A scaffolded worksheet giving students the opportunity to meet the new language, manipulate it and make language their own.
The key grammar in this lesson is definite articles and students need to be able to know the gender of family members in Spanish.
This worksheet also focuses on developing student’s reading and writing skills.
Exercise 1: Sort the members of the family into masculine, feminine and plural.
Exercise 2: Translate the family members above into English.
Exercise 3: Read the text and answer the questions in English.
Exercise 4: Write a paragraph about your familia. Include some of the vocabulary and connectives from today’s lesson. You can use the text as a model from exercise 3 to help you.
Scaffolded worksheet that introduces the Spanish-speaking world.
Exercise 1: Empareja las banderas con sus países (match the flags with its countries).
Exercise 2: Completa las frases (complete the sentences).
Exercise 3: Escucha y rellena los huecos con las palabras más adecuadas. (listen and fill-in the gaps with the most suitable words).
Exercise 4: Lee el texto y contesta las preguntas en inglés. (Read the text and answer the questions in English).
Homework: Deberes: Investiga un país latinoamericano y escribe un párrafo en inglés sobre ello (research a Latin American country and write a paragraph about it).
Wordsearch on the topic of pets/animals can be used as a Do Now/Starter activity to get students settled.
Scaffolded worksheet on the topic of animals with ample opportunity to meet new language, manipulate it and make language your own.
Part 1: Vocabulary - Match up the two halves.
Part 2: Reading comprehension activities
Part 3: Translation
(i) Spanish to English
(ii) English to Spanish
Extension: Write 5 sentences using the vocabulary from today’s lesson.
A scaffolded two-sided worksheet that revises the use of gender agreements/definite articles, time expressions of frequency and the usages of “jugar” and “hacer”.
Ejercicio 1: ¿Masculino o feminino? él o la? Luego, tradúcelas al inglés. (masculine or feminine? Put él or la. Then, translate them into English).
Ejercicio 2: Empareja las expresiones de frecuencia. (Match the time expressions of frequency).
Ejercicio 3: Escucha a las cinco personas hablando sobre los deportes y completa la tabla en inglés.
(Listen to the five people talking about sports and complete the table in English).
COPY OF THE TRANSCRIPT IS AVAILABLE FOR EXERCISE 3 subject to copyright - may only be used once purchased.
Exercise 4: Ejercicio 4: Lee los texto y haz las actividades (Read the texts and do the activities).
A: ¿Qué significan……? (what do the following mean in the text?)
Tip: Look at the context from the underlined words.
B: ¿A quién se refiere? David (D), Jaime (J), Lucía (L) o Manuel (M). Corrige las frases falsas. (Who does each sentence refer to – David (D), Jaime (J), Lucía (L) or Manuel (M)?).
C: Lee los textos otra vez y contesta a las preguntas en español (read the texts again and answer the questions in Spanish).
Ejercicio 5: Crea cinco phrases utilizando el vocabulario de la lección de hoy (Create five sentences using the vocabulary from today’s lesson).
Scaffolded double sided worksheet that gives students the opportunity to meet new language, manipulate and make language their own.
Ample opportunity for listening, reading, speaking and writing.
Attached is a PowerPoint to learn about Christmas in Spain and Latin America with a wide range of activities and exercises to build and consolidate knowledge on this important festival.
A scaffolded worksheet on the topic of likes and dislikes of different activities.
Key grammar: “gustar” + infinitive.
Includes:
Part 1: Vocabulary - matching up the Spanish with the English equivalent
Part 2: Grammar: (i) filling in the grid with the correct conjugation of the verb “gustar”.
(ii) Filling in the gaps with the correct infinitive.
Part 3: Translation: translate the sentences into English.
A scaffolded high-level worksheet consolidating all the different tenses in Spanish through reading comprehension about David’s holiday experience in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A wide range of activities have been designed increasing in difficulty to stretch and challenge the students.
Answers are included on the PPT.
Exercise 1: Translating the underlined selected words into English from the text.
