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 :).
Context: school
Range of lessons which explain the structure of the speaking exam and focus on how to score high in the photocard section
Various tasks to practise speaking including Q&A PLUS a range of activities which look at developing ideas using 3+ tenses and higher level language
Especially proud of a peer assessment task where students take turns to test their partner following the proper format of the exam (seen and unseen questions)
Mix of Low ability and GCSE (Higher) resources (Mostly KS3)
The activities for GCSE are very challenging - the KS3 resources are aimed at Lower ability BUT there are challenges throughout AND still a range of tenses and fun activities.
Includes: -extended range of clothes vocabulary
- independent activities
-adjectival agreements help
-opinions
-me queda/n bien/mal
-demonstrative adjectives (this/these)
-an independent book making project with support
See resources for further information :)
Lots of practice to consolidate 3+ time frames
games and activities to practise using them in context.
very successful lesson - have used it in intervention and with MA ks3 groups.
See file names for what's included
these lessons were developed for a LA group
there is some overlap with the B lessons but I have included both versions as some are for set 3/5 and some for 5/5 so you can choose which is most suited to your group
Challenge and grammar integrated throughout
lots of re-inforcement and games to maintain engagement
last few lessons will help students with a speaking exam.
Made to support EXPO 3 vert - these worksheets are full of inductive tasks and challenges to help students get to grips with le passé composé (with both avoir and Être)
Includes:
revision of both verbs
how to form the regular passé composé
common irregulars
consolidating the passé composé and improving your work with time expressions and more detail
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.
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.
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
These workshops have been made to support Dynamo 2 ROUGE Module 1 - vive les vacances! (vert resources are available here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-year-8-french-past-tense-holiday-resources-low-ability-perfect-tense-resources-dynamo2mod1-12406050 )
Topics included:
General grammar task with common infinitive verbs
Reviewing and talking about school holidays
The perfect tense (regular and irregular)
the passé composé with avoir and e’tre (regular and irregular)
a visit to a theme park
past tense activities
transport
a disastrous holiday
using the present and passé composé together
Differentiated writing tasks on past and present 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 plus (in line with ks3 homework requirements) with lots of optional extra tasks for stretch and challenge
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.
DIFFERENTIATED BY OUTCOME - RANGE OF FOUNDATION AND HIGHER STYLE ACTIVITIES - 92 slides - Random images supplied are to give you an idea of the range of tasks. There are lots more included.
Extensive revision booklet covering LOADS OF vocabulary and grammar points in detail from Theme 3 of the AQA GCSE Spanish curriculum. Variety of difficulty tasks suitable
my studies - life at school and college - education post 16 - Jobs, career choices.
Grammar covered:
sequencers
hl opinions
articles
conditional tense
all tense activities
comparisons
range of conjugation tasks for various tenses
adjectival agreement
categorising time expressions to aid use of multiple tenses
HL SUBJUNCTIVE + CONDITIONAL
Infinitive phrases
3rd person opinions
idioms
present subjunctive
Exam skills covered (alongside exposure to huge amounts of course specific vocab)
reading comprehensions
Spot the mistakes
translations
describing photos
telling the time
DIFFERENTIATED BY OUTCOME - RANGE OF FOUNDATION AND HIGHER STYLE ACTIVITIES - 92 slides - Random images supplied are to give you an idea of the range of tasks. There are lots more included.
Extensive revision booklet covering LOADS OF vocabulary and grammar points in detail from Theme 2 of the AQA GCSE Spanish curriculum.
Home, home town, neighbourhood and region - social issues - global issues - travel and tourism
Grammar points included:
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
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.
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:
2.1 ¿Qué te gusta hacer? Using opinions + infinitive verbs
2.1b HL opinions, 3rd person opinions
2.2 ¿Cantas karaoke? Regular AR verbs in the present tense
2.2b Regular verbs in the present tense - all endings
3 ¿Qué haces cuando llueve? - Using cuando and talking about the weather
4 ¿Qué deportes haces? jugar vs. hacer
Extra - inductive JUGAR/ HACER full paradigm activities
5 - ¿Eres fanático? - talking about interests in detail
6 - Question words focus - Asking and answering
All activities have instructions in target language and examples for each activity.
These worksheets were made to cover all vocab from expo 3 MODULE 1 Ça t’intéresse
Topics covered:
Tv shows, giving opinions, using plurals to say what you like/dislike and why
Common present tense verbs
Using expressions of frequency to talk about the cinema/ films
revising avoir and e’tre for the passé composé
common infinitives
the passé composé with avoir
adding time expressions to talk using the passé composé
personal descriptions (je suis comme ça) using avoir and e’tre
la lecture
All grammar tasks include good descriptions of how tenses work so students can use these as a model.
**All resources compliment / consolidate content from EXPO 3 VERT 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 PLUS (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.
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.
Part 1:
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.
Part 2:
These workshops have been made to support Dynamo 2 ROUGE Module 1 - vive les vacances!
Topics included:
General grammar task with common infinitive verbs
Reviewing and talking about school holidays
The perfect tense (regular and irregular)
the passé composé with avoir and e’tre (regular and irregular)
a visit to a theme park
past tense activities
transport
a disastrous holiday
using the present and passé composé together
Differentiated writing tasks on past and present 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 plus (in line with ks3 homework requirements) with lots of optional extra tasks for stretch and challenge
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.
Resources developed in line with new school policy of only using digital resources during Covid. Worksheets can replace lessons or be used in lessons.
1-2 worksheets per unit to cover all textbook content/ key vocab and grammar in detail Range of tasks (differentiated with support and lots of stretch and challenge)
Includes 4 extra extensive worksheets on the passé composé.
These resources are original and do not clash with the textbook/ workbook activities.
Range of activities, increasing in cognitive demand. Regular differentiation through examples and challenge/ super challenge tasks.