Spanish PowerPoint Presentation: using er and ir verbs in the preterite to describe holidays/ vacations. Expressions: Salí de casa a las seis. (salir) Fui en tren. (ir = irregular) Vi un partido entre el Real Madrid y el Barcelona. (ver = irregular) Llevé una camiseta, una gorra de lana y una bufanda. (llevar) Comí patatas fritas, una hamburguesa con cebolla y un perrito caliente. (comer) Bebí una naranjada. (beber) Vi a David Beckham. (ver = irregular) Leí el programa. (leer) Hice una llamada con mi móvil. (hacer = irregular) The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English, how to change the infinitive (in brackets) into the preterite and to drill. The next section of slides have multiple choice questions. Then there are "what's missing?" slides. The next slide has pictures of all the new vocabulary. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If it’s the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins! The finals slides remind us of the rules elicited: Salir - salí, comer - comí How do you form the preterite for regular verbs? Remove the er/ir and add í e.g. Salir  salí Here are the other endings: ió, imos, ieron, iste, isteis. Can you conjugate the verb salir? I went out = You went out = He/She/You went out = We went out = You went out = They/ you went out = Extra: conjugate comer and beber. I went out = salí You went out = saliste He/She/You went out = salió We went out = salimos You went out = salisteis They/ you went out = salieron

This presentation presents expressions using the preterite of -ar verbs to describe holidays and then elicits the fomration of the first and third person singular and the first person plural. Expressions: Me alojé en un hotel. Visité un castillo. Compré unas gafas de sol. Nadé en el mar. Lo pasé fenomenal. The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill. Slide 7 elicits: Look at the infinitive and the preterite. What do we remove from and add to the infinitive to form the preterite? Comprar - compré Remove the ar and add é. Slide 8 elicits: Now look at the following forms of the preterite. What do we remove from and add to the infinitive to form the preterite? Visitar - visitamos = we visited Visitar - visitaste = you (singular informal) visited. Remove the ar and add amos/aste. The next section of slides have verdad o mentira questions. Then there is a "¿Qué es?" slides. This can also be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If it’s the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins!

Spanish PowerPoint introducing bedroom furniture vocabulary: En mi dormitorio hay… Una cama. un armario. unas estanterías. una mesa y una silla. unos pósters. una lámpara. un ordenador y una televisión. una puerta. una ventana y unas cortinas. un equipo de música. la pared. una alfombra. The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill. The next section of slides have multiple choice questions. Then there are "what's missing?" slides. The final slide has pictures of all the new vocabulary. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If it’s the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins! Battleships: Expressions: La televisión está El armario está El ordenador está La mesa está La silla está La lámpara está encima de las estanterías. debajo de la cama. delante de la ventana. al lado de la alfombra. detrás de la puerta. Battleships Game Instructions The students love this competitive and fun game! I use this battleships game (which can also be used as a lotto grid) to help students to practise their pronunciation and to reinforce new vocabulary and grammatical structures. Firstly I ask the students to work independently in pairs to translate the expressions. The students then focus on pronunciation and decide the two easiest and two most difficult words to pronounce. I then check the translations and drill pronunciation with the whole class before they play the game. The students secretly choose 5 squares on the top grid and then try to guess which 5 squares their partner has chosen, filling in the bottom grid with “hit” and “miss.” To choose a square say a phrase from the horizontal line and complete the sentence with a phrase from the vertical line. Where the 2 phrases meet up is the square you have chosen. I use the English language sheet to further challenge the students: they should place this on top of the Spanish version and then try to play the game saying the Spanish phrases as far as possible from memory. I allow the really weak students to have the Spanish version next to the English version so they have lots of support, stronger students are allowed a few “sneaky peaks” at the Spanish version and the really strong students aim to refer back to the Spanish version as little as possible. This really helps the students to memorise the vocabulary/structures! Enjoy!

