A worksheet for a lesson on the different vowel sounds in French (including the nasal vowels) - exercises practising pronunciation, then a minimal pairs listening task (transcript and answers included), followed by a gap-fill for the song dernière danse by Indila focusing on the vowel sounds only.

A parallel text gap-fill in French to learn the vocab for different members of the family / Décrire la famille / les membres de la famille. Answers included.

Thanks to Christopher Pye for the awesome excel spreadsheet used to make this. Oral ping pong translation on the topic of holidays to consolidate all vocab and practise speaking.

A revision sheet with a gapped translation for agreeing adjectives on the topic of food. Answers included.

Three reading gap-fills, true or false exercise and some English-French translation on the topic of pocket money and helping at home.

A good end-of-topic exercise to practise writing about the topic of food and drink, with a follow-up checklist of things to focus on to upgrade your answers.

A task to practise describing why you like or dislike certain foods using expressions pupils have learned in class.

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/

After learning about el día de los muertos / day of the dead, beginners can learn how to describe someone in the past so they can write a simple ‘tribute’ to someone that has passed, this can be turned into a seasonal display and pupils can decorate their tribute with marigolds or other flowers, photos or drawings. Worksheets include: 2 sheets of vocab activities to do (after you’ve introduced pupils to some of the basic descriptions vocab) Sentence builder for writing a tribute - modelled answers in grid to help. This can be used to do dictations, aural translations etc. using mini-whiteboards and having pupils use the sentence builder. Blank writing sheet for once pupils have practised enough - can be used as assessment.

Listening gap-fill activity to practise vocab on describing people - read out the transcript included and pupils fill in gaps. Afterwards you can ask them true or false questions about each of the descriptions, or they can write their own true or false statements for each person. Following this, you could give them the same blank copy and repeat the activity but substitute the gaps for other vocab to practise!

Basic practice of describing people in Spanish - unjumble the sentences and complete the gap-fill using the options. Answers included. Covers topics of describing age and nationality, hair, eyes, weight and some personality.

Quick reading comprehension task to consolidate vocab on describing family members. Also draws attention to adjectives and verbs. You could extend the activity by asking pupils to translate the boxes orally into English, or to rewrite each box changing TWO details in Spanish for each person.

Spanish to English translations short activity to consolidate vocab on describing people with ser. Answers included. This activity could be done as a competition/quiz in pairs or as a ‘one pen one dice’ activity (Google it! Great game) After you’ve corrected them, you could practise listening by asking pupils to turn the sheet over, then you read out one of the sentences from the sheet in Spanish, and on the back or on a miniwhiteboard, pupils translate it into English - good listening practice.

This listening comprehension tests a range of topics that would have already been taught by the time pupils complete this - it can be used as an end-of-topic assessment and covers age, birthday, languages, family members, pets and physical description. The teacher reads the transcript and pupils answer, or you can record the transcript onto an audio file and set it as homework.

Two ways of using this resource: LISTENING: project the doc on the board / print copies for pupils, choose one of the people, say ‘Antonio, number 1:’ and give a short sentence or phrase in Spanish that matches one of the lines in Antonio’s profile. Pupils must find the detail and write ‘1’ next to it. Continue with all the details in his profile in a random order to practise recognising them. To make the activity harder, say a sentence in Spanish from any of the descriptions and pupils have to write the name of the person. WRITING: This activity should be completed once pupils have had extensive practice on vocab for describing physique and personality and could be used as assessment. Pupils can select one of the four people and complete sentences covering as many aspects mentioned as possible in Spanish. You could project the doc and annotate with bits of vocab in Spanish as support if necessary.

Worksheet with table to fill in in Spanish, and completed table - teacher uses completed table to read out sentences describing each person. Teacher can make the sentences very short phrases, or include linking words and other details depending on ability level of group. Pupils note details in Spanish, then correct. You could do this activity before asking pupils to write their own description of someone. Speaking worksheet to be cut in half so opponent cannot see answers to the questions they will be asked - pupils take turns to ask each other the translations. You can make this into a game or quiz by seeing how quickly pupils can complete all translations orally correctly. Pupils can tick each line when their opponent gives an answer correctly, or you can create a rule that they have to go back to any previous answers they got wrong in order to move on etc.

Repetitive oral drills to practise sentence structures for talking about family members - you can use the sentences to do oral translation - there are some in Spanish followed by some in English, in which pupils must use the vocab in previous sentences to help them. Then, there are questions pupils should answer orally using the vocab they have just practised. You could also use the first slide for listening tasks: say one of the green sentences in Spanish and pupils must point out which sentence you said. Or, don’t show the powerpoint, and read some of the sentences aloud for pupils to translate into English on scrap paper or miniboards. You could even do them as dictations if pupils aren’t yet able to translate - all good consolidation of the language.

Interactive activities to introduce the colours in Spanish - for the flashcards, you could do a number of listen & repeat, call & response style activities eg. choral repetition, individual repetition, whispering repetition, shouting repetition, team repetition etc. then there are some recall activities to practise / consolidate.

Quick activity or starter - flashcards with verb phrases to practise verbs comer and beber with food items - first, you can do a number of listen & repeat / call & response activities (choral repetition, individual repetition, whispering, shouting, one team vs another) then do the memory activity.

Several activities which could last a few lessons / homeworks to introduce physical descriptions using ser, all teacher instructions and answers are included. Activities consolidate the vocab. You could also substitute the translation worksheets for aural translation - instead of pupils seeing the sheet, you read one of the sentences from the sheet in Spanish and they write the English, or you could use it to do dictation sentences.