GCSE Spanish lesson on giving opinions on teachers. Suitable for a higher ability group. Includes vocabulary, several speaking and listening activities and an introduction to comparisons (más que/ menos que) as part of giving opinions. Full instructions for all activities are in the notes section for each ppt slide. Class dominoes time trial game to revise school subjects vocabulary as a starter. Brainstorm adjectives to describe people. Introduce higher level vocabulary to describe teachers. Slide can be printed as a vocab list to be glued in. Correct common mistakes made when giving opinions (agreement etc.). Introduce more than/ less than and activity to practise this in the context of giving opinions about teachers e.g. Pienso que mi profesor de geografía es más inteligente que mi profesor de francés. Scaffolded 20 questions game to practise speaking and listening while describing teachers. Trap door sentences game to ensure students have a model sentence in their books and to facilitate more speaking and listening practice. Timed plenary speaking activity.

GCSE Spanish lesson on what there is in students’ towns/ en mi pueblo. Includes vocab revision on places in town, identifying what there is to do for different groups of people (families, older people etc.) and reading practise on the topic. Suitable for a higher ability group. Starter reading activity to revise KS3 vocabulary on places in town. Vocab list that can be printed and glued into books (places in town) and slides with images to model how to put these into sentences about what there is for different groups of people. Introduction to the higher level phrase me habría gustado + infinitive with examples relevant to the topic. This can be left out for lower ability groups. Reading text which can be used as a model text for writing, which can be set for homework. True/ false activity and list of things to find that make the text an example of ‘what a good one looks like’.

GCSE Spanish lesson to introduce vocabulary for world problems. Suitable for middle to high ability group. Includes images to introduce vocabulary e.g. el cambio climático, la guerra, el paro. There is then a whole class team game to embed the vocabulary. Full instructions are on the slide. The slide on the board can be printed and handed out as a vocab sheet to glue into books. There is then a pair game to model putting the vocabulary into high level opinion sentences e.g. pienso que el problema más grave hoy en día es el paro porque en mi opinión afecta a muchas personas. This game uses set phrases to build up their familiarity with the vocab. The lesson then introduces the set phrases ‘lo que más/ menos me preocupa es…’ and there is a translation activity to practise this.

GCSE Spanish social problems vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes social/ world problems and proposed solutions. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish school subjects vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes asignaturas, opinions, a range of tenses and great phrases for those aiming for a 9. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish environmental problems vocabulary (focusing on students’ local environment) is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes local area problems e.g. pollution, comparisons, opinions, suggestions for resolving the problems including conditional and subjunctive set phrases. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish technology/ media vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes opinions, activities using technology, advantages and disadvantages of technology. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish leisure vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes opinions, leisure activities, comparisons, imperfect and future tense sentences. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish chores vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes chores, opinions, what other people do, weather and includes a range of tenses. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

GCSE Spanish holidays vocabulary is revised in this class dominoes activity. Suitable for top set students. Perfect for a starter activity. Cut up the dominoes in advance of the class and shuffle them. Each student is given a domino with one English sentence followed by a non-matching Spanish sentence. Vocabulary includes countries, transport, accommodation, holiday activities and weather and the past tense. Differentiation: the dominoes with * at the beginning of the Spanish sentences are the hardest ones for the most able. You could also give the most able more than one domino. Give students a couple of minutes to work out what their Spanish sentence means. They can confer and use their books. The teacher starts the time and reads out the first domino with the *** and English sentence only. The person with the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out the Spanish followed by the next English sentence. Whoever has the Spanish translation for that sentence then reads out their domino until someone reads out the last domino with the same English sentence as the teacher’s domino. You can then swap the dominoes and do the same activity again to see if the class can beat their time. You could record the times and see if one class can do it faster than another class.

First lesson on giving opinions about school subjects. There is an interactive noughts and crosses game to revise school subjects. This could be played in 2 teams as a whole class on the whiteboard. There are slides to introduce opinion phrases and to facilitate a discussion about why we add ‘n’ to ‘me gusta’ for plural subjects and why ‘odio’ is the odd one out. There is an activity where students work out what the sentences need to be for the images provided - answers in slide notes. They are simple sentences such as me gusta la historia. There is an interactive team game to practise these simple sentences further. The class is divided into 2 teams and given numbers. When you call out a number, the 2 children with that number need to stand up and give the sentence for the images on the board - great for AFL. Full instructions in slide notes There is then a match-up activity for adjectives to describe school subjects.

