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!
A full lesson on describing your favourite food, with a focus on a variety of adjectives and the expressions ‘tener hambre’ and ‘tener sed’. Activities include a text comprehension/vocab recall task, a well scaffolded writing task, and a Quizzizz I created. The lesson presents lots of opportunities for pupils to speak in Spanish and to translate words.
Detective game to play outdoors with Y7 or Y8 (11-13 y.o.). Can be played in teams.
Looking for and describing animals, plants, people and/or buildings.
Lesson on present tense of regular verbs with grammar rule and verb endings.
The slides include a practice on conjugating regular verbs into the present tense (with an extra challenge); a reading task; a listening task (the teacher will be speaking, the text is the slide’s notes); and an exit pass/writing task with scaffolding.
Lesson on animals and pets.
Quick recap of I have, you have, he/she has (verb TENER).
Presentation of pets vocabulary with matching up activities.
Writing task with scaffolding/modelling and an extra challenge for higher achievers.
Final slide is ready for slap the board or beat the teacher plenary game.
A lesson that includes presentation of weather vocabulary, an exercise based on Spanish weather forecast, a presentation of ‘‘si’’ and ‘‘cuando’’ used in sentences related to weather and activities, a presentation on how to improve your reading skills, and a poem based on the weather.
Full lesson on present tense of -ER verbs. Includes detailed explanation of grammar rule and some knowledge consolidating activities (mini whiteboards, reading task, and a fun battleship game).
A full lesson on physical descriptions ( presentation of adjectives such as bajo/a, alto/a, delgado/a, viejo/a…) with recall matching up activities. Following this there are two speaking tasks (the first one is a trapdoor activity which is an ideal model/scaffold for the following task). Finally, there is a writing task to finish off the lesson.
Full lesson on physical descriptions (hair and eyes).
Presentation of Spanish vocabulary with mini speaking and writing tasks in between to consolidate learning.
Presentation of TENER / to have conjugation. Memory exercise + fill the gap exercise to consolidate learning.
Guess Who speaking game.
Brain gym plenary (memory game).
Full lesson.
Starter activity on link words (match-up).
Presentation of vocabulary (en mi mochila hay…) with recall/memory activity.
Presentation of grammar : definite articles and how to form plural nouns.
Activity: make nouns plural.
Activity: describe what is in the bag.
Plenary: slap the board.
Full lesson on present tense.
Recap of infinitive. Explanation of how to form present tense.
Mini whiteboard or writing task.
Reading task.
Listening task (the text is in the notes, the teacher reads it to the pupils).
Lesson on recap of town vocabulary and recap of negative form. Activities include a listening task, reading task, writing task, speaking task, a beat the teacher game and a quiz.
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