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.
This is a higher resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, Unit 3, (M8U3) Cuál es el mayor problema - Global Problems.
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
15 Key Stage 3 Spanish Lessons with Sentence Builders and end of unit quizzes.
3 units:
Invitations and Excuses
Where do you go in your free time?
What are you going to do this weekend?
These 15 lessons use the Conti method, including sentence builders and activities such as narrow reading and delayed dictation.
Suitable for Key Stage 3 and 2.
A lesson on organised sport from the AQA GCSE Viva textbook. It includes a vocabulary list, and plenty of activities to get to grips with the vocabulary to tackle the topic. My students found it engaging. Hope this helps x
Over 100 slides of tried and tested differentiated MFL sentence builder activity ideas for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, as well as GCSE information slides, exam technique slides, grammar explanations for things such as Spanish Boot Verbs (Stem-changing verbs).
These activities are based on the amazing work of Dr Conti and his sentence builders.
For more resources, visit my shop at:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/piensomas
Take care guys x
Two lessons covering GCSE Studio French Module 2 Unit 1 Lessons with sentence builders and fully animated answers.
There are two lessons per unit with plenty of content to last two hours per unit or more.
All resources have been carefully checked, and are made in-house, separately to the textbook, giving you more activities to use in your teaching.
The sentence builders are based on the vocabulary for Foundation and Higher Module 2 Units, and are organised to help learners build fluency quickly.
There are grammar explanations and practices linked to the textbook grammar.
I hope this saves you some planning time!
This is a foundation resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, Unit 3, (M8U3) Cuál es el mayor problema - Global Problems.
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
Two lessons covering GCSE Studio French Module 2 Unit 1 Lessons with sentence builders and fully animated answers.
There are two lessons per unit with plenty of content to last two hours per unit or more.
All resources have been carefully checked, and are made in-house, separately to the textbook, giving you more activities to use in your teaching.
The sentence builders are based on the vocabulary for Foundation and Higher Module 2 Units, and are organised to help learners build fluency quickly.
There are grammar explanations and practices linked to the textbook grammar.
I hope this saves you some planning time!
This is a Higher GCSE Spanish resource consisting of 3, 1 hour, lessons, using a sentence builder. It aims to enable students to talk about films they have watched, using relevant vocabulary to talk about films, such as special effects and soundtrack. It teaches students how to use the perfect tense in contrast to the imperfect tense to describe films, helping students to use a combination of tenses correctly, in order to access the top bands at GCSE for range of language.
It includes a grammar explanation of the perfect tense, as well as how to form and answer questions in the perfect tense.
My students found it rewarding. Hope it helps guys.
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I have more resources at:
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This resource consists of three complete lessons, fully animated, with answers, perfect for teaching Foundation GCSE groups.
All of the vocabulary, as well as some of the 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.
This is a foundation resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, PDP 1, (M8 PDP1) ¿Cómo es tu casa? Describing your house, floors, prepositions of position.
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
Twelve lessons covering GCSE Studio French Module 2 Lessons with sentence builders and fully animated answers.
There are two lessons per unit with plenty of content to last two hours per unit or more.
All resources have been carefully checked, and are made in-house, separately to the textbook, giving you more activities to use in your teaching.
The sentence builders are based on the vocabulary for Foundation and Higher Module 2 Units, and are organised to help learners build fluency quickly.
There are grammar explanations and practices linked to the textbook grammar.
I hope this saves you some planning time!
This is a higher resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, PDP 1, (M8 PDP1) ¿Cómo es tu casa? Describing your house, floors, prepositions of position.
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
This is a foundation resource to teach GCSE Spanish Viva textbook, Module 8, Unit 4, (M8U4) Solutions to Global Problems.
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
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: where do you go in your free time?
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:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/piensomas
Two lessons covering GCSE Studio French Module 2 Unit 1 Lessons with sentence builders and fully animated answers.
There are two lessons per unit with plenty of content to last two hours per unit or more.
All resources have been carefully checked, and are made in-house, separately to the textbook, giving you more activities to use in your teaching.
The sentence builders are based on the vocabulary for Foundation and Higher Module 2 Units, and are organised to help learners build fluency quickly.
There are grammar explanations and practices linked to the textbook grammar.
I hope this saves you some planning time!
Two lessons covering GCSE Studio French Module 2 Unit 1 Lessons with sentence builders and fully animated answers.
There are two lessons per unit with plenty of content to last two hours per unit or more.
All resources have been carefully checked, and are made in-house, separately to the textbook, giving you more activities to use in your teaching.
The sentence builders are based on the vocabulary for Foundation and Higher Module 2 Units, and are organised to help learners build fluency quickly.
There are grammar explanations and practices linked to the textbook grammar.
I hope this saves you some planning time!
Two lessons covering GCSE Studio French Module 2 Unit 1 Lessons with sentence builders and fully animated answers.
There are two lessons per unit with plenty of content to last two hours per unit or more.
All resources have been carefully checked, and are made in-house, separately to the textbook, giving you more activities to use in your teaching.
The sentence builders are based on the vocabulary for Foundation and Higher Module 2 Units, and are organised to help learners build fluency quickly.
There are grammar explanations and practices linked to the textbook grammar.
I hope this saves you some planning time!