Hello! I am based in the UK and I am a qualified languages (French and Spanish) teacher who is currently working privately teaching French and Italian. During my PGCE year - which I finished with honours - I created lots of resources that I am now sharing on TES. This website helped me a lot during my training and I am now hoping to be just as useful to somebody else!
Hello! I am based in the UK and I am a qualified languages (French and Spanish) teacher who is currently working privately teaching French and Italian. During my PGCE year - which I finished with honours - I created lots of resources that I am now sharing on TES. This website helped me a lot during my training and I am now hoping to be just as useful to somebody else!
Full lesson on present tense of -ER verbs. Includes detailed explanation of grammar rule and some knowledge consolidating activities (mini whiteboards, reading task, and a fun battleship game).
Includes a recap of regular -ER verbs in the present tense (with a fill the gap activity to recall previous knowledge) + presentation of present tense of FAIRE and ALLER with knowledge consolidating activities (odd one out, writing and speaking task with scaffolding).
A full lesson that includes a revision of food vocabulary (including a slide on Hispanic/Latino traditional food) and an intro to quantities.
Activities include a slap the board/beat the teacher slide, a match-up task to get the pupils thinking of which quantities they recognise in Spanish, a reading task, and two well scaffolded speaking and writing tasks.
A lesson based around revising past tense endings and describing a special day.
The lesson also focuses on teaching students how to appropriately use a dictionary, and it includes a useful slides with tips.
Activities include a match-up, a fill the gap / mini whiteboard task, a looking up words in the dictionary task, and a translation task.
This lesson is made for primary and SEN pupils.
It includes aspect of literacy, geography and general knowledge.
The lesson is composed of discussion slides (what do you know about Asia? have you been to any countries in Asia? if not, where would you like to visit? etc.); of presentation slides with basic facts and fun facts about the continent of Asia and the countries of Russia, China, and India; a quiz to test pupil retainment and knowledge (with support that includes a small literacy challenge); and finally a slide with a Bollywood dancing video.
This lesson includes a full recap of how to form comparatives, and also of adjectives. It then moves on to how to form superlatives.
There’s plenty of tasks including reading comprehension (true or false); match-up tasks; complete the sentences; unjumble and translate tasks; make comparative sentences into superlative sentences.
The PowerPoint is quite plain hence it’s more ideal for older students (Year 9 onwards). Also ideal for private tutoring.
A full lesson on the environment and what people do to protect it.
The lesson begins with a translation recap task on previously introduced vocabulary.
It follows with a recap of when to use ‘‘me preocupa’’ vs ‘‘me preocupan’’ and similar expressions and with a presentation of more expressions related to the environment.
Following is a reading/match-up task and a speaking trapdoor task to consolidate learning and provide scaffolding for future tasks.
Finally, there is a well scaffolded writing task.
A full lesson on holidays.
It includes lots of vocabulary presentations broken down by tasks such as ‘‘beat the teacher’’. It follows with a reading/match-up task to consolidate learning. Then, it moves on to a short group reading task that serves as a scaffold for the following speaking task that the pupils will complete in pairs. Finally, the lesson ends with a writing task. It also includes a mini plenary (exit tickets) to quickly check for student understanding and retainment.
A full lesson for Y7 or Y8 based on creating a dialogue inviting others to activities and making excuses.
The lesson begins with a recap of activities based on a match-up exercise (match-up questions and answers).
It moves on to a revision of common expressions related to answering propositions.
Follows a speaking trapdoor game to get the pupils talking and practicing the expressions they’ve revised.
Following this is a presentation of activities that can be used to make excuses when invited somewhere (eg. sorry, I have to wash the car; sorry, I have to walk the dog, etc.). This presentation is broken down with and followed by quizzes to help with memorisation and retainment.
Finally, pupils can practiced these conversations with the help of a well scaffolded slide, before moving on to writing their own dialogue.
A lesson on vocabulary about volunteering and verbs followed by infinitives (ex. pienso ayudar, quiero servir comida, etc.).
It includes a match-up, a fill the gap, and a translation task to prepare for the final activity which is a well scaffolded and modelled writing task.
A lesson on different types of volunteering.
It includes a recap on verbs + infinitives (quiero ser, pienso ayudar etc.) before presenting the vocabulary for different types of volunteering (with little quizzes to break down the repetition and drill in the vocab).
Following is a reading task, and a speaking/writing task with lots of scaffold. For this task, find attached the handout to print to help the students.
Lesson with recap match-up task for different types of volunteering, followed by a translation task.
The lesson goes on to explain how to use ‘‘me gustaria…’’ with an unjumble the sentences task to put this into practice.
Finally, there is an exit pass (writing task) with lots of scaffolding to get the pupils writing how they would like to help.
Full lesson on healthy/unhealthy diets with a full explanation on how to form negative sentences.
Activities include match-ups, fill the gap, translations, and a final quiz/challenge to check student retainment and understanding.
First of 2 lessons on the imperfect tense.
The lesson begins with an easy and well scaffolded wordsnake starter activity to get the pupils settled and engaged with the lesson. An extra/challenge is provided for higher achievers.
Following this the imperfect tense is presented and explained (when to use it, how it is in English, how to form it).
The lesson goes on with a well scaffolded practice on how to form the imperfect tense (students can use mini whiteboards for this task) and it ends with a Kahoot created by me.
The LOs are:
1.To recap vocabulary related to food and diet
2.To learn vocabulary
3.To use expressions with tener
slide to get pupils thinking of much food vocab they can recall
slide on typical food from Spanish speaking countries
a match up task on food and diet sentences
speaking task with lots of scaffolding and modelling
slide with tips on how to learn and recall vocabulary in foreign languages
presentation of expressions with verb ‘tener’
when to use muy or mucho/a with these expressions
exercise: choose the right expression for each sentence
speaking task with scaffolding and modelling
Y7 lesson on partitive articles with a recap of food vocabulary, explanation of partitive articles, exercises (word snake, fill the gap), and a link to a Quizziz that I created.