I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
I am a full time Spanish and French teacher to A level specialising in Spanish and Italian.
Experience with legacy OCR/WJEC spec, 2 years of the new AQA spec and 1 year and counting with the Edexcel spec.#
I love planning and am regularly praised for my engaging and well thought out lessons - I hope to be of help to as many people as possible. Please leave a review if you find them useful :).
Extensive worksheets made to support Viva 1 - Module 1 (Mi vida) ALL UNITS 1-6 plus extra cultural activities.
These were developed for remote learning to support the vocab from the textbook. No duplicated activities. All worksheets build on the content from the textbook.
What’s included?
¿Cómo te llamas? (Introductions, key vocab for dialogues)
¿Qué tipo de persona eres? (adjectives - masc/fem rules and practice)
¿Tienes hermanos? (Siblings vocab, ALL FORMS OF TENER- taught inductively)
¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? (Numbers, days, months, birthdays, 3rd person verbs)
¿Tienes mascotas? (animals, colours, extended writing, adjectival agreement)
Cómo soy (Using intensifiers/ 3rd person verbs/ higher level language to do a piece of extended writing)
All instructions (apart from the inductive TENER lesson as it’s a full grammar worksheet) are in TL with English to support.
All activities have examples to aid accessibilities, with challenges throughout to support all abilities.
All worksheets aim to be around 30 mins worth of work in line with common KS3 homework expectations. That’s why for some units there are 2 worksheets.
Aptly differentiated and stimulating, with a range of reading/ writing/ grammar/ vocab tasks and fun tasks such as crosswords.
DIFFERENTIATED BY OUTCOME - RANGE OF FOUNDATION AND HIGHER STYLE ACTIVITIES - 50 slides
Extensive revision booklet covering LOADS OF vocabulary and grammar points in detail from Theme 1 of the AQA GCSE Spanish curriculum.
Me my family and friends - Technology in every day life - Free time activities - Customs and festivals
Grammar points included:
Comparisons
General literacy (spelling/ accents)
Gap fills with verbs in different tenses (Using context to choose the correct option)
Reflexive verbs - Illiciting the rule, seeing an explanation, practice
Present subjunctive formation and practice - Inc. irregulars
Present perfect tense
Por / para
“Verb of the day” with conjugation into all key GCSE tenses
Exam skills included:
Describing a photo
Reading and categorisation skills
Question words/ forming questions.
Ideal to set for revision or challenge and extension work.
ALL THEMES
foundation and higher ability work
practise for all 4 skills - particularly writing and speaking
lots of focus on grammar/ verbs manipulation
INCLUDES TOP SELLING GRAMMAR TENSE WORK BOOK WITH ANSWERS, ALL THEMES REVISION TASKS, STEP BY STEP TENSES, CONJUGATION PRACTISE AND CHALLENGE TASKS, HIGHER LEVEL LANGUAGE AND IDIOMS PRACTICE - FOR FOUNDATION AND HIGHER ABILITY
Really proud of this
visual prompts/ fly in answers throughout
very visually stimulating and well designed
lesson focuses on language/ grammar patterns
increases in cognitive demand throughout
reflection points and production tasks
Good to consolidate grammar or use for intervention.
These workshops have been made to support Dynamo 2 vert Module 1 - vive les vacances!
Topics included:
Reviewing and talking about school holidays
The perfect tense (regular and irregular)
Places in town
Past tense activities, opinions
Range of verb endings + negative verbs practice
Talking about a special holiday in the past
Differentiated writing tasks on past holidays
Resources could be used to support class powerpoints, remote learning, homeworks, or additional support.
**All resources compliment / consolidate content from Module 1. There are no duplicated tasks from the textbook or workbook. **
Each worksheet has clear instructions with examples for every task. Each worksheet is extensively differentiated. Tasks take 20-30 minutes (in line with ks3 homework requirements) with lots of optional extra tasks for higher end vert students.
Activities are inductive but aptly supported. Each worksheet will incorporate different “challenge” tasks which increase in cognitive demand, this could be creation tasks, the manipulation of verbs or sentences, etc.
Dynamo 2 Module 1 rouge resources coming soon.
Specifically developed for the new GCSE AQA specification
All tenses have a step by step explanation with an example, at least 1 practise activity and then answers in red on a separate duplicate slide.
Booklet is divided into 2 principal sections - basic grammar and grade 7+
I have covered a range of grammar from different topics including local area, environment, family, healthy living etc.
Tenses/ grammar covered:
Present(I do) / present perfect (I have done)
Past (preterite (I did) and imperfect (I used to))
Future (simple (I’m going to) and proper ‘I will’)
Conditional (I would do)
Si clauses + conditional (If I… I would…)
Higher level sentence structure
higher level phrases/ idioms
I have used this with 3 mixed ability year 10 groups and it has been very successful.
Mat 1 - focus on key vocabulary and key verbs in multiple tenses
prepositions/ weather/ photo card language/ articles/ possessive pronouns
mat 2 - opinions/ connectives including higher level connectives/ time phrases for future and conditional
mat 3 - GRADE 7 and beyond - idioms/ infinitive phrases/ HL language
Resources developed to support students working from home due to Covid.
