French & Spanish resources for KS3, GCSE & A Level. Questions, issues or feedback? Get in touch via email: secondarymfl@gmail.com. I hope you find my resources useful and please leave a review if you can!
French & Spanish resources for KS3, GCSE & A Level. Questions, issues or feedback? Get in touch via email: secondarymfl@gmail.com. I hope you find my resources useful and please leave a review if you can!
A bundle of 9 worksheets on the topic of Food for French GCSE/KS3 which will support pupils to talk about the food they like and eat in the present, past & future tenses.
Resource 1: Introducing types of food and the partitive article
Resource 2: Food routine and adverbs of frequency
Resource 3: Food and the immediate future tense
Resource 4: Types of food & cuisine and preferences
Resource 5: Adjectives and describing food
Resource 6: Food and le passé composé
Resource 7: A scaffolded writing task and model answer on food (past, present and future)
Resource 8: A revision worksheet on all aspects of this topic.
Resource 9: 4 pages of writing activities on food and fast food and a longer GCSE writing question with a model answer.
Format: Word and PDF documents with answers.
A standalone two-sided worksheet on ‘La Tomatina’ to enable a Year 8/9 group or foundation GCSE class to understand this hispanic festival.
The resource includes vocabulary activities, reading exercises and translation tasks which scaffold and reinforce the key language.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
Resources to use on the topic of school subjects, teachers and opinions for GCSE and advanced KS3. There are also two PowerPoints with ready to use sequenced lessons which accompany Resource 1 and Resource 3 below.
Resource 1: An introduction to key vocabulary and building simple justified opinions & a sentence builder. (PowerPoint 1 accompanies this resource).
Resource 2: An advanced writing mat with scaffolded exercises to build confidence with the core vocabulary and to practise giving justified opinions on this topic.
Resource 3: Quelle est ta matière préférée? What is your favourite subject worksheet & saying I am good/bad at. (PowerPoint 2 accompanies this resource).
Resource 4: a translation plenary activity, into English and French, to test understanding of this topic.
Resource 5: a reading comprehension task on subjects and teachers.
A revision or study pack, for pupils, reviewing nearly aspects of all A Level grammar points through exercises and translation. There is a total of 12 Grammar Challenge sheets which target different topics. Each sheet also contains a translation activity focusing on a particular linguistic topic. Suggested answers are also included. The sheets are ramped in terms of difficulty and linguistic complexity and this can be given to pupils as a revision booklet, for homework or independent study.
(I have also included some separate previews of some of the pages).
The grammar topics include:
present tense
perfect tense
future tense
imperfect tense
pluperfect tense
conditional perfect tense
subjunctive mood
negation
nouns & gender
adjectival agreement
possessive adjectives
relative pronouns
interrogatives
verbs with prepositions
conditional sentences
adverbs
A 25 page GCSE French verb workbook with detailed revision notes on all key tenses, with conjugation practice & answers. This can be used in class, for homework, for revision or independent study.
The booklet covers:
regular present tense
reflexive verbs
modal verbs
key irregular verbs
‘faire’ expressions
irregular present tense verbs
immediate future tense,
pure future tense
conditional tense
conditional phrases
past tense verbs
past tense verbs with ‘être’
reflexive verbs in the past tense
irregular past past participles
the imperfect tense
the gerund
Format: word document and PDF with answers.
A whole unit including Fifteen standalone resources for GCSE on the topic of my town/region and where I live. There are enough tasks and worksheets here for a full unit of work.
Resource 1: Describing what there is in my town (il y a/ negatives/ des installations en ville)
Resource 2: Describing my town (adjectives, opinions, a sentence builder & reading task)
Resource 3: What I am going to do in my town next weekend (a future tense review, a sentence builder, translation practice and a writing question).
Resource 4: A revision/ retrieval worksheet on the vocabulary and structures in Resources 1 & 2.
Resource 5: The imperfect tense - a worksheet comparing my town in the past with my town now.
Resource 6: Consolidation & wider practice on the imperfect tense on this topic.
Resource 7: More practice on talking about where I used to live - the imperfect tense translation & sentence builder
Resource 8: Improving my writing skills - a writing question with a model answer and complex structures translation
Resource 9: An exam style reading comprehension in French on ‘ma ville’ - coche la bonne case
Resource 10: A resource for comparing life in the town and countryside.
