A variety of resources including revision booklets, entire lessons and worksheets suitable for GCSE and A level students of Spanish and French. There are several Italian, as well as English language/literature resources available too.
A variety of resources including revision booklets, entire lessons and worksheets suitable for GCSE and A level students of Spanish and French. There are several Italian, as well as English language/literature resources available too.
A full topic vocabulary list from the ‘La Convivencia’ topic. Aimed at AQA A level (A2) students.
Subtopics include:
3.1 La convivencia de culturas
3.2 La educacion
3.3 Las religiones
Includes Spanish and English.
This can be used as a revision activity, given to students to learn at the start of the topic, or cover the English or Spanish and get students to fill the gaps as an assessment.
Suitable for all years studying Spanish - from year 7 to year 13 as it can be adapted based on the tenses they need to revise or consolidate.
Game works as follows:
There are 20 different verbs in their own box. - Cut out each verb and place it face down on the table
Ask a student/peer to pick one of the verbs, and reveal what they got
Choose one tense, and one person form for them to conjugate the verb to
1 point for a correct conjugation, and 1 extra point if they can use the conjugation in a sentence adequately
Teachers can make notes on weak grammar points from this
The list of tenses:
Present
Preterite
Imperfect
Conditional
Future
Subjunctive
Imperfect Subjunctive
Future Subjunctive
Imperative: Affirmative
Imperative: Negative
Present Continuous
Preterite Continuous
Imperfect Continuous
Conditional Continuous
Future Continuous
Present Perfect
Preterite Perfect
Past Perfect
Conditional Perfect
Future Perfect
Perfect Subjunctive – Present
Perfect Subjunctive – Past
Perfect Subjunctive – Future
A full topic vocabulary list from the ‘Los Valores Tradicionales y Modernos’ topic. Aimed at AQA AS students.
Subtopics include:
1.1 – Los cambios en la familia
1.2 Actitudes hacia el matrimonio y el divorcio
1.3 La influencia de la Iglesia Católica
Includes Spanish and English.
This can be used as a revision activity, given to students to learn at the start of the topic, or cover the English or Spanish and get students to fill the gaps as an assessment.
Lesson includes a PPT which covers the following topics:
la homosexualidad bajo el regimen
la opresion social y la tirania
la sociedad perfecta de Franco - el machismo
la Izquierda
reforma de la ley de vagos y maleantes
Includes a second PPT in English which I used to give context before teaching this in Spanish. It includes:
Spanish Civil War background information
Orwell’s Participation in the War
Sexual freedom: Republican view vs Nationalist view
Also includes a ‘mock’ IRP script prepared by myself to show students what kind of information should be included in their IRP about the topic of la vida bajo el regimen de Franco
A full topic vocabulary list from the ‘La Inmigración’ topic. Aimed at AQA A2 students.
Subtopics include:
1.1 Los beneficios y los aspectos negativos
1.2 La inmigración en el mundo hispánico
1.3 Los indocumentados – problemas
Includes Spanish and English.
This can be used as a revision activity, given to students to learn at the start of the topic, or cover the English or Spanish and get students to fill the gaps as an assessment.
A full topic vocabulary list from the ‘El Racismo’ topic. Aimed at AQA A2 students.
Subtopics include:
2.1 Las actitudes racistas y xenófobas
2.2 Las medidas contra el racismo
2.3 La legislación anti-racista
Includes Spanish and English.
This can be used as a revision activity, given to students to learn at the start of the topic, or cover the English or Spanish and get students to fill the gaps as an assessment.
Essays written as exemplars for A level students studying Othello as part of the AQA Eng Lit B spec. Essay titles are as follows:
Section A of the exam – Othello Extract Question / Extract Act One, Scene Two
Explore the significance of this extract in relation to the tragedy of the play as a whole
Section A of the exam, extract from Othello – Act 3, Scene 3
Explore the significance of the extract in relation to the tragedy of the play as a whole
Section B of the exam - Essay Question
‘Even if he had stayed within the controlling order of Venice, Othello’s tragic downfall was inevitable’. To what extent do you agree with this view?
A resource useful for any year group studying poetry in order for them to maximise their potential in analysing the poetry. This resource in particular was used for A level students studying Tragedy and the poetry of Keats, therefore three of the categories include ‘Connections to Keats’, ‘Connections to Romanticism’ and ‘Connections to Tragedy’. This, however, can be changed and adapted to suit whoever the author is, or whatever the genre is. Other categories include:
Characters
Themes
Methods
Settings
Possible meanings/messages
Critical views of the poem
A resource created to help A level English Literature students plan their essays better, however it’s suitable for any year group or subject that requires having a structured essay plan.