This worksheet has 3 sections, the first is a word match for English and Spanish greetings. Vocabulary: 1. Hola. 2. Buenos días. 3. Buenas tardes. 4. Buenas noches. 5. ¿Qué tal? 6. ¡Fenomenal! 7. Muy bien, gracias. 8. Bien, gracias. 9. Bien. 10. Fatal. The next section is a complete the sentence challenge where certain letters have been removed. Make this more difficult by telling the students to cover up the Spanish words listed above. The next (extra) section involves unjumbling a group of words to find the correct greetings. Again, make this more difficult by telling the students to cover up the Spanish words listed above. Then there is an extension task to create their own crossword. Battleships: Vocabulary: 1. Hola. 2. Buenos días. 3. Buenas tardes. 4. Buenas noches. 5. ¿Qué tal? 6. ¡fenomenal! 7. Muy bien, gracias. 8. Bien, gracias. 9. Bien. 10. Fatal Battleships Game Instructions The students love this competitive and fun game! I use this battleships game (which can also be used as a lotto grid) to help students to practise their pronunciation and to reinforce new vocabulary and grammatical structures. Firstly I ask the students to work independently in pairs to translate the expressions. The students then focus on pronunciation and decide the two easiest and two most difficult words to pronounce. I then check the translations and drill pronunciation with the whole class before they play the game. The students secretly choose 5 squares on the top grid and then try to guess which 5 squares their partner has chosen, filling in the bottom grid with “hit” and “miss.” To choose a square say a phrase from the horizontal line and complete the sentence with a phrase from the vertical line. Where the 2 phrases meet up is the square you have chosen. I use the English language sheet to further challenge the students: they should place this on top of the Spanish version and then try to play the game saying the Spanish phrases as far as possible from memory. I allow the really weak students to have the Spanish version next to the English version so they have lots of support, stronger students are allowed a few “sneaky peaks” at the Spanish version and the really strong students aim to refer back to the Spanish version as little as possible. This really helps the students to memorise the vocabulary/structures! During the game I circulate the classroom checking pronunciation. This is followed by whole class drilling of pronunciation mistakes. Enjoy!

Spanish PowerPoint introducing Christmas Vocabulary: Un belén Un àrbol de navidad Papá Noel Un regalo de navidad ángeles Un pavo un villancico un reno Un muñeco de nieve The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill. The next section of slides have multiple choice questions. Then there are "what's missing?" slides. The final slide has pictures of all the new vocabulary. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If it’s the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins! This is a simple lotto game practising the numbers 1-20. Students choose 4 numbers and then I go through the PowerPoint, counting the number of different festive items with the students in Spanish. * Note I count the carol singers as 6! Please note this doesn't cover all the numbers from 1-20, but when I've played it with my classes I've had a winner in all but 1 game!

Spanish PowerPoint: the Imperfect tense for for descriptions and the time. This focuses on building phrases rather than grammatical rules. Phrases presented: Era la una. Eran las dos. Hacía buen tiempo. No hacía frío. Había mucho trafico. ¡Era increíble! The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill. The next section of slides have multiple choice questions. The final slide has pictures of all the new vocabulary and asks "¿Qué es?. This can also be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If it’s the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins!

This is a template for a 20 minute introductory session for the first lesson in September. It includes: a slide to introduce yourself a quick tonguetwister a slide for you to fill in the lesson objectives a slide for you to fill in why you love languages, a slide with the Nelson Mandela quotation: ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.’ Then the students discuss the questions: What percentage of the world’s population speak English as a first language? What percentage of the world’s population do not speak any English? You talk through the answers and watch 2 short fun Youtube links. Then there is a slide for you to add in your expectations (examples given). Finally there are 2 motivational slides: Intelligence is not fixed or unchanging. We can build intelligence. You have power over your perception of the world. Replace “it’s a problem” with “it’s an opportunity”. When we believe in our abilities we can accomplish great things. Take risks! Stay curious! Inspire others.

