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 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 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.
For exam practice, cover lessons or revision. A Reading Exam Practice booklet with 16 texts and questions on various topics with all questions, instruction & answers in Spanish for GCSE and IGCSE.
The questions cover a range of different topics and are aimed at stretching pupils at the top. These will help them develop exam technique and widen their knowledge of synonyms, synonymous phrases and hopefully train them to avoid ‘distractors’.
There is a sample here to download here to see the suitability of the texts:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/spanish-gcse-work-and-volunteering-reading-comprehension-12080682
Thirteen standalone worksheets for Spanish GCSE on the topic of ‘mi familia’ all with answers.
Resource 1: Introducing myself and talking about who I live with and where I live
Resource 2: Members of my family and what I like to do with them (infinitive expressions)
Resource 3: Describing members of my family: hair, eyes, physical description
Resource 4: A reading comprehension activity (language search and multiple choice questions) recycling vocabulary in resources 1-3
Resource 5: A worksheet on adjectival agreement: retrieval of key adjectives, a reminder of the agreement rules & lots of practice
Resource 6: Pets - adjective agreement review with pets description and question words/ reading comprehension
Resource 7: Describing the character of my family member and using ‘me llevo bien’
Resource 8: Present tense regular verbs review & talking about activities family members do with adverbs of frequency
Resource 9: GCSE style reading comprehension in Spanish - who says what?
Resource 10: Immediate future worksheet - what are you going to do with your family this weekend?
Resource 11: Preterite tense & activities with family members.
Resource 12: Two grammar gap-fill tasks on family to practise verbs and adjectival agreement.
Resource 13: A writing task on family with structures, scaffolding and translation.
8 double-sided worksheets on the the topic of School for GCSE: subjects, teachers, uniform, school description & describing my primary school. The resources build on from each other and frequently retrieve key vocabulary.
Resource 1: Subjects 1 - Giving simple justified opinions
Resource 2: Subjects 2 - Extending my opinions
Resource 3: Subjects 3 - Making comparisons
Resource 4: Teacher descriptions - giving opinions about my teachers
Resource 5: School uniform - what I have to wear & giving my opinion
Resource 6: Reading exercises on subjects, teachers, uniform
Resource 7: Describing my school
Resource 8: Using the imperfect tense to talk about my primary school
The worksheets include vocabulary building tasks, reading comprehension, lots of sentence builders on this topic and scaffolded translation into English and Spanish.
Format: Word and PDF documents 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.
Save 88% with this bumper bundle of 20 resource packs worth over £32 individually, which include a series of lessons on healthy living and eating & drinking.
The resources include: vocabulary activities, writing mats, translation practice into Spanish & English and reading comprehensions. Some ‘free’ resources are also included, so you can preview the quality of the resources.
Bundle contents:
Reading comprehensions on healthy living
A reading, vocabulary and grammar pack on the topic of healthy living
Activities of food, eating and the grammar point ‘soler’
An introduction to key food & drink vocabulary
A writing/ speaking mat on food and drink
A writing/ speaking mat on healthy living
Scaffolded writing task with a model answers on this topic
A translation pack, into Sp and Eng.
Resources on smoking & cigarettes
Food & Drink Translation Game & Practice
Food & Drink and the Future Tense Practice
Body parts & injury resources
And more…
5 standalone worksheets to support pupils to talk about what they do at home in different rooms in the present, past and future tenses.
Resource 1: Introduction and practice of rooms, key verbs and infinitive expressions with a sentence builder, reading and translation practice.
Resource 2: Review of -ER verb conjugation rules in the present tense, adverbs of frequency and a reading comprehension.
Resource 3: Review of the past tense conjugation rules, reading comprehension, a sentence builder and translation practice.
Resource 4: More past tense practice, translation exercises, reading comprehensions and a writing task.
Resource 5: Revision of the immediate future tense and a sentence builder to support to pupils to say what they will do at home tonight/tomorrow with translation practice and a reading comprehension.
Format: Word and PDF documents with answers.
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 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
11 worksheets which make up an entire unit on the topic of school for Key Stage 3/ beginners. The worksheets are based on Unit 3 in Viva 1, ‘mi insti’, and will support pupils to talk about subjects, opinions, school description and what they do during break.
Format: 11 word/pdf documents with answers.
A complete set of worksheets for KS3 Spanish beginner lessons to introduce name, age, numbers, birthdays, pets, siblings and more. These resources are written to accompany Viva 1 Module 1 (Mi vida) but can stand alone on their own to compliment any course.
