A beautiful double-sided worksheet to get your students using language creatively. This is the perfect follow up to my Rooms of a house lesson (available for free here) and practices writing descriptions of pictures, vocabulary to do with a house, adjectives and prepositions. The worksheet folds up like a doll house, providing pupils with lots of rooms to label as they want and plenty of room to write the description of their house. It’s even possible to cut out the windows to see “inside”, because the front and back match up perfectly. Instructions for students: Fold the edges into the middle to build your house. Decide which room will be where and label them. Write a description of each floor. Add drawings and colour to show what each room is. This comes with a Powerpoint slide that gives the students all the instructions they need, so you can display this, check that they understand and then let them get on with it. I’ve found that this activity can easily take up a whole lesson and it’s entirely pupil-led, so you are free to go around the classroom, observe and help out. Kids love the creative side of it, but those who prefer not to do a lot of drawing are free to concentrate on the writing if they want. Make sure you print the sheet double-sided and with short-edge binding, otherwise the house won’t match up. See the gif included for a demonstration.

Teaches the rooms of a house using engaging activities, including a treasure hunt and a speaking activity. This does require some preparation. You will need to print (in colour if possible) the treasure hunt sheet, cut these out and stick them around your room with blue-tack (but you can use them again and again!). If you want to speed things up in the classroom, do two copies. You will also need to print a copy of the worksheet for the second activity, but there are two to a page and you can ask pupils to share this if you want to save paper. A perfect follow up to this lesson is my Dream House worksheet, which can take up between half a lesson and a whole lesson with an entirely pupil-led activity. Check it out here. Please feel free to use the graphics in this presentation in your own lessons, but please don’t include graphics that I have made in lessons that you sell. Some of the pictures are a free for commercial use however (check the attributions in the comments).

There is a new version of this quiz! I am keeping this one available for those who bought it in 2019 or 2020 and want to download it again. It will be on sale for the rest of July as a slightly cheaper option too.

There is a new version of this quiz! I am keeping this one available for those who bought it in 2019 or 2020 and want to download it again. It will be on sale for the rest of July as a slightly cheaper option too.

There is a new version of this quiz! I am keeping this one available for those who bought it in 2019 or 2020 and want to download it again. It will be on sale for the rest of July as a slightly cheaper option too.

There is a new version of this quiz! I am keeping this one available for those who bought it in 2019 or 2020 and want to download it again. It will be on sale for the rest of July as a slightly cheaper option too.

Ever teach the perfect tense and then find they have forgotten the present tense straight after? Find that your pupils are bogged down by all the details of the perfect tense? This is an ideal lesson to introduce or, even better, re-introduce the future tense with ‘ir’ because it focuses on just part of it and puts it directly in comparison with the present tense, so pupils can notice for themselves the differences between them. It gives the attention to meaning and pronunciation before dealing with form in a combined explicit and implicit approach. Lesson objective: Analyse spoken sentences to compare the present and the future in Spanish and form the future tense. I used this lesson with both a year 8 class and a year 9 class who had already seen the future tense before, but needed to be reintroduced. I’ve since tidied up the layout, added new images and added extra optional activities. The lesson also comes with an optional extended worksheet, which you could give to a whole class, just those pupils who won’t easily be able to get down or to any students who miss the lesson. Like all my lessons, it uses easily-recognisable icons to help support a Target Language environment. Instructions are given in TL, often with the English translation – I recommend deleting the translation for classes who don’t need it! The lesson also includes detailed slide-by-slide comments, with explanations and tips for delivery. There is a crossword to print for the starter activity, but if you prefer, you can sub this out for the alternative starter, which requires no printing. The recording for the listening activity is included in the powerpoint and as a separate file, but you can also listen to it here: https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/jaimepapier/50541/ NOTE: In the version for download, I have slowed down the recording slightly and added extra pauses. The font Trebuchet MS is required to view this powerpoint and the worksheets correctly. This is usually pre-installed on Windows or with Office.

This attractive, multilingual display helps support literacy in your French/German classroom. When laid out in the right order (5x3, see image), you can see a map of the world in the background. For this reason, I suggest trimming before putting up on display. For the best effect, laminate with a matte effect. I created this version of my French and Spanish literacy display when another member commented to say they were looking for a French and German version. Also available in French/Italian. Need another language combination? Get in touch on my website!

