Developed from Edexcel rojo activity on Pans Lab\n\nReading, adapting texts and then writing, watching extracts of the film and commenting.\n\nCould be a build up to an assessed piece of writing or speaking\n\nHistoria oficial is a Higher reading activity

They say they are making it harder to get those top grades so here is a way to make even teaching something reasonably straight forward like adjectives of personality a little more A*- or indeed 1 as it will be in a few years apparently.

Spanish version of a questionnaire I did in French.\nI use it as a stimulus for a CA on speaking but it is also a Higher level reading task with quite a lot of idiomatic Spanish which they love.

Food and poetry designed for our Y7 who are doing food this term but could be adapted.\nLe petit nicholas- again Y7 when doing school- followed by watching the excellent and funny film of le petit Nicholas that they loved because we'd looked at the story first\nI have added presentation for a teach meet -showing elements of the above but also ideas for using fairy stories- and source of material\nThis is the year that will be doing literature at GCSE

They speak for themselves really. I am having a set printed on card and laminated so I can use them for mix and mingle/ speed dating activities. You could use them for writing, for pair or small group info gap style activities as well. Of course they could also be used at start of a GCSE course and you can always add such things as profession, place live etc.

A way to get disaffected Y9 students through the last few weeks of term.\n\nDoes not have to be done at the end of the year. You may well want to change bits to fit what you have done with your classes. Also the bit about Viva Argentina relates to current world cup and so will be out of date soon and is my wind up of the boys in one of my Y9 classes.\n\nCould be all in Spanish to make it more challenging and be used in KS4 or indeed KS5.

I shared a lesson plan on giving advice with accompanying documents and then received a comment which made me have another look.\nThis is in fact the full lesson plan ppt that goes with those resources, sorry about the mistake.

I have a challenging Y9 Spanish group made up of all boys. I took them to the computer room and told them they were investigative reporters who were interested in the supernatural and the unexplained. They were then given this task sheet and I have never seen them so focussed. They all decided it was alien in origin and won't be persuaded otherwise, even when I told them about the severed heads.

Don't we often underestimate how difficult they find it to use a dictionary and isn&'t it always annoying when they say they can&';t find the word and they are in the wrong half of the dictionary.\nWe use Petit Nicolas in Y7 so this is why he appears in this ppt but also we always do teach classroom objects. So to have fun and teach how to look up nouns the task requires them to look up words like conker and marbles because that is just what Nicolas would have in his bag apart from his ruler and so on. I then thought they could look up what teenage Nicolas would have.

I created this to help my Y11 prepare for a CA on what they do at weekend. \nAttempt to help them create more extended answers

Higher reading resource taken from French newspaper and then edited\n\nwith questions in English

PPt and accompanying resources to help embed rules for mon,ma, mes in context of family with Y7 I have used Thierry Henry's family and then some actors just to add cultural relevance. Not particularly original but you might like to use some of the practice activities So quite a few of the slides on the ppt are actually printable activities- quite a lot of differentiation which you might find useful. Alain le lait- on you tube, quite fun and could be improved and turned in to a rap. I have included lesson plan as done for an interview.

Boys really loved the Parcour lesson and I have never got so much speaking done with a Y8 class jsut by talking about extreme sports instead of conventional sports.\nShow them the clip at the start of Casino Royale before doing either of the reading tasks and you will be very popular too.\nfirst reading task is in English-team speed reading challenge then you can opt to do the one in French as well or instead.

KS3 or KS4- vocabulary for personality- use anyway you like Divided in to cognates and non cognates

We do a Super hero project in term 2 to get students describing what someone looks like, hence these resources are all about superheroes. Really works, especially with boys. it culminates with an assessment in which they describe a super hero and a villain of choice, can make up their own. Looks/personality/comparisons/personal info/likes and dislikes with nouns.

Not particularly original but emphasis on developing listening skills so you might want to take a look. I have added the assessment that we do at the end of the unit so you can see what the listenings are leading up to. Not a brilliant test but you might find it useful and or infinitely adaptable. The peer listening activity where students adapt dialogue and then read it out to another pair for speaking and listening practice works well if set up right.

Not fabulously original but I have been trying to drum tenses in to Y10 and thought some of these might be useful to share. The Imperfect ppt is based on my childhood so you might want to change the slides. Also I acknowledge that one of the reading tasks is not my own, so thank you to the person who shared it originally.\nI am building up to a first CA around relationships/family/free time hence the context for all the grammar tasks.\nI particularly wanted to get them mixing tenses, hence the mixing it up activities.

I've got a big class for GCSE Spanish in September and this is my attempt to get them to revise the basics before the start of the autumn term so we can hit the ground running.\nIf you were thinking of giving Y9 some Summer work in preparation for GCSE you might find this useful to use and or adapt.

SOS salud is short agony aunt letters related to diet with giving advice. \nEl tabaquismo- you might think this is more AS but sometimes able GCSE students are surprised by how much they understand particularly as this is a topic they know about and the language is taken and adapted from a newspaper article on the net so is full of cognates. The questions also clear up some of what they might not understand.

Instead of approaching Daily routine as a lexical task which is what we often do with Year 7, this approach focuses more on verbs and daily routine is simply the context, so in the end what matters is that they can apply the rules not that they know 10+ phrases for describing routine. My Year 7 can now define a regular/irregular and reflexive verb. They know what an infinitive is and what to conjugate means. We then went on to look at the gap fill more closely so that they can add connectives and time phrases to a description of their daily routine as I am sure you all do. The difference now is that when they prepare for their speaking assessment at the end of this term they will hopefully, some at least add activities they do in the evenings that I haven't taught them.