Hello! I am based in the UK and I am a qualified languages (French and Spanish) teacher who is currently working privately teaching French and Italian. During my PGCE year - which I finished with honours - I created lots of resources that I am now sharing on TES. This website helped me a lot during my training and I am now hoping to be just as useful to somebody else!
Hello! I am based in the UK and I am a qualified languages (French and Spanish) teacher who is currently working privately teaching French and Italian. During my PGCE year - which I finished with honours - I created lots of resources that I am now sharing on TES. This website helped me a lot during my training and I am now hoping to be just as useful to somebody else!
Qu’est-ce qu’il faut acheter pour ta fete ?
This lesson includes a starter on foods and partitive articles to get the pupils settled and warmed up.
It continues with an explanation of how to use il faut + infinitives, with a detailed recap on what are infinitives and how to recognise them.
It moves on to a mini whiteboard task to check for pupil understanding, before moving on to a reading/sorting out exercise which is also a model for a final writing task.
Full lesson on when to use JUGAR or HACER in relation to sports.
Includes full conjugation of jugar and hacer with consolidating fill the gap exercise; a reading task; and a writing task with scaffolding and support.
Lesson on activities to do in your town with explanation of how to use PUEDO vs SE PUEDE.
Activities include a match-up, a translation task, a fill the gap, and a Quizzizz created by myself.
This Word document includes an explanation on scale and proportion with images to help understanding, an exercise to ensure retainment, and an explanation on the main task (creating artwork playing around with scale and proportion).
Includes a recap of regular -ER verbs in the present tense (with a fill the gap activity to recall previous knowledge) + presentation of present tense of FAIRE and ALLER with knowledge consolidating activities (odd one out, writing and speaking task with scaffolding).
A full lesson based on festivals and traditions of different cultures.
The lesson focuses on revising/refreshing the present and past tense of regular verbs.
Activities include reading, translation and listening tasks, a fill the gap task, and a fun speaking task (trapdoor game).
A lesson presenting shops vocabulary, with mini match up activities to break down the vocab repetitions and drill in the new words.
Following this is a translation and match-up activity on what you can buy in different shops.
The lesson goes on showing how to say what is in your town and it ends with a well scaffolded and modelled speaking + writing task to get pupils talking and writing about their town.
A full lesson on food vocabulary and partitive articles.
The lesson begins with a slide containing lots of food pictures - students should be asked which words they already know. Then lots of food vocabulary is presented with three mini match-up tasks and one final memory game to allow pupils to work on pronunciation and retainment. The lesson then moves on to a grammar presentation on partitive articles, with a fill the gap exercise. The last task is a fun bingo game to check for vocabulary retainment.
A full lesson on activities and suggestions using the contruction ‘‘on pourrait…’’ . The lesson includes a starter activity (word snakes), presentation of vocabulary and of ‘‘on pourrait’’ construction, a match-up activity to consolidate learning, and finally a writing task with lots of scaffolding.
The lesson begins with a recall competitive activity to recap the previous lesson’s content.
It follows with a recap of the negative form and an explanation on how to use the negative form with ‘‘il y a’’.
Next are some knowledge consolidating exercises: reorder the words, make the sentences negative, slap the board with a twist (explanation in slide’s notes).
A lesson based on shops vocabulary.
The lesson includes a starter task, shops vocabulary presentation with mini quizzes to break down the repetition, a flippity game, a reading comprehension task, and a writing task that can also be made a speaking task as needed.
Full lesson on when to use me gusta, me encanta, me mola etc vs me gustan, me encantan, me molan etc.
Recap of sports vocabulary; explanation of grammar rule with knowledge consolidating activities; recap of adjectives; battleship game and writing task with lots of scaffolding and support.
100 pages of Spanish grammar from the very basics to advanced grammar structures. This was created for the English GCSE exams, however it can be very useful for tutoring, private classes and self-teaching.
It is a PDF but feel free to use a pdf converter to turn it into a PowerPoint or Word document.