1-2 worksheets per module to cover all points extensively. Range of tasks (differentiated with support and lots of stretch and challenge)
Includes:
Point de départ - revising numbers and time
2.1 - Qu’est-ce que tu penses de tes matières - Revising school subjects and giving opinions
2.1b - 3rd person opinions on school subjects
2.1c - Bonus translation - extended text on opinions on school subjects
2.2 Qu’est-ce que tu portes? Describing uniform using adjectival agreement
2.3 - Ta journée scolaire c’est comment? Using new ER verbs to describe the school day
2.3b -Describing the school day in more detail - translation task
2.4 - C’est comment, un collège français - Talking about a typical French day
2.5 Un collège super cool - talking about school facilities using il y a / il n’y a pas de
All instructions are in English for ease and all tasks have examples.
Resources developed to support students working from home due to Covid but could also be used to support normal lessons/ set as homework.
1-2 worksheets per module to cover all textbook content/ key vocab and grammar. Range of tasks (differentiated with support and lots of stretch and challenge)
Includes:
Point de départ: revising weather and seasons
3.1 Tu est sportif/ive? Talking about what sports people play using JOUER
3.1b Describing a photo (exam skills) context of sports
3.2 qu’est-ce que tu fais? Talking about activities you do using FAIRE
3.2 Using time expressions to say how often we do activities
3.3 Le sport dans les pays francophones
3.4 Tu aimes faire ça - Using the full paradigm of AIMER +infinitive verbs
3.4 - Forming questions/ practice with questions and answers
All instructions are in English for ease and every task has a clear example
This double sided grammar sheet has everything your student needs to do well at GCSE Spanish
I’ve divided the sections into the 3 time zones (past, present, future) for each you have the verb endings, common irregulars, time phrases, and some also include specific hl phrases for that tense.
On the reverse you have lots of opinions/ justifications and higher level and idiomatic expression formulas.
Includes:
*breakdown of exam format
*Rough idea of what to include for each grade (I've developed this success criteria in line with the AQA mark scheme from the specification matierial)
* 2 options (just like the exam) for the 16 marker and 32 marker, room for corrections and then a response task
* Breakdown of the translation section, top tips for success in that section, difficult translation which includes prepositions of place (after mocks, this is what the cohort most lost marks on),
reflection sheet at the end, too :)
SUITABLE FOR ALL ABILITIES
Resources could be used to support class powerpoints, remote learning, homeworks, or additional support.
Each worksheet has clear instructions with examples for every task. Each worksheet is extensively differentiated providing support and challenge for a range of abilities.
Activities are inductive but aptly supported. Each worksheet will incorporate different “challenge” tasks which increase in cognitive demand, this could be creation tasks, the manipulation of verbs or sentences, etc.
Topics included:
Avoir/ family members
questions and answers (introductions/ greetings etc.)
Dans la salle de class vocab + describing a photo
talking about likes/dislikes
using the full paradigm of AIMER and DÉTESTER (with support)
adjectives + adjectival agreement
conjugating regular ER verbs
the French present tense (regular verbs) - extensive worksheet
Birthdays, numbers + months
Inductive worksheet covering the present and perfect tense with avoir.
What’s included?
common infinitives
common regular verbs
common irregular verbs
how to form the regular present/ perfect tense with avoir
practice with the above
common irregular forms of the present/ perfect tenses
practice with the above
a writing task
a reflection task
Would be suitable for KS3 as it is differentiated/ has lots of support but also low ability GCSE French groups.
DIFFERENTIATED BY OUTCOME - RANGE OF FOUNDATION AND HIGHER STYLE Random images supplied are to give you an idea of the range of tasks. There are lots more included. (Around 150 slides)
Extensive revision booklets covering LOADS OF vocabulary and grammar points in detail from Themes 1/2/3 of the AQA GCSE Spanish curriculum.
THEME 1 Booklet - family + relationships - technology -customs -
THEME 2 Booklet - Home, home town, neighbourhood and region - social issues - global issues - travel and tourism
THEME 3 Booklet - Life at school/college, post 16 education, jobs
Grammar points include (BUT ARE NOT RESTRICTED TO):
Quantifiers
Prepositions
articles
The preterite tense explanation and practice
verb gap fills in a range of tenses
Conditional tense inc. irregulars
Conjugation into all GCSE tenses
categorising 2 or more tenses tasks
Higher level idiomatic expressions
Present tense
future tense
sequencing connectives
higher level infinitive structures
reflexive verbs
Exam skills
Lots and lots of exposure to key vocab from this theme
Translation
Giving directions
Reading and categorisation
Question words practice and forming questions
Q+A practice
Writing skills with bullet points
manipulating adjectives (for gender and sing/plural)
Reading gap fill
Developed to be completed remotely during lockdown, this comprehensive workbook goes through several topics in detail, including key vocabulary and grammar. Tasks are differentiated, with lots of support for lower ability students and stretch and challenge tasks.
Tasks are inductive, and require students to use the vocabulary and grammar in context rather than learning by repetition which is low level, not sufficiently demanding and not as engaging.
Topics include:
numbers, months + time
sequences
dates
spanish speaking countries
physical description
family
animals + colours
word order
where we live
free time
i form vs. infinitive verbs
opinions + infinitive verbs
sports
tv + film
weather
countries + nationalities
holidays
food
as well as LISTENING, READING + WRITING tasks
There is a separate document with answers to tasks.