A selection of activities focusing on the rules for adjective agreement on the topic of food and drink. Activities include a video to watch, table to fill in, gap-fill and translation.

A paired translation activity to practise adjective agreement rules in French in the context of personality. The game and answers are included along with a set of instructions on how it could be played as a translation race / an oral one pen one dice game / or a trapdoor game. Suitable for KS3 French after introducing adjective agreement rules, or for KS4 French as revision.

A set of 12 basic sentences with which to play a Conti sentence stealer game - see link below if you’re not familiar with the game. This is a reading aloud task can be played just after pupils have been made aware of the pronunciation differences between masculine and feminine adjective endings. You could also later use the same sentences with your pupils to do translations on mini whiteboards, dictation sentences on mini whiteboards, or a quiz quiz trade game. https://gianfrancoconti.com/2018/03/16/my-favourite-read-aloud-task-and-how-i-use-them/

A half-page worksheet practising possessive adjectives in French mon / ma / mes etc. suitable for KS3 to introduce, or KS4 French as revision.

A 3-page worksheet to introduce the use of the pronoun ‘en’ in different set phrases for talking about food. Very little prior knowledge is assumed other than some basic opinions on food items, and some time phrases like souvent and jamais, so this lesson should appear in a sequence after pupils have acquired those. It is practised mainly in the present tense, but extension tasks are provided in other tenses, Activities include a match-up, grammar explanation, teacher-led listening, translation into English, sentence unjumbling task and a short, guided sentence-writing task. Answers included.

A worksheet explaining in detail how to use the pronoun ‘en’ in the context of the topic of school / my studies / mon école/mon lycée. Ideal for helping pupils to integrate these into their writing to score higher marks for complexity / use of ‘complex structures’. The principles for how en works are explained and several different examples are given, and then there is a 10-sentence translation task with Fr-En and En-Fr translation. Answers included. Suitable for KS4 French or very able KS3 pupils as extension work. See below a more detailed resource with more activities to practise ‘en’ and ‘y’ in the topic of free time: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12967317

A worksheet introducing basic comparisons in French within the context of places / your area / where you live. Includes meilleur, pire, plus, moins, aussi. Answers included. Suitable for KS3 to introduce or KS4 for a recap.

A set of 5 activities and answers in Spanish for students studying Almodóvar’s film Julieta, at A level, Pre U or similar level (16+), intended for when students are about to watch the film or have just watched it. This is an alternative to my previous resource which used the same overview material, but was in the format of a traditional reading comprehension. This format incorporates 5 different activities, each of which allow for more active manipulation of the language, so it is important that the activities are not completed superficially – allow sufficient lesson time during each activity to focus on the content of the texts as well as the grammatical or syntactical aspects of the language. This content could be used for 1-2 lessons or 1 lesson and homework.

A variety of lesson activities on the topic of ecology (ce que je fais pour aider l’environnement) / environment and practising using negatives - ne pas, ne jamais and ne que. Exercises include a grammar recap, match-up of sentences, narrow reading with vocab hunt and comprehension, listening comprehension, quiz quiz trade and sentence unjumbling. Table of all vocab used in lesson is included for if you want to upload it to your own Quizlet / spreadsheet. Enough activities for 1-3 lessons depending on ability of group.

3 x sentence builders & follow-up tasks to learn to say who is in your family, names/ages, how you get on with each and why, to help pupils answer the Qs: comment tu t’entends avec ta famille / parle-moi de tes relations familiales etc. Activities: Interactive activity suggestions for using with the SB Pop-up grammar questions for paired discussion listening gap-fill reading comprehension reading aloud battleships game mini listening table gapped translation and full translation jumble writing task Answers all included. Suitable for KS3 and KS4.

A 3-page worksheet / activity sequence explaining how to use the pronouns en and y in set phrases for the topic of free time / hobbies / les loisirs / le temps libre. Ideal for helping pupils to integrate these into their writing to score higher marks for complexity / use of ‘complex structures’. The principles for how en and y work are briefly explained, but the pronouns are mostly practised in the context of useful phrases on the topic, including with negatives and time phrases. There is also a stage combining them with the present tense with depuis to enhance the complexity of students’ sentences. Activities include a brief grammar explanation to read, a matching task, a teacher-led listening, multiple-choice, translations and a writing task. All answers included. Suitable for KS4 French or very able KS3 pupils as extension work. See below a similar resource for using ‘en’ in the topic of school, but this time the practice is purely translations: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12967353

A sentence builder modelling plenty of examples of how to explain cause and consequences in in the past in French across different topics. Ideal for encouraging pupils to incorporate more complex grammar and structures into their work by scaffolding extended sentences with causal markers, as well as containing lots of verb + infinitive structures and complex opinion phases. In addition to the sentence builder, there is a list of 24 example sentences that can be exploited as a quiz quiz trade activity, or you could use them in other ways eg. oral translation into English, or as a teacher-led listening - read some of the sentences and pupils translate on mini whiteboards using the sentence builder.

A selection of 3 detailed sentence builders for KS4 or KS3 French for talking about le temps / la météo. Includes how to talk about the weather in three tenses, past present and future, and how to combine weather with your favourite saison - quelle est ta saison préférée, and examples of how to link it to free time activities. See ideas for how to exploit sentence builders at this link below https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12281180 or at my blog.

A worksheet designed for completion shortly after watching the film Julieta by Almodovar to consolidate understanding of the plot. They could either be completed as quite quick activities for students to quickly get an overview of the plot, or could easily be stretched out to cover a whole lesson with lots of discussion about the plot in more detail and students’ ideas about the themes of the film, the style and any other observations.

A reading comprehension in Spanish on some bullet points providing general background information about Almodóvar's 2016 feature Julieta. Intended for students studying the film at A Level or Pre-U. This is a good activity for homework or classwork to be completed either before watching the film or just after.

A worksheet with several long reading comprehension texts and variety of activities for students to develop an understanding of the main characters of Julieta by Almodovar. The texts are in Spanish to equip students to discuss the characters in the TL. Answers for activities are included. You could then set students some translations based on the language used in the texts, or ask them to summarise the main points of the text in written Spanish.

Worksheet with activities (answers included) about how Almodovar explores the theme of death in the film Julieta. You could introduce some of the vocab before doing the worksheet, or give students questions to discuss orally in Spanish regarding the ideas in the texts.

A worksheet with a variety of language activities (gap-fill, translation, broken sentences) and comprehension questions to help students understand how the different settings used in Almodovar’s Julieta help reflect different moods and memories. Answers included.