Resource 11: A GCSE writing question (4 bullet points) on my town with model answer gap-fill and complex structures to find.
Resource 12: A conditional tense sentence builder with translation practice. Si j’étais riche, je voudrais…
Resource 13: A revision sheet on Ma ville with a short writing task & support.
Resource 14: A reading comprehension on my town (Text with answers in French).
Resource 15: A knowledge organiser of key vocabulary on this topic.
Format: PDF and word documents with answers.
I have also made a Quizlet to review key vocabulary from these resources: https://quizlet.com/_8g1o5j?x=1qqt&i=2syx7b
A 19-page reading practice booklet for French GCSE. Each of the 15 questions links to both a AQA and Edexcel specification topic and replicates an exam style question. Answers are included. This booklet is ideal for practice, revision and independent study.
15 topics are covered in the booklet:
School trips
Describing my bedroom
The environment
Birthdays and celebrations
Food and drink
Television and film
School description
Holidays
Family and home
When I was young
My primary school
The city of Montréal
Protecting the environment
The weather
Future plans
Format: Word document and PDF with answers
Two sets of standalone resource to introduce, or recap, clothes and colours to a KS3 group using opinion phrases such as ‘me gusta/me encanta/ prefiero llevar’ and the immediate future tense.
Resource 1: Introduces key vocabulary and contains lots of practice with vocabulary tasks, reading comprehensions, translation practice and a sentence builder.
Resource 2: Recaps items of clothing and types of weather and introduces ‘voy a llevar’ and conditional sentences with ‘si’. There is lots of reading, vocabulary and translation practice and sentence builder.
Format: Word and PDF document with answers.
Eight standalone resources on the topic of past holidays. These resources will support pupils to talk about where they went on their holiday, who they went with, how they got their, simple activities and opinions.
Resource 1: Worksheet to introduce ‘fui’ with countries, people and transport and fue with opinion adjectives.
Resource 2: This worksheet reviews the language in worksheet 1 and introduces holiday activities.
Resource 3: A translation recall game reviewing all the language above.
Resource 4: A worksheet to learn and practise the -AR verb endings in the preterite tense.
Resource 5: A worksheet to introduce -IR verbs in the past: vi, conocí, salí, comí, bebí etc.
Resource 6: A scaffolded writing task with model answers, based on resources 1-5
Resource 7: ¿Cómo te fue? Ir and Ser in the past tense and opinions.
Resource 8: A reading comprehension with questions in English on a text which recycles all the language in the previous resources.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
Four standalone resources to support pupils to talk about weather in the present, past and future tenses.
Resource 1: Introduces key weather vocabulary and recycles these expressions with various activities, including a sentence builder and translation practice.
Resource 2: Reviews key weather vocabulary in different tenses with reading exercises, translation and a sentence builder.
Resource 3: Plenary translation in all tenses on the topic of weather.
Resource 4: A GCSE note taking question on the topic of weather and where I live.
Format: Word and PDF with answers.
Two standalone worksheets to support pupils to talk about holidays in the past tense.
Resource 1: Introduces key past tense verbs and recycles key language with a sentence builder, gap fill reading and translation practice. There is also a summary of how to form past tense verbs with avoir and a grammar gap fill task.
Resource 2: Review of key past tense verbs with a GCSE reading comprehension task (a note taking question with a vocabulary search).
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
Save 87% with this comprehensive bundle with 20 individual resource packs to teach an entire unit on school (costing over £45 if brought individually).
There are reading comprehensions, writing and speaking mats, vocabulary activities, scaffolded writing tasks and translation exercises covering all aspects of school life:
school description;
subject preferences and justifications;
my favourite subject translation worksheet;
school routine;
school uniform;
school rules;
school subjects;
primary/ previous school with imperfect tense;
translations on school;
reading comprehensions;
scaffolded writing task;
describing my teachers;
school trips & activities;
translation plenary game;
language mats;
and lots more!
A four page revision booklet of key complex phrases & structures that pupils should include in their speaking & writing to achieve Grade 9.