Powerpoint to introduce school subject vocabulary and to talk about how many times a week they study those subjects. There are slides with nice pictures to introduce 12 school subjects (asignaturas). There are 2 slap the board games and a slow-reveal of an image team game to practise the vocabulary. There is a slide that can be printed with a match-up activity that can be glued into books so students have a copy of the vocabulary. There is a translation activity, a battleships game (slide can be printed for students and instructions are in the slide notes) and 2 slides for plenary activities.

Worksheet to revise etre verbs in the passé composé and to learn or revise irregular past participles. There is space to write in the verbs that take etre using the DR MRS VANDERTRAMP mnemonic. There are then 10 sentences to translate into French with a mixture of avoir and etre verbs so that students have to think carefully about whether it is an avoir or etre sentence. There is a grid to fill out with common verbs with irregular past participles. There are 6 sentences to translate into French using verbs with irregular past participles. Worksheet suitable for a higher ability GCSE class or for AS/ A level revision.

Worksheet to introduce or revise the passé composé French past tense. There is space to write out avoir and etre in the present tense and then there are English sentences to translate into French to practise the tense; 8x avoir sentences and 8x etre sentences. Worksheet suitable for a medium to high ability GCSE class or for a high ability KS3 class.

Lesson suitable for a medium/ high ability KS3 Spanish class. This lesson revises ir in the present tense and places in town before introducing the easy future tense (voy a ir). There may be enough material for two lessons. The lesson has a class game (treasure/ pirate - full instructions on ppt slide notes) to revise places in town and ir in the present tense. There is also a trap door sentences game to revise giving opinions about places in town (instructions provided in slide notes). The future tense is introduced and sentences are practised with a battleships game (2x grids included - one for medium ability, one for high ability). These are then extended by adding time phrases. There is a reading text and activity (find all the elements that make this text good). This text could be used as a model text for a writing activity/ homework. The text is suitable for a high ability class but details could be taken out to make it easier. There is a whole class plenary game (same pirate/ treasure game but this time using the future tense).

A lesson to revise free time activities and introduce the easy future tense in French. Suitable for a medium-high ability KS3 class. Students revise free time activities in the infinitive through a ‘track the code’ activity. They fill in a vocabulary grid from answers stuck up around the room and find a code word in the process. All resources provided and full instructions given in ppt slide notes. The easy future tense is introduced and there are 2 games to practise future tense sentences (full instructions in ppt slide notes - colour sentences and bomb sentences). There is a translation activity and a plenary team game (full instructions provided).

Activity to practise all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in French around giving opinions on leisure/ free time activities. I have used this activity with a high ability year 7 or 8 class or with a year 9 class as revision. Use with grids in Word documents. Students complete in teams – one student per team may be on their feet at any one time. Filled in grids of the model text need to be stuck up around the room. One student per team goes to the model text, remembers what they can and dictates it to their team member, who fills in the empty grid (one word per box). Model texts may not be taken down. Students may not stand by model text and shout bits of their text back to their team (reading and writing). First team to finish wins but there are also points for accuracy. One point is available per box completed.

2x lessons in one powerpoint revising sports/ leisure activities, introducing the present tense for -er verbs in French and practising reading and writing skills. In the first lesson there are 2 short activities to revise sports vocabulary (slap the board and put spaces back into sentences). The present tense of -er verbs is introduced through petal endings and there is a gap fill to practise. In the second lesson, students revise present tense endings for -er verbs in French. There is an excellent whole-class game perfect for AFL to practise the verb endings (full instructions in slide notes) - the class is split into 2 teams and students have to stand up and beat the other team when it’s their turn to answer. There is a short activity with the verbs in sentences and then a reading and writing task. There is also a plenary game at the end (instructions in ppt - pirate/ treasure).

A lesson on giving opinions on transport and giving reasons for using different forms of transport in French. There might be enough content in the powerpoint for two lessons and it is suitable for a higher ability KS3 class. There is an interactive noughts and crosses game for the board to revise transport vocabulary. The teacher then introduces adjectives such as lent/ rapide to give reasons for opinions on transport. There are two short writing activities and a reading activity (model text) as well as a plenary game (treasure/ pirate - full instructions for all games/ activities are in the slide notes). The reading activity is A/B paired reading where students take it in turns to read sections of the text that their partner is missing. Students need to write in what they hear when there is a gap in their text - excellent speaking/ listening practice. A/B texts and answers on the ppt provided.