Contents:
Resource 1: Introducing myself and using ‘the’ correctly
Resource 2: Personality and describing myself with adjectival agreement
Resource 3: Numbers 1-15, age and siblings
Resource 4: Numbers 16-31 , months and birthdays
Resource 5: Pets, tener and adjectival agreement
Resource 6: Cómo soy - plenary reading and writing tasks on all the content above
Resource 7: Knowledge organiser of key vocabulary from these resources
There is also a Quizlet of key vocabulary from this unit here:
https://quizlet.com/gb/607386615/mi-vida-viva-11-key-vocabulary-flash-cards/?new
Format: Word documents and PDFs with answers.
A 18 page revision document with 50 + exemplar GCSE speaking/writing questions with structured support phrases for pupils preparing for GCSE/ IGCSE. There is a broad range of topics, including home and abroad, school and employment, house and home, the modern world and the environment, hobbies and free time.
Each question has a list of specific phrases and sentences which are useful for that topic/question, including higher structure and A* grammatical constructions. The content is in bullet point form to aid revision and to allow pupils to recycle and adapt the structures easily in their speaking and writing.
Save 75% with this bumper bundle that includes substantial exam practice and preparation for any translation questions in GCSE Spanish examinations.
There is a booklet with 30 exam style passages and also 12 separate resource packs with a total of 440 individual sentences to translate, each targeting a different grammatical concept or structure. All with answers. There are also a set of 7 topic worksheets with translations into English and Spanish. There are also some free examples so you can fully preview the quality before purchasing.
Full Bundle contents:
A booklet with 30 exam style passages & answers
Healthy living: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
Holidays: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
Environment: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
Family and relationships: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
School: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
Future plans: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
Free time & hobbies: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
My area: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
TV & Cinema: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
House & home: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
A revision sheet of all GCSE tenses with answers.
There are also two free resources to preview the quality:
Two exam passages on the topic of the environment to translate
New technology: 40 sentences with complex grammatical structures to translate
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.
9 resources on the topic of hobbies and free time covering the past, present future tenses. Each resource contains scaffolded vocabulary, reading and translation activities. There are also sentence builders and grammar practice with the present, past and future tenses. The final resources are GCSE-style writing tasks on the topic of hobbies requiring all three tenses.
This bundle of resources includes:
Resource 1: Present tense 1 - ‘Tengo muchos pasatiempos’
Resource 2: Present tense 2 - ‘¿Qué haces en tus ratos libres?’
Resource 3: Immediate future tense 1 - ‘¿Qué vas a hacer el sábado?’
Resource 4: Immediate future tense 2 - 'Qué vas a hacer?
Resource 5: Past tense 1 - '¿Qué hiciste el fin de semana pasado?
Resource 6: Past tense 2 - ‘El domingo pasado entrené con mis amigos’
Resource 7: Past tense 3 - ‘El fin de semana pasado asistí a una fiesta’
Resource 8: 3-tenses writing
Resource 9: 3-tenses writing
Format: Word and PDF documents 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.
Six worksheets on the topic of jobs, work and future plans.
Worksheet 1: introduce key jobs, vocabulary, ‘me gustaría ser’ and ‘cuando sea mayor’ with vocabulary, reading and translation activities.
Worksheet 2: reviews the vocabulary from worksheet 1 and has a reading comprehension.
Worksheet 3: reviews the language from worksheets 1 & 2 and also introduces language for talking about what you do to earn pocket money (e.g. household chores).
Worksheet 4: scaffolded 90 word writing task on the topic of jobs.
Worksheet 5: a resource on part time jobs with a key vocabulary and a reading comprehension
Worksheet 6: exam style translation passages on part time jobs
There is also a vocabulary test and quizlet of key vocabulary here: https://quizlet.com/gb/617843227/gcse-spanish-jobs-flash-cards/
Format: Word document, PDF with answers.
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
Nine standalone resources on the topic of hobbies and free time. These resources will support pupils to talk about what they like to do in their spare time and the sport they do, with adverbs of frequency, days of the week and simple justified opinions.
These resources are written to accompany Viva 1 Module 2 (Mi tiempo libre) but can compliment any course.
Resource 1: A worksheet to support pupils to talk about hobbies they like to do with me gusta and no me gusta.
Resource 2: A worksheet to consolidate the language and offer more practice for resource 1.
Resource 3: A worksheet which introduces more activities and -AR verb conjugations.
Resource 4: A worksheet to help pupils to say what activities they do in different seasons and types of weather.
Resource 5: A worksheet to consolidate different types of weather and activities you do with a reading comprehension.
Resources 6: A worksheet that introduces days of the week and simple sports vocabulary with ‘hago’ and ‘juego’.
Resource 7: Consolidation on talking about sports with reading and translation.
Resource 8: A worksheet to review the whole topic and to recap questions words.
Resource 9: A scaffolded writing task to review this topic.
Format: Word document and PDF with answers.