A full lesson on food vocabulary and partitive articles. The lesson begins with a slide containing lots of food pictures - students should be asked which words they already know. Then lots of food vocabulary is presented with three mini match-up tasks and one final memory game to allow pupils to work on pronunciation and retainment. The lesson then moves on to a grammar presentation on partitive articles, with a fill the gap exercise. The last task is a fun bingo game to check for vocabulary retainment.

A lesson based around food & eating out. The lesson begins with recap activities on food+diet vocabulary and sentences. It continues with a reading activity on restaurants and a listening activity based on a dialogue (ordering food in a restaurant). This last activity also serves as a model for the following speaking activities, where pupils will be recreating the dialogue to order their own food at the restaurant.

This lesson is based on clothes vocabulary and on verb ‘porter’. The objective is to describe what you are wearing, what you like to wear, what you do not like to wear, what one wears on particular occasions. The lesson includes presentation of clothes vocabulary with mini quizzes to break down the repetition, the conjugation of verb ‘porter’, and some slides on colours and opinions. Activities include other mini quizzes, some associating tasks, some fill the gap tasks, a beat the teacher / slap the board slide, some speaking activities (could be made into writing tasks if needed), and a fun scrabble game. There is enough material to complete 1 long session or 2 shorter sessions.

This lesson gives helpful tips to prepare for the GCSE photo description task. It also helps students describe a picture by giving them scaffolding and support.

A full lesson on ‘‘los necesitados’’ and using the expressions ‘‘nadie, nada, algo, alguien’’. The lesson begins with a match-up activity to get the students thinking about what vocabulary they already know to talk about ‘‘los necesitados’’. It then moves to a presentation of expressions related to ‘‘los necesitados’’ and a reading/match-up task to consolidate the learning. It then explains how to use ‘‘nadie, nada, algo, alguien’’ before moving on to a fill the gap practice. The lesson ends with a public Kahoot on the expressions learnt.

A full lesson for Y7 or Y8 based on creating a dialogue inviting others to activities and making excuses. The lesson begins with a recap of activities based on a match-up exercise (match-up questions and answers). It moves on to a revision of common expressions related to answering propositions. Follows a speaking trapdoor game to get the pupils talking and practicing the expressions they’ve revised. Following this is a presentation of activities that can be used to make excuses when invited somewhere (eg. sorry, I have to wash the car; sorry, I have to walk the dog, etc.). This presentation is broken down with and followed by quizzes to help with memorisation and retainment. Finally, pupils can practiced these conversations with the help of a well scaffolded slide, before moving on to writing their own dialogue.

A short lesson on verbs ‘pouvoir’ and ‘devoir’ in the present tense. The lesson includes a reading/match-up task introducing these verbs in the context of activities + why we can’t do these activities; an explanation of modal verbs and the conjugations of ‘vouloir’, ‘pouvoir’, ‘devoir’; a simple mini whiteboard task; a fill the gap task; and a fun noughts and crosses game to end the lesson.

Lesson with recap match-up task for different types of volunteering, followed by a translation task. The lesson goes on to explain how to use ‘‘me gustaria…’’ with an unjumble the sentences task to put this into practice. Finally, there is an exit pass (writing task) with lots of scaffolding to get the pupils writing how they would like to help.

The LOs are: 1.To recap vocabulary related to food and diet 2.To learn vocabulary 3.To use expressions with tener slide to get pupils thinking of much food vocab they can recall slide on typical food from Spanish speaking countries a match up task on food and diet sentences speaking task with lots of scaffolding and modelling slide with tips on how to learn and recall vocabulary in foreign languages presentation of expressions with verb ‘tener’ when to use muy or mucho/a with these expressions exercise: choose the right expression for each sentence speaking task with scaffolding and modelling

Y7 lesson on partitive articles with a recap of food vocabulary, explanation of partitive articles, exercises (word snake, fill the gap), and a link to a Quizziz that I created.

