Worksheets and a few Powerpoint presentations for Modern Languages.
Mainly Spanish at the moment and mainly Key Stages 3-4, but one or two Key Stage 5 too.
I hope my resources are useful to you. I spend quite a lot of time making them and would like to save other busy teachers time preparing resources - so you can get on with teaching.
Worksheets and a few Powerpoint presentations for Modern Languages.
Mainly Spanish at the moment and mainly Key Stages 3-4, but one or two Key Stage 5 too.
I hope my resources are useful to you. I spend quite a lot of time making them and would like to save other busy teachers time preparing resources - so you can get on with teaching.
A couple of sentence builders to help pupils give opinions on their homes.
A trapdoor activity for talking about where you live.
Pupils found these useful for writing and speaking on this topic.
Comparing nouns, e.g. la vela es más divertida que el fútbol
Includes cut-out task where pupils piece together the sentences (prompted by the corresponding Powerpoint slide)
Double-sided sheet preparing pupils to talk/write about a future holiday.
Side 1: A writing (or speaking) frame modelling various ways of combining sentences to say what your future holiday is going to be like.
Side 2: List of additional vocabulary which could be used
Could be used with some KS3 pupils too.
Explanation of direct object pronouns in a food context. E.g. Tu aime les frites? Oui, je les aime. With some class/individual practice activities.
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Casa y ciudad.
GCSE Spanish
A trapdoor activity for talking about your house and a couple of sentence builders for giving opinions on your town.
Useful for speaking activities / writing.
Plus a slide on ‘se puede’ (in which place in town can you do the things described?) thrown in too.
The worksheet contains a text recounting a past holiday to Barcelona.
There are gaps in the text where appropriate connectives are required. Pupils must choose the right one from the box below the text. Then, next to the list of English connectives, they write the Spanish.
The text could also be used for reading comprehension purposes.
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Worksheet to help pupils to talk about whether their diet is healthy enough.
Contains a text where someone gives their opinion on their own diet. Pupils then find and highlight/write down certain useful vocabulary from the text.
Text could also be used for reading comprehension. Vocabulary list could be removed to make more difficult.
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Help your students get to grips with using several different tenses to talk about holidays. Good for consolidation when pupils have been talking about past holidays, future holidays etc and may be starting to get mixed up.
Side 1 contains three tables (one for AR, one for ER, one for IR verbs) of common holidays-related verbs (e.g. nadar, etc). The tables have four more columns in which to write in the (first person singular only) preterite, present, future and conditional forms of each verb. Some are already filled in, which gives the students a guide to how to fill in the rest.
(There is another version of this containing all the answers which you could project on to the board for pupils to check their answers.)
Side 2 is for reference. It contains all the regular verb endings for AR, ER and IR verbs in the present, preterite and future tenses. There are also notes about irregular verbs and stem-changing verbs.
Two pages of quotations grouped under the following headings:
La mort et la futilité de la vie
La justice dans un monde irrationnel
Le désir de l’homme de trouver un sens à la vie
Être « étranger »
L’importance d’accepter la vie et d’en profiter
You can cut up (or digitally re-arrange) the quotations for students to sort under the headings themselves, perhaps after you have first asked them to find some relevant quotations related to those themes themselves.
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
Introduces present tense of regular AR verbs (main model verb: estudiar). Short practice exercise. Plenary game (pupils gain points for their team by creating a phrase, e.g. if they say 'bailan', the teacher clicks "they" and "dance", revealing a number of points under each square which are added together and given to that team)
Two-sided worksheet, to be used after RE and IR verb endings have been presented.
Side 1: Grid with common RE verbs. Pupils, following the example, must fill in the ‘je’ and ‘nous’ forms.
Common irregular re verbs provided at the bottom of the sheet for reference.
Side 2: Same but for IR verbs.
Useful for verb practice and later reference. Ideal for pupils’ GCSE (or A-Level) files.
Designed for revisiting the Present Tense at Key Stage 4, but could be used in KS3 and KS5.
Presentation of
the Present Tense regular verb endings, with mini-whiteboard practice activity for -ar verbs and a class Battleships game for practising the er/ir/ar endings (the students love this!)
the verbs with irregular ‘yo’ forms (conozco)
stem-changing (radical-changing) verbs, with an accompanying worksheet for students to fill in the ‘I’ and ‘we’ forms of common stem-changing verbs
You may also be interested in my
Present Tense crossword
comprehensive ‘Spanish Verb Tenses Overview Sheet’ …
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Fumar, beber, tomar drogas
Lesson Powerpoint and double worksheet about drinking, taking drugs and drinking alcohol. Talking about your good and bad health habits.
Worksheet containing an account of somebody's holiday in France (perfect tense). The text contains a number of connectives. Pupils have to find them and write them next to the English at the bottom of the sheet. The text also contains a number of time phrases like 'Après', ' le lendemain', which pupils can highlight.
The text could also be used for reading comprehension.
Good for developing writing skills, practising understanding of the perfect tense and for reinforcing the Holidays topic.
(There are two copies of the exercise per A4 page; the sheet must be cut in half. Good for saving on photocopying, and makes it easy for students to stick into exercise books.)
Worksheet to prepare pupils to talk about their ideal school uniform (using the Conditional Tense).
They read 6 speech boxes about six people's ideas about what their ideal school uniform would be like, underlining all the uses of the Conditional.
Then they Find the Spanish for various useful phrases
This 6-page document assembles key quotations from Part I of L'étranger (Camus), most introduced by a brief English comment for easy reference.
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
Double-sided sheet with an overview of all the main French verb tenses.
Ideal ‘quick reference’ sheet for Key Stage 4 and 5.
Pupils can stick it in front of their books/files.
Sections are numbered so you can quickly refer them to the right section.
Includes key irregular/semi-irregular verbs.
PDF and editable Powerpoint* version included.
*Note that if you don’t have the latest (2016) version of Office, the formatting of the PPT version will appear wrongly. But the PDF will be fine.
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A 41 slide Powerpoint with clear and concise explanations about how the Perfect Tense works and practice activities.
Not complete lessons (these slides are extracted from various lesson Powerpoints) but the Powerpoint does cover er, ir and re verbs taking avoir (plus how to make them negative) as well as être verbs and the irregular past participles.
There are explanations with examples, and a few match-up / gap-fill / translation / speaking tasks (oxo and dice game).
Could save you some time!