Exercise 2: Find examples of the following:
a) Sequencers (x3) d) Adjectives (x4)
b) Preterite tense verbs (x3) e) Negative sentence structures (x2) c) Imperfect tense verbs (x3) f) Imperfect subjunctive (x1)
Exercise 3: True or false? Correct the false sentences.
Exercise 4: Answer the questions in Spanish
Exercise 5: Answer the questions in English
Exercise 6: Fill-in the gaps with the correct words from the box
Extension: With your partner, practise the following oral questions:
• ¿Adónde fuiste de vacaciones?
• ¿Cómo fueron tus vacaciones?
• ¿Dónde te quedaste?
• ¿Te gustó tu alojamiento?
• ¿Adónde irás de vacaciones el año que viene?
PPT with a wide range of well-scaffolded activities for buying at the supermarket giving ample opportunity for students to meet new language, manipulate the language and make it their own.
A scaffolded worksheet is also included and the answers are included in the PPT.
Two-sided scaffolded worksheet on an introduction to finances. Students are given an insight into some of the different vocabulary realted to finances which they will come across and need to know for when they manage their own finances.
Exercise 1: Match-up the key words with their definitions.
Exercise 2: True or false? Challenge: Correct the false statements.
Exercise 3: Define the key words
Exercise 4: Read the passage and fill-in the gaps with the correct words.
Exercise 5: Using the passage in exercise 4 to help you, answer the following questions in full sentences.
Exercise 6: Design a short poster to encourage other people to save money. What can we do to help others to save money? You must use some of the key topic vocabulary from this lesson.
Learning different colours in Spanish. Students are to know how to spell the colours and recall them correctly.
As a challenge, they can create their own sentences using the colours paying attention to the word order (e.g. un gato negro).
PPT with two scaffolded lessons talking about likes and dislikes in French.
Grammar: to use the verb aimer + the definite article.
introduction to negatives.
A wide range of activities have been designed to aid students with meeting new language, manipulating and making language their own.
Answers also included in the PPT.
PPT that explains and simplifies well what the near future tense is, why we use it and how to form it. A wide variety of well-scaffolded activities have been designed to aid students with using the structure: present tense of verb “ir” + a + infinitive.
E.g. Esta tarde, voy a hacer mis deberes
A scaffolded worksheet that focuses on providing the key vocabulary for asking and giving directions in Spanish.
Exercise 1: Match up the Spanish with the English
Exercise 2: Imperatives - complete the table with the “tú” and “vosotros” imperative forms of the key verbs.
Exercise 3: Translation into English using the vocabulary and table from exercise 2 to help.
Exercise 4: Translation into Spanish using the vocabulary and previous exercises to manipulate the language.
Challenge: Create their own sentences using the vocabulary and key verbs from the lesson.
A scaffolded worksheet that fully explains the present subjunctive including the uses and how to form it with the conjugations. There are exercises to work through increasing in complexity to consolidate the student’s knowledge with ample opportunity to meet new language, manipulate the language and make language their own.
This worksheet is suitable for GCSE and A level students on both regular and irregular verbs.
Answer sheet is also included.
Powerpoint to work through on what the preterite tense is, the usage and conjugations with examples for each form clearly indicated and lots of practice embedded for students to conjugate each of the verbs correctly for the different pronouns. It’s broken down into very small stages which gives learners ample opportunity to meet the new language and practise it.
A scaffolded worksheet gives students ample opportunity to meet new language, manipulate the language using the summary document to help them to complete the worksheet as well as make language their own.
Note: Sample answers are included as a separate document.
A scaffolded worksheet on demonstrative adjectives based on the topic of buying souvenirs with opportunities to meet, manipulate and make language their own.
Powerpoint introducing some famous Chinese dishes and beverages.
A variety of games can be played such as:
1.Splat
2.Beat the Teacher
3.Pronunciation competition.
Then, there is a dialogue that I have created that students can practise and rehearse in pairs. There are two versions: one with the pinyin and the other with the characters for differentiation.