It includes:
pronounciation, accents, alphabet
numbers up to 100
numbers after 100
months and days of the week
question words
how to tell the date
gender of nouns
plural of nouns (with an exercise)
definite and indefinite articles
subject pronouns
present tense of regular verbs (with an exercise)
present tense of irregular verbs (TENER, SER, ESTAR, IR, HACER, DAR, SABER, SALIR)
when to use SER and ESTAR (with an exercise)
question form and negative form
conjuctions/link words
possessive adjectives
DE + noun to indicate possession (with an exercise)
adjectives and adjectival agreement
intensifiers and quantifiers
LO + adjective
HAY constructions
relative pronouns
relative adjectives (with an exercise)
direct object pronouns
indirect object pronouns
present continuos tense and gerundio (with an exercise)
when to use POR and PARA
reflexive verbs (with an exercise)
telling the time
how to use GUSTAR (with an exercise)
how to use SOLER
stem changing verbs
double negation
adverbs and how to make adverbs using ‘’-mente’’ or ‘‘con + noun’’
adverbs or adjectives?
disjunctive pronouns
TENER QUE + infinitive
HAY QUE + infinitive
verb DEBER
imperative tense (with an exercise)
negative commands
comparisons and superlatives
impersonal verbs
how to talk about the weather
prepositions
demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
immediate future (IR A + infinitive)
future tense
ordinal numbers
perfect tense (HABER + past participle)
past participles
simple past tense (PRETERITO)
imperfect tense
HACE, DESDE HACE, DESDE HACIA
imperfect continous tense (ESTAR + gerundio)
subjunctive mood (SUBJUNTIVO)
OJALA and ‘‘subjuntivo + que’’ used for wishes (with an exercise)
imperfect subjunctive (SUBJUNTIVO IMPERFECTO)
conditional tense
SI + subjuntivo imperfecto + condicional (with an exercise)
pluperfect tense (SUBJUNTIVO PLUSCUAMPERFECTO)
active and passive voice
A lesson based around Dia de Muertos and other traditional festivals of the Spanish speaking world.
It includes a fun and captivating video on Dia de Muertos, a listening+reading task based on it, and a super engaging running dictation again based on Dia de Muertos!
My class loved this running dictation and even the challenging pupils took part and tried their best. For the running dictation text, open the Word document, print it as many times as needed, and display it around the classroom allowing for enough space so the pupils need to get up and walk towards it to read it - it won’t work well if they can read it from their desks.
Other slides include another listening+reading task about curious Spanish festivals - this task is a good revision for the present tense (focusing on ‘nosotros’ y ‘ellos/as’.
A full lesson that includes a revision of food vocabulary (including a slide on Hispanic/Latino traditional food) and an intro to quantities.
Activities include a slap the board/beat the teacher slide, a match-up task to get the pupils thinking of which quantities they recognise in Spanish, a reading task, and two well scaffolded speaking and writing tasks.
This lesson is made for primary and SEN pupils.
It includes aspect of literacy, geography and general knowledge.
The lesson is composed of discussion slides (what do you know about Asia? have you been to any countries in Asia? if not, where would you like to visit? etc.); of presentation slides with basic facts and fun facts about the continent of Asia and the countries of Russia, China, and India; a quiz to test pupil retainment and knowledge (with support that includes a small literacy challenge); and finally a slide with a Bollywood dancing video.
This lesson gives helpful tips to prepare for the GCSE photo description task. It also helps students describe a picture by giving them scaffolding and support.
This lesson includes a full recap of how to form comparatives, and also of adjectives. It then moves on to how to form superlatives.
There’s plenty of tasks including reading comprehension (true or false); match-up tasks; complete the sentences; unjumble and translate tasks; make comparative sentences into superlative sentences.
The PowerPoint is quite plain hence it’s more ideal for older students (Year 9 onwards). Also ideal for private tutoring.
Full lesson.
Recap on jugar / hacer with a consolidating exercise.
Recap of sports and adjectives.
Find the mistake exercise; speaking exercise (trapdoor); quick recap on link words task; writing task with lots of scaffolding and support.