learning pack:
Les ordinateurs et les portables
Qu’est-ce que tu fais …
avec ton ordinateur?
avec ton portable?
Je joue.
Je surfe sur Internet.
Je tchatte sur MSN.
Je regarde des clips vidéo.
Je télécharge de la musique.
J’envoie des SMS.
Je parle avec mes ami(e)s/mes copains/mes copines.
J’envoie des e-mails.
La fréquence
quelquefois
souvent
tous les jours
tous les soirs
tout le temps
de temps en temps
une fois par semaine
deux fois par semaine
Le sport
Je joue …
au basket
au billard
au foot(ball)
au hockey
au rugby
au tennis
au tennis de table/au ping-pong
au volleyball
à la pétanque/aux boules
sur la wii
Tu es sportif/sportive?
Je suis (assez) sportif/sportive.
Je ne suis pas (très) sportif/sportive.
Mon sportif/Ma sportive préféré(e) est
Qu’est-ce que tu fais?
Je fais du judo.
Je fais du parkour.
Je fais du patin à glace.
Je fais du roller.
Je fais du skate.
Je fais du vélo.
Je fais de la danse.
Je fais de la gymnastique
Je fais de la natation.
Je fais de l’équitation.
Je fais des promenades.
Quand?
en été
en hiver
quand il fait beau
quand il fait chaud
quand il pleut
quand il fait froid
Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire?
le soir/le weekend
le samedi matin/après-midi/soir
J’aime …
… retrouver mes amis en ville.
… regarder la télévision (la télé).
… jouer sur ma PlayStation.
… écouter de la musique.
… faire les magasins.
… faire du sport.
… jouer au football.
… traîner avec mes copains.
… téléphoner à mes copines.
Qu’est-ce qu’ils font?
Il fait de la lutte.
Elle fait du jogging.
Elle a gagné le match.
Il est champion régional.
Elle s’entraîne (trois) fois par semaine.
Ils font de la musculation.
Elles écoutent de la musique.
Ils jouent au foot.
Elles regardent la télé.
Ils sont des clowns.
Elles aiment le R&B.
Les mots essentiels
sur
en (été)
quand
tout/toute/tous/toutes
par (deux fois par semaine)
d’habitude
d’abord
ensuite
puis
In no time at all, liven up French quantities (kg/litre/slice/packet/box/tin/can/carton) for grocery shopping. Fits well with Studio 3 Vert Module 3. An uncomplicated work booklet or separate sheets, this resource is just what you need. Accessible worksheets will help your learners to get the vocabulary to stick. Activities include word matching, reading, wordsearch and a whole class bingo. Answers included.
Vocabulary
une bouteille de – a bottle of
six tranches de – six slices of
une brique de – a carton of
un pot de – a pot of
un paquet de – a packet of
deux cent grammes de – 200g of
une boîte de – a box of
un bocal de – a jar of
un kilo de – a kilo of
un litre de – a litre of
un demi-kilo de – half a kilo of
cinq cent grammes de – 500g of
une canette de – a can of (soda)
un demi-litre de – half a litre of
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A generic worksheet with boxes to fill in when pupils are watching a film. It’s generic so should go with any film! There are French and Spanish versions. Haven’t updated my cover image yet, apologies.
Find: colours/words you know/words you heard but would like to understand/cognates/opinions etc. and a handy section to fill in how far into the film you’ve got so you can pick up next lesson.
A Tarsia puzzle. Search for Tarsia software so you can open it! Could be a good starter to check progress once vocab’ covered/basis for discussion of new vocabulary if introducing the vocabulary as new. Good for pairs to discuss language. Could set a time limit to create some competition! Contains vocab’ such as être/avoir/family members. The puzzle has to be cut out into triangles and then placed French to English to create a shape.