Full lesson on present tense of -ER verbs. Includes detailed explanation of grammar rule and some knowledge consolidating activities (mini whiteboards, reading task, and a fun battleship game).

Full lesson on when to use me gusta, me encanta, me mola etc vs me gustan, me encantan, me molan etc. Recap of sports vocabulary; explanation of grammar rule with knowledge consolidating activities; recap of adjectives; battleship game and writing task with lots of scaffolding and support.

A full lesson on Easter vocabulary with a ‘‘beat the teacher’’ game (can be made slap the board); an explanation of unique Spanish Easter traditions with pictures; a quiz to test the pupils’ memory and learning; and a Spanish Easter greeting card making lab.

A PowerPoint slide with a fill the gap activity. The topic is sports. Includes expressions of opinion and adjectival agreement. Includes an extra translation task.

100 pages of Spanish grammar from the very basics to advanced grammar structures. This was created for the English GCSE exams, however it can be very useful for tutoring, private classes and self-teaching. It is a PDF but feel free to use a pdf converter to turn it into a PowerPoint or Word document. It includes: pronounciation, accents, alphabet numbers up to 100 numbers after 100 months and days of the week question words how to tell the date gender of nouns plural of nouns (with an exercise) definite and indefinite articles subject pronouns present tense of regular verbs (with an exercise) present tense of irregular verbs (TENER, SER, ESTAR, IR, HACER, DAR, SABER, SALIR) when to use SER and ESTAR (with an exercise) question form and negative form conjuctions/link words possessive adjectives DE + noun to indicate possession (with an exercise) adjectives and adjectival agreement intensifiers and quantifiers LO + adjective HAY constructions relative pronouns relative adjectives (with an exercise) direct object pronouns indirect object pronouns present continuos tense and gerundio (with an exercise) when to use POR and PARA reflexive verbs (with an exercise) telling the time how to use GUSTAR (with an exercise) how to use SOLER stem changing verbs double negation adverbs and how to make adverbs using ‘’-mente’’ or ‘‘con + noun’’ adverbs or adjectives? disjunctive pronouns TENER QUE + infinitive HAY QUE + infinitive verb DEBER imperative tense (with an exercise) negative commands comparisons and superlatives impersonal verbs how to talk about the weather prepositions demonstrative adjectives and pronouns immediate future (IR A + infinitive) future tense ordinal numbers perfect tense (HABER + past participle) past participles simple past tense (PRETERITO) imperfect tense HACE, DESDE HACE, DESDE HACIA imperfect continous tense (ESTAR + gerundio) subjunctive mood (SUBJUNTIVO) OJALA and ‘‘subjuntivo + que’’ used for wishes (with an exercise) imperfect subjunctive (SUBJUNTIVO IMPERFECTO) conditional tense SI + subjuntivo imperfecto + condicional (with an exercise) pluperfect tense (SUBJUNTIVO PLUSCUAMPERFECTO) active and passive voice

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A full lesson on passé composé with auxiliary avoir. It includes a complete recap of passé composé with ‘avoir’ (as seen in lesson 1 and 2) and an explanation of passé composé with irregular past participles. Activities include: the same noughts and crosses game as lesson 2 to use a starter to check for retainment and understanding (feel free to change the questions inside) a mini-whiteboard task that includes irregular verbs a translation task a delayed dictation task to use as a plenary (find the sentences in the slide’s notes or make up your own).

A full lesson on activities and suggestions using the contruction ‘‘on pourrait…’’ . The lesson includes a starter activity (word snakes), presentation of vocabulary and of ‘‘on pourrait’’ construction, a match-up activity to consolidate learning, and finally a writing task with lots of scaffolding.

Full lesson on present tense. Recap of infinitive. Explanation of how to form present tense. Mini whiteboard or writing task. Reading task. Listening task (the text is in the notes, the teacher reads it to the pupils).

Christmas lesson on French traditions, presentation of Christmas related vocabulary, a fun quiz, and a link to a French Christmas carol.