Reading task aimed at a middle ability Y8 group who have been doing Spanish once per week since September but are in their 2nd year learning French. In the topic of house/home, this was their 2nd lesson on infinitives so I threw this at them as a bit of a challenge.

5-6 week module on Food and Drink, aimed at Year 8 Set 3 out of 4.Culminates in a speaking assessment with 5 questions to prepare and learn. Some slides may be taken from other TES resources. If you recognise your work, many thanks for sharing. Post to let me know if you would like to be credited.

Card sort to introduce food quantities and containers. Pupils have to match starts and ends of phrases (eg: une bouteille... ...d'eau, une canette... ...de coca) based on what makes most sense. There is more than one right answer to some. Works best if you print each sheet on a different colour of card, then swap the top and bottom half of the grid around so you have 2 different colours in each envelope - quicker for pupils to see which are the starts and ends of phrases that way.

Approximately 8-week unit of work on the topic of holidays produced/adapted for Year 8 Set 3. Focus on recognition and use of 3 tenses. Leads up to an unseen writing assessment task (aiming to prepare pupils more for the requirements of the new GCSE as opposed to memorising for controlled assessment).Some powerpoints are 1 lesson, some are 2 or 3. A few slides are taken from other TES resources so many thanks if you recognise your work.

Reading task based on Expo 2 Vert p62 but extended (I have added an extra text and broken down the activities more). \n\nThis is for a low ability group so begins with the basics - recognising food words they have done and underlining them.\nThen they have to identify which person mentions which foods, and there are some extension questions for the more able in the group to move onto.

2 lessons for the end of a healthy living topic with a middle set Y9 group, focusing on understanding of when to use the present, perfect, imperfect, near future and future tenses. Pupils have previously covered these tenses in all subjects, but I am focusing on the je form in these revision lessons to simplify things a bit and increase the chance that they can use the tenses in their upcoming written exam. If you're looking for something more highbrow for top set or for Y10 and 11, I have a series of lessons on conjugation in my resources.

Assorted starters and plenaries for food and drink topic, with pictures. Includes:\n\n-noughts and crosses\n-beat the teacher\n-settling starters (match-up/gapfill/multiple choice) for pupils to do in their books\n-give/keep points translation game\n-spot the mistakes\n-past present or future\n-guessing game

Used with Y9 bottom set beginners Spanish - equally suitable for Y7 Spanish. \n\nTrue or false to recap colours.\nGive out sheet and pupils use prior knowledge to complete as much as possible. Can use dictionaries or just do a bit then go through answers and fill in gaps for corto/largo/liso/rizado etc. \n\nReading task - understand the sentences and draw pictures based on them.

2 lessons for a top/middle set Year 10 class. \n\nFocus is on getting pupils to write good sentences to include in controlled assessment preparation, exposing more able pupils to advanced structures without making it too scary for those who struggle more.\n\nEDIT: Just to say that several of the slides come from other TES resources so many thanks if you spot your own work.

Reading task - problem solving. \n\n-Present food groups.\n-Categorise vocab into 6 groups.\n-Reading - guess the food item from description, then write own version for the class to guess.

Resources for 2 lessons for Year 9. \n\nIntroduces key vocabulary (positive and negative statements about a town) with lo bueno / lo malo / lo mejor / lo peor. \n\nPractise by:\n-translating sentences\n-reading comprehension\n-writing (adapting a model text)

Goes with Mira 1, Module 2 (refers to listening exercises from the textbook, but there's plenty of useful stuff on the slides if you don&'t have access to this).\n\nMy class are Y9 beginners Spanish, but this would be equally suitable for Y7.\n\nLesson 1 - using cognates to work out school subjects, listening, writing about what subjects you study/don&';t study.\n\nLesson 2 - vocab recap pic reveal, days of the week, reading.\n\nLesson 3 - gender, listening, adjectives, using dictionary, opinion phrases.

Pupils work out new vocab using cognates and process of elimination. Then checked answers via powerpoint or Taskmagic game. Later in lesson gave list of French vocab for them to fill in English (recording vocab but also a test of what they've learned).

Hand out grids - pupils mustn't show partner. Use question 'Qu&'est-ce que ton pere/ta mere fait dans la vie?' and answer with 'il/elle est...' based on grid. When finished, compare grids in pairs to check answers.

A short text to print out and give to pupils to find and correct errors. Most mistakes are tenses and articles but some are simple spelling mistakes. I ended up going round underlining mistakes for the least able pupils during the lesson, so they just had to correct it, so you could do some copies already underlined for your class if needed.

First lesson for low ability beginners group on clothing.\n\nRevision of colours, presentation of vocab, beat the teacher repetition game, reading and writing task, true or false plenary (did this as thumbs up/down).

Introducing and using colours creatively with Year 7, based on poems by French primary children found online.\n\nLesson 1: Presentation of colours and opinions.\n\nLesson 2: Reading a poem, highlighting key features (nouns, adjectives), discussing similes. Pupils write first couplet of poem.\n\nLesson 3: Preparing for independent working - dictionary skills, how to know if a word is masculine or feminine. Adjectival agreements. Continue drafting poem.\n\n1 or 2 more lessons needed to produce display work.

I know Buffalo Grill isn't exactly an authentic French experience, but the American theming (and lots of cognates) makes using a whole website in French more accessible so pupils can pick out other details from context. A mixture of questions and &'find the French&'; tasks to extend vocabulary and check understanding.

Writing tasks for Year 8 studying the topic of Holidays (Expo 2). Developed in response to requirements of the new GCSE proposals, as the current Y8 will be the first affected.Aim is to get them used to regularly writing stuff without access to their books, word mats or dictionaries, reusing prior knowledge.Focus on conveying information and using correct verbs, rather than developed and fancy work. Mixture of task bullet points for writing tasks, and translation (both directions).

Simple lesson to revise/introduce personality. Designed for a cover lesson, to ensure classes whose teacher is absent will have covered the same content.