Noche Buena/ Navidad y el Año Nuevo/Noche Vieja With cultural activities and links to the curriculum. Vocabulary list Sorting vocabulary by categories Word search (Spanish to Spanish or English to Spanish) Christmas Carol title translations Winter idioms and expressions Decoding and translating a Christmas poem Reading comprehension: draw a Christmas house Writing: Describe your own Christmas scene. (sentence builder included +extra slide with writing frame) prepositions/positions The present tense recap. Christmas in Spain : Fill the gaps with the correct verb. Read the text and put the pictures in the correct order. The New Year in Spain: Find the translations in the text. Sports and countries: What does Santa do in each country? Match the picture with the description. Write your own sentences to say what sports Santa does in each country (sentence builder included) and draw it. New Years resolution (near future practice.) Challenges and answers included.

Deutsche Weihnachten With cultural activities and links to the curriculum. Vocabulary list Sorting vocabulary by catergories Wordsearch (German to German or English to German) Christmas Carol title translations Winter idioms and expressions Decoding and translating a Christmas poem Reading comprehension: draw a Christmas house Writing: Describe your own Christmas scene. (sentence builder included +extra slide with writing frame) prepositions/positions Christmas in Germany : Fill the gaps with the correct verb Read the text and put the pictures in the correct order. The New Year in Germany: Find the translations in the text. Sports and countries: What does Santa do in each country? Match the picture with the description. Write your own sentences to say what sports Santa does in each country (sentence builder included) and draw it.

A very simple but effective sentence builder that I used for Y7 to write a Christmas Card. It is a word document so you can amend it easily.

French idioms and expressions on the topic of animals (some are very familiar, i.e. “il pleut comme vache qui pisse" so you may choose to leave them out depending on the age group. I use them at KS3, KS4 and A level in different ways, or as displays in events (it always gives people a good laugh) Separate images (in PNG format) as well as full PDF are included.

Deutscher pass- Also available in Spanish, French, Arabic and Portuguese. 26 daily pages. (can be used for 26 lessons) two versions: one with a cover in English and the other in German. A useful teaching tool for: students reflect on their learning student motivation challenges (at the back of the passport) and differentiation ownership teacher assessment for learning Format and Printing instructions: For the purpose of authenticity, this booklet is in A6 format. You will need A5 paper to print it on (or A4 cut in half) Adobe Acrobat is recommended. In the printing options in printer preferences, make sure the paper selected is A5. Select “booklet”. This should automatically send the passport to print double sided and in order. Use a long stapler to staple the middle. Here’s how I use it: As I only see my KS3 classes once a week, I put this together and use it every single lesson as a plenary! It allows them to give me feedback on how they feel they understood the content and they can also write me a note. These are on their desk for the full lesson and stay in the classroom so that I can assess their learning. If there are any notes, I write some advice back. There is a bank of extra challenges activities at the back, that can be used with any topic, and students can let me know how many challenges (both from the extension activities on the board and from the back of their passports) they have completed at the end of the lesson, by circling the correct number. As an exit ticket, I give them a small activity on a post-it size paper (i.e. “extend this sentence” or “correct this sentence” ) , student get a stamp once this is completed and are allowed to “travel” (leave the classroom). Wear a border control vest or police hat if you like drama! I certainly do. You will notice the challenges are written in Spanish, but if they struggle to understand some parts of it, they can squint their eyes and read it in English on the page next to it.

Passeport français - Also available in Spanish, German, Arabic and Portuguese. 26 daily pages. (can be used for 26 lessons) two versions: one with a cover in English and the other in French. A useful teaching tool for: students reflect on their learning student motivation challenges (at the back of the passport) and differentiation ownership teacher assessment for learning Format and Printing instructions: For the purpose of authenticity, this booklet is in A6 format. You will need A5 paper to print it on (or A4 cut in half) Adobe Acrobat is recommended. In the printing options in printer preferences, make sure the paper selected is A5. Select “booklet”. This should automatically send the passport to print double sided and in order. Use a long stapler to staple the middle. Here’s how I use it: As I only see my KS3 classes once a week, I put this together and use it every single lesson as a plenary! It allows them to give me feedback on how they feel they understood the content and they can also write me a note. These are on their desk for the full lesson and stay in the classroom so that I can assess their learning. If there are any notes, I write some advice back. There is a bank of extra challenges activities at the back, that can be used with any topic, and students can let me know how many challenges (both from the extension activities on the board and from the back of their passports) they have completed at the end of the lesson, by circling the correct number. As an exit ticket, I give them a small activity on a post-it size paper (i.e. “extend this sentence” or “correct this sentence” ) , student get a stamp once this is completed and are allowed to “travel” (leave the classroom). Wear a border control vest or police hat if you like drama! I certainly do. You will notice the challenges are written in Spanish, but if they struggle to understand some parts of it, they can squint their eyes and read it in English on the page next to it.