I use this simple presentation to present the 12 hour clock in Spanish. Eliciting the English and drilling the phrases. A fun activity to do is to then say a time which the students make with their bodies (one arm for the big hand, one arm for the small hand). Battleships: Expressions: Es la una Son las dos Son las cuatro Son las seis Son las siete Son las once y cuarto. y media. menos cuarto. y diez. y veinte. menos cinco. menos veinticinco. Plenary/ warmer: I use this 1 slide warmer activity/ pleanary having taught the time (12 hour clock). Give the students a mini-whiteboard each. Click on the presentation and a time will appear e.g. Es la una. The students must draw a clock (analogue or digital) with the correct time. Click again for the extension activity which is a jumbled up time: e.g. y son siete media las. The students must write this in the correct order e.g. Son las siete y media and then draw the clock. An additional extension could be to then change this to the 24 hour clock. There are 4 times to draw and unjumble. This should take approximately 15 minutes. Times covered include: Son las ocho menos cuarto Son las tres y cuarto Son las once menos veinticinco. Son las nueve menos veinte Son las cuatro menos cuarto

Spanish PowerPoint introducing sports with practicar: Practico la vela. Practico la natación. Practico el ciclismo. Practico el patinaje. Practico la equitación. Practico el atletismo. Practico el esquí. Practico el hockey (sobre hielo). Practico la gimnasia. The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill. Slide 11 has pictures of all the new vocabulary. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If it’s the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins! The next section of slides have multiple choice questions. Then there are "¿Qué es?" slides. Enjoy!

I use this French Christmas Mystery with my Year 10 and 11 students who have studied the perfect tense and perfect infinitive. It could also be used with younger Gifted and Talented students. I show them the PowerPoint first, eliciting the information in English and then give them out a set of cards. There are a variety of clues, including some red herrings, so the students really have to use their thinking skills and teamwork. I allow them to use dictionaries. * The ANSWERS to the mystery are at the top of the cards sheet. Be careful not to give this information out!! All students are aiming to figure out who. Most to find out what gift and some why. The suspects are the Santa’s reindeer including; Tornade (Dasher), Danseur (Dancer) , Furie (Prancer), Fringant (Vixen) and Comète (Comet)! Examples of clues: Hier soir Tournade a porté des gants jaunes. Danseur est allé à la discothèque à 18h00. Il est rentré à 22h00. Danseur ne s’entend pas avec Tonerre. Furie a perdu son portable. Enjoy!

I hope your students enjoy this colourful Halloween PowerPoint which I have created using some eye-catching animations! Expressions: Un fantôme. Une citrouille. Une chauve-souris. Un monstre. Un vampire. Un squelette. Un extra-terrestre. Une sorcière. The first slide encourages the students to actively engage with the new vocabulary: working in teams, using their prior knowledge, knowledge of other languages and using a process of elimination to figure out the meanings. They then discuss the pronunciation and question each other before the teacher checks with the whole class. The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill. The next section of slides have multiple choice questions. Then there are "what's missing?" slides. The final slide has pictures of all the phrases. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If its the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins! 2 sets of Halloween Matching Cards. French and pictures. Set 1 vocabulary: Un fantôme. Une sorcière. Un extra-terrestre. Un squelette. Un vampire. Un monstre. Une chauve-souris. Une citrouille. Set 2 vocabulary: J’ai peur des fantômes! J’ai vu une sorcière! Je n’ai jamais vu d’extra-terrestre! J’ai besoin d’un squelette! Les vampires sont effrayants! Mon petit frère est un petit monstre! J’aimerais voir une chauve-souris! J’ai mangé beaucoup de citrouilles. You may choose to have different levels of challenge. For example, Level 1 = match the cards (picture and French) and discuss the pronunciation. Level 2 = match the cards and then have quick fire questions from French to English, whereby 1 student closes their eyes and their partner reads out the French cards which the student must translate into English from memory. Level 3 = The quick fire questions are from English to French. Following checking there are 2 fun games to play, either pelmenism or a game I learnt in Japan called Karuta. In Karuta the students put the picture cards to one side and spread out the French cards in front of them. I then say the English and the students compete to touch the correct French card first. Whoever touches it first wins the card. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. The students love this game!

Feeling tired at the end of term?! Let the students get on with this French Chrstmas webquest on the fabulous vivenoel website! They will learn some new vocabulary and can play lots of games. Stronger students may like to look in more depth at the Christmas tales and recipes, perhaps even make them! To use this resource you need the DVD of Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions. I found this in the extras DVD attached to my copy of The Curse of the Were Rabbit. It is in English, but still a fun, quirky way to build some vocabulary. In total the activity lasts approximately 20 minutes. Firstly I give out the question sheet and the students work in pairs/ small groups to translate the French Christmas vocabulary in the box. The extension activity is to translate the multiple choice questions and answers below. I then show the (1 minute 36 second) extract a couple of times and check the answers. The vocabulary box can also be used for a quick game of lotto.

