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!
A full lesson on foods and diet with a focus on healthy/unhealthy eating.
The lesson begins with an odd one out starter activity to get pupils thinking about food vocabulary. It moves on to a recap of food vocabulary with a recall competitive game that you can adapt to your needs.
After a quick introduction to Spanish and Mexican foods, the lesson goes on to a sorting out activity where pupils decide which foods are healthy or unhealthy, before moving on to a translation task that is also a model for the next activity (a well scaffolded writing task).
Finally, the lesson ends with a slide on the best tips for learning new vocabulary.
A lesson focussed on using connectives when talking about your town.
The lesson begins with a fill the gap task and an unjumble the sentences task to recap vocabulary related to shops and talking about your town.
Following is an activity that gets pupils thinking about words they don’t know in pairs and getting them to find the general context of different texts.
After this, the pupils can take notes of a few link words that they can use in the next activities. These activities include a match-up (which is a good model for the next task), a reading task (which is again a good model for the next task) and a writing task.
Lesson on activities to do in your town with explanation of how to use PUEDO vs SE PUEDE.
Activities include a match-up, a translation task, a fill the gap, and a Quizzizz created by myself.
A lesson presenting shops vocabulary, with mini match up activities to break down the vocab repetitions and drill in the new words.
Following this is a translation and match-up activity on what you can buy in different shops.
The lesson goes on showing how to say what is in your town and it ends with a well scaffolded and modelled speaking + writing task to get pupils talking and writing about their town.
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.
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.
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 fun and engaging lesson presenting Spanish Easter vocabulary and traditions. It includes two links to Youtube videos which are going to draw the pupils’ attention in and show them Spanish culture.
The lesson also includes a quiz and a plenary/game (hangman) to test the pupils’ memory and knowledge.
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.
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
The second of 2 lessons on the imperfect tense.
The lesson begins with a recap of how to form the imperfect tense and it follows with the Kahoot from the previous lesson (in case you’re purchasing only 1 lesson, or to give the students a second chance at it).
Then there is a sorting task where pupils need to identify the present and the imperfect tense. Follows a reading task and a quiz/recall squares plenary.
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.
A series of tasks to be completed independently offline or in class or to be set as homework.
Ideal to prepare for assignments/tests and also for private tutoring.
The document is ready for printing and it includes:
a reorder the text activity based on family vocabulary
a writing task based on the previous activity
a French to English translation based on family vocabulary
a reading + writing (with scaffold) task based on social media
an unjumble the sentences activity based on passé composé and imparfait
an English to French translation task based on imparfait
A fun and engaging lesson based on ‘‘my town’’ vocabulary.
It includes a recap of demonstrative adjectives (find the full lesson on demonstrative adjectives in my shop) with a listening exercise (the teacher is the speaker - read the powerpoint notes for the text I used, or create your own).
Following is a reading task introducing prepositions, and then a full list of prepositions with a Youtube video to help engage students and drill in knowledge.
Follows a writing + speaking well scaffolded task.
Finally a fun, competitive noughts and crosses game.
A full lesson based on ‘‘ma ville’’ vocabulary with an explanation of demonstrative adjectives.
The lesson begins with a reading task based on a town in France. It follows with a quick recap of the adjectives used in the text to check student knowledge and retrieval.
It then goes on to explain how to use demonstrative adjectives and it follows with a fill the gap activity, before moving on to a mini whiteboard practice with a stretch/challenge for higher achievers.
It ends with a speaking activity (trapdoor game) which is also going to be a good model for future writing tasks.
A really fun Easter lesson created for a Year 10 class (15 years old) who enjoyed it, however it can be used even from Year 7 (11 years old).
The lesson begins with a silly translation game based on popular UK chocolate bars. The kids really enjoyed this task.
It follows with some French Easter traditions and vocabulary, with a final slide that could be used for beat the teacher or slap the board games.
Then there is a quiz to test the pupils’ memory and knowledge.
Follows a French poem on Easter/spring that the pupils can read or translate with the help of a dictionary.
Follows an Easter greetings card making lab.
The PPT ends with a hangman game slide as a plenary activity.
100 pages of Spanish grammar from the very basics to advanced grammar structures. This was created for the English GCSE exams, however it can be very useful for tutoring, private classes and self-teaching.
It is a PDF but feel free to use a pdf converter to turn it into a PowerPoint or Word document.
It includes:
pronounciation, accents, alphabet
numbers up to 100
numbers after 100
months and days of the week
question words
how to tell the date
gender of nouns
plural of nouns (with an exercise)
definite and indefinite articles
subject pronouns
present tense of regular verbs (with an exercise)
present tense of irregular verbs (TENER, SER, ESTAR, IR, HACER, DAR, SABER, SALIR)
when to use SER and ESTAR (with an exercise)
question form and negative form
conjuctions/link words
possessive adjectives
DE + noun to indicate possession (with an exercise)
adjectives and adjectival agreement
intensifiers and quantifiers
LO + adjective
HAY constructions
relative pronouns
relative adjectives (with an exercise)
direct object pronouns
indirect object pronouns
present continuos tense and gerundio (with an exercise)
when to use POR and PARA
reflexive verbs (with an exercise)
telling the time
how to use GUSTAR (with an exercise)
how to use SOLER
stem changing verbs
double negation
adverbs and how to make adverbs using ‘’-mente’’ or ‘‘con + noun’’
adverbs or adjectives?
disjunctive pronouns
TENER QUE + infinitive
HAY QUE + infinitive
verb DEBER
imperative tense (with an exercise)
negative commands
comparisons and superlatives
impersonal verbs
how to talk about the weather
prepositions
demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
immediate future (IR A + infinitive)
future tense
ordinal numbers
perfect tense (HABER + past participle)
past participles
simple past tense (PRETERITO)
imperfect tense
HACE, DESDE HACE, DESDE HACIA
imperfect continous tense (ESTAR + gerundio)
subjunctive mood (SUBJUNTIVO)
OJALA and ‘‘subjuntivo + que’’ used for wishes (with an exercise)
imperfect subjunctive (SUBJUNTIVO IMPERFECTO)
conditional tense
SI + subjuntivo imperfecto + condicional (with an exercise)
pluperfect tense (SUBJUNTIVO PLUSCUAMPERFECTO)
active and passive voice
Lesson on animals and pets.
Quick recap of I have, you have, he/she has (verb TENER).
Presentation of pets vocabulary with matching up activities.
Writing task with scaffolding/modelling and an extra challenge for higher achievers.
Final slide is ready for slap the board or beat the teacher plenary game.
Lesson on present tense of regular verbs with grammar rule and verb endings.
The slides include a practice on conjugating regular verbs into the present tense (with an extra challenge); a reading task; a listening task (the teacher will be speaking, the text is the slide’s notes); and an exit pass/writing task with scaffolding.