Pasaporte español - Also available in French, German and soon Arabic. 26 daily pages. (can be used for 26 lessons) two versions: one with a cover in English and the other in Spanish. A useful teaching tool for: students reflect on their learning student motivation challenges (at the back of the passport) and differentiation ownership teacher assessment for learning Format and Printing instructions: For the purpose of authenticity, this booklet is in A6 format. You will need A5 paper to print it on (or A4 cut in half) Adobe Acrobat is recommended. In the printing options in printer preferences, make sure the paper selected is A5. Select “booklet”. This should automatically send the passport to print double sided and in order. Use a long stapler to staple the middle. Here’s how I use it: As I only see my KS3 classes once a week, I put this together and use it every single lesson as a plenary! It allows them to give me feedback on how they feel they understood the content and they can also write me a note. These are on their desk for the full lesson and stay in the classroom so that I can assess their learning. If there are any notes, I write some advice back. There is a bank of extra challenges activities at the back, that can be used with any topic, and students can let me know how many challenges (both from the extension activities on the board and from the back of their passports) they have completed at the end of the lesson, by circling the correct number. As an exit ticket, I give them a small activity on a post-it size paper (i.e. “extend this sentence” or “correct this sentence” ) , student get a stamp once this is completed and are allowed to “travel” (leave the classroom). Wear a border control vest or police hat if you like drama! I certainly do. You will notice the challenges are written in Spanish, but if they struggle to understand some parts of it, they can squint their eyes and read it in English on the page next to it.

Spanish idioms and expressions on the topic of animals (some are very familiar, i.e. “ser un rata”, “hacer la cobra” so you may choose to leave them out depending on the age group. I use them at KS3, KS4 and A level in different ways, or as displays in events (it always gives people a good laugh) Separate images (in PNG format) as well as full PDF are included.

Two posters (one French to English, and one English to French) of the most frequent verbs in French, in alphabetical order. Format is A1 size, but can be printed in smaller sizes. This is part of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12756410

Poster/ visual aid/ display which explains how to do the negative in the present, perfect, simple future, imperfect, near future and the conditional. Format is A1 size, but can be printed in smaller sizes. I would not recommend printing it smaller than A4. This is part of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12756410

A poster with grammar lingo/ jargon made easy for KS3. I find that the number one problem when explaining grammar is that we sometimes refer to terms that we may have explained many times but students can easily forget. And I am talking from personal experience as a teenage language learner! Forgetting one of these terms may make the whole lesson very confusing and wrong use of the time. This allows pupils to quickly access those terms, so they can get on with practicing and learning. This is one of the first pages of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12756410

A poster/ display/ visual aid on main impersonal expressions in different tenses, including the weather. Format is A1 size, but can be printed in smaller sizes. This is part of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12756410

Display with guidance on how to use reflexive verbs in French in different tenses, Format is A1 size, but can be printed in smaller sizes. This is part of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12756410

Classroom poster/ display/ printout on how to do the conditional tense in French for verbs ending in -er, -re and -ir, and the 8 most common irreguar verbs: être, avoir, aller, faire, pouvoir, vouloir , prendre and devoir (It includes all conjugations and their translation (include ‘On’), as well as a list of infinitives and time markers. Format is A1 size, but can be printed in smaller sizes. This is part of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12756410

Classroom poster on how to do the simple future tense for verbs ending in -er, -re and -ir, and the 8 most common irreguar verbs: être, avoir, aller, faire, pouvoir, voir , envoyer and devoir (It includes all conjugations and their translation (include ‘On’), as well as a list of infinitives and time markers. Format is A1 size, but can be printed in smaller sizes. This is part of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12756410

Classroom poster on how to do the imperfect tense for verbs ending in -er, -re and -ir, and the 8 most common irreguar verbs: être, avoir, aller, faire, pouvoir, vouloir , prendre and devoir (It includes all conjugations and their translation (include ‘On’), as well as a list of infinitives and time markers. Format is A1 size, but can be printed in smaller sizes. This is part of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12756410

Classroom poster on how to do the present tense for verbs ending in -er, -re and -ir, and the 8 most common irreguar verbs: être, avoir, aller, faire, pouvoir, vouloir , prendre and devoir (It includes all conjugations and their translation (include ‘On’), as well as a list of infinitives and time markers. Format is A1 size, but can be printed in smaller sizes. This is part of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12756410

Perfect tense / Le passé composé Poster Classroom poster on how to do the perfect tense in French, flowchart style. It includes all conjugations for “être” and “avoir”(including ‘On’), a large list of irregular participles. If the verb is irregular and also needs the auxiliary “être” they are marked with an asterisk. At the bottom of the poster, there is a list of time markers to use it with. I have used this in my classroom and it has worked excellently so far, students just need to follow the flowchart, which means I need to spend less time explaining and my students get more practice time! Format is A1 size, but can be printed in smaller sizes. This is part of my French Grammar/ Conjugation Booklet at KS3 which you can find here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-grammar-conjugation-booklet-organiser-12756410