PowerPoint: I use this resource to present Christmas vocabulary. Vocabulary presented: la crèche un sapin de Noël. le Père Noël un cadeau de Noël un ange une dinde un chant de Noël un renne un bonhomme de neige The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill. The next slide has pictures of all the new vocabulary. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If it’s the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins! The next section of slides have multiple choice questions. Then there are "what's missing?" slides. Jingle Bells: I use this for a bit of a sing-song in my French Christmas lesson. The slide has the following lyrics from Vive Le Vent (Jingle Bells): Vive le vent, vive le vent, vive le vent d'hiver; qui s'en va sifflant, soufflant dans les grands sapins verts. Oh! Vive le temps, vive le temps, vive le temps d'hiver. Boules de neige et jour de l'an et bonne année grand-mère. I talk the students through the lyrics, then drill them singing each line and put it together for a fun 10 minute activity. I usually get the boys to compete with the girls too! The slide can be printed out too. Enjoy! Lotto: This is a simple lotto game practising the numbers 1-20. Students choose 4 numbers and then I go through the PowerPoint, counting the number of different festive items with the students in French. * Note I count the carol singers as 6! Please note this doesn't cover all the numbers from 1-20, but when I've played it with my classes I've had a winner in all but 1 game!

Metacognition/ Learning To Learn PowerPoint Description I led a School Improvement Group looking at Metacognition, or put more simply Learning To learn. I was concerned that my language classes were not developing efficient and effective ways to memorise new vocabulary and grammatical structures. As a consequence I created this PowerPoint presentation, which I have used with all my classes from years 7- 13 (UK)/ grades 6 to 12. I find it particularly powerful to show before assessments and show it regularly throughout the academic year! It starts with the powerful statement: Intelligence is not fixed or unchanging. We can build intelligence. I then ask the students to discuss how they learn vocabulary and grammatical structures. Then there are some examples of mnemonics in Lingala, Chinese and French, followed by a French grammar analogy. Finally there are 2 slides of ideas for the students to try (which you may wish to print out) such as: Practice testing * You MUST DO THIS! Test and be tested by a friend/family member/ yourself. Write a challenging quiz e.g Millionaire, zondle, Kahoot, Tiny Taps… Teach someone or something (teddy bear will do!). We remember 90% of what we teach others. You may wish to print out some slides for display or perhaps share ideas with parents. Enjoy!

Spanish PowerPoint introducing vocabulary: Juego al fútbol. Juego al tenis. Juego al rugby. Juego al baloncesto. Juego al cricket. Juego al squash. Juego al voleibol. Juego al bádminton. The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English and to drill. The next section of slides have multiple choice questions. Then there are "what's missing?" slides. The final slide has pictures of all the new vocabulary. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love! The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If it’s the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins! Battleships: Juego Juegas Juega Jugamos Jugáis Juegan al baloncesto. al voleibol. al fútbol. al tenis. al bádminton. al cricket/ críquet. Battleships Game Instructions The students love this competitive and fun game! I use this battleships game (which can also be used as a lotto grid) to help students to practise their pronunciation and to reinforce new vocabulary and grammatical structures. Firstly I ask the students to work independently in pairs to translate the expressions. The students then focus on pronunciation and decide the two easiest and two most difficult words to pronounce. I then check the translations and drill pronunciation with the whole class before they play the game. The students secretly choose 5 squares on the top grid and then try to guess which 5 squares their partner has chosen, filling in the bottom grid with “hit” and “miss.” To choose a square say a phrase from the horizontal line and complete the sentence with a phrase from the vertical line. Where the 2 phrases meet up is the square you have chosen. I use the English language sheet to further challenge the students: they should place this on top of the Spanish version and then try to play the game saying the Spanish phrases as far as possible from memory. I allow the really weak students to have the Spanish version next to the English version so they have lots of support, stronger students are allowed a few “sneaky peaks” at the Spanish version and the really strong students aim to refer back to the Spanish version as little as possible. This really helps the students to memorise the vocabulary/structures! During the game I circulate the classroom checking pronunciation. This is followed by whole class drilling of pronunciation mistakes. Enjoy!

