Studying a language opens windows into other cultures and different ways of viewing the world. It also enhances intercultural understanding. Through many years of teaching MFL (French and Spanish), I have carefully designed and structured each sequence of lessons, to have maximum impact on our students in the classroom. Each lesson builds on the last, moving from receptive to productive language. All resources are complete lessons, fully animated, with answers.
Studying a language opens windows into other cultures and different ways of viewing the world. It also enhances intercultural understanding. Through many years of teaching MFL (French and Spanish), I have carefully designed and structured each sequence of lessons, to have maximum impact on our students in the classroom. Each lesson builds on the last, moving from receptive to productive language. All resources are complete lessons, fully animated, with answers.
Module 1 Tu As Du Temps a Perdre Zone de Culture Fêtes et Jeux New French Edexcel GCSE 2026 Lesson Higher and Foundation Page 6-7
This is a full lesson with sentence builder and differentiated higher and foundation activities from the new Edexcel textbook ready for the new GCSE exam starting in 2026.
Module 1 Unit 6 J’ai participé aux jeux de la Francophonie page 18-19 New French Edexcel 2026 Lesson Higher and Foundation.
3 hours of complete lessons, with sentence builders and plenty of support activities to help students build up towards their GCSE in 2026.
Module 1 Unit 3 Qu’est-ce que tu regardes H New French Edexcel GCSE 2026 Lesson Higher and Foundation Page 12-13
3 hours of complete lessons, with sentence builders and plenty of support activities to help students build up towards their first attempt at the new role play.
AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Module 2 Sentence Builders for use in class with each lesson from M2. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each unit in the module covered. Below are the units covered by these sentence builders:
Module 2: El Instituto/School
U2.1 Giving your opinion on your subjects at school p10
U2.2 Describing your uniform p11
U2.3 Describing your school’s facilities p12
U2.4 Describing a future school exchange p13
U2.5 Describing school rules and giving opinions about them p14
U2.6 Talking about extracurricular activities in 3 tenses p15
Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class.
Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.
Module 1 Unit 2 Tu As Une Vie Active H New French Edexcel GCSE 2026 Lesson Higher and Foundation Page 10-11
3 1 hour lessons with a single-page sentence builder, plenty of practice of the negative, partitive article and preparation tasks leading up to the new Edexcel GCSE textbook activities.
Module 1 Unit 1 Lesson 1 Ma Vie En Ligne New French Edexcel GCSE 2026 Lesson Higher and Foundation Page 8-9
This is 3 full 1 hour lessons covering pages 8-9 of the new textbook with sentence builders and differentiated higher and foundation activities from the new Edexcel textbook ready for the new GCSE exam starting in 2026.
AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Module 6 Sentence Builders for use in class with each lesson from M6. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each unit in the module covered. Below are the units covered by these sentence builders:
Module 6: Las Costumbres en el Mundo Hispánico/Customs in the Spanish-speaking world
M6.1 Talking about your daily routine p33
M6.2 Talking about food from the Spanish-speaking world p34-35
M6.3 Talking about festivals in the Spanish-speaking world p36
M6.4 Describing a special day in the past p37
Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class.
Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.
This is a sequence of five (approx 1 hour) lessons using one sentence builder pitched at KS3 Spanish students. The sentence builder teaches students to answer the question: What are you going to do next weekend?
It was particularly effective with Year 8. The sequence uses the Conti method, and the activities have been designed following a training day run by Mr Conti himself. Activities include Faulty Echo, Delayed Dictation, Vocabulary Builders and more. This sequence of lessons finishes with an independent quiz testing all of the vocabulary covered in the sentence builder.
This resource consists of five complete lessons, fully animated, with answers. The content is designed to flood students with new language from the sentence builder (included with this pack), starting with receptive exposure to the phrases, and finishing with productive writing and speaking skills. Finally, there is an independent quiz, which can be peer marked, so that teachers can collect data on how successful the sequence has been.
All of the tasks have been tried and tested over the last few years following the Conti method - a communicative language teaching approach developed by Gianfranco Conti: ‘extensive processing instruction’ (EPI) is based on the idea that language teachers should ‘teach less, not more’ by providing their students with a set of language ‘chunks’, drilling these, and finally pushing students to reproduce them. Given its emphasis on reducing cognitive overload, this method is likely to succeed in allowing students to feel like competent learners.
I have spent the last two years adapting and tweaking my use of sentence builders so they are so they work best for our students. For more resources check out my store:
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This is a foundation resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 1, Unit 3, Destino Barcelona. 3 lessons, using a sentence builder, following the Conti method. The first lesson allows students to get to grips with the new language, using the preterite to describe a plast holiday, and imperfect tense to describe the accommodation e.g. hotel. The last activity is a printable vocabulary builder worksheet. The imperfect tense is only needed as a vocabulary item for foundation, so the imperfect tense is not taught explicitly here. The three one hour lesson sequence aims to take students from receptive to active language processing.