This is a definitive list of complex and higher structures that I encourage my pupils to use in their work. The phrases are split into 22 sub-groups across four A4 pages, each with some translation practice too, so as pupils can see how easy it is to manipulate these themselves in a variety of topics. Suggested answers are included and the document can be downloaded in .doc and .pdf.
**The structures are grouped in 22 mini-sections: **
Shiny phrases + infinitives
Opinion phrases
Structures of obligation
Conditional sentences
Imperfect constructions
Before/ after
Past tense phrases
Key past tense verbs
Pasar + gerund
Future tense constructions
Conditional constructions
Past conditional constructions
Subjunctive constructions
Acabo de + infinitive
Soñar con + infintive
Desde hace + present tense
Lo (adjective) es que constructions
Introducing someone else’s opinion
Interesting adjectives
Conjunctions
Adverbs
Opinions
A similar resource is available here in French too: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/french-gcse-complex-and-idiomatic-phrases-full-revision-list-with-translation-practice-12173311
Resources on the topic of TV & Opinions for GCSE/KS3. It includes:
A worksheet with key vocabulary, a language mat and translation practice
A reading worksheet with 8 texts, a comprehension question and vocabulary search.
Another reading comprehension task with multiple choice answers.
A work sheet with a gap-fill task, adjectival agreement practice with opinions and a plenary paragraph to translate into French.
A GCSE reading comprehension on TV - ‘who says what?’
Answers included.
11 standalone resources comprising a whole unit on the topic of technology, music, TV and free time activities. These resources will support pupils to talk about what they use their phone/tablet for, music and TV preferences and what they did in their free time yesterday.
These are standalone resources which could also accompany Unit 2 (Todo sobre mi vida) in Viva.
Resource 1: ¿Qué haces con tu móvil?
Resource 2: Mi vida, mi móvil
Resource 3: ¿Qué tipo de música te gusta?
Resource 4: A mi amigo le gusta el rap
Resource 5: Worksheet revising technology & music preferences
Resource 6: Prefiero las comedias
Resource 7: Me gustan los realitys
Resource 8: TV programmes - opinions and comparisons
Resource 9: ¿Qué hiciste ayer? - past tense verb
Resource 10: Revision of this unit: technology, music & TV opinions, past tense
Resource 11: A translation speaking game to revise this topic
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.
Save 78% on this bumper bundle of GCSE resources costing over £53 separately. It includes 20 resource packs, some with multiple worksheets, on different GCSE topics. All with answers to save you time.
La familia (a whole unit of 13 worksheets)
Mi barrio (a whole unit of 6 worksheets)
El transporte (reading, speaking mat & translation)
Las costumbres (Writing mat & translation)
Mi cumpleaños (worksheets on present & past)
Mi colegio (5 page revision workbook)
Mis planes para el futuro (sentence builder)
Las vacaciones (holiday preferences and present tense)
Mis pasatiempos - hobbies & free time (whole unit)
Las tareas domésticas (resource pack)
Mi rutina diaria (a whole unit of 6 worksheets)
El medio ambiente (reading & translation)
La tele (writing mat)
Los problemas medioambientales y sociales en mi barrio
La tecnología (reading and translation)
Ir de compras (resource pack)
Mi salud (reading, translation, language mats)
Mi escuela primaria (reading & translation)
La comida (knowledge organiser & translation)
El tiempo (3 worksheets on weather)
Two revision documents for A Level Spanish pupils to support them when speaking and writing. There is a revision grid with connectives and useful phrases to help pupils to sequence their ideas, to structure their work and to vary their range of language. There is also a list of 50 complex structures to use in their speaking exam to target the top band for range of language.
A set of sentence builders in a PowerPoint on a range of topics: school, home, hobbies, health, media, family, holidays & more. Lots more GCSE French resources available here in a discounted bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-french-writing-and-translation-support-and-revision-12-resource-packs-11872756
A revision resource for KS3 to recap days of the week, months of the year, numbers 1-31 and how express the date, your age and your birthday.
A resource to keep the pupils working actively and to revise these basic concepts.
Also available in Spanish here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-ks3-days-of-the-week-months-numbers-age-and-birthday-repaso-resource-11728862
A resources to use at KS4 to talk about family and to try to introduce some higher phrases that go beyond KS3. I have used this text as a model for pupils producing something similar about their own family.