I use this PowerPoint to introduce comparatives. Please note these comparative sentences are not my opinion - they are merely examples!! The pictures are very genetic so you can easily substitute in different football player names and pop stars. Phrases presented: ¡El fútbol es más interesante que el golf! ¡El baloncesto es más divertido que el tenis! ¡David Beckham es más famoso que Raoul! ¡Britney Spears es más famosa que Beyonce! ¡La pesca es menos emocionante que el fútbol! ¡La comida italiana es menos picante que la comida mexicana! ¡La música es menos divertida que el deporte! The first slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English, the formation and to drill. The adjectives are hi-lighted in red. Remember to check the students know to use the masculine or feminine forms of the adjective. Slide 9 is to ensure all students understand this. The final slide summarises the rules and add mejor que and peor que. This slide could be printed out and then highlighted by the students. It also instructs the students to create their own sentences and provides a list of additional adjectives.

I created this PowerPoint to share photos I had taken on a trip to Cuba and to revise the Preterite Tense. Phrases used: Fui de vacaciones a Cuba. Cuba es la isla más grande del Caribe. Pasé unos días en La Habana, la capital. Hay edificios antiguos, parques y monumentos. Lo qué más me gusté fueron los coches americanos de los años cincuenta. Hay música en todos partes. Músicos tocan salsa y están en todos los bares y restaurantes. Pasé un día en la playa. Hizo mucho calor, tomé el sol y descansé. También pasé unos días en el campo donde observé la naturaleza tropical. ¡Me encantó! I ran through the presentation giving time for the students to discuss the meaning and pronunciation in pairs before pouncing on them for their answers and drilling the class. Stronger students were also asked to discuss the formation of the preterite verb, including the infinitive it came from. The presentation could then be used a a template for the students to produce their own presentations about a Spanish-speaking country.

I was inspired to make this motivational happiness PowerPoint having watched the fabulous TED Talk by psychologist Shawn Achor. Students discuss the questions on the first slide in pairs/groups: Discuss: What affects 90% of your happiness? How much of your job success can be predicted by your IQ? What other factors could affect it? What do you think the “happiness advantage” is? When you feel positive, how much more productive is your brain than when you feel negative, neutral or stressed? What does dopamine do to your brain? Extra: How do you think you can train your brain to be more positive? Then we work through the answers on the following 5 slides. I show it to classes at the beginning of term and before exam season. It could also be used to set a happiness project/challenge at the beginning of term. it may be of use to school counselors. Enjoy!

I love this activity! It can be used as a quick warmer when you have taught colours or a quick warmer at any time to put a smile on the students’ faces and really get their brains going! I give the student 2 minutes to “read” the first slide in Spanish or alternatively I ask them to time themselves reading the colours in Spanish as quickly as possible. I then show them the second slide, where they have to say the colour each word is written in in Spanish and challenge them to complete this in 2 minutes of beat their first time – they never do! Then I ask for volunteers to show off how fabulous they are or I pounce on an unsuspecting “volunteer”! Enjoy! Stroop test definition: In psychology, the Stroop effect is a demonstration of interference in the reaction time of a task. When the name of a color (e.g., "blue", "green", or "red") is printed in a color not denoted by the name (e.g., the word "red" printed in blue ink instead of red ink), naming the color of the word takes longer and is more prone to errors than when the color of the ink matches the name of the color. The effect is named after John Ridley Stroop, who first published the effect in English in 1935.

Expressions: Descanso. Me baño en el mar. Tomo el sol. Voy de paseo. Voy a discotecas. Monto en bicicleta. Saco fotos. Hago surfing. Hay mucho para los jóvenes. Hay pistas de tenis. Hay un campo de fútbol. This presentation presents what people do on holiday in Spanish using the present tense. The first slides have different activities in Spanish with a picture. The teacher should use this to elicit the meaning in English and drill the pronunciation. There is then a "beat the teacher" game to revise the learning at the end or during the following lesson. Beat the teacher is played like this: The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If its the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins! Finally use the last slide to pounce on students asking ¿Qué es?