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 full lesson on describing your favourite food, with a focus on a variety of adjectives and the expressions ‘tener hambre’ and ‘tener sed’. Activities include a text comprehension/vocab recall task, a well scaffolded writing task, and a Quizzizz I created. The lesson presents lots of opportunities for pupils to speak in Spanish and to translate words.

A sentence builder to get pupils talking about their town.

Detective game to play outdoors with Y7 or Y8 (11-13 y.o.). Can be played in teams. Looking for and describing animals, plants, people and/or buildings.

Christmas wordsearch activity

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.

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.

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.

A lesson that includes presentation of weather vocabulary, an exercise based on Spanish weather forecast, a presentation of ‘‘si’’ and ‘‘cuando’’ used in sentences related to weather and activities, a presentation on how to improve your reading skills, and a poem based on the weather.

Lesson on food and meals for Y7. Includes activities such as a memory game, a speaking task, and a short writing task.

Half lesson on negative form. Explanation of rule and activities.

Lesson on animals introducing and explaining how to form the plural of nouns. Activities include a starter (bingo), a speaking task, a writing task, and a quiz.

Full lesson on weather vocabulary (with a slap the board activity), how to use ‘‘if’’ and ‘‘when’’ in Spanish, recap of activities’ and hobbies’ vocabulary, and finally saying which activities you do with a certain weather.

Full lesson on recap of verb ‘porter’ and explanation of adjectival agreement. Lots of activities to consolidate learning.

A series of exercises to recap the basics of French grammar and vocabulary for Y7 pupils. Also ideal for private tutoring. Tasks include match-ups, translations, reading and writing tasks. Topics include basic questions (where are you from, how old are you etc.) and answers; presentation of oneself and one’s hobbies; physical descriptions; pets; food; partitive articles.

Easter lesson with vocabulary and games + making a French ‘happy easter’ card

A full lesson on physical descriptions ( presentation of adjectives such as bajo/a, alto/a, delgado/a, viejo/a…) with recall matching up activities. Following this there are two speaking tasks (the first one is a trapdoor activity which is an ideal model/scaffold for the following task). Finally, there is a writing task to finish off the lesson.

Full lesson on physical descriptions (hair and eyes). Presentation of Spanish vocabulary with mini speaking and writing tasks in between to consolidate learning. Presentation of TENER / to have conjugation. Memory exercise + fill the gap exercise to consolidate learning. Guess Who speaking game. Brain gym plenary (memory game).

Full lesson. Starter activity on link words (match-up). Presentation of vocabulary (en mi mochila hay…) with recall/memory activity. Presentation of grammar : definite articles and how to form plural nouns. Activity: make nouns plural. Activity: describe what is in the bag. Plenary: slap the board.

A full lesson on Easter vocabulary with a ‘‘beat the teacher’’ game (can be made slap the board); an explanation of unique Spanish Easter traditions with pictures; a quiz to test the pupils’ memory and learning; and a Spanish Easter greeting card making lab.