For a lesson on physical descriptions, either use for LISTENING: pupils have scrap paper and pen or a mini whiteboard. You give a short or long sentence in Spanish describing one of the people 1-6 on the images. You can therefore adapt the language to your group. Pupils then write down the number of the person it could be - you could even do a sentence that could describe 2 or 3 of the people to make it harder. To make this activity a bit easier, you could go through each photo from 1-6, and for each one give 2 short phrases, one that is true, one false, and pupils write the correct one. SPEAKING: assuming pupils have had plenty of practise with the vocab, get them to give a short or long sentence describing each person.

Worksheet to practise writing the time in Spanish using the 1 pen 1 dice game format Here is a link on how you can play the 1 pen 1 dice game https://frenchteachernet.blogspot.com/2017/12/one-dice-one-pencil.html

A ‘bad translation’ listening activity to practise vocab on physical descriptions such as hair and eyes - les cheveux et les yeux. Transcript and answers included - teachers read the sentences and students listen and correct the ‘bad’ English translation - this requires ‘thorough processing’ and not superficial listening.

Two worksheets on making basic and more complex comparisons on the topic of holidays. Activities include broken sentences, listening gap-fill, gapped translation, sentence unscrambling and translation.

Various worksheets and activities to introduce and practise the future tense in French: A few inductive grammar activities to introduce the future tense in French - a match-up exercise followed by inductive grammar exercise and links to a Quizlet and Quizizz games to practise the endings. A variety of exercises to practise the future tense, including multiple-choice, gap-fill and translation. Mostly regular verbs but irregular verbs are introduced in the last activity. Answers included. A short gap-fill on the future tense along with a speaking drill to practise conjugating orally. A gap-fill worksheet to practise using the future tense and correct prepositions with countries in French.

A worksheet to introduce basic comparisons, within various different vocab contexts including local area and countries.

A variety of lesson activities for 1-3 lessons to learn to describe the environmental problems in the world and the local area - a parallel text with suggestions on how to use it, a vocab hunt, delayed dictation, unscramble the sentences exercise, broken sentences to match up, another parallel text followed by a gap-fill, scaffolded translations from English into French. All answers included.

A French sentence builder to teach useful phrases for both teacher and students to use in routine classroom interactions, encouraging target language and reinforcing key strructures. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

2 worksheets with activities to introduce and practise using different time expressions, connectives and basic negatives in Spanish to talk about when you do different pastimes. Pupils should already be familiar with the hobbies vocab before completing these activities.

A selection of resources for teaching regular verbs in Spanish, including: ‘all about verbs’ worksheet to teach the basics of what a verb is and how it works in a sentence, with reference to English and Spanish Quick drills worksheets - these can be done as a race/game in writing or projected onto the board and done orally, agian as a competition to make it less dull. Answers included. Ppt. with quick oral drills / memory game Gap-fill worksheet using verbs in sentences, answers included Listening consolidation task for regular verb endings Homework sheet extensively practising the endings to dirll them in Ppt. memory game (another version) Translation test (could also be used as practice worksheet) Recap starter task to recall learning from previous lesson or plenary for same lesson

Resources for teaching ser vs estar uses for the first time. Includes: Inductive grammar ppt. exercise where pupils work out the rules ser or estar worksheet with translations - teacher notes on other activities and answers included ser or estar quiz sheet all in Spanish, where pupils also have to justify reason

A worksheet of vocab activities and short reading comprehension on topic of school system in France. Answers included.

A model answer with activities for a GCSE writing question on TV to help introduce students to how to write a good answer.

A short reading comprehension on the day of the dead (El día de Muertos). It is well adapted to beginners of Spanish due to the number of cognates in the text and the vocab-finding exercise. Comprehension questions help students to learn about this tradition.

A 5-page mini booklet to practise describing personality in French / décrire les membres de la famille / les amis / personnalité / caractère with focus on different adjectives for describing personality, ajective agreement, the verb être, other verbs and some basic negatives. Activities include translation, structured writing, listening and sentence unjumbling. Answers included.

A short sequence of teacher-led oral drilling activities to practise/revise the present tense of the big 4 irregulars in French. This activity should be after pupils have seen the tables of conjugations and are familiar with the English meanings. Possible sequence: model the pronunciation of the sentences 1-5 on each slide, do some listen & repeat oral drills (choral repetition, individual repetition, whispering, shouting etc. to drill pronunciation) pupils translate orally into english in pairs pupils given 30 seconds / 1 minute to ‘memorise’ the verbs and their meanings on the sentences memory task - recall the verbs repeat for the other verbs matching task to reinforce verb meanings - pupils do orally in pairs gap-fill task - you could cold call pupils for this one. If it’s too hard, give them 2 options orally in French eg. ‘J’ai sept cours’ or ‘Je suis sept cours’ ? matching task to summarise on other ppt.

Two sentence builders and an oral ‘mosaic translation’ activity to help answer the questions ‘Où est-ce que tu passes tes vacances?’ and ‘Comment tu voyages?’ - describing where you go on holiday and why, and the transport you take. See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

3 sentence builders on the topic of university study, sixth form study and ambitions to help answer the following questions: ¿Cúales son tus planes para el próximo año escolar? ¿Te gustaría ir a la universidad? ¿Cuáles son tus ambiciones para el futuro? See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180

A sentence builder on the topic of future studies to answer the question ‘qu’est-ce que tu vas étudier l’année prochaine?’ See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180