A double-sided worksheet to introduce pupils to arguments in favour of or against new technology. The exercises scaffold progression: vocabulary match up, classifying advantages/ disadvantages, translation into English, a reading puzzle, a reading comprehension and a plenary translation into French with gloss. Answers included.

A 6 page comprehensive topic booklet on ‘la vida sana’ to introduce this topic to pupils in a stand-alone lesson or lessons. It includes essential topic vocabulary, key structures, translation practice, reading practice, writing and more. Answers included.

Two standalone resources on the topic of clothes and uniform for a lesson (or two) on clothes. Resource 1: Introduces clothes items vocabulary, practises numbers and prices and adjectival agreement on clothes. Resource 2: A reading comprehension on the topic of school uniform with gap-fill and questions, followed by a reformulation translation task. Answers included. Please leave a review if you find this useful for your pupils or if you have any feedback. You can also message me directly on Twitter @mfl_secondary

A GCSE style writing question on chores with a model answer and exercises to scaffold the pupil’s own response. The worksheet includes: a model answer with gap-fill tasks, a ‘structure search’ with pupils identifying key modal verbs, opinion phrases and grade 8/9 structures, revision of key household chore verbs and some translation into Spanish. Pupils should then be in the position to produce their own Grade 8/9 answer.

Describe tu colegio. A standalone worksheet on the topic of ‘talking about my school’. The resource includes a longer reading comprehension, with answers in Spanish, and reformulation translation tasks based on the text. There are pre-reading tasks too: revision of interrogatives and translation in English. Answers included.

A standalone double-sided resource on ¿Cómo era tu antigua región? which includes exercises to review talking about my town in the imperfect tense. The exercises include: verb match up, translation into Spanish, gap-fill reading task, translation into English, a ‘who says what’ reading comprehension and some exercises on using the preterite and imperfect. Format: PDF and Word with answers.

A pack of resources (5 worksheets) on the topic of New Technology for KS3/ GCSE. Resource 1: A sentence builder on New Technology with translation practice. Resource 2: Translations on this topic into English Resource 3: A resource on ‘tu es accro à la technologie’ Resource 4: A worksheet about the dos and don’ts of using technology Resource 5: A reading comprehension and vocabulary hunt on this topic Answers included.

A reading comprehension on healthy eating. There are four short texts discussing different diets with comprehension questions, a true false activity and some English words to find in the text. This should help pupils produce their own answers to this question too, using these answers as a model. Answers included.

These activities will encourage pupils to use more challenging vocabulary when describing their town or region. There is a PowerPoint slide with 50+ extension phrases for describing your town and pupils must match up the vocabulary to their worksheet (answers included). There is also a handout with translation practice (with answers).

This resource was produced to offer practice oral questions for pupils preparing for AQA AS Level, however, lots of the topics cross over with other boards. There are questions on: family, relationships, marriage, sport, health, culture and free time, holidays, music, cinema, new technologies, Internet and TV and advertising, This is a good resource to use all year and can be shared with language assistants too.

This resource pack contains two worksheets with answers: A double-sided worksheet to introduce core vocabulary, opinions and justifications. There are also some reading activities and an exercise on adjectival agreement. A worksheet with two reading activities on the topic of school and subjects.

A comprehensive resource on the topic of ‘Why tourists go to Spain?’ for A Level. It is full of useful cultural references (A04) and language activities that will help pupils to talk about this topic in Spanish. There are lots of examples of different types of tourism in Spain, key festivals and key recent statistics. There are also three reading exercises: a translation activity, a match a title to a description of a type of tourism and a true/false activity based on statistical information. Answers included.

A resource pack on the topic of el turismo de borrachera in Spain and its impact(s). There is a worksheet with a reading activity, an evaluation task of positive and negative aspects to sort and a translation task from Spanish to English on this type of tourism in Mallorca. There is also a Powerpoint with a list of thematic vocabulary for pupils to find in the worksheet and the four key oral questions which are a plenary to the lesson. The activities before will scaffold answers and allow all pupils to attempt these.

A powerpoint and worksheet on Ser and Estar, simplified for GCSE level and using the topic of town. There is a powerpoint which explains the rules, gives examples and has some questions to test pupils understanding. There is then a worksheet for further practice and which also introduces 'hay' to strengthen understanding further.

El barrio de Juan. This worksheet includes a reading comprehension & translation practice on the topic of town & local area. Pupils have a gap-fill activity, true/false comprehension question and vocabulary hunt to complete. There are then also translation tasks recycling key vocabulary into English & Spanish. The resources will help pupils to talk about their own town and area. Suggested answers included.

A revision sheet on mi pueblo/ mi barrio. Pupils can pair antonyms, revise the structures lo bueno and lo malo and there is also a reading activity where pupils read four short descriptions and then have to decide if they are positive or negative.

Two standalone resources to get pupils talking and writing about what they do to help the environment. There is a scaffolded & comprehensive worksheet with vocabulary building and recycling, translation practice and more and a separate sentence builder with translation practice. Answers included.

A standalone resource which reviews preterite tense verbs and structures in the context of what pupils did last weekend. The resource includes: an infinitive match up, a review of the regular preterite rules, language excercise to embed and recycle key verbs and structures, a sentence builder, translation practice and short writing task. Answers included.

A resource for pupils to use when undertaking a writing task or for when they are preparing their speaking answers. There a range of complex structures: opinions, connectives, positive and negative viewpoints, constructions which work with infinitives in the present and past tenses and some set phrases and adverbs. There is also a list of 32 key infinitives to use. This will scaffold pupils well and allow them to widen their range of language easily. There are also 40 sentences to translate to practise these constructions, with suggested answers.

“Lo bueno es que en mi barrio hay mucho que hacer”. A set of 16 cards for pupils to read, analyse and to separate into positive and negative opinions. The cards contain lots of vocabulary on this topic which pupils ‘hunt’ for using the worksheet. They could then be given some of the cards each to translate before producing their own opinions, recycling the language from this resource.