We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
We are a team of two sisters who specialise in primary education. We are determined to create resources of the highest standard that can be used without further preparation. Our lessons and assemblies have been designed to challenge children of all levels within a creative, engaging and inspiring context. Explore our shop to find lesson packs for languages, art and religious education, plans for assemblies and numerous high-quality resources to help you teach phonics, mathematics and literacy
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It involves children talking about how old they are and could be used after children have learnt numbers to 10.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘ages’ vocabulary, a whole class game, a speaking activity, written activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file. These are:
5 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 20 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
2 PDF pages of resources for speaking activity
6 PDF pages for the written activity (Colour and Black & White worksheets and answers)
No further preparation needed.
This is the second lesson in Unit 2 designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 is available on Blossoming Minds’ shop on the TES:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12397072
Unit 2 is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12516804
This is a plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for different pets in Italian. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of an ‘All About Me’ unit.
The plan gives details of a whole class starter, an introduction to the vocabulary, a whole class writing activity, a speaking and listening activity, a reading activity and a plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file. These are:
4 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 13 Slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
2 PDF pages of resources for the speaking and listening activity (colour and black & white versions)
3 PDF pages for the reading activity (colour and black & white worksheet and answers)
Please note: It would be helpful if children can count to 10 in Italian prior to this lesson. Our Italian numbers lesson is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12428934
This is lesson 3 of Unit 3 Italian designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 Beginners Italian - Greetings and Introductions Bundle is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/beginner-italian-greetings-and-introductions-bundle-12397072
Unit 2 Italian All About Me 5 lesson bundle is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12516804
Unit 3 Italian Lesson Bundle : Family members, clothes and pets is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12589727
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson covering favourite animals. It is suitable for using with KS2. The children learn the vocabulary for eight different animals and how to talk about their favourite animals in French.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a listening game, a speaking activity, writing task and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All the resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. These are in the zip file and are:
4 page PDF Lesson Plan
A 17 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoint is played as a slideshow with the animations.)
Resources for the speaking game (2 PDF pages - colour and black & white versions)
Resources for the written task (2 PDF pages - colour and black & white versions)
No further preparation needed.
This plan is Lesson 4, Unit 11 French designed by Blossoming Minds, but can be used on its own.
You might be interested in our French pets lesson!
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11764130
You might be interested in some of our other French units including Units 1, 2 and 3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-lesson-bundle-15-lessons-11769397
This is a plan and resources for a French lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning the vocabulary for places in the countryside in French e.g. lavender fields, rivers and mountains. The plan could be used for an individual lesson, or as part of a longer unit on France.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the vocabulary, a whole class speaking and listening activity, a reading game, writing activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills. There is a PowerPoint with images of the French countryside.
Resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file and are:
Lesson Plan - 4 pages (PDF)
An animated PowerPoint presentation - 14 pages (This is not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
Resource for the starter - 1 page (PDF)
Resource for the speaking and listening activity - 1 page (PDF)
Reading game - 1 page (PDF)
Writing worksheet and answers - 2 pages (PDF)
This plan is Lesson 1, Unit 12 by Blossoming Minds, but can be used as an individual plan.
You might be interested in Units 1, 2 and 3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11769397
This is a 5 lesson French unit for beginners, perfect for using with KS2. It teaches children the vocabulary to describe their favourites, covering book genres, music genres, film genres, animals and toys.
The plans (pdfs) all give details of a starter, how to teach the new vocabulary, followed by a combination of listening activities, speaking activities, reading/writing activities and a plenary. Each lesson is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lessons are included in the price. This includes a PowerPoint for each containing the new vocabulary. (The PowerPoints are not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open. Some of the images are only revealed when the PowerPoints are played as slideshows with the animations.)
In total there are 92 pages of lesson plans, games and worksheets (pdfs) and 73 slides of animated PowerPoints. All of the lessons are in zip files.
No further preparation needed.
This is Unit 11 French designed by Blossoming Minds but can be used individually.
You might be interested in our other French lessons including Units 1, 2 and 3:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-11769397
This is a 5 lesson French unit for beginners, perfect for using with KS2. It teaches children about France and French speaking regions.
The lessons are:
Lesson 1 - French Countryside - The children learn the vocabulary for places in the countryside in French e.g. lavender fields, rivers and mountains.
Lesson 2 - Regions of France - The children learn the vocabulary to describe different regions of France e.g. In the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, there are mountains. The lesson teaches children sentences to describe seven different regions.
Lesson 3 - French Speaking Countries - The children learn the vocabulary to describe the landscape in different French speaking countries e.g. In Guadeloupe there are beaches. The children are taught sentences to describe eight French speaking countries or regions.