Structured as follows:
Introduction
Point 1 (Example, evaluations/personal reaction)
Point 2
Point 3
Point 4
Conclusion
A resource adapted from the L’Auberge Espagnole study pack on RoutesIntoLanguages, made for AS and A level students studying the film as part of their course. This was used specifically for those doing the AQA exam board, however it can be used for any.
Includes extensive analysis and information on the film, as well as many different vocabulary and grammar tasks. All tasks have been created differently - some include essay writing, whereas others include matching photos to names and nationalities so can be used for any ability.
It’s a good idea to work through this booklet as you introduce the film to the students as the booklet itself does go from ‘avant d’avoir vu le film’ up to when students are revising and preparing for the exams.
This resource is suitable for any year group with whom you have worked on the subjunctive and its uses. The PPT lesson will require some prior knowledge of the tense, however it is possible to adapt it so that this is not the case.
The PPT has 5 different tasks:
To revise, list some instances whereby you would use the subjunctive (includes answers)
Give certain forms of the subjunctive of certain verbs
Impersonal phrases that take the subjunctive
How to use the subjunctive to translate other phrases where it’s not needed in English (although, wherever etc)
Translation activities
A resource I created to give to A level/Year 11 students as an in-class exam which can be particularly useful for Assessment Points.
It tests the following:
Pronouns: exercises include re-writing sentences and replacing certain words with the correct pronouns
Tenses: give the correct conjugation of the verb with the correct tense
Translating questions and inverting verbs into French
*Comes with answers provided on the last page of the document.
** This test normally lasts around 45 minutes so I have enough time to explain what we’re doing in the lesson and then do a short plenary or starter activity.
End-of-term French Christmas quiz, suitable for any year group (inc. A level students)
Includes:
Cultural references - is the answer A,B,C etc.
Translations
New verb and cultural-specific vocabulary for Christmas
True or false
Gap fills
*Answers included in a separate document, in the same folder.
A full lesson aimed at A level students studying French that covers discrimination between genders, above all in the work place.
The resource includes:
A PPT with a quiz as a starter where students use what they know to guess answers to some facts about the status of women in France and in the world of work. (15 mins)
A document with the answers on to these questions plus additional information.
A verb test which will take around 15 minutes
Answers to the verb test
A reading task plus answers (30 mins)
Suitable for any exam board
A complete PPT aimed at A level students to explain to them how French articles are used, but can be tailored to suit lower years too.
PPT (33 slides) includes explanations and uses of:
Definite le/la/les
Indefinite un/une/des
Partitive du/de la
When do du, de la, de l’ (partitive) and des (indefinite) become de?
Difference between the partitive / plural indefinite and the ‘article contracté’
The ‘zero article’ (= omission of the article)
A worksheet aimed at Year 10s and 11s to revise the usage of ‘ser’ and ‘estar’ in different contexts. Can also be used for Years 12s and 13s if they are needing to revise the same thing.
All the questions come with answers on a separate page.
A worksheet that can be used as an in-class assessment aimed at A level students, or Year 11s that can confidently use the subjunctive. The worksheet is as follows:
Spanish Subjunctive/Indicative Revision. A list of sentences all beginning with ‘cuando’ where students must choose which mood fits best and conjugate the verb accordingly.
Complete sentences conjugating verbs - this varies from mood to tense to person.
Select the correct word to fill the gap.
This comes with answers so can be peer-marked, teacher-marked or class-marked.
A worksheet aimed at Years 10 and 11 students (although this can be used at A level to revise tense usage) which tests students’ knowledge of the tenses. It is structured as follows:
Students have to conjugate verbs in the imperfect and then, from a list of uses for the Imperfect, decide which one fits the sentence best.
Students do the same as the above, but with the preterite.
The same as the above, but with the pluperfect.
Students translate a set of sentences and think about the different contexts their tenses imply.
Students finish sentences (si clauses) based on what tense should follow.
Students translate sentences to English from French to test their knowledge of depuis, pendant and pour.
comes with answers included on a separate sheet
A two-page help sheet for A level students needing to write essays for their exams.
Focuses on the development of the structure of the essays and contains:
Sentence starters for introductions, plus key words
Sentence starters for main paragraphs, plus key words
Sentence starters for the conclusion, plus key words
Advice on verbal constructions (based on mistakes I have seen in students’ essays)
Key vocab
For A level students having studied the AQA AS spec, this booklet covers all the topics with particular focus given to examples students can use in their speakings. Also covers key information in the textbooks, as well as coming with a revision checklist.
Topics include:
Los valores tradicionales y modernos
El ciberespacio
La igualdad de los sexos
La influencia de los idolos
La identidad regional en Espana
El patrimonio cultural