I am a qualified teacher with specialisms in Spanish, Geography & Irish. I have worked as a teacher in Ireland, Australia and the UK. I teach children the way I want my son to be taught. I try to make colourful resources that will engage and make teachers and students lives easier. I don't always get it right but I'm always learning and striving to.
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I am a qualified teacher with specialisms in Spanish, Geography & Irish. I have worked as a teacher in Ireland, Australia and the UK. I teach children the way I want my son to be taught. I try to make colourful resources that will engage and make teachers and students lives easier. I don't always get it right but I'm always learning and striving to.
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This booklet contains all you need to know to understand verbs in Irish. This is necessary for all students to learn prior to doing any verb work or conjugations as this is the basis to understanding any tense.
The resource contains:
A step by step revision mat of what types of verbs there are and how to recognize them.
An activity sheet to practice and demonstrate learning
Answers to the activities.
This 20 page booklet is an excellent revision tool for students for the topic of 'My area' in Spanish. This booklet can also be used as a means of preparing students for their written controlled assessment.
The booklet contains various activities which aim to help students master the following aspects:
1. ¿Dónde vives?
2. ¿Qué hay en tu barrio?
3. Direcciones
4. Hablando de tu barrio
5. Problemas en tu barrio
Each section contains a series of activities such as translation, fill in the gaps, comprehensions, matching exercises and ordering information. The final aspect of the boklet is a controlled assessment type of activity where students will produce a written piece about their area. They will be able to attempt to include the following:
¿Dónde vives exactamente?
Describe tu barrio.
¿Te gusta tu barrio? ¿Por qué?
¿Hay mucho que hacer para los jóvenes / los adultos?
¿Cuál es lo bueno / lo malo de tu pueblo?
¿Qué te gusta más de tu pueblo?
¿Cómo es la gente por lo general?
¿Qué deportes se pueden practicar?
¿Hay muchos problemas?
¿Si pudieras cambiar algo en tu ciudad, qué cambiarías?
¿Cómo será tu pueblo ideal en el futuro?
Enjoy!
Resource contains a PowerPoint lesson for revising the Imperative in Spanish. It can also be adapted to be used as a lesson to introduce the same topic. It contains notes on formation of the tense, a worksheet that accompanies the lesson and also a revision mat for the topic. The work sheets are in .doc format to edit and rework depending on your needs and also in .pdf. This ensures that when printing, all the worksheet is printed and none of the margins are missing. The worksheet contains 5 activities starting off with basic conjugations, to irregular verb conjugations to more creating new school rules. The first three activities can be used with weaker ability students to encourage using the tense while later ones will be a challenge for higher ability students.
This is a revision mat for the topic of URÚ in Irish. The mat contains all information needed to revise this piece of grammar. It contains a rhyme to help students remember them and contains all the exceptions.
This 34 page booklet contains various exercises to do with careers and focusing on students strenghts and weaknesses. They can be used as individual topics for PSHE lessons or as a module as a whole. I use it as a module for Careers in Year 9. The booklet is broken down into sections as follows:
1. Basic careers introduction.
2. Getting to know you.
3. What is important to me? (Values & Belief systems)
4. Thinking about the future.
5. Careers language.
6. Skills audit – What can I do well?
7. Employability Skills.
8. Gender inequality.
9. Time management.
10. Skills audit – Check-in.
11. Evaluation
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As always the amazing Kate Hadfield has done the artwork.
This is a very simple word mat that will help reinforce the topic of ‘Mo Theach’ when you’ve introduced it. My students find these useful when they first begin to compose pieces of written work.
This is editable and has been uploaded in both .pdf and .doc formats.
A free example of ‘Mo Theaghlach’ can be found in my shop.
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This is a resource to help teach the topic of prepositional pronouns in Irish.
It contains a list of the most common prepositional pronouns in Irish and also two sheets with the most common phrases associated to each one. It is a confusing topic for students but I found these revision sheets helped a lot:)
As always I have attached .pdf for printing and .doc for editing.
Simple display cards to get your room and your students in the festive Easter spirit. My students love Easter! (It must be the chocolate!) and the display is nice when surrounded by students work.
Alternatively use the activity attached also. I use these as a game first to introduce the vocabulary to my students. They are placed around my room and students are given a list of Easter vocabulary in English. They then have to find the Irish equivalent. It's nice to watch students discover the vocabulary themselves as opposed to looking at a PowerPoint and writing everything down in a vocabulary book. Once the lesson is finished they can go onto a display board. Please note this is a .pdf display only.
This lesson focuses on what the features of a Catholic Church are. It is suitable for KS3. In school we use the accelerated learning cycle to teach our subjects so please feel free to change 'Connect' to 'Starter' and 'Consolidate' to 'Pleanary'.
The ppt. contains the following:
A questioning connect task to encourage students to think about what they see in a church
A card sort task to encourage students to discover knowledge for themselves. This consists of 5 images, 5 definitions and 5 descriptions.
A fyrther questioning task asking students to look at the plan of a Catholic Church and suggest reasosn for why these features have a particular location.
A differentiated written task. (The differentiated task is a favourite of Ofsted, having under gone various in the past number of years)
Pair work for a 'Consolidate' task.
As always the .ppt and .doc are editable for your needs.
Any questions - claddaghclassrooms@gmail.com
Enjoy
UPDATED 2020
This booklet is an excellent resource for your Irish classroom this St. Patrick’s day. Ideal for Junior Cert / GCSE classes, the story of St. Patrick is told in simple Irish. The story is followed by tasks (Vocab, comprehension, & writing) based on the story.
The story is free in my store so please make sure you downlad!
Please note this is a .pdf resource only.
Bain taitneamh as:)
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This booklet can be used as a nice revision lesson/way of checking knowledge or as a way of framing your lessons on past times and sport.
The booklet contains the following exercises and resources:
Name the sport via images
Name the sport vocabulary via images
Stating what sports you like and dislike
A list of useful phrases
Using the phrases above in sentences and matching them to their English translation
Using all your learning in the booklet to write a short essay on, ‘Cluiche a chonaic m��’
NOTE: This is uploaded in .pdf format. If you wnat anything changed please let me know and i’ll have it done within 24 hours!
My lower ability students really struggle with these three key verbs in Spanish. To help over come this I made revision mats for each one with basic information to help consolidate their learning. When teaching 'Tener' i usually teach plurals. That features on the Tener Mat. The mat for Ser and Estar have all the typical information you would normally see. I have included the .doc files for editing and also the .pdf files for printing.
This resource contains a Weather Mind Map / Revision Mat and also various activities to do with the topic of the Weather, There is a comprehension, some translation work, some verb work and finally a word search.
I tend to use this when introducing the topic and for GCSE revision.
This resource contains three resources for a lesson in Irish.
The first is a Bingo game, using Christmas vocabulary (See my display resource for that vocabulary)
The second is a puzzle where students need to orientate themselves through a puzzle. This can be done using directions. (One person is blind folded and they must direct their partner around the puzzle) Or this resource can be used as a simple starter.
The third resource is a word search. Each activity focuses oral skills and new vocabulary. It's a lovely way to finish the term off and also a way to keep students engaged in their final lesson.
Revision mat on formation of El Preterito Perfecto. Useful for GCSE Revision. NIce simple steps to help students get to grasp with the formation.
I’ve also finally updated this and made the corrections!
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