Ever teach the perfect tense and then find they have forgotten the present tense straight after? Find that your pupils are bogged down by all the details of the perfect tense? This is an ideal lesson to introduce or, even better, re-introduce the perfect tense because it focuses on just one part of it and puts it directly in comparison with the present tense, so pupils can notice for themselves the differences between them. It gives the attention to meaning and pronunciation before dealing with form in a combined explicit and implicit approach. Lesson objective: To use the past tense to translate phrases with “have done” or “did” and compare it with the present. I used this lesson with both a year 8 class and a year 9 class who had already seen the perfect tense before, but badly needed to review it. I’ve since tidied up the layout, added new images and added extra optional activities. The lesson also comes with an extended worksheet, which you could give to a whole class, just those pupils who won’t easily be able to get down or to any students who miss the lesson. Like all my lessons, it uses easily-recognisable icons to help support a Target Language environment. Instructions are given in TL, often with the English translation – I recommend deleting the translation for classes who don’t need it! The lesson also includes detailed slide-by-slide comments, with explanations and tips for delivery. There is a crossword to print for the starter activity, but if you prefer, you can sub this out for the alternative starter, which requires no printing. The recording for the listening activity is included in the powerpoint and as a separate file, but you can also listen to it here: https://rhinospike.com/audio_requests/jaimepapier/50584/ NOTE: In the version for download, I have increased the length of the pauses. The font Trebuchet MS is required to view this powerpoint and the worksheets correctly. This is usually pre-installed on Windows or with Office.

This attractive, multilingual display helps support literacy in your French/Spanish classroom. When laid out in the right order (5x3, see image), you can see a map of the world in the background. For this reason, I suggest trimming before putting up on display. For the best effect, laminate with a matte effect. Also available in French/German and in French/Italian at my shop. Need another language combination? Get in touch on my website!

Support sheets for the present, preterit, imperfect, future and conditional tenses. They are two to a page so, when cut in half, they fit neatly into a small exercise book. I’ve found these to be very effective if issues directly after covering all forms of a tense. Pupils quickly get into the habit of checking the table when they need to conjugate a verb. Also, if these are glued into books instead of stuck on the wall, they can easily be hidden for tests. They can also be taken home to support for homework, instead of pupils trying to use Google Translate! If you did want to display these, just print them on coloured paper and stick them around your room! Unlike other tables, duplicate endings are not repeated, which avoids bogging down the support sheet unnecessarily and helps the pupils realise that they aren’t so many endings to learn. Examples are given with translations, to make it clear how these endings actually apply in real communication.

Lesson objective: Identify and translate the present and past (preterit) tense in a Spanish song. Here is a link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdf152L-D3g And a translation of the lyrics: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/hacia-lo-salvaje-wild.html This lesson guides pupils through translating a modern Spanish song by breaking it down into manageable chunks. It would be best used soon after a lesson introducing or revising the preterit tense and is designed for a mixed or high ability Y9 class or a KS4 class. It could be used with any topic. This lesson exposes pupils to authentic Spanish, which helps prepare them to deal with literary texts. It gives them a chance to develop translating skills and gain new vocabulary, while reminding them of the present and preterit tenses. I have tested this lesson with a mixed-ability Y9 class, though we did not do the final task as we did a vocabulary test and reviewed expectations in the same lesson instead. I touch up all the materials I upload to TES to ensure they of a high quality. They use a combination of curated illustrations and images as well as high-quality graphics that I have created myself. The use of icons to represent different structures encourages a Target Language environment. Feel free to use these graphics in any of your own lessons, including any lessons you may wish to upload for free on TES, as these are most powerful when the pupils recognise them across lessons and make a connection with what you are saying in the Target Language.

A language mat to stick on the table or hand out to help pupils with the basics. My pupils find the target language section particularly useful.

A language mat to stick on the table or hand out to help pupils with the basics. My pupils find the target language section particularly useful.

This is for teaching which verbs use être as the auxiliary verb in the perfect (passé composé) tense. The hill shows all the verbs with an element of ‘transition’. If you downloaded this before, I have updated it with vector graphics, so it is much clearer. I also have a high resolution and colour versions, with a matching powerpoint, available as a paid-for version. If this resource is useful to you, please consider supporting me by purchasing this super-charged version. My pupils are always amused by the idea of someone falling and dying (!) at the end of the story, which makes it memorable. Usually, I only need to draw a quick sketch of a house on a hill on the board to remind them of how some verbs are different.

Frequently used phrases and sentences starts to support pupils with spontaneous speaking. I have these displayed above where I record points for spontaneous language use.

Numbers in French designed to look like their pronunciation or spelling (e.g. the number 5 is sinking; sank). Use as flashcards (you can easily hide the numbers at the top and bottom with your hands) or display on the wall. Intended for primary school audience, but could work in secondary school as well. A4 size, but you could also print them A5 for using in one-to-one sessions.