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.
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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A Powerpoint practising key verbs to do with technology & mobile phones, with tasks to get pupils to put them into the Present Tense.
Also a ‘mosaic translation’ worksheet activity where pupils translate sentences about the pros and cons of technology using the words provided in the grid (Google Translate-proof!)
A worksheet (with accompanying teacher PPT) to help pupils understand how to produce a good 90 word / 150 word question answer (AQA spec)
Side 1 of sheet has 90-word answer to analyse.
Side 2 of sheet has 150-word answer to improve.
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-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.
Double-sided worksheet preparing pupils to write/talk about what they like to do on holiday.
Side 1: They unjumble some simple model sentences. Then fill in Me encanta/Se puede/Me gusta opinions with appropriate infinitives.
Side 2: They read 3 short texts about three people like to do on holiday, then answer 4 comprehension questions in English about them. Then they Find the Spanish for six useful phrases.
Not highly advanced - appropriate for some Key Stage 3 classes too.
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Double-sided worksheet providing vocabulary to help students describe different part time jobs.
Pupils simply write the number of the corresponding English sentence (from side 2 of the sheet) next to the sentences on side 1.
Could do this against the clock to add challenge/fun?
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Presentation of the perfect tense with être, with a fun battleships game at the end.
This was designed for a Year 12 French class to re-cap the perfect tense, but could also be used at KS4 (or even KS3).
Sentences for pupils to translate about the main characters of L'étranger (Camus). Some key vocabulary is provided.
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
Pupils must match 9 quotations to the right box in the tables, to show how they fit with certain character traits of the three main characters (Meursault, Raymond, Marie)
This resource is also available as part of a 'bundle' of L'étranger resources
3 Powerpoints on the family and descriptions topic practising key grammar:
On adjectives, describing qualities of a good friend and an ideal partner
On reflexive verbs in the Present
Perfect and Present
Perfect tenses, e.g. She gets on with… (elle s’entend avec). They argued (ils se sont disputés) etc
On direct object pronouns, e.g. he listens to me, she criticises me (elle me critique) etc
All with grammar notes and practice tasks