Hope this is useful to fellow Spanish teachers out there. X
Module 1 Unit 4 Qu’est-ce qu’on va faire New French Edexcel 2026 Lesson Higher and Foundation P14-15
3 hours of complete lessons, with sentence builders and plenty of support activities to help students build up towards their GCSE in 2026.
Module 2 Unit 1 Un Week-end En Famille 34-35 New French Edexcel GCSE 2026
3 hours of complete lessons, with sentence builders and plenty of support activities to help students build up towards their GCSE in 2026.
AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Modules 4-6 Sentence Builders for use in class with each lesson from M4,5,6. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each unit in the module covered.
Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class.
Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.
AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Module 5 Sentence Builders for use in class with each lesson from M5. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each unit in the module covered. Below are the units covered by these sentence builders:
Unit 1: Talking about casual jobs and earning money
Unit 2: Saying what job you do/would like to do
Unit 3: Saying what your plans are for the future
Unit 4: Explaining why it’s important to learn a language
Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class.
Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.
Module 5: Mi Ciudad/My City
M5.1 Saying what there is in your town p28
M5.2 Describing the positives and negatives about your town p29
M5.3 Talking about shopping preferences p30
M5.4 Saying how you would like to change your town p31
M5.5 Role play: asking for and giving directions p32
This resource consists of three complete lessons, fully animated, with answers, perfect for teaching Foundation or Higher GCSE groups.
By the end of the three lessons students will be able to read key information about technology from a text and answer the question:
¿Qué aplicaciones vas a usar este fin de semana?
What apps are you going to use this week?
All of the vocabulary, and activities, are based on the AQA GCSE Viva textbook, which is tailored to the vocabulary lists for the AQA GCSE exam.
The content is designed to flood students with new language from a sentence builder (included in this pack), starting with receptive exposure to the phrases, and finishing with productive writing and speaking skills.
All of the tasks have been tried and tested over the last few years following the Conti method - a communicative language teaching approach developed by Gianfranco Conti: ‘extensive processing instruction’ (EPI) is based on the idea that language teachers should ‘teach less, not more’ by providing their students with a set of language ‘chunks’, drilling these, and finally pushing students to reproduce them. Given its emphasis on reducing cognitive overload, this method is likely to succeed in allowing students to feel like competent learners.
Module 1 Unit 5 Qu’est-ce que tu as fait 16-17 New French Edexcel 2026 Lesson Higher and Foundation
3 hours of complete lessons, with sentence builders and plenty of support activities to help students build up towards their GCSE in 2026.
These are two resources to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, PDP 1, (M8 PDP1) ¿Qué haces para ayudar el medio ambiente en casa?
There are two distinct lessons for higher and two for foundation, each with separate sentence builders and activities, fully differentiated.
Describing what you do at home to be environmentally friendly e.g. recycling, sorting the rubbish, switching off the lights etc.
3 lessons, using a sentence builder, following the Conti method. The first lesson allows students to get to grips with the new language, to describe the biggest global issues, practising the superlative, and key language about global issues and environmenytal issues. There are printable worksheets and helpsheets within the PowerPoint, and all activities have fully animated answers for quick feedback.
The three one hour lesson sequence aims to take students from receptive to active language processing.
Hope this is useful to fellow Spanish teachers out there. X
AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Module 4 Sentence Builders for use in class with each lesson from M4. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each unit in the module covered. Below are the units covered by these sentence builders:
Module 4: Intereses e Influencias/Interests and Influences
U4.1 Saying what you usually do in your free time p21
U4.2 Talking about sports now and in the past p22
U4.3 Talking about entertainment in and out of the house p23
U4.4 Talking about a film you have seen recently p24
U4.5 Talking about your role model p25
U4.6 Role play: buying tickets p26-27
Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class.
Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.
AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Module 7 Sentence Builders for use in class with each lesson from M7. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each unit in the module covered. Below are the units covered by these sentence builders:
Unit 1: Talking about casual jobs and earning money
Unit 2: Saying what job you do/would like to do
Unit 3: Saying what your plans are for the future
Unit 4: Explaining why it’s important to learn a language
Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class.
Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.
AQA Viva GCSE Textbook Modules 1-3 Sentence Builders for use in class with each lesson from M1-3. Each sentence builder includes all of the necessary vocabulary to enable students to access each unit in the module covered.
Sentence builders can be used by students for revision as well as reference in class.
Each sentence builder is clearly laid out, and contains both the target language and the English translation for each phrase. Language is chunked in logical groups so that individual columns can be labelled to aid students in locating key phrases they need to look up.