Lesson 4 - Paris - The children learn about tourist sites around Paris and how to describe in French places they would like to visit e.g I would like to visit the Eiffel Tower. There is also a bit of information in English about each of the eight places that are mentioned.
Lesson 5 - French Festivals - The children learn about six festivals. There is the French word for each festival, a little bit of information in English and two more French phrases linked to the festival.
The plans all give details of a starter, how to teach the new vocabulary, followed by a combination of listening activities, speaking activities, reading/writing activities and plenary. Each lesson is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lessons are included in the price. This includes a PowerPoint for each containing the new vocabulary. The PowerPoints are not editable. Please click ‘Read Only’ to open them.
In total there are 21 pages of lesson plans (PDFs), 88 PowerPoint slides and 32 pages of resources for the activities (PDFs).
This is Unit 12 French designed by Blossoming Minds but could be used individually.
This unit could be combined with units 1-5, all created by ‘Blossoming Minds.’
Beginner French 25 Lesson Bundle
Fantastic value
This is a bundle of 25 Spanish lessons, perfect for using with absolute beginners.
They cover greetings, introductions, where you live, age, appearance, family, clothing, pets, food and drink and hobbies and interests. They are aimed at children aged 7-11.
The Lessons are:
1 - Greetings
2 - Emotions and Feelings
3 - Greetings for different times of day
4 - Introducing Yourself
5 - Where you live (countries)
6 - Numbers
7 - How old are you?
8 - Colours
9 - What do I look like? (eye and hair colour)
10 - Describing myself (height and size)
11 - Family Members
12 - Clothing
13 - Pets
14 - Pet Descriptions
15 - All About Me Revision
16 - Fruit and Vegetables
17 - Bread and Pastries
18 - Drinks
19 - Breakfast
20 - Dinner
21 - Days of the Week
22 - Sports
23 - Hobbies and Interests
24 - Musical Instruments
25 - Days Out
The plans (pdfs) all give details of a starter, how to teach the new vocabulary, followed by a combination of listening activities, speaking activities, reading/writing activities and a final task. Each lesson is highly interactive and allows children to practice a range of language skills.
All resources are included in the price. This includes a PowerPoint for each lesson containing the new vocabulary. The PowerPoint presentations are not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button to open them. Some of the images only appear when the PowerPoints are played as slideshows with the animations.
In total there are 335 pages of lesson plans, games and worksheets (pdfs) and 349 slides of animated PowerPoints.
All of the lessons are in the zip file.
No further preparation needed.
This is Units 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Spanish designed by Blossoming Minds.
These lessons are also available as individual lessons or as smaller units from our shop:
Blossoming Minds
This is a lesson plan and resources for a beginner’s Italian lesson to use with KS2. It would be perfect to use as a fourth or fifth Italian lesson, after children have learnt to say hello and talk about how they are feeling.
The focus in this lesson is how to ask someone where they live and reply.
The plan gives details of a starter, how to teach the ‘countries’ vocabulary, a whole class listening activity, a speaking activity, writing activity and plenary. It is highly interactive and allows children to practice a range of language skills.
All resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in a zip file. These are:
The 4 page PDF lesson plan
A 14 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click ‘Read Only’ to open.)
3 PDF sheets for the speaking activity
2 PDF pages for the writing activity (A worksheet and answers)
This is lesson 5 of Unit 1 Italian designed by Blossomingminds.
Unit 1 is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12397072
Unit 2 is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12516804
This is a lesson plan and resources for a beginners Italian lesson to use with KS2. It involves children learning numbers up to 10 and could be used as an individual lesson or following a few lessons on basic vocabulary.
The lesson plan gives details of a whole class starter game, how to teach the ‘numbers’ vocabulary, a paired game, a reading game, written activity and plenary activity. It is highly interactive and allows children to practise a range of language skills.
All the resources needed for the lesson are included in the price. They are in the zip file. These are:
4 page PDF Lesson Plan
23 slide animated PowerPoint presentation (This is not editable. Click the ‘Read Only’ button to open.)
4 PDF pages of resources for the reading game (Colour and Black & White sheets)
5 PDF pages for the written activity (Colour and Black & White sheets and an answer sheet)
This is the first lesson in Unit 2 designed by Blossoming Minds.
Unit 1 is available on Blossoming Minds’ shop on the TES:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/beginner-italian-greetings-and-introductions-bundle-12397072
Unit 2 is available here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12516804
Keep your year 1s busy throughout December with this collection of comprehensions, maths activities, phonics activities, and interactive advent calendars, all with a Christmas theme. Worth £45 if bought individually!
Included in the bundle are:
Maths activity booklet (20 pages)
Phonics activity booklet (20 pages)
General activity booklet (30 pages)
Comprehensions x 6 packs
Interactive Advent calendars x 4 - phonics, maths, jokes
Christmas Quiz
All resources also available individually or as part of a smaller bundle.
